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Who said a popular uprising would leave any billionaires?

I was more specifically referring to himself, but yeah you're probably right.

I was aware of this, but it feels like a deliberate obfuscation tactic to enable a "I was just following orders" defense considering the penalty for disobedience in wartime can include being put to death. There's even a sort-of foolproof method by which one can get through an insubordination...

Gotta love how one of Trump's campaign promises was to make the Epstein files public, and now the official line is that there are no Epstein files. Wonder who he's protecting with that move.

Yeah, jtr I'd say at this point it's optimistic to think we'll have mid-term elections at all. The vulnerable populations -- those who are some variety of LGBTQ, people of color (especially of hispanic or middle eastern origin) and those with disabilities and illnesses needing management need...

Slow down time so it appears to run faster by default? Chrome runs faster but consumes ungodly amounts of system resources, just due to a different design paradigm. As everything it's a tradeoff.

Yeah, I'd say the military is brainwashed enough to just fall in line. See what they're doing in California. They're already deployed there -- in the event of a shooting war, California would be subdued in less than a day because they're already there and California has no defense of their own...

Yeah, those keys tend to require phone activation. I wouldn't use them on a machine we sell for liability reasons. On my own stuff I just install 2021 and then massgrave it.

See, I used to scale DPI lower so I could fit more on a screen, but this was like… fitting 1920x1200 into a 19 inch 1440x900 screen, nothing crazy. This was of course before my vision went completely to shit. mubs, Windows supports setting an arbirtrary percentage for scaling now, and has at...

I did another playthrough of Morrowind recently with Tamriel Rebuilt, which among (most of) the Morrowind mainland it implements (the base game takes place on the island of Vvardenfell, a lore-relevant Tribunal Temple preserve only recently opened to colonists) it also implements vanilla-esque...

I probably worded it poorly, but I was just saying I think I'm done entirely. I was so shocked at being pursued that I let it happen, and that was a mistake; I think in the future my answer will be 'no'. Maybe I'll word it more nicely, maybe I'll just keep it the one word, simple and clear. Not...

Oh, that's already happening. Miami's elections this year are cancelled, they're pushing them to next year is the official line. If you think this stops in Florida, you're delusional.

I have to scale 1080p to 130ish to keep it readable at 14", and I've found a lot of my clients get mileage out of the scaling due to similarly (though usually to a worse degree) poor vision.

So birthright citizenship basically isn’t a thing anymore, and now I’m just waiting until they turn that around to start making dissidents who were born here non-citizens and therefore fair game to deport to an El Salvadoran gulag.

Say what you will about Jellyfin, it's worked on everything I've tried and I refuse to pay for Plex Pass.

I wouldn't. We're far past the era in which it makes sense to pay extra for an antivirus. Windows Defender is 100% just fine. Again -- don't. I'd heard Nord shares logs with anyone who asks, but that doesn't appear to be the case -- however, apparently they DO make it very difficult to cancel...

I'm also in favor of using an older copy of Office if you've got it around. Basic computer competence will keep you from getting got by Word macro viruses or whatever, the Office 07 compatibility pack will work as far back as Office 97, and it's very unlikely you'll regularly find files that get...

We've been deploying Cloud Gateway Ultras with U7+ APs for our small to mid-size networks. Ubiquiti has rapidly become one of my favorite vendors. Personally at home I'm still running that little chinese N100 box with the quad LAN running pfSense with a Netgear WAX214. I keep intending to...

Both of my past relationships, the one when I was a teenager and the more recent one that ended rather abruptly, were LDRs. I'm not willing to do anything long-distance ever again -- if it starts local and one of us has to move away, well. It probably wasn't going to work out anyway. And I'm...

In my professional capacity, my recommendation is to replace it with something that's at least still supported. Ideally under warranty, too. Man to man, though, you all know I still regularly make use of XP-era equipment and Windows XP itself online. I do hobbyist level stuff with Windows 9x...

Yeah, Wayland still isn't quite ready for production use with streaming and remote desktop solutions current seeming complete lack of support for it, but still these distros go shoving it down everyone's throat anyway. X11 will likely never completely die. What exactly are the *BSDs using, I'm...

It's not as robust as having ad-blocking on the device itself, but it works wonders for devices where that's not doable.

The MSRP on that is $220 if I'm not mistaken so you're not far off at all. I almost want it for the 7-segment displays alone but that clear side panel ruins it for me. Plus, I have far more important things to spend $220 on.

Dad's only 54. He turns 55 in about a month. He is the one that's too young for this to be happening to him. But that's life with Dystonia Parkinsonism. For my childhood his condition was pretty stable -- he had some mobility issues, but he could walk with a limp and drive fine. He took a while...

Dad’s doing okay and as long as they continue to take things seriously he should get better just fine. He’s in good spirits, too, so I’m not nearly as worried as I was before I drove up. Last night Somerset and London KY got slammed with tornadoes. The governor has declared it a disaster area...

My guess is that once the Xbox exits the market and Microsoft fully recommits to the PC, they'll sell a kit (a la their old Media Center TV remote/receiver kit) or a software bit/bob that'll enable that support for supported GPUs. I can't imagine it won't happen without some kind of licensing...

I feel I should also add that he’s going to be fine. I neglected to throw that in there in my fit of being dramatic.

Dad's doing worse than he'd admit to me. Not to air out all his medical issues for all and sundry but when my uncle and grandma went up to see him, well -- he went to the hospital this afternoon, and they're figuring out putting a feeding tube in here in the next few days and sending him to...

I'm using one of those weird half-keyboards for gaming on the couch since I can just plunk it down wherever and not have to bend my wrist unnaturally to get it to line up with my laptop's keyboard when I'm in the living room. I've had to leave my left wrist in jail (a brace) nightly for a couple...

I dumped 22 hours into Oblivion Remastered over the course of the last week -- sleeping, eating, working, and Oblivion -- and I've got about 4-5 hours of life left in this save before I start a new build to do another couple of questlines. The systems that were reworked are amazing in their own...

You're right upon further examination -- Haswell indeed does support XP, albeit with earlier drivers. There were Skylake boards and machines -- particularly OEM ones -- that made use of DDR3 so I'd hesitate to use DDR3 RAM as your discriminator, but in general that's a decent enough rule to...

Yeah, the worst part of my adjustment to being single again was wanting to share my day with someone and having to break the habit of looking for a certain specific someone in my messages. I'd have something humorous or infuriating to share and I'd have to sit and realize... oh. No one who I can...

That sounds like peak XP era to me, aside from the earliest Oregon Trails. Those you can run with an emulator for your platform of choice. Something like a Core2 or Sandy bridge box would be free on up to extremely cheap and do the job fine -- literally, any of them would do the trick, perfectly...

I’m not saying I need the entire palmrest to be one big touchpad, but the postage stamps that qualified for them in the 90s and 2000s are unusable IMO. There’s no room for granular movement without making it so sensitive that a quarter inch movement jets the cursor across the screen. And the...

Late 90s and early 2000s touchpads were absolutely utterly god-awful. Either too sensitive or not sensitive enough, far too small, and I actually happen to use the gestures that only became common in the mid 2010's because PC makers finally got around to copying Apple on their superb touchpads...

I only seldom order stuff from Amazon, because I refuse to pay for prime and usually I'm ordering several small things that don't add up to their 35 dollar threshold to get free shipping otherwise. Meanwhile on eBay I only rarely pay for shipping on anything. That said, with the tariffs, I...

This is going to sound like sacrilege, but since touchpads finally got good for PCs I've been kind of predominantly a touchpad user for general purpose computing, reverting to a mouse when I'm playing a game where the mouse controls the camera. I can't imagine that's any better for my wrists...

Wonder if the N150 being out is going to make the N100 inventory do a price drop. Given that it seems to be an incremental bump all around, I'm guessing not. Especially with the tariff situation.

I was going to wait for a sale to pick it up but I got a steam gift card sitting around so I grabbed it. I'm glad I did, it's lots of fun. My friends are constantly making "we need to cook" references now.

I just remembered I actually underclocked the GPU using ATiTool in another bid to make sure it doesn’t kill itself. It’s too memory bandwidth starved to make use of a 316MHz core clock anyway. I have it clocked at 225MHz on the core and 200MHz on the RAM, and it performs about as well — which...

Now for another project box that you haven't been told about yet -- I have a nearly mint IBM T42. Dothan core Pentium M @ 1.7GHz, mobility Radeon 9600 64MB, 2GB DDR-333. I'm currently imaging the 128GB SSD I originally put in it over to a 256 and expanding the partition. There's not even any...

What's the plan for when AMD inevitably drops driver support for them at the worst possible time? I know Polaris has to be next on the chopping block, but they dropped support for the R9 2/3xx range during the last GPU shortage. I'm honestly shocked they still support Polaris, even, and that...

Those are some eye-watering power bills in your future, but I can't argue with those numbers. I might consume a quarter of the load power you do, but I also probably get about a quarter of the performance. I guess it's a good thing for me, then, that that's enough. :) It sounds like you're...

Hearing that it was still unmodified Gamebryo underneath made me shrug and go back to playing my heavily modded copy of the original release. The vanilla game is utterly broken in many ways and I refuse to go back to those mechanics regardless of what graphics pack has been thrown on top.

So, I wound up with a Precision 7750 off of a friend whose company was liquidating inventory after upgrading their fleet. No storage, asset info was scrubbed, the useless battery was removed so it could go in a plane, so on and so forth. I ended up chucking the 2TB I bought for my 840g8 and a...

The label does hurt thermal performance a tad, but in my experience with delabelling one to get better contact with the heatsink, it's not by enough to matter. the pad will fill in the minuscule air gaps between the SSD and the aluminum block (or copper pipe, or what-have-you) with something...

Pope Francis has passed, having made it to one more Easter. I'm sure it's no small relief after fighting for his life pretty much for all of the month previous. Can't wait for the hateful bigots to somehow use this as justification for their hatred, saying that God struck him down for his...

Maybe try setting up Windows on the new drive fresh, and then cloning the disk so that your firmware picks up that it's supposed to be looking for a bootloader on the new drive?

Are you cloning the entire drive or just the main Windows partition? You need to see a few-hundred-meg FAT32 partition on your drive labelled as an EFI System Partition for the UEFI firmware to figure out what it's supposed to be booting from. Can you post a screenshot of what your partition...

Good riddance. It was long overdue and whatever companies end up tangled in it deserve what they get, IMO. We knew it was a bubble a very long time ago. I'll weep for the workers affected and getting dumped into an uncertain job market and a souring economy, but no one else.