Start it is

Please tell Tongshen, who manufactures the popular TSDZ2 motor. The pedal keeps coming loose because they don’t do this. I keep a key on me to tighten it when it starts to loosen.

I play a Quake 2 mod that converts it to a ww2 game and it’s as ugly as you can expect for a game from before the turn of the century. Ray tracing in this game is short of magic. No assets changed, and it makes it look so good, it’s unbelievable.

Of course sometimes we also play this game in software mode which doesn’t even colored lighting, just pure rendering on the CPU. So grainy…

You either pay with money or your data. This clearly shows the value of your data.

I don’t think it reflects, it’s just slightly transparent and the object extends under the surface.

In those days, when you entered a room in a game that had very shiny tiles that reflected the room, it was simply a copy of the room, upside down and flipped, and the floors were transparent. It created the illusion of reflection.

I think half life 2 had the first water that amazed me.

Grandma’s wartime recipe is this, but instead of ketchup you add canned concentrated tomato and equal amounts of water (just full the can once with water again, helps to get the last bit out) and that’s it. We call it red spaghetti, I make it for my kids from time to time, but this variation:

Grandma also added meatballs. Bake the small meatballs in a saucepan and when they’re done, do the tomato thing in that pan, stir well, then add to spaghetti. Can’t lose the grease, amirite…

On ext4 drives 5% is reserved for the system in emergencies. Since disks are getting larger over the year, 5% is a pretty big chunk. It’s possible to tell the system to use a lower reserve. It’s the only instance I know where you can seemingly gain more storage out of thin air. I’ve used it in moments of emergencies when a servers’ disk was too full to function.

Sure there is a use. That’s eBay. I collect older consoles and games and sometimes it’s the only way to get an item.

Asrock used to be budget boards, did that change? When? I never consider them unless on very tight budgets for that reason.

“Sorry, this is a shared office and my partner is working under NDA”

That’s saying the quiet part loud

They were gonna axe the cookies in return for a generalized profile in your browser or something.

Is a CD collection any different from a vinyl collection?

I setup miniDLNA once, many years ago and it just kept working. Downside is that I completely forgot how it’s set up.

First thing I do on any computer that I’m using (work, home) is turning sleep and suspend off. When it’s a laptop I disable that closing the lid suspends the laptop. I hate it when I’m moving to a meeting room the thing shuts off. It spins up quickly, but network or whatever is gone, plus gotta unlock it again. Nay.

On other devices, it’s moving the mouse first to see if it’s not the monitor that went in standby, if that doesn’t work I go ham on the spacebar. Finally, the power button if space does nothing, to admit defeat.

Do you mean quick boot? Because that can be disabled.

Fuck Microsoft!

We do that, too, because it’s funny.

As long as you’re not giving market share to chromium…