I have a workstation-grade PC that I got off-lease a long-time back. It's a Dell T-7500 that had some grade of NVidia Quadro card in it. Not exactly the most performant card on the block by today's standards but it served my needs for the machine (namely, displaying graphics on …
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This morning JoDee tested positive for COVID. This is more of a relief than anything because she's been having the same symptoms as me without having that bright purple line to say that, indeed, she has COVID. Our long house-wide nightmare is over.
Us getting COVID was inevitable. Masks have …
read more"Rock is Dead" and Other Bedtime Stories
Gene Simmons (Bassist and guiding light for the band KISS, in case there are youngsters reading this post) keeps beating the drum that "Rock is Dead (and the fans killed it)". The assertion (as I read it) is that because folks can't make money in the streaming age like they …
read moreI don't want an ad-riddled phone, I want a pocket computer
It would figure that someone has come up with a new way to make using something you bought a complete ad-riddled cluserfuck: US carriers want to bring "screen zero" lock screen ads to smartphones (And of course it's brought to us by the same US carriers that salivate at the …
read moreFrom whence innovation? (or, why we need to rethink our current paradigms lest we continue to stagnate)
I just finished "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul" after a late-night reading binge before bed. That book uncorked a lot of conflicted thoughts in me. Apple used to be a company that could be counted on to push the bar further with existing …
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