Category: Modern Computing
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AT&T
When I moved in here, five-ish years ago, I had CenturyLink broadband installed, and got the “lifetime” $75/month deal for 1gig bi-directional… Not bad. The problem with ISPs and “lifetime”…
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Technology
A couple of months ago the battery in my 2022 iPhone 14 Pro Max bit the dust, so I replaced it with the iPhone 17 ‘air’ – which is a…
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Been a while
With everything going on – and none of it really noteworthy – I’ve not posted anything here in a while. Let me remedy that. First up is another of the…
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Update…
Still head-down and plodding… At work I’m still cleaning out the office / store room where I stashed all of the crap our spinoff abandoned in place when the plandemic…
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Microslop
Microsoft has been taking a lot of heat lately, but I don’t really play in the Windows World anymore so it’s just been an entertaining memefest while cruising the socials.…
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AI “Art”
The two primary arguments I see against AI are “trained on other people’s work” and “uses too much electricity” – with a third bonus point for “artists get paid to…
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@dead.net
Doing some research on the ‘Dead Internet Theory’ – which is a postulate that most of the ‘data’ component of the Internet these days is algorithmic sludge; the content equivalent…
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Change of plan
A couple of years ago I early-adopted a cloud-based computing platform called “Shadow“. Shadow is interesting because it’s not really a cloud-based gaming platform, it just pretends to be one…
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Update
It’s been about a week now of using a 2011 computer in 2023, and things are still going well. The only real noticeable difference between decades is that the Mac…
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And scene…
It’s been quite the journey to get to this point; sketchy mining cards, shipping complications, undocumented third-party utilities, and a distinct lack of modern-ish Windows hardware at my disposal. That…
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Life in the crypto-mines
The RX 6600 XT I ordered off of Amazon for the 2012 Mac Pro arrived last night, and a few minutes later I had it installed in the PC I…
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20 years…
Back on the 5th I quietly celebrated twenty years of this journal. I started this ongoing chronicle of my so called life on August 5th 2003 over on LiveJournal, and…
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Crowfall
Back in March of 2015 I heard that an MMO I really liked back in the old days of the early 2000’s – Shadowbane – was having a bit of…
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Hand Crafted Bits
The site took a dive yesterday; completely fubar’d. So today I sftp’d my backup of the old wp-content directory into a totally new GoDaddy server instance, which then required hand-jamming…
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Spam
I hate spam. I mean, I really really hate spam… And due to this I spend a borderline insane amount of time creating filters, building heuristic systems, and blocking entire…
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Update
Today I fiddled with ye olde website a bit; adjusted some look and feel, added search functionality, and imported everything from LiveJournal just in case Livejournal becomes a casualty of…
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M2
The new M2 Max MacBook Pro arrived today… Even the shipping box is an origami masterpiece designed to protect the laptop box, which is another origami masterpiece… Apple just loves…
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It’s that time again…
As is tradition for me; new year, new Mac. Apple is giving me a bit over $1300 in trade for my current M1 Max laptop, so the New Hotness is…
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Work
It’s a cold, grey, and somewhat snowy day outside and things are a bit slow here at the office, so I figured I’d show off my work setup while waiting…
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Early Birthday
Today a friend came down to visit, so we went over to Cheddars for lunch and then wandered over to Microcenter… He’s been looking for a new monitor for some…