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Yeah, I jinxed myself. Still freezes. Seems to go longer before doing it, which is promising -- I wonder if I have this recapped if it'll be alright. Hmm. Time to put together a Digikey cart, I guess. I also have another 440BX board to try, this one is older and might not support Coppermine...

I don't want to jinx anything, because the PII-400 was stable too until it just locked up, but the PIII-600 so far seems to be fine. Had a very cool "back in the day" OEM experience where I got to unseal the PIII in its antistatic bag and install the cooler just like an OEM would have. Of...

I'm currently pounding my head against the brick wall that is Slot 1 again... I have a nice board, the ASUS P3B-F. After swapping the Seasonic SS-350ET I had with a more period-accurate Antec 350W supply with plenty of grunt on the +5v rail, it's much improved stability wise except for this...

Neither. Trump will cancel elections, die, and then they'll Weekend at Bernie's him with AI or whatever.

Some stuff I was surprised ran at all, albeit quite slowly: Zuma Deluxe, Feeding Frenzy... in general I did not expect these mid-2000s shovelware (affectionate) titles to even launch, I just copied them over because... why not. Some stuff I was surprised didn't: Age of Empires 2. It just...

The integrated video is surprisingly competent in some areas and the whiplash between the highs and lows is kind of insane: using FastDoom to run in mode 13h like Heretic or Hexen does instead of mode Y as DOS Doom does by default has the high-detail sound-on results of benchmarking demo1 going...

I found what Cathode Ray Dude on YouTube terms a 'beige whale' a week or so ago. That is to say, something I've been on the lookout for, wanted, but wasn't willing to expend actual time/effort/money into tracking down. I've wanted something based around a Cyrix MediaGX for almost ten years now...

I'm sorry, I wish I had something more useful to say... If I hear anything, not that it's exceedingly likely, I'll let you all know.

Horrible to see that happened jtr. Hoping your funds get recovered. It's been going around, we've had a former client who retired who called us all panicked about something similar... all we could do was forward her on to the FBI and SEC. I'd be extremely skeptical of any online-only...

The employees are already the ones left holding the bag. Micron's press release says they're going to minimize the impact insofar as they can by relocating them within the company, but I imagine placement for that's fairly minimal. It's basically another wave of soft layoffs. Steve from GN had...

Yeah, I mean... my demo unit is fine. It doesn't win any awards but it does its job and lasts forever on a charge. I've gotten to where I don't even bring my charger with me on a service call.

Frankly, I hope they do get burnt and they learn from it.

I would be the oldest of my generation in this branch of the family if it weren't for the cousins who were brought in by my uncle remarrying... I'm actually grateful -- it keeps the heat off me for making another generation, which frankly, I've further and further soured on as years pass. I...

In regular, active use are my Precision (10850H/32GB/RTX5000 16GB, used rarely) and the Surface Laptop Go 2 (1135g7/16GB), though I do make use of the Evo N410c (PIIIM-1.2/1GB/Mobility Radeon M6 16MB) for a surprising amount of stuff -- that native RS232 is surprisingly useful, and it's strong...

Got everyone kicked over through the weekend. I won't even get a final bill, I'm all paid up. I don't think I'd be coming back to holidays at all if my folks were like that. We very carefully tiptoed around the subject of politics, but that was a conscious effort from all parties because no one...

Yeah, I use pfSense at home and it smacks of an obscure configuration issue but I couldn't tell you what. I'd maybe look at the time issue as well -- a few minutes makes a huge difference.

Spoiled milk, Lysol, black coffee, and power steering fluid (specifically the import formula). Call it the Domineering Horse Annihilator.

Mine's looking like half of it's gonna be consumed with getting a cousin off my wireless plan so I can change carriers and save everyone involved some money. I had her on my plan to begin with because she couldn't afford to replace her phone and it'd cost her twice as much to go to a big carrier...

I'm not buying her anything consumer-ish, to be honest. I want it to last her and she's not terribly good about babying electronics, so I'm very sure if I get her another consumer grade laptop it'll be broken in a year or two. I'm okay with it being a bit slower than strictly optimal (trying to...

I'm trying to swing something with a 7840U for my sister for Christmas since her old 5625(?)U laptop kicked it a month or two ago. I'm going with something that high-powered because it should be relatively available used or refurbished (I'm eyeing Elitebooks) and I'd like it to last her through...

Hm. I'm on blood pressure medicine but I'm not in the best shape health-wise and my dad was on it by my age too. Mine's still a fairly low dose -- I didn't notice any issues getting mine, the pharmacy even got me a 90-day supply. It's nothing I'll die immediately without, but that doesn't mean...

I've been doing most of my day to day computing on a Surface Laptop Go 2 I got a sweetheart deal on as it had things wrong with it that I fixed. Apart from the soldered memory (to be fair, this allows it to be Fast, LPDDR4 moment) it's actually surprisingly repairable. It's probably the newest...

Every couple of years now there's some new use for GPUs that keeps them expensive. First it was mining crypto, then it was mining crypto again, now it's running AI models, and it looks like this one is going to stick at least for a few years. Maybe once these companies fold we'll start to see...

Things like this are another reason why I just... couldn't.

Economic collapse, that's what's going to happen. People will lose their entire life savings and maybe some companies will fold and yet more wealth will accumulate in the coffers of people who never worked a day for it, and the poor will struggle to feed themselves. So... not much change from...

I think you should be able to unpack the Win11 WIM with the Win7 or 8 PE from the installer disc, even, though that's a more arcane and obscure process. I know that on one weird issue I had a long time ago where a machine supported 10 but wouldn't boot its installer image, I had to either...

I helped a few friends do this since the big killswitch moment. I feel like this is a cat and mouse game Microsoft will always lose.

Yeah, I'm supposed to be flying out to Dallas or somewhere in California for work here in the next few months and my first thought is "who's being paid to run ATC? yeah... no one". I think the playbook is to keep the government shut down permanently so there isn't anyone who can possibly tell...

That was what the ROG Ally Xbox or whatever it was called was supposed to be, no? A handheld Windows PC that could run Windows software and Xbox games? That didn't last -- it just runs Steam games and "Xbox" ports to, what, UWP? Or are you saying that there will be no further actual Xbox titles...

Found a demo unit SKU for a Surface Pro with some attractive pricing. 16GB RAM, 256GB storage, Snapdragon X Plus. Normally I try not to buy machines with less than 512GB of storage but for the use case I have in mind for this, 256 may well be overkill. I would have preferred a more traditional...

Pretty sure if Obama runs again he won't have to worry about any would-be assassins, his own wife will kill him. I get the distinct impression from his book that she is not a fan of presidential/first lady life.

I think we just resold a small fleet of some updated version of this for a similar use-case. I didn't have them out of the box as we were strictly acting as a reseller, but if a newer version of the same tablet from Samsung of all companies doesn't have a better, brighter screen I'd be shocked.

I might see about having my boss approve a PO for one of the nice ones to see how different the support experience is for them with regards to our stack, what the process of reloading/reimaging one looks like, if InTune gets closer-to-bare-metal management capabilities on them. It's not like...

Seems that page is not for discussing putting Linux on their Chromebook, it's a general support topic as their answers for machines running Linux and ChromeOS are generally the same. MrChromeBox, who has a firmware flashing and initial install guide at least for Intel-based Chromebooks, doesn't...

Huh. I think I may have just had the first twinge of optimism for us this year. I'd almost forgotten what that felt like.

I'm aware of this... Heck, I've had to compile things for XP in VS2019 with the 2017 toolchain. It's how I recompiled the special version of OpenVPN 2.5.4 some guys hacked together for XP into running on my PIII laptop, specifying /arch=SSE. I guess somewhere along the line I thought we'd...

This weekend is seriously looking like it's going to get ugly. Navy fire exercise my ass. If there are still history books in twenty years...

I find it rather humorous that according to StatCounter, in Asia Windows 7 usage is rising in the wake of 10 losing support, at the expense of both Windows 10 and 11 marketshare in that region, up to 18.67% there and up to 9.61% worldwide as a result. I guess people are deciding that if they're...

If they did it before they'll do it again. I don't trust it.

Apparently we're all terrorists now, too. So that's fun.

Making it visibly unchangable without location services to normal users has to be illegal in some jurisdiction, probably Europe where they actually kind of-sort of have to give a shit about privacy sometimes. But I bet being able to Powershell it probably would keep Microsoft from being fined...

Remember when Trump supposedly didn't know anything about that... and then proceeded to put pretty much everyone involved with it into positions of power within his government?

Given the flurry of activity in the nearly three months since the last post... Holy shit. Just holy shit. I thought things would get bad. This is fucking insane.

Yeah, I don't tend to use Jellyfin for library management per se, rather I use it for an easy playback interface that isn't just loading files into VLC or whatever through the network. I find I don't trust anything but myself to do the tagging/album art fetching.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

Unfortunately, I've come to the conclusion that neither can I afford a pet (food/litter is one thing, insurance/vet visits are another) nor can I justify having one around because I live alone and I'm simply not home enough. It wouldn't be fair to them.

Turns out the LaserJet I have did some hours -- it's from a lawyer's home office, but really all it needs is a good can of air let out inside it and a fresh set of toner cartridges. Although it did seem to clear up the yellow dots in the printout after a few test pages printed. It's from 2016...

I got my DCP-L2640DW on sale from OfficeDepot a year or so back for what I felt was a very decent deal, around $150. The MFP model was twice as much and all it has over the DCP is a faxmodem, something that's hardly relevant to my needs. I scan (especially with the feeder) far, FAR more than I...

I've had the Outshine raspberry bars now and I have to say I'm disappointed. The flavor is top notch but the texture is much more akin to a normal popsicle, with very little in the way of fruit bits at all. The Great Value fruit bars are creamier and softer. If Great Value picked up a raspberry...

I'm already not a fan of every storefront needing a system service and Chrome container "app" as it is, I don't want yet another launcher robbing performance. I have a perfectly serviceable launcher and it's called the start menu. :p On my Retroid I use a combination of RetroArch and...