I got an MSI Claw instead of the Steam Deck and I adore it, but the best decision I made was to get a USB-C docking station like the one in the photo. It turns it into a full desktop PC.

Even better is that eventually you can connect an eGPU to that dock to a massive boost when you’re at the desk. The Claw has replaced my desktop and laptop.

Any IT department worth their salt will have solved this problem years ago. It’s hard to explain if you’ve never managed Windows in an enterprise setting but there’s a reason that profit-hungry corporations all use Windows. Here’s the full process for getting any Windows laptop to work perfectly:

• unbox the laptop and turn it on
• insert the USB key with the provisioning package
• wait about two seconds for Windows to tell you to remove the USB key.
• go to lunch

If they have a channel supplier that offers ‘white glove’ service they don’t even need to do that and they can even have brand new laptops drop-shipped to a user at home without ever needing to touch it. And if that laptop fucks up down the line it can just be wiped and as soon as Windows connects to the Internet it can automatically re-enrol itself into the organisation’s management system.

Depending on the store TGTT bags can be amazing or… not so much. One store near me will always include fresh fruit, veg, meats, rolls, cans… another will just hand over a bag with like ten kilos of sliced ham in it.

TGTT with a freezer is a game-changer, though.

Yeah, that’s not a straw, though. It’s like a redwood. A forest of redwoods.

Yeah, it’s kinda like how you can go years without hearing any stories about someone winning a medal at the Olympics then suddenly the news is full of stories about people winning Olympic medals. Clearly it’s a conspiracy.

This guy reminds me of an asshole I used to work for. The company was called ABC, say, so he set everyone up with ABC-Alice@gmail.com, ABC-Bob@gmail.com, and so on. He got really, really pissed off when ABC-NewStarter wasn’t available to the extent that he wrote non-stop emails to the person who registered it, Google, his solicitor, even the police demanding it be relinquished and moaned non-stop that the world wasn’t bending to his whim.

I’m not supporting Google - it’s annoying that they’re revoking a feature - but this is a real XKCD 1150 situation.

Another song by The Killers has the line “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier” repeated over and over again with increasing intensity. It’s hard to imagine a less meaningful lyric without actually resorting to nonsensicalness.

Headphones. I have my commuting headphones, walking headphones, working headphones, video game headphones, music headphones… I also have two pairs of earphones.

I could get down to two pairs of headphones and one pair of earphones.

The PSU isn’t just for the PI, but you’d not know that from the article which seems to have been written by someone with literally no imagination. If you’re looking for a setup that lets you use a RasPi as, say, a file server with a fibre channel card, or a media hub with a GPU that can transcode several streams at once, then it’s a really neat product and that justifies a decent PSU.

OMG! THIS popular Microsoft program will VANISH from MILLIONS of people’s computers SOON, potentially leaving long-term users STRANDED in an UNFATHOMABLY DEEP pit of RELENTLESS DESPAIR and users are SEETHING. Click NOW to find out how YOU are impacted.

Also, the new Fable.

My OG Pebble is still going strong, but I have pre-ordered the new Pebble Time 2 because it just looks like a straight-up upgrade. The fact that the new Pebble company is fully supporting the old devices makes me want to buy their new devices even more.

Too meta.

This just raises more questions.

I saw Shakira and that chef on YouTube who makes ornate sculptures out of chocolate and has a weird, fixed PanAm smile the whole time.

I used to live near someone who had “Mum use this one”, so in OpenWRT I set up several networks with the names:

“Mum use THIS one!” “Mum Use This One” “MUM USE THIS ONE” “Mum use this one (real)” etc, etc

If you can get hold if it, look out for Thomas Jefferson’s The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. It’s the New Testament with all the spirituality, supernatural, etc edited out. Instead you’ve just got a book about morals and ethics as taught by some guy.

Steven Toast saying “Ray bloody Purchase” here.

No update after thirteen hours. Wife wanted to decorate the tree. He dead.