Recent content by Bokononist

Edit: This post was reliant on a misinterpretation of product and price which I realized in retrospect. The External Enclosures I had been looking at were for 2.5" drives, and nothing of a similar design in a similar price range seems to exist for 3.5" drives.

So I am in a little bit of a nightmare scenario at the moment as shortly after finding that my existing backup was corrupted and would need to be reimplemented, an old drive containing many memories and my entire (quite extensive) ebook collection died. The result is that I have no extant copy...

The power port on my Google Pixel has started to wear out, and while I am going to backup/factory reset/wipe it and bring it tomorrow to see if they will fix/replace it under warranty, I have decided that I am tired of this form factor entirely and really not happy with keeping it. I have done...

Samaratin One of my chief reasons for doing it this way! Genre tags, for example, are split into two fields, a hierarchical 3 part "genre" field, and a flat "sub-genre" field. So, a mid-2000s electronic dance song with country undertones might be tagged Genre: Popular.Dance.EDM, Sub-Genre...

Samaritan Sounds like a useful and efficient setup. I'm dead against having Windows 10 in my apartment because of all the data collection (frankly, I regard it as malicious software), and I already have the custom interface I drew up and implemented in HTML/CSS working for browsing my...

Samaritan The more I think about it the more I lean towards that idea. My one source of trepidation is introducing yet another Windows install to the apartment. But I could run a fullscreen firefox window at startup which displays a TV variant of the Lampstack's media library interface, hiding...

I recently got done modifying/building out an existing machine into an upgraded machine with a second machine to go beside it, and I find myself with spare parts that with an additional small purchase or two could easily make a third machine. My question, generally, is: What do you think I...