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I've never lost a phone before, but continuing the trend of things that suck, my friend's kid tossed my phone out my car window when I didn't want to stop at McDonald's. My old phone is currently somewhere on I294 in approximately Harvey, Illinois and I'm not going back for it. I'm told the...

You found the one good K7S5A. I'm sure they made millions of those things but holy statistical outliers, Batman.

FWIW I suspect the reasons in this case might have been more like "There's no one on site to monitor the cameras." Gary somehow magically misses out on a lot of state grants and programs that other nearby school districts seem to get easily. I DO live in one of only two blue regions in Indiana...

He absolutely believes that he's the most popular president of all time. I suspect that his handlers don't allow him to see anything that contradicts that. It's a cold comfort, but apparently he's been getting regular MRIs and he keeps being given cognitive tests that one might offer dementia...

Since I have recently exchanged words with my folks on this topic: I no longer see National Public Radio as a worthwhile news source; since the second Bush Administration and definitely during the Obama Administration, it became increasingly willing to allow unchecked commentary from right-wing...

I've kind of spent the last few days in shock over what's been going on overall. One of the things that seems particularly awful is that these people have still had to do regular things like call off work or go and pretend nothing has happened. My one friend gets out of the hospital tomorrow. I...

Apparently, we run Venezuela now. I imagine that must come as quite a shock to the people who live there.

It's so hard to tell with cats. Their standard behavior is to mask their pain as best they can. I've brought a number of beloved animals to the gate of Valhalla and it never gets easier. Your Booster had a better life in a loving home and she didn't have to know pain at the end.

Somebody clipped me with their passenger's side rear-view mirror. My area doesn't really have sidewalks, so I was walking on the very edge of the pavement along a hill with a steep fall-off. There was a good 30" of pavement past the white line defining the road though, so my guess is that...

I have had an absolute fuck of an end of year. A friend attempted suicide in my place a couple nights ago; another former roommate had her home invaded and was SA'd this morning and to top it all off, for the first time in my life, I got left alone with a 10 month old for about six hours because...

Six months ago, I was able to price 90% health renewed 15TB Micron 9300s for $1100ish. Now I can't find one (Health% unknown) for less than $1600. Still going to buy some for my hosted systems but not as many as I'd hoped to get. This summer, Before the DRAM-pricing BS started, I picked up 12TB...

IIRC Eufy has been involved in some of the same "other people can see your video" scandal that have hit a lot of companies; they mostly stem from a couple Chinese companies that control common APIs related to video transport in easily implemented Python code. Wyse (the indoor cameras I use)...

Normal-ish. I got hit by a car a couple years ago and it's really reduced my interest in going out to get exercise. No lasting harm done. I just have to on activity somewhat. But I am old and still overweight.

Snorlax, the Diabetes-type Pokemon, weighs 1014lbs and eats 900lbs a day. This has serious implications about its metabolism. I keep getting Snorlax stuff from my friends and now that I know that it's a half ton monster that sleeps all the time and takes giant shits, I think I'm a little insulted.

I usually have a turn based game open. Often, it's a 30 year old title that I play about a round a day. My partner games nonstop. I usually watch her stream while we keep an open voice chat and I do whatever I'm doing.

I always refer to the time of year as gifting holidays. I give out horror themed cards devoted to the bleakness of short days or to Krampusnacht, the holiday for beating children. Followers of the Peacock Angel fast just before midwinter, the three days of Rojiet Ezi, and I expect all of you...

What an absolute shit show. This whole thing was painful to read. It's even worse knowing this happens to more people every day.

I got an amazing little out of nowhere gift, a Godox IT30 mini flash. It's TINY, only 130g, and charges over USB C instead of annihilating a bunch of Eneloop AAs like my traditional flashes do. Just getting an inexpensive and travel friendly flash is a big deal. I'm really excited to have...

Microsoft needs to present as not being reliant on x86 and truthfully, there's a real market for datacenter hardware with low energy consumption and scads of cores. Working with ARM also applies pressure to get AMD and Intel to improve in areas they might not have chosen otherwise Finally...

Maybe the AI bubble will finally pop and destroy the global economy sooner rather than later and then RAM will at least be cheap again.

The feeble attempt at an insurrection on January 6th was unquestionably an attempt. This time the deck is stacked with toadies who have already put loyalty toTrump ahead of any other oath or reason. The administration has been functionally declared to be above the law and has demonstrated...

Speaking of kids, my friend and her baby stayed with me for two months and they played so much goddamned Cocomelon that it was my most-played artist on Spotify this year. Cocomelon is primarily a Youtube channel, but I just read that the version is available on Netflix has a teacher character...

Curious as to that choice in particular. You've obviously chosen to stick with Apple in general, but the Studios are a particular sort of investment, especially if you're getting one with a meaningful amount of RAM. re: Linux gaming, it is extremely credible at this point and even moreso if...

The USA is kind of set up to force people to pair off somehow. I've never had a job that's offered me health insurance and that's been the one thing that might actually lead to me marrying my partner, but she doesn't get it either. Still, life is a lot easier when there's a second income, even...

I suspect that a physician doesn't have much time to mess with this stuff even if they want to. On an unrelated note, I mentioned SmartTube up-thread. SmartTube's primary developer had his Github key exposed over the weekend, so he revoked his signature for the application, which should disable...

What are you doing with the server? Is it just running file services or do you have the *RR stack operating or? I'm kind of curious to see where people have landed on Windows 10 vs 11 or if we have any consensus on Linux distros. I haven't seen any mention of contemporary Intel on SF other than...

I never thought I'd get one either. Instead I have a few now. They're small, personal and in places where only one person might see them. Each one relates to someone special in my life. A couple of my close friends and my partner likewise have tattoos to represent me. I feel like it's an...

Yes. Tattoos are hideous. A direct quote that was in fact repeated multiple times. That one I'd at least prepared my partner for, so it mostly just turned in to eye rolling. My mom grew up in a house where time stopped in about 1960 and she just kind of doesn't understand the world outside the...

There shouldn't be much more than enabling it and telling it to use Unbound or Unbound Python mode. You can add more block lists if you feel like it. Easylist et al. There's a nice guide here.

uBlock on Firefox and uBlock Lite on other browsers + some form of network-level blocker everywhere I have control over the network. I use DNS66 for Android, which functions as a VPN but exists entirely to redirect DNS queries. I like this better than Samsung's built-in DNS redirector, which for...

re: Phone plans. I switched to US Mobile this morning. They're offering a year of service for $167 until the end of the day today (10PM EST). They're primarily a Tmo MVNO, so the only major issue I can see from switching is that my data service might be deprioritized in an emergency...

PfSense supports pfBlockerNG, which is as good or better than running PiHole. It's just a service you can enable in DNS configuration on your appliance. In theory you can use both by making the Pfsense DNS the upstream provider for Pihole but that's needless complexity IMO.

I'm just curious what PC systems y'all have that are in active use in 2025. Some of you guys have a PC in their signature, but I'm curious to get an idea of what's out there being used, and what they're used for. The oldest PC I'm still actively using is a Thinkpad T420 with an i7 2640 in it...

Is it possible that you have computers with significant time drift?

I don't drink and I'm about to start. Sed, something I've found to watch out for is that some MVNOs don't support RCS chat yet. STILL. Also I am almost positive there are degrees of deprioritization, based on some experiments I've done between Tmo, Mint and US Mobile and a (gross!) iphone 13...

Rather than improve overall Windows Explorer performance, it looks like Microsoft is going to set up File Explorer to preload on low-end systems. Something that actually endlessly pisses me off is that the 9950X I use for a desktop hitches for a couple seconds when I launch an Explorer window...

This is the first year my partner is coming to Thanksgiving. We did not talk about her doing this and I just found out maybe 10 minutes ago. She's going to meet my family, who will no doubt have many opinions about her tattoos and piercings and many questions about her ovulation cycle. I am...

Here's a set of directions to switch back to OG notepad, if you don't want the increasingly stupid one Windows 11 is using now. Also it's winget install microsoft.edit If you want a normal-ass text editor and somehow can't be bothered to set up Notepad++.

One of my customers brought me this thing, asking why it was weirdly slow. They didn't realize it's a Qualcomm SoC system. Once I explained how it works, they were happy with it; it has a very nice screen and better construction from any consumer HP I've seen and the price, $450, is about right...

Yes. A new Windows account. Firefox puts crap in a bunch of different places under %appdata% and it's hard telling what's left behind after a reinstall. I don't think your PC is slow, but there could be a weird addon or setting causing you problems.

Consumer notebooks are hard. My Ideapad 1s came from visiting a Walmart and a Best Buy to see what's acceptable at less than $350, because so very often, that's as much as people are willing to spend. I have a prejudice against 17" models and their breaky, breaky screens, and the moment I bring...

I'm thinking that the fresh (Windows?) user account is a good idea just to avoid the possibility that there's some accumulation of cruft from past installs generally. Maybe even sanity check from a bootable Linux ISO or something.

I have the additional aggravation that my health care is non-traditional, so my meds are at least partially selected for what can be obtained for cheap.

This does not align with my experiences with Firefox. Even on something deeply pathetic like a 4th gen i3 with 4GB RAM, Firefox and Chrome are subjectively similar with Chrome being maybe a hair faster generally (with the caveat that it also isn't blocking as much, either). What if you try...

As an aside, Firefox and Brave are the only two mainstream browsers with ongoing support for thorough ad blocking. I've found no combination of settings on Chromium derived browsers like Chrome or Edge that actually work to provide the same level of safety. Of course I can put an ad blocking...

Look under Settings --> Privacy & Security --> DNS over HTTPS. Try turning that on or off to see if that makes a difference.

Just blood pressure management. Both my parents needed blood pressure medication by my age so it's not surprising that I do too. I'm still having a hard time with the idea that a common medication would be in short supply nationally, but I did finally get some overnighted to me.

There's a stray I've been feeding for the last few years. She's had a litter of kittens every June like clockwork. She kind of nests with her babies under a car that only moves a few times a year; the guy who owns it can't drive it any more, but his son uses it maybe the second week in August...

Decent CPU and nice screen is an extremely solid recipe for almost everyone's day to day needs so long as they aren't doing gaming, engineering or content creation. Which kind of explains why Macbook Airs are somehow seen as acceptable. A couple months ago, I observed that I couldn't get a...

I'm more than a little concerned that an entire generation of educated people and actually untold natural resources have been diverted to work on this instead of doing something that helps humanity as a whole. Between this and the commoditization of every system and resource on Earth by Fintech...