Spastic Hamburger

It’s really hit or miss after the first few seasons. I’d much rather be watching Futurama but I no longer have access to it. It does have its moments, though. I’m mostly watching it to give me something mindless to watch when I’m not in the mood to read a book. I’ve been thinking about going back to watching old movies and anime, though.

Yep! The…[Read more]

Awesome video!

There’s also the dung beetle!

In some districts, it’s actually illegal to leave your pets’ waste lying around even though the local critters do it all the time. And they don’t want it flushed or in the landfill. So…where do we put it?

Ugh. I have some very old accounts that are simply inaccessible due to the email domains being…[Read more]

Remember this gem?

https://www.badmovies.org/

Hasn’t been updated in thirteen years, though, but the forums are still pretty active. It’s actually where I’ve gotten ideas for what to watch over the last fifteen years or so

And speaking of bees, apparently they’re good problem solvers!

Important question: how old is Spongebob anyways? Everyone acts like he’s a kid and he clearly acts like one but is also old enough to be able to drive and is heavily implied that he and Patrick are roughly the same age. Patrick went to community college and doesn’t seem to work, which raises questions about how he can afford anyways but that’s a…[Read more]

Feeling much better after taking a break so I’ll try to pick things back up again in a couple of days 🙂

Elementary has been on the list for a while, just haven’t gotten to it yet. I’m not sure where I can catch it, will definitely need to find out.

O Brother, Where Art Thou has come up from time to time over here, just haven’t gotten in the mood for it. It always looked a bit silly for me 😛

Been watching TCM a lot more recently and I’ve really…[Read more]

I’m actually thinking beyond just farming. Take ancient Rome, for instance. They had computers, even if rudimentary, and even indoor plumbing with hot and cold running water. The technology was lost for a thousand years before being rediscovered.

As for storage medium, digital isn’t a good option as not only does it break down faster than analog…[Read more]

https://videocardz.com/newz/samsung-reportedly-developing-250tb-to-1pb-nearline-ssds-enough-for-up-to-8000-gta-v-installs
That’s a lot of storage!

However, there is a trade-off:

The flash is not standard QLC. Girard says endurance is lower, at around 0.1 drive writes per day, compared with around 0.5 DWPD for current QLC drives.

I’m just more comfortable without them when working at the computer 😛

Progressing at a fairly good clip, all things considered. 🙂

Some of the UI quirks may be due to how they’re using Qt. Could be worth sending them a feature request 🙂

Yay! Been playing some minesweeper off and on lately myself. Of course, when you get to the end game, it…[Read more]

Could possibly cannibalize a few robot vacuums for parts to get the Labubu heads to suck up dirt 😛

🙁 Good choice on site. I like to keep my dogs’ ashes in the living room so that they’re always nearby 🙂

We’re getting some rain as expected, finally. Not a whole lot but it is better than nothing.

Got to thinking recently, we need a knowledge…[Read more]

The Labubu bot may need treads before it can adequately roll on various terrain. Not hard to do: gluing rubber mats to it may be the ticket. Will definitely need to look at the project in more detail.

The readme is kind of light on details, though. Definitely needs more fleshing out.

On May 18, 2026 at 5:27 pm DeVaultSetter said Only two weeks…

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Reinstalled Guild Wars 2 the other day and, while the game runs beautifully, it does have some issues with displaying text on 4k monitors. With my display scaling set to 125% in the OS, text was so tiny that it was unreadable even without my glasses. Had to set it to 150% to get it readable. Since I don’t feel like jumping all over the place with…[Read more]

Just got a note that GitHub is updating the VS version on the cloud to Visual Studio 2026. Shouldn’t affect things too much since the code is already C++20 compliant but we’ll find out once we get things building again.

On that note, I’m taking a bit of a break since I’ve been hard at it for months. In the meantime, if you want to take a look or…[Read more]

Yep, saw that! Haven’t had a chance to browse, though. Will definitely need to! 🙂

There have been some curation come up on Hacker News but I haven’t been making much note of the threads. There was one project that let you scroll through them like a roll of film 😛

Had some new recipes come in: http://www.godecookery.com/godeboke/godeboke.htm

Could be a lot of fun making dishes from a thousand years ago. May need to try some of them!

Had this come in: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/labububot/overview/

Still have no intention of getting one but could be a lot of fun!

Sorry to hear that the fur-balls are having some issues. I know how that can be: my dog hurt her neck last year and that wasn’t fun 🙁 She’s fully recovered now 🙂

Yep, we also had Mothers’ Day yesterday. 🙂

Finally getting some rain over here, which is nice. Hopefully it continues to rain off and on for a while. We’ve got several bodies of…[Read more]

On May 6, 2026 at 6:54 pm Spastic Hamburger said
I suspect winuser.h needs to go before afxwin.h but I need to take some time to study the logs some more.

Turns out that wasn’t the issue. Still getting the same error:
C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio2022EnterpriseVCToolsMSVC14.44.35207atlmfcincludeafxwin4.inl(154,11): error C2039:…[Read more]

Got tired of the bugs and missing features in COSMIC so I switched to Cinnamon. In the past, I’ve always used XFCE or gone piecemeal but many packages I like of the latter are no longer maintained. I don’t know, I just felt like using Cinnamon right now.

It currently uses X11 so we’ll see if I have similar issues when it switches to Wayland.

Not…[Read more]