I'm starting to have doubts as to whether the stimulants are actually doing anything to help my ADHD symptoms, or if I just really like having a steady insurance sponsored supply of nearly free stimulants.

Why would a computer (specifically a #g4 tower) power off when a DVD is put in the drive? I'm trying to figure out what's happening to the power supply in this situation that's causing the behaviour, because it's probably a pretty good clue as to what I did wrong when I rewired it that's also […]

So much regret.

About to probably die of dysentery for the first time... I think? Kinda hard to tell if the familiarity is due to second hand exposure, or if I played it at school way back in the day but the memory was overwritten with memories of Storybook Weaver, which is […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I am happy to report that my second G4 (this time a Digital Audio @ 733MHz I believe; picked it up for $20 not 6 hours ago) has not cooked itself to death. It also had a failed PSU though, and I'm equally happy to report that my REmodified ATX supply did not do […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Apple forums are the worst version of vintage computer research, because there's this weird universal rule that no matter what, at least one or two people who clearly have no personal experience with the subject will feel the need to not only chime in, but engage in an ongoing back and forth […]

IT WORKED. I did film the moment of truth, but all that happened was the same thing as before, the power button lit up for as long as I held it down with my finger. So I stopped filming, and then several seconds later, I heard what sounds like a fairly whiny […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Was about to test the newly modified ATX PSU in my Quicksilver G4... before I realized it was missing the CMOS battery (I forgot what Apple calls this, but it's the 1/2 AA battery that lives on the mobo... whatever). Why I bought a new battery for it, then realized the PSU was going to need […]

[cross-posting from my other instance w/ like... 4 followers (lol) in hopes that someone might actually see it who knows the answer] Does anybody remember how to sort albums by year of release in iTunes? I know you can just click on the Year column, but that doesn't group albums by the artist […]

Okay I'm in a little over my head. If somebody who knows more about electriconics/power supplies could help clear up my confusion, it would be very much appreciated! I'm following the atxg4.com guide to modify an ATX power supply to work in my PowerMac G4 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I'm going to #ireland for a week in December! Anyone got any recommendations on things to eat, see, and/or do? I think we're landing in Dublin and there for a day or two, and then off to Carlow. My girlfriend has the excursions thing covered, but I'm less interested in big outings and […]

New account, for the "literally dozens" of you who sit at the edges of their seats in anticipation of my next post: @[email protected] Been meaning to make the switch for a while, but laziness is a hell of a drug. So I'm just going to make a hard switch now and let the chips fall […]

I don't really want to host my own instance again 'cause I've been down that road and it was annoying*, but if I did, it would have MSN Messenger emoticons. Emoji are cool and all, but I'm sure everybody who grew up on a particular pre-emoji IM platform knows the feeling of only being able to […]

Installing Photoshop CS5.1 for the sake of my sanity.

Any #graphicdesign folks have a favourite stock asset provider (mostly vectors, but decent stock photos do occasionally come in handy) that isn't slop-infested like Freepik? I am willing to pay a reasonable monthly fee for something that has a good selection and doesn't try to shove slop down my […]

My fridge is reassembled, and it's fan is definitely spinning, though it's a little noisey what with having a broken fin and all, but I'm happy to report that the thermostat is reporting a temperature of 6 degrees. I have it set to 3 though, so hopefully it reaches the desired setting, though […]

Has anybody had any kind of luck gaming on Linux with an RX 580? My experience with it has been decent for some games, and then for others, almost immediate black screen, and the fna spins up to 100%, and I just have to hard reset. Haven't been able to solve it universally :/

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Ah, the joys of fridge ownership. My advice: don't buy a Samsung fridge; and vertical freezer with in-door ice is far preferable to having the ice maker inside the fridge compartment. We've had the ice maker disabled for a couple years now, because it just kept freezing solid.

I don't mean to be crass but... I guess at least one MAGA grifter fucked around *and* found out, huh?

After about a 10 year hiatus of practicing the guitar, aside from very rarely picking it up to noodle a bit, I can now play the blues scale from the nut to the 21st fret, and while I don't really know a lot about what that means other than "sounds bluesy," I am literally Jimmy Page, ok? (okay I […]

If a company has a referral program, and the sum total of posted info is "we'll give you 10% of your referral's spending" and "but only after 24 months," then after amassing $92 of referral income and waiting 24 months, you're told there's a $100 minimum withdrawal, in my humble opinion: that's […]

I know Microsoft doing dumb shit is basically expected at this point, but I had a friend come to me in a panic about a year ago with a laptop suddenly unbootable due to Bitlocker encryption, which he never enabled, and for which he did not have a key. I couldn't find a solution, and he decided […]

Good guy Don Knuth with an unusually based footnote for a book from 1968 (this is the 2nd edition (1973) of The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1: Fundamental Algorithms)

There's a working Linotype an hour away from me! I must go see it. And no lie I am 100% prepared to volunteer at this holiest of local print museums.

Alright, I suppose I can live with this. I assume I'll have to manually move the floating top bar into position every time, but whatever. This is the cost of regaining, like, 20 vertical pixels lmao. It's going to need some tweaking, since apparently changing […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Adobe folks, in all their glory. Because that's not exactly when it's most likely to spontaneously crash because you move the mouse kinda funny...

Okay look, I know I've ripped on Adobe's contextual toolbar (and I'm not about to say that it's *good* necessarily), but I do think it's important to allow yourself to have your mind changed, even when you've already expressed your previous stance in pretty unequivocal terms, so just hear me out […]

Any #pihole experts willing/able to help an idiot who went into this on a whim with the confidence of somebody who doesn't already know that networking is not their strong suit? I've got it running in a docker container (host system is running Fedora 42). I have Bell Canada's fibre and the […]

The fun never ends. No list. No descriptive filenames. What else is new? lol

Office cleaning update: I can now move my chair around, quite a bit actually. But the more progress I make, the less enticing further progress gets, as dealing with big things is easy while dealing with small miscellaneoous items strewn across a desk or lying on shelves is my nemesis, so I think […]

Probably a long shot, but any #caraudio / #carstereo / big stinky #subwoofer hooligans on here? Wondering if someone who knows more about this stuff than I do (not a lot) might be able to help determine the value of a thing. I have an Eminence LAB12 6Ω […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

There's a certain personality type that likes a certain OS (and no I don't think all users of this OS are like this, just a lot of the ones who make it their personality and write a blog about it) that I find completely insufferable. They like to spend time shouting into the ether with […]

It's funny how much of everything you own becomes a potential "don't need it" the moment the first old laptop lands in the "going away" pile. Can't say I'm super pumped about a lot of it, but I'm facing the possibility of having to move out on short notice, and if I need to get a storage unit […]

Anybody who struggles with #regex or just doesn't use it nearly enough to really lock it in, will likely find this useful: https://regex101.com/ It's a tool, not a tutorial, but its output updates live as you enter/edit your expression with an explanation of the matches as well as any […]

I know there's little way outside of a double opt-in to be absolutely sure that an email address is an actual email address with an actual recipient, but can we at least agree that a good start is if the TLD exists at all? Because I can tell you from experience that WooCommerce's checkout […]

It's amazing how much more often someone tries to confirm my identity by asking "you're name's Jordan?" as opposed to "and your name is?" or the address equivalent of that, or what just happened now, where the security guy in the package room asked what my name was, but only after handing me two […]

I'm one not quite full box deep into cleaning my office and I've reached my first stalemate, primarily due to access restrictions. I'm going to have to start climbing over stuff soon. I'm trying to avoid just shrinking junk together without organizing it, but I […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Have I just been cooking rice wrong all along? Or is boiling the water first, *then* adding the rice specific to parboiled rice? And wtf is this pre-soak for 30min? I thought parboiling was supposed to make things faster, not take 3-4× longer! At this rate, my girlfriend will be having green […]

Ah yes, the 12st of August. That'd definitely be my 1nd choice of ordinal indicator for that number. We don't do 2th best in this house.

How tf does one make green curry? More specifically, I've got this premade green curry in a jar, and there are no directions. Do I just cook the veggies *in* the green curry stuff? Or cook them, and then add the green curry? I imagine it depends on how crunchy they are, idk. I'm the kind of […]

Anybody know wtf eBay is smoking or otherwise ingesting? I'd love to try some.

Finally solved the age old problem of getting analog audio out of a Roku Express (without, y'know... just buying a thing that just pulls analog audio out of an HDMI signal, lol. HDMI out into HDMI splitter. Output 1 goes through an HDMI-VGA adapter, and then a VGA cable to the ancient projector […]

I swear to Bob I will fill up at a less conveniently located gas station if you insist on having people walk up to me to sell me a credit card.

Oh fuck off. I wasn't even trying to drum up business or anything. I was just trying to explain to this dude that WordPress is free, and he just bought WordPress hosting, in spite of the fresh WordPress install on the hosting he already pays for. And let it be […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Says the guy who just paid $400 for WordPress hosting for a site with no traffic, thinking he was buying the software, all after setting him up with a fresh install on the cheaper hosting he already pays me for. Okay pal, have at it.

Descriptive filenames? Now why would you need a thing like that? ...a list of the new products names? Can't you just work from the product images? *grumble grumble*

Last week trump announced plans to "review" 8 Smithsonian museums. Today he doubled down, very explicit about the intent to revise history to reflect the ethno-nationalist fantasy of US history. You can do something about that! We are backing up the digital archives of those museums on sciop […]

Economists warn that thing you were convinced was happening 3 to 6 months ago is currently happening.

Is it weird that I really want this tiny little Aldi espresso machine? Realistically though, by the time you find one and trade Canadian dollars for it, I'd much sooner spend the money upgrading my grinder or buying some nice beans, so I can continue to struggle to get repeatable results from […]