As you may know, I'm a huge fan of Mario. Not many Mario games I've missed over the years and always get excited by new proper AAA Mario games. Saw the Mario Galaxy Movie today.. what a huge let down. The whole thing felt forced, some of the voice acting was really weird and the music often felt

Oh ffs, it actually says that when you google it. Same for the word "clanker".

I told myself it would never come to this.. today I broke down and did it.. I bought a 19" server rack for installation in my house... Is this a good thing or a bad baaad thing?

Trying to save up points to get some sweet Coke glasses (I'm a sucker for those).. getting this error on their website, woops.

CoPilot laughed at me today for often opening tickets... which is horrible but also untrue. (should I raise a ticket about it?)

"Big bite from a great product" 😅

Watching this, 20 year old(!!!), intro gave me goose bumps www.youtube.com/watch?v=92co... Smashing them shoulder buttons to go through the blade UI.. oh man. The console was 100x more loud back then, though.

This. Very much this. Stop draining our phones with pointless stuff. Unless you do some hardcore hardware accelerated stuff (like high bitrate AV) or something rending realtime (like a game), you can piss off with your app. I now even apply this to my computers.

Errr, the M365 Defender app for consumers just encrypted my computer (a VM but still) and it's not showing in the Bitlocker control panel. I signed out of the Defender app but the drives won't decrypt automatically. Errr??

Just ordered a bunch of Lora stuff, excited to get going with Meshcore! Anyone else working with this stuff?

Great new version of PowerToys including direct monitor hardware control, for setting stuff like brightness via software. One less 3rd party utility!

I upgraded the offsite server (over WAN SSH, without IPMI (!!)) from Debian 11 to Debian 13 and upgraded the local PBS repo to sync to RustFS buckets. AMA.

Is this some kind of inside dev joke, I'm not getting?

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, HP, LOTR, Marvel

And now it's even worse. It's not correcting correctly, sometimes doesn't let me delete or correct something, and when it does, it often inserts the word twice. Especially when the keyboard is in private entry mode. Boo. Any good alternatives for the people on Android?

Replaced the CloudFlare Tunnels with a cloud VPS and the "frp" package, which is an ultra-light weight client-server setup for forwarding raw TCP or specific TLS traffic without S2S VPNs/SSH tunnels. CF is great but it has a hard limit of 100M uploads, breaking my Immich workflow. GH: /fatedier/frp

Why is every Ai generated image these days blue and yellow? It it just me or is there some reason for it. I can't stand them anymore.. We've arrived at a point I will grant you bonus points if you use Paint and/or PowerPoint XP templates.

Worth it

Oh no, I've discovered the paperclip game. Welp, there went the entire evening.

When your browser crashes so hard, it goes back to the 90s

My washing machine has auto dispenser for the liquids.. Cool feature, just load and press go, it weighs and sets the volume. If you do a manual wash with different soap, you can disable auto dose. It does not auto revert back for next load. Washed my clothes with zero soap. :(

Notepad just changed my input.. turns out, it now has spell check and autocorrect on by default. Why would autocorrect be on, by default? That's weird, right? Notepad trying to get big-boy pants, acting like it's Wordpad.

They did reply, they tried to make it better but no dice. Was a subscriber for nearly 5 years, paying them nearly $300 for hosting 50mb of data. Open source tooling has caught up and surpassed them. Rethink your strategy (hint hint, look at cloudflare, free for consumer, lead to more big business)

A lot of customers tend to hand out corporate laptops to external staff, to allow them to secure work within their perimeter. These newer types of VDI is a great alternative and way more green/sustainable. Provisioning can be done in under an hour rather than days in shipping/pick up etc.

Humbug, sent @1password.bsky.social a message last week and they don't even respond. Guess I'll be taking my business elsewhere...

Good morning Europe and part of Asia, let me recap the Artemis II launch for you, by Tim Curry.

Ended up switching from Spotify to Tidal, pretty nice. Did have to pay a third party to get all our playlists over to our new accounts but that's a one time thing I guess.

This guy.. I like this guy.

Any recruiter, product owner or project manager that still thinks commits or stats about commits mean ANYTHING related to productivity, need a proper slap. My work is 99% Azure, 1% submitting Gits Vibecoding will get your Git stats way up there, bcus you'll probably need about 20 commits to fix it

AI assuming things, evidence #5987324290

Sign of getting old: 1. Have your birthday (mine is today, go shorty!) 2. Get excited by scoring a smashing deal on a new couch for the home office!

"Year x is the year of the Linux desktop" To unlock the computer, please engage hackermode.

Is it me or has Swiftkey gone completely down the drain? It keeps messing up, messing with input, jumping all over the place and leaving all kinds of errors. On Android. I'm having some massive issues with Android MS software lately :(

Pissing off all the nerds

Remember when big tech invested who-knows-how-many billions into duct taping screens to your face and saying it was the future of computing and social life? VR has a place... as a toy for rich people / in arcades. (and yes, as a partially blind man, I'm biased, I'll admit that)

I'm making a new rule here... every tech news article is a Black Mirror episode in disguise.

Getting SSH timeouts on Windows when connecting using 1Password SSH Agent? Try scoping the agent toml to just use one or a few keys rather than having access to all SSH keys. It seems to mess up the agent and hangs SSH connection itself. Verbose logging shows nothing useful.

"you can now choose a custom name for your user folder on the Device Name page" No longer I'm I "marbra" or "marti". It was so bad I would sometime image the machine with a default local user and then join it to Entra with that foldername.

My OpenSSH client on Windows 11 seems broken, reinstalling it via the Settings GUI brings a 12 core CPU nearly to its knees.. Jikes.

The power company had sent out an engineer to replace the meter. After he completed his work, he noted that one circuit wouldn't come back up, stating the switch had failed. He then proceeded to flip it 5x in one sec. This totally cooked the circuit and made it 100% dead. The circuit has an motor

I just found out that the Outlook Calendar function on Android is fundamentally broken. Replies to meetings etc don't work, at all. Syncing deletions also doesn't work. Just me?

@frenck.social quick q: I'm getting a new power meter and probably my meter will get reset. How do I handle this reset in Home Assistant power dashboard? Using slimmelezer.

Is it really just me?

I'm having one the worst days in years, I can't and don't want to talk about .. but please just send me a hug :(

As amazing as the arm version of Surface Laptop is, the cold boot startup time of its UEFI is still pretty crap. All surface devices seem to have slow uefi, but why?

10/10 Volkswagen app.. I couldn't even screenshot it because it's not allowed?? What are you, my bank?

MacBook Neo .. 8GB of RAM...