Asianometry has an interesting YouTube video about elecrolytic capacitors degrading and how they affect computers [1]. Keep your computers cool people! Biella Coleman (famous for studying the Anthropology of Debian)[...]
Just over a year ago I bought myself a Thinkpad Yoga Gen 3 [1]. That is a nice machine and I really enjoyed using it. But a few months ago[...]
It seems to me that we haven’t had much change in the overall design of desktop PCs since floppy drives were removed, and modern PCs still have bays the size[...]
It’s been almost 15 months since I blogged about Storage Trends 2024 [1]. There hasn’t been much change in this time (in Australia at least – I’m not tracking prices[...]
Many PCs with DDR4 RAM have started going cheap on ebay recently. I don’t know how much of that is due to Windows 11 hardware requirements and how much is[...]
In May 2021 I bought a ML110 Gen9 to use as a deskside workstation [1]. I started writing this post in April 2022 when it had been my main workstation[...]
Anarcat’s review of Fish is interesting and shows some benefits I hadn’t previously realised, I’ll have to try it out [1]. Longnow has an insightful article about religion and magic[...]
Google tracking everything we read is bad, particularly since Google abandoned the “don’t be evil” plan and are presumably open to being somewhat evil. The article recommendations on Chrome on[...]
I previously blogged about getting an 8K TV [1]. Now I’m working on getting 8K video out for a computer that talks to it. I borrowed an NVidia RTX A2000[...]
Oliver Lindburg wrote an interesting article about Designing for Crisis [1]. Bruce Schneier blogged about how to cryptographically identify other humans in advance of AT technology allowing faking people you[...]