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Reporting here from the "cheap seats" (but expensive in loquacity ;) ): First, for laptops, I upgraded my old Toshiba Satelite L305 from Windows Vista to Ubuntu, as my wife's sole PC on her desk. It's fine for her needs. (I upgraded it from on-board WiFi to a USB dongle, to achieve more than...

I hope this is sufficiently random 😜; I have a bash script on my main PC to check that my pihole VM is pinging OK. So every 15 minutes, it checks, and xmessages if the ping fails. Then it waits for the ping to succeed again, then xmessages that. So here are those messages: (Juvenile senile...

Happy Festivus, all! Speaking of random, here's a new cocktail recipe: mix 4 random liquids together, and name it with 3 random words.

Or support your local brewery. They seem to have started falling on hard times, because the weird cocktail craze is taking over. 🍹

That sounds like something from a wacky TV show like The Big Bang Theory. 😜

That link don't hunt. ;) Long link. Black Friday Deal $449.99 with 44 percent savings; "List Price": $799.99

I hear you, Florida Man. My wife and I met over an abandoned kitten in a Berkeley dorm basement in the '70s, and we had ❤️🐱s throughout our various stages of marriage. But when we lost the last of them a few years ago, we decided we wouldn't get any more cats, because we're now in our 70's...

I'm sorry to hear that. I know the pain of losing a pet, and the love and comfort they can provide.

Breaking News: Trump loses election, declares martial law. 👑👮‍♂️😜

As Sheldon might say, there is insufficient randomness here and now: Move it Body & Soul Sunday Morning

I signed up for the 1-year Win 10 security-update extension. I'll be interested to see if MS has squashed Flyby11 by the time I try to install it next year.

I keep seeing reports of major layoffs in various U. S. businesses, and about big-business bubbles bursting. How long will it be until we get The Truth anti-Social from Donnie Downer: This is The Greatest Depression Ever. Nobody has ever created anything like it. Since I've laid off the...

More Breaking News: His Royal Highness, Donnie Trumper, has announced that he is renaming it to The White Palace. (He's literally breaking the White House.)

Breaking News: Inspector Clouseau has solved the mystery of Sunday's Louvre theft of the French Crown Jewels. King Donald of Trump arranged it to create a fitting crown for his royal selfness. And it's got to be big to fit his swollen dome. 👑

For the Aussies (or ex-pats): (I don't know if it's really Australian Humor, though.)

But The Supreme Emperor Donnie has decreed it, so therefore, it must be. His will be done. 😜

🙏 for peace in the Middle East. How long have we been praying?

New Acronym - P O T D S: President of the Divided States Invade the Radical Left Coast !

I'm a big ⚾ fan. So I'm intrigued by the playoff Battle of the Americas, Toronto Blue Jays vs New York Yankee$$$. From https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/us/politics/trump-canada-blue-jays-yankees.html: Before each of the two games that the New York Yankees lost to the Blue Jays over the...

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Shut Down? Shut Up! From https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/arts/television/colbert-government-shutdown.html: The U.S. government shut down for the first time since 2018 on Wednesday. Stephen Colbert said he didn’t call this one, “but, evidently, ‘The Late Show’ has outlasted the United...

That gives new meaning to the phrase "curiosity killed the cat." ;)

What really ticks me off is that it used to work. Here's a (resized) iPhone photo I downloaded from iCloud.com on August 11, just 16 days ago:

(Sometimes I feel like I'm the one who needs the most support around here.) Anyway, I confess that my wife and I have iPhones. Recently, I started having issues connecting Firefox on my Ubuntu PCs to the iPhone web site, iCloud.com. When I try to log on, I get the message "Failed to verify...

That reminds me, back to the stone age, of my 18+-year-old PC (GB mobo, Pentium E5200 O/C'ed from 2.5 to 3.2 GHz, +28%). (I hardly ever connect to it any more, but it's still fighting cancer on the World Community Grid.) Anyway, I had the dimly brilliant idea, back in the days of rotating...

Just the fruits.

If you can find them at your grocery store, these are the best popsicles ever. I've only tried the andones. The coconut ones are really creamy, with coconut bits; the raspberry ones (and other fruits, I assume) are more like popsicles made with real fruit. I'm going to try some other ones...

Speaking of cartoons:

To celebrate my name and avatar change here, I also updated my cell phone avatar: I don't know how many of you will recognize it. ;) 🍺 (XX) It's a little humor, since I'm far from the world's most interesting man. 😴

Thanks, Handy! (I wasn't expecting rapid response on this unimportant change.) But even better, I was logged on to the new user name automatically when I opened the web site today. I was expecting to have to re-logon with the new user name. Any my old posts were re-user-named, too. I guess...

I was going to wait until I got my member name changed from Newtun to Gödel, but maybe it's better to do this now, so I can "hide" after that. (That reminds me of the Rodney Dangerfield joke: "I solved my drinking problem, I joined Alcoholics Anonymous. I'm still drinking, I just use a...

And now, for something completely random. I found how to do that change. https://storageforum.net/forum/account/account-details. Unfortunately, "If you decide to change your username now you will not be able to again until Aug 2, 2025." I hope that doesn't mean I can't post until Aug 2...

I'd seen that, and I was going to try to change my member name as well as my avatar. I thought I'd seen that as a possibility, but I can't find how to do it. Oh, well.

Thanks, Merc. My main usage would be for audio; I only have a few dozen video files, and those are mostly relatively short music videos. (This is the longest [but in a little shorter variation], about the brilliant gospel performer Sister Rosetta Tharp, "The Godmother of Rock & Roll".) One...

I recently signed up for the free Plex service on my smart TV. (Aside: being free, it's pretty limited. I joined because I wanted to watch the classic Fellini film La Dolce Vita, and that was the only source I found. But there were too many ill-timed commercials, the closed-captioning sucked...

Zen to One ;)

No. 😜

I got my SSD installed and cloned; the Samsung "Magician" software didn't work, but DiskGenius did, and the new drive is working fine. (y)

Since it's NA for me, I haven't looked into it, but isn't there an "in-place upgrade" option from W10 to W11, instead of a re-install "from scratch"?

I did order a new SSD, to be delivered next Tuesday. And I also did try to get my scanner working on another of my PCs under Ubuntu, but like me, it was too dark and not pretty. But (short story long), I then checked into my non-Win11-eligible Dell PC. It came with an Intel i5-4460 CPU with...

Thanks very much for your rapid response. That inspired a third alternative for me; I'm going to go ahead and get a new SSD, and try to clone the old one onto it and get it to work at least as well as the old one on the PC. Then I won't have to worry about the old one getting progressively...

It's time for another visit from the Amateur Hour. My only Windows PC is a 10¼-year-old Dell Inspiron 3847 that I got with a big rebate. It's Win 10, and cannot be upgraded to Win 11, so I knew it would be obsolete after October. The only things I use it for are to host a Pi-Hole VM, the very...

Does anyone else here use Pi-hole? I came across it at some point, and it seemed useful, so I set it up on a little VM. But I'm not so sure how useful it really is. Thanks for your feedback.

Amen, bro! 🙏

Yeah, I'm just a rank amateur 👴🏻; I think the last time I did a BIOS upgrade, it was from a "floppy" disk 💾. But at least, I finally got this last one right . . . I hope. (So far, so good.)

I reviewed the Gigabyte list of BIOSes again, and this warning was strong enough that I thought I'd try to update it again: • Major vulnerabilities updates, customers are strongly encouraged to update to this release at the earliest. Credits to "Assaf Carlsbad and Itai Liba from SentinelOne" •...

Semi-on-topic, after my 3/29 CPU-cooler upgrade, I noticed last week that the RAM clock was backed down to the default 2666MHz, from the 3600MHz that those DIMMs support. So I had to go into the BIOS to correct that - I assume that sync-ing with the CPU clock speed it a good thing...

Trump is the Reverse Robbin' Hood - he takes from the poor and gives to the rich. ;) He's gonna make you an offer you can't refuse. What's that old saying, "A fool and his money are soon Liberated".

Breaking news: Eel-on Muskrat is buying TikTok. He's going to rename it Xmy@$$. 😜 And Donald Trump has issued an executive order declaring the Constitution unconstitutional. :LOL: From the radical left-wing commie-pinko New York Times...

FYI, all, I have ended up hating this case. The power button is "unencased" on the front top-right corner, and is quite sensitive. It is so easy, reaching around for something else, to accidentally bump the button and turn off the PC. A power button should be away from the case edges, and...