Sometimes re-wiring a house or building isn’t as practical as setting up a mesh network that’s good-enough.

It’s a bad band for cellular. It’s short-range and shit at penetration.

It’s really not even that good for wifi unless you’re close or have a mesh network with APs all over the building.

I just hate how they keep referring to “Who, me?”

The name of that column makes reading the article infuriating.

Are the instructions in a basement lavatory marked “beware of the leopard”?

Also, don’t use their website.

If you own the place or can get permission, a mini-split air conditioner is very easy to install with minimal tools, and they’re pretty affordable online.

For under 500 buck including drill and bits you could have AC in a few days. It’s not free, but it’s a huge quality of life improvement.

Windows was wildly popular prior to Doom. Doom for Windows 95 was a showcase for DirectX, not Windows.

Doom was on more systems than Windows 95, yes, but that’s a little misleading. First off, it was released several years before Window’s 95. Secondly, people upgraded computers less often back then, and Windows 95 wasn’t packaged with most systems and wasn’t distributed online. You had to actively decide to go to a store and buy it.

Third, the vast majority of Doom copies were the shareware version of the first campaign. It was tiny and free. People would bring their floppy to a friend’s house, or they’d post it on a bbs for download.

The port to Windows 95 was a technical showcase of the advantages of using DirectX. It showed that Windows had integrated features that could be used to enhance games with minimal development cost, and that games could be run without having to exit Windows to DOS, which was a huge hassle required for most games at the time.

Yeah, but they were also still making new standalone gaming boxes with a dedicated OS, and they didn’t have the Xbox division take the lead on game mode.

Linux and Mac gaming also weren’t a threat, and the solution to a bloated Windows installation was more horsepower, which was relatively cheap.

Now the market is completely changed. The Xbox Series S and X have had their lunch eaten by Playstion and Switch. Linux gaming is exploding because of the Steam Deck, while more-powerful Windows handhelds are performing worse with worse batteries than the Deck because of Windows bloat.

Mid-range GPUs cost more than an entire high-end gaming rig from 5 years ago, so high-end gaming PCs are rarer than ever.

Microsoft has to do something. And what they’ve chosen, for now, is to partner with Asus to launch a true Xbox-branded competitor to the Deck. To do that, they have to actually be competitive. There’s 2 keys to that. One is Gamepass, and the other is moving Windows out of the way of the game experience.

I think this time actually does have the potential to be different. They’re co-launching an Xbox-branded handheld PC designed to go head-to-head with the Steam Deck while downplaying the future of dedicated consoles.

Microsoft’s gaming division is going all-in on PC, so it matters more than ever.

I’m really curious to see what kind of performance gains the Xbox-mode or whatever they’re calling it is going to provide. I don’t know if it’ll reach SteamOS levels, but it does legitimately look like they’re taking the bloat’s hit on gaming seriously with the Xbox-branded ROG Ally.

The reality is that mostly people aren’t going to leave Windows, so if Valve and Linux force Windows to improve it’s still a win.

11 days.

Texas ice storm in 2021 froze the pipes from the well. We had stored water in jugs and the bathtubs in anticipation of the storm, but it was for drinking, cooking, and flushing the toilet.

There’s a reason ICE conceal their faces.

They know what they’re doing is wrong and don’t want to be held accountable if their fascist rule collapses.

You already clicked. It doesn’t matter anymore.

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I don’t think there’s proof yet, but Isreal has shown zero qualms about killing innocent civilians.

There are services online. I don’t use any of them, so I’m not comfortable making recommendations.

That being said, printers are getting cheap and really easy to use, so it may be worth looking into buying one for 200 bucks. Even without knowing how to model, there’s a ton of free designs out there.

Want me to 3d print one for you?

I found a few pre-made designs:

https://makerworld.com/models/973519

https://makerworld.com/models/1194123

https://makerworld.com/models/1362206

https://makerworld.com/models/490527

Can you alter the header only on page 6? Or rotate pages 3 and 5? Because that’s the kind of wizardry that Microsoft refuses to implement in Word.

I think they need an application that simultaneously posts to YouTube and PeerTube. So creators can effortlessly post to both the existing platform with all the viewers while also adding content to the alternative.

Similar how OBS can stream to YouTube and Twitch simultaneously.