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@mWare We lease rackspace from Myles @ Priority Colo.

Surprise, a practically new Kingston SNV3S in one of the refurbs I'm installing. Thank you to whoever replaced the drive before returning the machines.

So I'll keep the unused P310 in stock, and move this Kingston along instead.

Now typically I will have nothing to do with Adobe Creative Cloud. However, DD is a visual arts student and she needs to use Adobe Illustrator in her upcoming class.

So because there is no legitimate student discount from Adobe, we use the yesteryears Crucial giveaway.

I had the pleasure of chatting with Crucial today.

You see, once upon a time their consumer drives of yesteryear offered a free Adobe Creative Cloud license for 1 month. SO what happened is people would buy their drives from Amazon, redeem the 1 month free license online by registering the SN, then return said drives to Amazon.

Crucial caught on to this, and "temporarily" (forever) stopped online product registrations.

So now, live chat to say "hey, how do I get my code?" and you get a code.

Sinclair asks to end OTA TV unless you have (Internet required to "descramble" and confirm you're in the local tv market) ATSC 3.0 ... And to also end local TV ownership caps. 🙄 Hey, why not go for everything while the time is right, right?
https://cordcuttersnews.com/sinclair-asks-the-fcc-to-end-free-ota-tv-on-abc-cbs-fox-nbc-unless-you-upgrade-to-atsc-3-0-end-ownership-caps/
Sinclair Asks The FCC To End Free OTA TV on ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC Unless You Upgrade to ATSC 3.0 & End Ownership Caps | Cord Cutters News

Sinclair Broadcast Group has submitted formal comments to the Federal Communications Commission emphasizing the critical connection between live sports programming on free over-the-air television and the financial health of local news operations. The company argues that without strong broadcast sports content, stations across the country would struggle to maintain robust local journalism, as sports audiences […]

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\o/ VLC in space

@videolan

@KolokokoBird I do this kind of thing. Hosted on my servers at 151 Front. DM for more details.
Microsoft Windows 11 download and media creation tool webpage is currently... inaccessible.
FYI, Lenovo M720q Tinys (can) use the same DDR4-2666 SODIMMs as the M700. Of course, the M700 can't run Windows 11, so... they make both great Linux boxes, and a relatively inexpensive source for RAM upgrades.
I mean honestly Adobe, what the heck are you installing with Acrobat Reader that it takes longer than Google Chrome?