I have an Acer 715 I’ve been using as my primary laptop for maybe the last year and love the thing. It’s large screen is quite good, I love having a numeric pad, and it’s powerful with an i5 onboard. It runs Linux very well, despite my annoyance at Google still hamstringing the functionality of Chromebook’s version of…

I’ve badly burned out a few times in my life, usually related to a mix of depression/anxiety and general frustration mixed with other things (not knowing I had a rather hefty case of ADHD for the bulk of my life didn’t help). But cynical is something I’ve always been. I’ll never actually like my day job, because I got…

Given that Netflix’s She-Ra was just damned magical, I can’t fully discount this... revival, but like most 80s cartoons He-man was just awful. So, making a direct sequel to that, no matter your intentions, seems like a real sketchy move. Also, making a He-Man show at all that has no connection to said She-Ra show is…

So, ahm... when the windshield is covered in ash and the pilot opens the side window for visibility, are you saying the pilot is literally sticking their head out the window to see while steering or what? Somewhere along the words, I lost comprehension skills. 

To be fair, I feel completely certain the more women on top in this case, the greater the chance of injury.

“Sadly, McKenzie isn’t on Twitter, so fans can’t start a Twitter campaign to get him to finally give us a proper Flight Of The Conchords reunion”

Yep. I really like this film. Definitely the only Predator-involved movie past the first that I consider worth a damn (note I haven’t seen the last one). Adrian Brody was great in King Kong and this was still in that nerd action hero phase we had back then. I liked the whole premise really and think it could have…

I have a real soft spot for the Riddick movies. Love the character. Pitch Black was great, the sequel was gorgeous and bonkers. The third one was... I don’t know, just felt extraneous and underwhelming with some weirdly misogynist overtones. If they had a tight, directed script for another, I’d be happy to see it…

This is a huge point escaping much of the media, like CCN and the NYT as well. They want to believe those animals committing high treason at the behest of a dictator-wannabe were dumb hicks from Appalachia. They weren’t. They were from all over. Lawyers, doctors, business people, IT workers... As someone from WV, I’d…

True to form, they really will throw anyone under the bus.

I think this Bean fellow is using the term “cancel culture” wrong, but his bit about the binary ‘them or us’ nature of the internet is still spot on. He also didn’t say anything especially egregious unless I’m too blindingly white to have seen all the words. I mean, pretentious? Maybe sure. But given the actually…

I’m not sure how one evolves to the point of not having to fuss with them. I think you just get so used to the fussing that you forget it’s actually a fuss. As for mine, it’s a Creality Ender 5 Pro. I have largely exchanged most of it. I have the BLT, Microswiss all metal hot end/Direct Drive, new control board, new…

Much as I frequently hate them, they’re like techno-crack. I assume I’ll be playing with the damn things for years to come as well.

As so many have told me, 3D printers are in their “kit PC stage” of, say, the late 70s. They’re cantankerous and yes, fun when they work, and hella educational, but I may simply not have the personality for them. Too much of their maintenance and calibration requires nebulous measurements that aren’t measurements at…

I honestly have yet to find the BLT especially useful. I’m not sure what it’s really doing, but manual bed leveling procedures largely remain the same with it. Perhaps I’m missing something, although what I don’t know. It’s definitely not any sort of magic button.

For my last birthday... well, most recent anyway, waiting to see on that other bit, I decided to finally, as they say, bite the bullet, and got myself a 3D printer. If you hate yourself, free time, and calm and soothing thoughts, this is, as it happens, a brilliant purchase. They’re confoundering, cantankerous,…

Telling the PR people you accidentally dropped their expensive widget, causing the screen to crack like an egg is also a fun, if hopefully not regular, activity for a tech journalist. Imagine the giddy glee you’d have elicited from them in this case upon such an event!

The story itself is both horrifying to contemplate and make sense of, but instead I’d like to object on the use of that poor, adorable baby beardie as the header graphic for this. I may be biased, as I keep both a bearded dragon and panther chameleon (both of whom I’ve raised since they were cute-as-buttons…

I read to the end, but holy shit. I’m not sure my brain can process some of those words in the order presented. I realize human existence is hard to take and finding personal meaning to make sense of it is an incredible task, but... damn. These people are a problem and I don’t see a solution. We now have white,…

Apropos of Absolutely Nothing Of Course, there is another Cyborg who is not a hellscape of badly drawn CG nor is he only available in an, at best, mediocre spandex movie venture. Seriously, Doom Patrol is bloody-fucking-brilliant, the Cyborg in it is fantastic, and the show uses practical effects for him so he doesn’t…