Thanks to a friend’s detailed “cutting the cable” post, I re-examined Plex Media Server (PMS) as a means of sharing/accessing my vast library of movies/photos/music. In short, PMS is now significantly more polished than it was a few years ago. For anyone with media files spread across multiple systems including Apple/OS X/iOS, PMS is a […]
This is what’s scary about the new self-drive technology. It’s brought to you by the same folks that can’t even keep an entertainment system running. If not already, I’m sure Robin Cook is in the process of drafting a novel about self-drive technology failure. https://jalopnik.com/fiat-chrysler-pushed-a-uconnect-update-that-causes-cons-1822939437
All my systems are patched up for Spectre and Meltdown. The performance impact isn’t noticeable on my laptop and main desktop as in general they’re lightly used. However, on one of my Win 10 development systems were I have quite a few Docker containers running, the hit was sizable! All my CPUs are pre-Haswell (2015), […]
