I don’t care for Reddit and I don’t participate there as a user. I won’t use an app to access it in any case, but sometimes Reddit is the only platform where I can find information on a topic.

Having a SD slot is an absolute deal breaker for me. Samsung no longer puts them in its “better” phones and neither do most Android OEMs; I’m down to A5x series and Sony Xperias as my next potential upgrade once my Samsung S20+ craps out.

There was a period of time when, if you bought enough keys for Windows XP, they’d just issue you a volume license # and ask you really nicely not to use it more than the number of times you paid for. My personal XP Pro volume key is right next to my childhood phone number and social security number already.

I’m not a professional photographer and I don’t pretend to be. I was just walking around with my camera and shooting whatever I ran across that I could get to stand still for a minute. I love it when people in costume make an effort to pose for the best shots, though. Spider-Man Noir, for example.

I assure you that I read the article and I remain unimpressed that an Android device can run Android software.  Doom 3 is an almost 20-year old title that’s been ported to Android for years. I don’t know what failure of comprehension you have in this matter.

Here’s another nice gallery of C2E2 photos, taken with a high end camera and lens.

Steam Link doesn’t run anything “natively” on a display device. Do you not know what it is or how it works?

MSRDP is a pretty damned efficient compression protocol; it’s even usable on a 14.4kbps dial up connection. Even VNC is fine for remote usage. There’s no reason to involve H.264. RDP is built in to pretty much every NT-based version of Windows. Make sure there’s 4MB of VRAM (a Tseng ET4000 would be a good choice on a…

By the logic of this post, there’s a 35 year old 486 in my closet that can play X-Com 2 because it can remote in to another desktop running Windows.

I’ve lived in the same unit for the last 20 years. I have no interest in being a homeowner and besides, I’m a great tenant. In 18 years, my rent only went up a total of $80, to the point that it was cartoonishly out of line with anywhere else in my area. My landlord retired. The new one has increased my rent by 25%…

How do I minus star something?

Unfortunately, it’s going up against the Cool Ranch Taco, which was and always has been the best of the Dorito taco varietals and in my opinion, the best flavor of Doritos in general. People who vote for anything other than the Cool Ranch taco are simply wrong.

The top two are definitely the correct top 2, but I just had a conversation with a GenZ in my life that:

As a Chicagoland native, I gotta say Sabrett and Hebrew National make a better hot dog than Vienna Beef. I would stand up for David Berg as the CLEAR winner from Chicago, but as I understand things, Vienna Beef bought the name and I’m sure some insufficiently girthy, neon pink abomination will be along shortly to…

It’s pretty easy to score discounted tickets. Folks from MT show up at a wide variety of nearby geek-interest events to hand out cards to qualify for a less expensive visit. I probably see MT performers a dozen times a year at events like comic book conventions. I think the tickets in Chicago are around $75 and can be…

As of late last year, anyone who uses a license key to install MS Office is required to sign into a Microsoft Account to complete registration of the license.

As of late last year, anyone who uses a license key to install MS Office is required to sign into a Microsoft…

Vampire Survivor is the epitome of gameplay that requires no forebrain attention. The game is a half hour long and basically nothing new happens in any play-through. All anyone really does in-game is hit WASD, and on some characters, there isn’t even that.

Creating a middle category without taking incredible precautions would in and of itself be a source of conflict, particularly if it makes it vastly easier to single out persons who are different. Plenty of people on one side of the issue simply refuse to acknowledge the lived reality of anything other than the…

The Munster location is still operating.

The Meijer family and its employee policies are deeply homophobic. I loathe that my grocery choices are Meijer and Walmart. They are both terrible each in their own way.