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Bad Luck
It seems to me that I’ve had quite a bit of bad luck lately. I’m truly not sure what I’ve done to offend lady Karma, but she has since responded and laid her divine retribution squarely on my shoulders, consistently, for the past month. While I do not understand, I am listening, I am learning,…
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Upgrading from AMD Ryzen 9 7950x to 9950X3D
The patient, as viewed under the operating room lights… If you’re interested in my old CPU, it’s for sale here: https://columbus.craigslist.org/sop/d/columbus-amd-ryzen-processor/7834796843.html
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100 gigabit to the Desktop
Truly overkill for ANY purpose. But still fun as hell. 😀
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Windows Server 2025 Diagnostic Data
Trash. This kind of thing boils my blood. Why would any company pay, quite handsomely might I add, to use software that can not be controlled once installed? This isn’t some cloud hosted app or service, this is Windows Server. That customers run on THEIR OWN HARDWARE. Possibly in a secure enclave, who knows? Why…
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KB5046740 Breaks CAC Authentication to AVD
If you’re struggling to log into AVD from a Windoze… ahem, Windows computer with your CAC card… here’s the likely culprit: Update KB5046740. From this thread on Reddit, it seems like quite a few others have been running into the issue. I tripped over it this morning, myself. It’s a quick easy fix assuming you…
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qemu 9.1.1-1 / virt-manager Audio Shenanigans
The upgrade of qemu packages from 9.1.0-2 to 9.1.1-1 broke the audio output of my Windoze 11 VM that I typically work from. Arch Linux is a rolling release, so it’s not as easy to just specify the version of a package you want to install using any of the normal commands with Pacman –…
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WTF Google
It’s no secret that I’ve fallen out of love and into a constant state of disgust with “Big Tech.” Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon… they all do repulsively shady things that make me want to swear off tech, sell every gadget I own, and become some kind of Amish hipster. Okay, okay, that might be a…
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High Speed Home Networking
Sometimes I forget … This isn’t “normal” for most other people.
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Updating Dell XPS 15 9530 Firmware on Linux
Today marks the first time I’ve updated the BIOS in my Laptop since I bought it. When I initially powered it up, Windows 11 was “installed” (more like present, it took almost 2 hours for it to fully update itself before it was usable) so I used that to update the BIOS and various firmware…