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So is anyone doing anything with blockchain anymore outside of crypto-currency? There was a lot of activity surrounding the concept several years ago and then, after a couple of years, poof. Nothing.

Have no real experience with it myself but it looks like they were last online around 2024. It came out around the time that I had mostly lost interest in playing the games and I never was much of one to use community modifications. From what I understand, though, the big thing with it was shaders (at least initially). I never had stability issues…[Read more]

Here’s an interesting list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies

Lots of Japanese companies and breweries on there

It sounds like there could have been an outage during a critical Windows process. Windows is much less forgiving about those situations than *nix. It’s possible you may need to reinstall the OS

If I remember correctly, CSM is mostly for older technologies such as IDE that pre-date SATA drives (as well as older add-in cards). Granted, it’s been a…[Read more]

More infrastructure should be designed as art forms. Civilization would look so much better if it weren’t covered in bland industrial displays. Just as an example, the Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty could have cellular aerials on top. Streetlights could have a whimsical appearance, like sunflowers. Just make things look better!

I miss easily…[Read more]

Oculus was pretty good. Of course, I generally like anything with Sackhoff 🙂

I actually don’t have a cat 😛

Those articles are some that came in a long time ago which I felt like checking up on again 🙂

What amazes me is that people actually need instructions to unwrap their candy bars 😛

And came across this tidbit the other day:…[Read more]

The original Candyman was excellent. Next up is the Mothman Prophecies. May go back to classic horror films soon. Those were always fun and I’ve been in the mood for Vincent Price

You could try reseating it. That sometimes helps

And Dark. Dark was good! Bad dubbing but the rest of it was amazing! Still mad over Dark Matter. I’ll always be mad that it got cancelled before they wrapped things up. 😛

Tubi has a good selection of older horror films (and even some newer stuff from the 80’s). 🙂

House was fun (very much a B-movie) but it was rather jarring since it was hard…[Read more]

It is now October. What does that mean? Time to start watching horror films again!

Kit Kat bars now have instructions on the wrappers telling you how to peel the wrapper off. Why, I have no idea.

So NASA once used spider as guinea pigs to see what happens when you give them various substances. Fascinating stuff

Also, dug up some old articles on roaming cats from the BBC and ABC Australia. Interesting study and there have also been some newer studies on that as well, such as this one out of Denmark.

Was a bit hard to dig up the studies on…[Read more]

Is set up not going well, then? 🙁

Can’t comment much on hibernation as it’s a feature I haven’t really used since roughly 2005. I do know that, on suspend, I had to press a button to get the system to resume. Just moving the mouse wouldn’t wake it up unless it was simply “sleeping”.

We don’t need expensive “smart toasters”. Seriously. Just dial in the shade you want!

Yeah, their forum seems to be hit or miss. I like the answer in the printer thread: “Try turning it off and on again.” 😛

Honestly, that does fix most printer problems. Sometimes you do need to go into settings though and reset something. For whatever reason, my printer sometimes decides to use the wrong paper size and won’t work unless I switch…[Read more]

Trying to rebuild my list of resources but DigiKey and Mouser seem to be good resources for components. Could be handy for general repairs or even other projects.

The Ig Nobels are out!

Always fun to go through them 🙂

Hopefully the driverless cars will have a manual override. The cabs don’t and the manufacturers are shifting to removing steering controls from them, which could be potentially problematic in the event of an emergency.

I think it’s important to note that at the quantum level, general…[Read more]

While you can still purchase reasonably priced vacuum tubes, vacuum tube testers themselves are expensive!

Yep, it has an English dub! It’s also available in Japanese with English subtitles if you’d rather (or without subtitles if you’re so inclined 😛 ) and possibly other languages. I only watch the dubbed versions of anime. I have a hard time reading the subtitles and following what’s going on at the same time 😛

Yeah, a lot of stuff these days is…[Read more]