So a while back I wrote up a bit about a guide I use to check my car once (and now twice) a month. I figured maybe someone else could use it, so I share it here now.
Car Maintenance: Prevention
Hard Drives, Size Limits, Boot Records, and Partition Tables
Or, how Mike wasted a Friday evening in vain.
I bought some new drives for home use, because a drive in my LG NAS went bad. Womp womp.
I got home, and popped them in. As expected: they did not work. They only showed 2TB, despite being 3TB drives. This is expected, because my NAS is old and only does partitions and sectors in the older MBR style.
Well, MBR does not have support for drives > 2TB (technically, 2 and change, 2.2TB usually) for some archaic reason.
What followed, was drive reorganization, and more understanding and explanation than I ever thought I would need to know.
On: Right To Repair
Filed under: “Was-There-Ever-A-Doubt” and “Obviously” categories, both Apple and AT&T have come forward to spearhead the fight against the Right To Repair. Anyone who knows anything about Apple is not at all surprised by this completely-unexpected-and-not-totally-what-they-have-always-wanted move. Where I’m from we call this a “Dick Move.”
Rant: Drivers, Again
I know, I know, I know, I feel like I’ve covered this topic a million time at this point but it really ticked me off this morning and so I’m going to talk about it again: driver’s in NJ are just terrible.
In the past I’ve talked about how bad NY and PA drivers are, but after driving out through to Michigan and beyond a few times I really just need to say it: NJ drivers are just terrible, horrible, horrific, assholes. Anyone who has driven in or around NJ will probably secretly agree.
People from NJ probably won’t, because they largely think everyone else is just horrific and they’re just driving to deal with it.
I wholeheartedly disagree.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
So I purchased Call of Duty Infinite Warfare on Steam for myself during Christmas because I wanted a mindlessly fun FPS to play during winter break. I got exactly what I paid for, and I’m largely happy about the purchase. I do have some minor nitpicks and gripes about the game and gameplay though, and hence we’re having a review. I started this review as a draft in early January, and I’m just getting around to it. So here we go.
On: Abject Failure (Continued)
So, now it’s a day later, a day following a tremendously frustrating day. We are doing better today. I have had time to reflect on it all. Time to post learned things and hind-sights.
On: Abject Failure
Lately it seems everything I put my hands on has resulted in complete, total, and abject failure. There is honestly no other way to put it. I wish there was.
Presented Without Comment: America
Inspired by someone I follow on Twitter (thanks for the idea Sam), and presented without commentary here.
Another Rant: Too Much To Summarize
A lot of stuff has been on my mind lately, and I’m just gonna rant and ramble a bit more like I did last week. Some of it is tech related. Most is not. Variety is the spice of life.
Rant: On Lazy Services & People
TSo, let me start off by saying: pot, kettle, black. I’m lazy. I’m lazy as hell. I look at a problem and look for the simplest solution to a problem. Work smart, not hard, as they say. That being said, while I’m lazy, I still do a complete, thorough job when I work on a project. Lately, this is something I’ve seen as very lacking in a lot of areas. It’s got me pretty fed up, and I wanted to talk about it a bit because I want to set clear some expectations and realities and how to best deal with them.