Hello everyone! I'm writing this from my cabin, where it's now past midnight because finding a firmware update for my Sharp Blu-Ray player took so long. While I can usually trust the Wayback Machine to find me a 2000s copy of a webpage that includes whatever download I'm after, this was much harder.
Actually, "much harder" is a massive understatement. What I meant is that it'd probably be easier to find the lost city of Atlantis and the lost city of Eldorado than it would be to find
A little while ago, I told you guys about how desperate I was to switch to a monitor that wasn’t a low-end Acer from 2006-07. I said how much I really wanted one of those Dell Ultrasharp monitors that you could put those soundbars on, and it seems like that’s finally becoming a reality in a few days.
Yesterday, I was out in Downtown Winnipeg, for an appointment when I had the idea to go to an e-recycling facility and look for one of those monitors. The place is located in Winnipeg’s
Today's blog entry is a lesson in not being prepared when you really should've been. My dad and I knew it wouldn't be long until we had to change the spark plugs in the '05 Audi TT, but we came to the car without a spark plug wrench, experience working on these stupid German cars with barely any room around the engine, or even the damn replacement spark plugs.
The TT has been sitting in a garage at our cabin for over half a year, because we had a painfully long winter, Followed by a
Over the years, IBM has introduced some of the greatest and most fondly-remembered peripherals in the history of the PC. Whether we’re talking about the venerable Model M, or the TrackPoint that made laptops far more intuitive at a time when they usually sacrificed too many features to truly replace desktops, it’s clear that IBM knew what they were doing in the late 20th Century. Today, however, we’re taking a look back at a product that didn’t quite develop the same kind of following.
This evening I was just opening my Start Menu to open Firefox, when my trusty 20-year-old Microsoft Internet Keyboard decided it wanted to search "444444444444444" on its own. I was a little confused at first, but I decided to just brush it off as me probably pressing the key without noticing. I opened the Start Menu again, and right away, it says "666666666666" in the search box. At this point I'm afraid someone might've managed to get access to my computer despite how much I do about security,
Remember in 2017 when Microsoft unveiled their latest in innovative buzzwords, “Creators?” I sure wish I didn’t. 5 years after its release, the Creators Update is still the worst update to Windows 10 for a plethora of reasons, chief among them being Microsoft’s promises to replace a significant amount of the best software they’ve ever made with even better stuff. Being Microsoft, they naturally failed to deliver on any of those promises.
After using all of the programs introduced in
When I was younger, I always loved to read this little story in which there were 3 pigs, and and a wolf. These 3 pigs each built their houses out of different materials, and the wolf demolished all but one of them, presumably because they weren’t compliant with local building codes.
Why am I bringing up an obscure children’s story you’ve definitely never heard before in a post about monitors? Because of the similarities between the LCD monitors sold from 2006 to 2010 that featured on
As you guys may know, I have a burning hatred for Windows 11. I don't think there's ever been another UI that feels like such an insult to the userbase, and there's just no excuse for the artificial hardware limits. However, I've decided to stop pretending that this is somehow going to affect me, because I don't think I'll ever actually use the OS.
Ever since I found out about this, I vowed that I'd become like one of those people who still uses Windows 7 in 2022, only I'd be using Windows
Hullo
So..
Q: What IS a Generational Gamer?
A: Someone familiar with console generations and console gaming, but has left it behind in pursuit of PC gaming.
This was me and a lot of other people when around that time (2010) people starting thinking:
What's wrong with consoles?.. well nothing really, they do what they say they will.
But then.. I would prefer to save a lot of money with a DIY solution for my gaming and not
If you're like me, you might remember July of 2019, when Microsoft discontinued their fai[dot]metaservices[dot]com metadata provider for Windows Media Player, and only added a replacement service on Windows 8.1 and 10. This came as a tremendous shock to me, because the resulting uproar was how I found out people still used WMP. Since then, several people have discovered a workaround, which is effective in almost every way, aside from one thing I'll answer at the very end because that's how blog
"I don't want to spend over $200"
Ok. Well do you like visiting the chiropractor? No? Then stop being a goddamn cheapskate. I know what your setup looks like. How about you stop buying 9000 different varieties of useless, fugly painted plastic that is funco-pop--and spend the money on something that you will actually PHYSICALLY be in contact with on a daily basis? Do you also like sleeping on a fouton instead of a bed? Or a cot instead of a proper mattress? Tell you what, whi
"4k isn't even useful until you are at 55" or bigger, and 8k is practically useless"
^These are the words of an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Go on and quote me all your factbabble about "Arc seconds/minutes/degrees of the human eye" and all that fluff. You're an idiot if you believe that shit matters to decipher any meaningful data for the average user. No two people will ever perceive a setup the exact same way, and no two will ever have exactly the same pre
"Picking out a monitor based on your GPU means you have gone full retard."
There, I said it. Back in the glory-days of "CRT, only CRT, and nothing but CRT, so help me god"--you didn't have the false gods of refresh rate. You didn't have the idolatry of HDR. You slapped whatever GPU you could afford into your rig, and prayed you got over 20 FPS. You'd ping resolution as high as it would go--and hope it stayed playable. 30fps was a pipe-dream in many cases. Nobody cared about mon
As a Gen Z, it seems like I'm required to make my whole life revolve around one thing, to the point of insanity and well beyond. That's why if you search "Acer Aspire T180", you'll find that the amount of posts mentioning this Vista-era mini-tower has essentially doubled since the day I joined the forums.
Why do I love a PC made nearly 2 decades ago by a system integrator known for their poor build quality so much? Can you still live with a computer from the days when people hadn't e
Hi everyone! I'm officially behind the times by about 15 years now. I don't care how 2007 it is to have a blog, I'm doing it. Due to my lack of creativity, I chose a name that clearly isn't infringing on the name of any other blogs. I'm also not sure how often I'll post on here, but I'm aiming to do so 3-4 times a week, and have recurring series on things. Think of it as LGR in (poorly) written form, I guess.
EDIT: I've changed the name to something that's clearly far more unique and origin
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I have been thinking about this off and on for around a week now, and had a client idea (who didn't? am I right?) for Nintendo games on PC years ago.. now I just want it out of my head.
Nintendo don't have any juicy slice of the PC market.. even Sony do now, with their games for sale on the Epic client (yay Sony!) I've even bought a few. quite a few hehe. This is because of the culture of 'Generational Gamers' .. they are gamers who came from the console generation
making a bootable windows setup usb on linux , that is capable of booting in EFI mode and with secureboot enabled :
01. Connect your USB Flash drive. Please note that you will be erasing all the data on it.
02. Open a disk manament app capable of setting efi guids (cgdisk gdisk parted ,...).
03. Delete all partitions on the USB drive
04. Create a new, 1GB partition and give it a GUID for ESP (EF00 in gdisk). and NAME it "ESP" (this will be its partlabel)
05. Create a second
Commandline:
ccat : a colorized version of cat
use :
$cat /etc/fstab # flags = --bg="dark" # has nice feature to output html with --html=true
$sensors | ccat --bg="dark" # reading from stdin
# notes : to be usefull you should put it as an alias in your ~/.bashrc (or your aliases.bashrc):
alias ccat="ccat --bg='dark' -G Decimal='*green*' -G Keyword='blue' -G Punctuation='*yellow*' -G Plaintext='reset' -G String='brown' -G Type='*white*' -G Literal='fuchsia'"
$mic
I used my iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit and the official iFixit Teardown Guide to take apart the PS3.
I put a PET Recycling bag on the floor in my room to catch all of the dust and most importantly the disgusting brown smoking debris. I had the Window open all the time and wore Latex gloves in the whole process. I cleaned my iFixit tools afterwards with Alcohol screen wipes. It took me around 2 hours to take the Console completely apart as I had to take breaks to conduct the Guide and make
(originally posted on the FTR blog on: Sunday, 1 April 2018)
Hi WWW
Original 'Information Part 1' 24/May/2014:
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I want to revisit the topic of Information and privacy policies.
Why is it important for companies to NOT have access to your information?
Simply because they can share that information with people you would consider strangers, even intimate
(originally posted on the FTR blog on: Saturday, 4 July 2015)
[I hope you enjoy this lighthearted look at the modernization of transferring data. now please imagine hitchhiker's guide voice in your head for the remainder of the article*]
Sometime around 1900's of 'Earth', the transfugulation of the Betelgeusians, and Slartibartfast's 'Memoirs of Triumphant Galacticism' book-signing, the primarily ape-like species of 'earth' realized inform
(originally posted on the FTR blog on: Friday, 29 August 2014)
[Here is a lighthearted look at 'End Of Life' known also as EOL, when a product moves from the support phase to a coffin somewhere in the ethernets of a Skyrim graveyard.. or no longer supported by the manufacturing company, while this is not always the worst thing ever to have happened in existence.. try paying £4000-12000 for a MacPro and tell me in 6-10 years if you feel like having a little cr
