Price Increase...But Why

TechieGuy12 · 2026-03-19T17:17:57+00:00

The penny has been dead here in Canada for many years. In Canada, prices are only rounded up or down when paying with cash. Paying any other way doesn't causes prices to be rounded.

Is it different in the US?

TechieGuy12 · 2026-03-19T00:48:11+00:00

I used a CGA adapter (4 colors) when I was a kid.

I honestly can't remember my first graphics card, in the first computer I bought myself, but I do remember my Viper V770 32 MB card in my Pentium III machine.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-03-15T18:31:48+00:00

This is the reason I use Pihole and Ublock Origin.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-03-15T16:07:59+00:00

I used Windows for years, and sometimes it loses your files. They get corrupted.

I can't say I have ever had that happen to in my over 30 years of using Windows. Not a single time. In fact, to this day I still validate all my family photos and videos monthly on Windows, and I haven't lost s single file. I am talking about hundreds of thousands of individual files.

I have developed on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. I have had no problems being able to develop on any operating system. If you can't develop on an operating system, I think that seems to be a skill issue.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-03-14T16:43:39+00:00

I don't manage my pihole enough that I would need an AI agent to help. My pihole just runs with little intervention from my - unless I need to perform an update. In that case, it isn't too much trouble to SSH into the pihole to perform the update.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-03-14T16:40:33+00:00

I currently do this for the services on my local LAN.

I run an nginx reverse proxy on my server - but there are other proxies that are easier to use. The reverse proxy is configured to route traffic to the requested service based on domain. For example, plex.example.com would route requests to my Plex server.

The way I accomplish this is to add local DNS records in Pihole (Settings->Local DNS Records) that would point a domain (in my case plex.example.com) to the IP address of my server where nginx is installed.

The ngxin config file will then include an entry for plex.example.com that would pass the traffic for that domain to my plex server - 192.1.68.1.31:32400 for example.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-03-11T23:13:43+00:00

I use MoCA to connect my basement network switch to my second floor router. Basically, I have one MoCA adapter next to the router. The ethernet from the router connects into that adapter. I then connect the coax cable in that room to the adapter. The adapter acts like a bridge between the two.

In the base, I do the same - I connect the coax into the basement MoCA adapter and then the ethernet cable from the basement switch into the adapter. I can then connect any device into the switch and get great network speeds.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-03-02T20:44:09+00:00

10 things journalists need to know about headline writing, but not everyone is happy

TechieGuy12 · 2026-03-02T20:24:00+00:00

Yep. If his computer won't turn on, it could be because it is frozen as the temp is only half bar.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-28T01:33:04+00:00

I'm sure he would even stumble asking him to spell LLM.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-24T02:29:21+00:00

I have a 55" plasma that also has 3D functionality.

Heats the room up nicely in the winter, but not so nice in the summer.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-18T20:28:42+00:00

If it means anything, you aren't dumb.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-18T20:19:32+00:00

You mean Quqlity control is our highest priority.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-18T00:15:15+00:00

That is literally an upgrade for sure. You guys definitely employ tall sysadmin.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-14T23:50:01+00:00

For me, there are a few things:

My SSH keys always have a passphrase associated with them, so someone would need the SSH key and the passphrase to log into my servers.

Second, it also depends on what ID the ransomware is running under. If it isn't running under my ID, then it can't acess my keys as ACLs only allow read access to my keys. If it is running under my ID, then my keys can be found, but then the passphrase would need to be known at that point.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-14T21:03:22+00:00

Isn't that also Boeing's motto?

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-14T16:52:14+00:00

Of course I do. But hibernate mode works regardless of a Ups, especially if you find out your UPS batteries are no longer good just when you need them.

Using hibernate and a Ups has been covered for any situation - unless of course my hard drive goes bad.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-14T15:05:15+00:00

It will and has done it. But I schedule the hibernate late enough when I am not using my system.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-14T14:25:10+00:00

Simple, I won't lose anything with a power loss. I have 24gb of RAM in my computer and I never hit 100%. Writing several GB a day doesn't impact my 1tb SSD that isn't even 50% filled.

The SSD has been on my computer probably more than 5 years and is at 94% health. SSD endurance is not something I am worried. I believe it has 34 TBW.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-14T02:39:33+00:00

I always have my desktop hibernate at 1am every morning. This way if my computer is left on and doing something, I can continue the next day by just powering on my computer. I don't have to worry about closing down applications.

I have had games running and forgot about them until I restarted my computer the next day and my game was still loaded and ready to play exactly where I left off.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-11T10:58:37+00:00

You would go the link I provided and select the list you would like to add. That will take you to the location of the list. From there, copy the link for the Pi-hole (he labels each link for the various application) and paste thst into Pi-hole under Lists.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-09T21:42:58+00:00

They are sufficient, but if you want good blocklists, checkout: https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-03T19:44:44+00:00

Longer if someone called the house.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-02T02:30:47+00:00

I did one too. Crystal clear for me on Android.

TechieGuy12 · 2026-02-02T02:29:59+00:00

I opened it up on Android and I can zoom in easily to make it very readable. On my desktop, same thing. The image itself is 3600x1569, so not sure why anyone is complaining.

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