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I went with a TI-89 and had one good friend in HS that had one as well. This would have been late 99-00, I believe. Fondest memories were recreating my school C++ project in TI BAS…

I recently reset a Dell laptop for a friend. Dual core, 8gb RAM, HDD (not SSD), can run Windows 11, so I ran the built-in recovery feature and it took almost 2 days to just get Win…

I wonder what the additional layer of virtualization changes with respect to this in a project like this one: https://github.com/dockur/macos The unattended setup is a large improv…

On a similar note, Gemini told that I was born in 2025 when I did a cursory search for my real name. It's rather confident.

In hindsight, I would have gone for an AMD deskop replacement laptop instead of the Dell Intel-based gaming laptop that I purchased last year. The CPU is the best the Raptor Lake l…

>No privacy.com stuff. No virtual cards. I used a privacy.com Mastercard linked to my bank account for Oracle's payment method to upgrade to PAYG. It may have changed, this was a f…

Sort of related, but in the two or three times I've lucid dreamt, one of them was flying and having relatively functional control of my direction. Not sure how/why my brain rendere…

I'm not well-versed enough on sci-fi to be able to connect more dots than this, but I am assuming these are common tropes. The Mass Effect series describes the Reapers as (copied f…

Whose plan was god?

Windows has a Pictures folder. Before they started screwing with the OneDrive directories, it used to be in ONE location. Now it's in OneDrive\directory location, which works, even…

Along these same lines, the tabletification of Mac OS is annoying. A friend asked me to help with importing photos from the Apple Photo app on his brand new desktop Mac. The sequen…

What bothers me is not that it displays web results but that it forces Bing results and forces Edge to open said links despite it not being the default system wide web browser. Now…

I can tell you that when I moved from a contract position to full time at Dell Services (now NTT Data Services), they had to review and possibly? interview 2 additional candidates …

Due to network limitations and contract budgeting, I never got the chance to upgrade them to 10 Gb, but can confirm I could hit 1000 Mbps (100+ MB/s) on certain files on RAID-6. It…

>>The IT department decided they were done with their pets, moved everything to a big vSphere cluster, and backed it by a giant RAID-5 array. There was a disk failure, but that’s o…

>For instance, per the article most of these "Nones" still believe in God or Gods but don't subscribe to a particular religion. They're definitely not atheists as you might expect …

As a previous resident of Southcentral US and currently Southeastern US, I concur. Organized religion is the most potent socio-cultural poison in modern times in the US. Sadder tha…

The revamped FFVII on PC (own it on Steam) and I believe on consoles (not the remake) has boosters and random-battle skipping, as well as other features (like fast forwarding, I th…

FFVII was the first RPG I ever played. As an immigrant from a poor Balkan country, I never had access to computers and the only console I had ever played until 1997 was Atari 2600,…

Yes, momentum from a large metal object tends to run over squishy bags of meat, not the other way around.

Depends on how domesticated they are. My current ones are overinsured because the previous one died of being a bit too adventurous against cars. It's a fine line when it comes to p…

It certainly reads like it.

The GBA micro was about as small as a usable console could get. The older I get, the less accepting of these limitations I've become. The Vita and PSP was a good median in twrms of…

It's food, it's accessible, it's relatively affordable, you can have it served with veggies if you want a more complete meal. At the end of the day, a typical McD's burger consists…

Windoze: 1.2 BILLION installs of Win 10 and nothing matching it. MS is doing something right.