ProfessorTomoe

I'm afraid splicing wouldn't do me any good. Here's the explanation Sager gave me: "The AC adapter outputs 20V and 14A. Due to resistance, long wires will reduce the current. Therefore, the power sent to the computer is reduced." In other words, I can't have longer wires due to the resistance created by the extra length.

The reply was a very technical, "You can't." Sigh.

A classic. NOW, SPIT!!!

Welcome back! It is very good to see you, indeed.

https://www.egscomics.com/comic/balance-029 Grace still has problems with spying on people. Sometimes intelligence gathering is necessary, Grace.

Yesterday was a source of no fun. I had a filling fall out of the top right rear molar in my mouth. I'm scheduled to see the dentist tomorrow morning to get it replaced. I hate dentists. I don't dread them - I just hate them. They're not any fun.

Update: I've managed to transfer almost all of my programs from the mirrored SSD of my old system to the NVMe in my new laptop with minimal muss and fuss. I'm still having angst over the short power cables, though. I've written up a support ticket with Sager, asking them how I can go about getting extensions for the cables. I'm hoping the reply won't be, "You can't."

At least 12 people are taken to the hospital following a shooting in downtown Austin This hits home, right in the middle of my old stomping grounds. It happened around the area of 400 E 6th St., which is the entertainment district of Austin. Someone probably got drunk, got mad, and started shooting. If no one's going to curb guns, then implement the plan I heard about elsewhere: make gun owners take out liability insurance, just like car owners have to. If their gun is used to harm a person or property, they can have a claim filed against them. Paying for insurance might make people think twice about buying a gun, if you can get the law passed and if you can enforce it.

The FXM network showed the original M*A*S*H movie yesterday, uncut and uncensored, in the middle of the day. I don't know what came over them to do that, but bravo to them.

A bacon, mayo, and cheese sandwich. The bacon is Wright's Double-Smoked bacon. Not as impressive as their Applewood-smoked bacon, but anything Wright's does is above average. They've got a knack for making great thick-cut bacon. Mayo is Duke's, cheese is Velveeta Slices. Nothing fancy about this sandwich.

I'm not 100% sure, but I have a clue. The enclosure that came with them has "280W" written on the side. I don't know if that means that both bricks total 280 watts, or if each brick is a 280 watt power source. I'm guessing the latter.

One source of annoyance with the new laptop is the power brick, or should I say bricks. Yes, there are two of them. They even came with a little stack tower of their own. I wouldn't mind the fact that there are two of them, but the cords that run from them to the laptop are too short. I have to put them up on top of a box and two books in order to create enough slack for the fold-out table I have in the living room. The interface is non-standard, so I can't go out and get an extension for it at Monoprice or somewhere else. Don't know what I'm going to do about it.

I am slowly getting things back to normal on my laptop. Thanks to a clone of my old laptop's NVMe drive to an SSD drive in an external USB enclosure, I was able to restore my Thunderbird e-mail profile without having to edit anything. My e-mail is back up and running like it was never down. All of my pictures and documents are back as well, but I did have a shock when Google Drive almost overloaded due to too many backup files in one of my literary folders. That got fixed quickly.

IT HAS ARRIVED!!! Of course, it didn't arrive anywhere near the announced window (it got here close to 9pm), but it did get here. Lord, is it heavy! It's got two (2) external power bricks running this thing - I'm going to need a bigger backpack in order to lug this monster around! I'll try and post pics if I can figure out how to link from my web directories. Preliminary impressions: it's fast and colorful, as well as stable and up-to-date. Sager didn't just load an old bulk Win10 boot disk onto it. They ran Windows Update and installed all of the drivers it needed, with no bloatware.

The new laptop is scheduled to arrive between 1pm and 4pm Tuesday afternoon! Keep calm, keep calm ...

I see what you guys are talking about. Neither machine would run an audio processing DAW with the kind of set-it-and-forget-it flawlessness I need. I want the software to almost be too frightened to slow down or to throw errors, if you know what I mean. That's why I went for the high end when I had the chance.

Where do you get your currywurst sauce?

Now, I haven't had to configure a proper system from scratch in many years. I would like some input on what the modern consensus is on what software should go onto a Win 64 Pro system. I'll be, by default, putting BitDefender, the Vivaldi Browser, my VEDIT Pro 64 text editor, Total Commander, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Keepass, Dropbox, Take Command, Stardock's Object Desktop, and several other basics. What would you recommend?

I wound up ordering $90 of barbecue delivery from Pecan Lodge in the Deep Ellum section of Downtown Dallas tonight. It's Mrs. Prof's fault, really. She went off for a dinner with some of her cat trap-neuter-return cohorts and told me to "fend for myself," and O did I most assuredly fend. I ordered a pound of brisket, a half pound of burnt ends, two sausage links, and a peach cobbler. The food total came to $63, but with all of the delivery, tax, and tip charges, it hit $90. The barbecue was worth it - I only ate a bit of the burnt ends and part of a sausage link before I was almost too full to eat the peach cobbler. We have well over a pound of leftovers, of which Mrs. Prof will be able to partake. She does not know how much I spent. It's better that way for now. I kind of feel bad, because just the other day I spent $78 on a spice refill order through Penzeys, most of it on a 2 cup jar of Four Peppercorn Blend which will last a good, long time. She doesn't know I did that, either, and won't until the order gets here. I've been expensive this month. See my other thread about my new laptop incoming. That one's got sticker shock written all over it.

I am going to give NoScript a week. If it keeps making my life hell, I'm going to disable it. The cosmetic changes were bad enough to chase me off when combined with all of the other cumulative crap over the years.

https://www.egscomics.com/comic/balance-026 So, Agent Bishop is a snake, and a sneaky snake at that. Interesting.

Well, what's done is done. I have taken the final step and made Vivaldi my default browser. I've also installed that pain-in-the-ass NoScript as a safety measure, and I'm already wondering if I shouldn't uninstall it. All it does is make checkouts at web stores nigh on impossible, with me having to approve half a dozen or more scripts that want to run just so I can use a credit card. It's more hindrance than help.

This year's running of the Indianapolis 500, the 105th installment of said race, made me very happy. It was one hell of a race, and it saw a new inductee into the four-time winner club: Helio Castroneves of Sao Paolo, Brazil. He joins A.J. Foyt, Al Unser, and Rick Mears in that exclusive club. This year's race was also a record smasher. Check out the big number of records broken or tied.

With Firefox, I ran NoScript. I haven't set that up on Vivaldi yet, and I'm tempted not to do it, given all of the trouble it caused me. I've got uBlock Origin running. Isn't that enough?

I am now experimenting with Vivaldi as my go-to browser. Haven't set it up as my default yet, but I'm getting close. It's snappy, Chrome-compatible, cleaner than Firefox or Chrome, and I haven't had a single problem with it so far. My only concern is transferring all of my login cookies to it for things like banking and so forth. Gotta start from scratch, and I'm not sure I want to do that yet.