I was recommended by a well-known privacy guide to use Rethink with AhaDNS Blitz, but it seems to fail often; nothing resolves until the VPN is stopped and restarted. Any ideas or advice?

Just because you put +5V, +12V, and ground on the Molex plug doesn’t mean the drive is going to be powered up and spinning. The controller on the drive controls the motors (duh) and may be shutting the whole works down if it’s receiving what it interprets as invalid or malformed commands.

I was trying the same thing years ago, with a mid-90s HDD, a dedicated power supply for it, and a couple different IDE-USB adapters, and never got it to work. The drive shutting down when USB adapter is plugged in sounds familiar.

You got it. The IDE-USB adapters will technically only work with drives supporting ATA-2 (EIDE and newer).

Lots of arcade games and other amusement machines made in the last twenty years run on desktop Linux.

Incredible Technologies games, Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix Big Buck Hunter Pro, Arachnid dartboards, and TouchTunes jukeboxes off the top of my head.

This one towers over the denizens of New Phyrexia and then dies fighting a rhinoceros, unless it has snacktime first. They should have gone with original Dreadnought materials instead of porcelain. I suppose the old Phyrexians had the advantage of being tempered in a rain of boiling oil.

I love the art of the Domini but apparently not as much as I love taking the stats of game pieces literally. 😅

Rumor is that Trump offered RFK Jr, an anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist, the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Interesting like watching a train go off a broken bridge into a ravine.

Sorry. If there is a keyboard key or other input event to scroll it, you could set a touchscreen gesture to emulate that input?

This trope is false; frogs will attempt to escape when the water gets unpleasantly hot. They don’t allow themselves to be boiled.

Just saying.

Does double tap and drag work?

Meaning: tap, lift, tap without lifting, drag.

I have a similar PATA enclosure. I thought it was cursed until I got to reuse the A-A cable to upload FlashFloppy custom firmware to Gotek floppy emulators without wiring up a USB-serial adaptor.

It works for Ultimate Boot CD, which includes DBAN and a lot of other fun stuff.

I play with retro hardware and Ventoy has also worked for me with some weird old isos that even Rufus didn’t work with (XP/Server 2003 multidisc from eXPerience that uses a Linux bootloader?)

Wow, this set looks awesome!

only available at Las Vegas convention and Festival-in-a-Box

So it’s a Scalper’s Lair product. I may as well stop looking at the spoilers.

They’re only legal in the draft event you pull them in, and at the kitchen table.

This, I tried some newer distros with Wayland and ended up going back to Debian Stable and X11 for gaming. Got Sunshine (for Moonlight handheld client streaming) working for in about a minute.

I always feel old when they’re playing Ramones over the loudspeakers at the grocery store.

Hiren’s Boot CD PE

My bad. Well, obviously Motorola has 14 configured and available for this device, so I don’t know what to tell you.

Luckily, my gov’t now forces providers to un-network-lock devices after a certain waiting period (60 days?), and the bootloader seems to be unlockable! I’m not feeling like a slave, just paying more for the phone than what I signed up for.

Edit: I’ll always trust Motorola over, say, Samsung, where the Galaxy S-whatever (US version) and the same name device (International version) even have a completely different processor!

I have a Verizon Razr+ 2023 (on an MVNO), and it’s now running Android 14.

Ask your service provider why they are holding back updates.

Edit: 14 fixed one of my annoying issues with this phone; the outer screen did not play nice with certain keyboards (I like Unexpected Keyboard). Now you can choose different keyboards for each screen.

USA still has 2G, but 3G is definitely no longer around. Those frequencies have been portioned out for 4G LTE and 5G.

I had to put my wife’s LG-made Google Nexus phone in the fridge to wirelessly back it up without it overheating.

Also got a free 65" Samsung TV because original owner couldn’t stand its blue blotches.

Everyone, race to the bottom!