Just saying...I find it hard to trust the medical journal that is associated with the original rise of the anti-vaxxer movement.  A la MMR/Autism links.

It keeps streaming even if you close Big Picture, so you don’t even need to do that. I just close Big Picture and minimize to tray, and go on with my business. I even have a bluetooth keyboard/touchpad combo in the living room with a dongle plugged into the Steamlink so it’s pretty seamless.

The trick is getting audio…

Had my 55" Sceptre 4k since 2015 - Bought it after owning a 22" widescreen monitor made by them that I got for a steal. Their quality is not always the BEST (Monitor had cheap caps on the backlight, but $5 for new ones and it lasted 9 years continuously on before the backlight burnt out), but their support is…

Had my 55" Sceptre 4k since 2015 - Bought it after owning a 22" widescreen monitor made by them that I got for a…

Evergreens.

You lost me at ‘better’.

The stars don’t lie, boss...

Crazy. We had (now my parents have) two Deere 317's with one of the goofiest belt routings I’ve ever seen... horizontal shaft on the engine down to two pulleys, back to a deck pulley. Super long belt, running over 4 pulleys and changing both direction and rotation... still never seen one break. Must be a really…

How many times have you HAD THE BELT BREAK?!
Just wondering.  Check your tension man...20 years of mowing my lawn with riders and haven’t had one break yet...

My issue with the USB-C is lower availability of *quality* cables. I’ve got 3 cables currently - one at home, one in my personal vehicle, one in my work truck. The ones at home and personal have been replaced twice, but my work truck one, which is the original Google USB A-C cable is still working flawlessly - and it…

Built a supercomputer cluster using an old Linux distro, using netbooting and 26 Dell GX200's no longer used in classrooms at my school. I used to have a lab we called the Graveyard we did all kinds of crazy stuff in. Other pet project was taking laptops with bad backlights and ripping the LCD apart, suspending it…

Yeah I have no idea either. I was just curious because my RAID initializes almost instantly...even degraded and showing the ROM prompt it was only taking ~5sec more (to flash warnings at me lol). I hate drive death on a RAID array though...pretty similar setups though.

How long does it take to initialize your RAID array? Software/hardware? My BIOS actually pushes the oprom boot in the background or suppresses it altogether (never booted from it though).

Yeah I made the same mistake for a bit. And then my RAID5 had a drive die and I decided it was time for more like a 3 tier storage setup... SSD, bulk nonvolatile storage, and RAID10 for a bit of redundant storage. Symlinks once I had it up and running and it’s been flawless since.

If you do it right (symlinks etc) it’s effortless. I actually currently run a SSD, Raid10 array, and large single drive. All you have to do is tell the libraries where they should be looking and they just do it.

I took a lot of the fun out of all that by using stuff like nLite (and later alternatives). Used to do annual wipes and just be able to pop in a DVD and walk back to a fully set-up computer complete with user accounts, registry tweaks, updates and everything.

I used to correct papers for my English major friends, and I had no problem...letting Wil Wheaton read it for me :D

I don’t have time to read books myself, but this audiobook is actually one of my favorites. I was hesitant at first, but Wil made it enjoyable, even if some parts are as cringe-worthy as their movie…

Just invite them to walk around the earth in every direction. Has the added benefit of getting rid of them for several decades...

Waze’s excuse is that it’s a legal street. Something tells me that street also has “No trucks” signs...you can see the grade warning sign in the second video.

Kind of have to agree with you wholly on this one. I was going to implant an RFID tag into my hand (a la Demolition Man) to build a keyless access system for my truck - swipe my palm over the B-pillar and the doors unlock. Also for eventual home security/etc. Wife called me an idiot and wouldn’t approve - I could have…

Thermoworks makes some pretty good products - my lab has one of their high precision digital reference thermometers, a year of testing everything from 265F to 0F and it was still dead-on at its annual calibration.

Thermoworks makes some pretty good products - my lab has one of their high precision digital reference thermometers,…