Author: Jimmie

  • Parallels Desktop VM Isolation

    I’m fascinated by the logic here. Why is this experience not inverted? Why is the user only prompted for confirmation when ENABLING isolation (because: why would I want said VM to be able to read the contents of my clipboard?) but not when disabling it? Isn’t the isolation the entire point of the VM? šŸ¤”

  • Holiday Time Off Shenanigans

    What do you do for time off? Home improvement? Technical skilling? Visiting family? Hang out with friends? I’m off work until January 3rd! I need some things to keep myself busy: Seems like enough for a while. It’s a rough work in progress, but check out https://www.communityreeftank.com

  • A&M Landscaping and Lawncare

    While hopping off a work call just now I happened to notice the sound of a mower outside. Odd. When I peered out the window, the neighbor’s yard was being mowed. VERY ODD. Especially today, on the 28th of November. It’s currently 29° Fahrenheit (that’s -1.67° Celsius for you metric weirdos) and the ground felt…

  • Ozotech Poseidon Racket

    It’s been a long time since I’ve given any thought to the ozone setup I run on the office tank. I was contemplating updating my 15+ year old (but still very much working!) AquaMedic 200 mg Ozone Generator with one of the Ozotech Poseidon units until I read on the Ozotech website they suggest replacing…

  • Cleaning Azure File Shares with Azure Functions

    One of the complaints I have about using FSLogix to store AVD User Profiles on Azure File Shares is that there’s no native way to clean up the stale / unneeded VHDs once users move on. If you search the web, you’ll come across some curiously misleading examples that discuss setting up an Azure Function…

  • Credit Card ā€œConvenienceā€ Fees

    You ever have those nights where you just don’t feel like cooking even though you have plenty of food in the fridge? Yeah, that was us last night. We ended up heading out to Gallo’s Tap Room for dinner. The place wasn’t crowded despite it being 6pm. The patio had plenty of spots, so we…

  • Meet Koda

    We adopted a baby pupper! He’s something akin to a murder floof, or so the scary things you’d read about on the interwebz or hear about on TikTok would have you believe. Maligator, vicious, bitey demon, fur missile, etc. Some of those may be partly true. šŸ˜… He’s got a little mouth full of razor…

  • New Keyboard

    Earlier this week we had to get my partner a new keyboard and mouse setup – so we hopped across the road to Microcenter together. I should have known better. I can’t step foot in that store without getting something… and of course it’s something I don’t really need. I ended up with an ROG…

  • Nope.

    You can shove the “payment method ownership” excuse up your puckered back side, Poshmark. This little stunt right here is a blatant grab made to hoover up personal information that is both unnecessary and dangerous to consumers. What a scam! For being a clothing platform, your site sucks. You know it’s bad when even eBay…