Matthew Connatser

I can't believe Brazil pulled it back. And it's not even close. Congrats to Brazilian Biden.

I talk to literally 0 family members. Best decision I ever made. Sucks all the ones I'd like to talk to are dead, but I married into a great family so it balanced out.

So I just received that healthcare "refund" check that Trump sent out to rig the midterms. Very conflicted on what to do. My family could really use the money, but this kinda seems like stealing, and I hate taking money from the man who got my dad killed. Fuck this man.

There is literally no way for Trump and his cronies to stop the tsunami. It's too big to rig. This is the most unpopular administration since... Probably ever.

Here's a write up of that TV remote working in Bazzite feature I discovered this week. In short, you'll need Bazzite's 44.20261012 update, CEC support, and an LG TV that has Universal Control or a different TV with something like UC. Read more: www.siliconinsights.org/bazzite-quie...

I thought that was a typo.

I wish I needed this and had the money for it.

So it seems Bazzite's recent update this week came with a new feature that wasn't discussed in the patch notes. You can use your TV remote (at least on an LG C5) to navigate Bazzite! I discovered this by complete accident and I'm so glad I did. Short here: youtube.com/shorts/52VLV...

So it only works sometimes and I'm gonna figure out why. This shit is way too convenient to not use.

I just discovered that the random "Xbox 360 controller" my Bazzite PC started to pick up lately is my TV remote. I can control my PC with my TV remote. I'm ascending into the pinnacle of streamlined laziness. This is truly the year of Linux.

Looks like time is up for the GOP. Unless gas and diesel prices miraculously go back to pre-war levels, I don't see how they stop the blue tsunami. Maybe the polls are wrong but that's very, very wishful thinking.

If companies like character.ai aren't profitable, then it calls into question the sustainability of the entire chain. And it's not even like they got close, these margins are horrifically bad. Consumer usage seems to be a dead end for the industry.

Funny how OpenAI can afford to buy a sponsored segment at the start of each Carrie episode but can't afford to make the whole thing ad free. This is a poor company pretending to be rich.

Kansas Senate is now a tossup according to @fiftyplusone.news. Alaska also hits 69% chance for the Democratic candidate Peltola to win (nice). 74% chance for Democrats to win the Senate, slightly down from a brief 76% chance last month.

I picked up Gungeon again recently and wow the mid to late game is just Zelda and Metal Gear references huh?

Finished up a piece about Bazzite's Deck 44 update from last month. My experience has been pretty great, to the point where my list of things I'd like to see fixed or implemented in Bazzite has gotten pretty short. www.siliconinsights.org/bazzite-deck...

Well now CachyOS says I have no touchpad, so RIP I guess.

And now it's whittled down to 25%. Iowa is just a point or two away from leaning Democrat, as is Kansas for being a tossup. Still got a whole month left before Election Day.

This touchpad is 100% cooked which is infuriating because I don't know if I trust MSI to do a repair without botching it or otherwise screwing me over. I also don't want to be completely out of a PC either.

Dios mio. 29% to 26 in just a single day. Also, Iowa is 2 or 3 points away from being recategorized as lean Democrat. And Kansas and South Carolina are nearly tossups. And this isn't even all of today's polls!

Republicans fall to the 20s for the first time in the @fiftyplusone.news Senate forecast. I don't know if they'll get below the teens before Election Day but they've never had a winning streak so far. It's incredible.

This one is a little late coming out, but anyways here's a video version of the 8GB GPU performance testing I did a little while ago. Also, I did a very extremely minimalist style of editing for this one. Let me know if it worked out or not. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Wf...

Wow I just discovered it's really easy to edit videos if you're lazy and just have one long clip to cut up and trim. Literally got done in like an hour.

69% now. Nice.

Texas is now Lean Democrat according to @fiftyplusone.news, for the first time this cycle. There is now only one tossup state: Iowa, which has Democrat Turek at a 55% chance to win. At 60% or more, Iowa goes Lean Democrat. Overall odds in the Senate are still 68% chance for Dems to win.

Model update from @fiftyplusone.news: Democrats have a 68% chance to take the Senate, up from 64% to 65% in recent days. It is now most likely that Democrats flip 2/4 of the battleground states, and flipping all four is likelier than flipping one or none. House at 98% for Dems.

Wrote a little thing about trying out my first OLED TV that I got a few months ago and why I'm not 100% happy with the technology. Kinda wishing I went with Mini LED instead. www.siliconinsights.org/im-not-impre...

Aaaaand they're broken again. Even when I try to give Windows kudos, it spits in my face. Shame.

Drove around the Smokies this weekend, accidentally went on the Dragon for the return trip to East TN. Honestly still better than having to drive through Gatlinburg.

This week's massive article is about replacing your laptop with a desktop and everything you need to know before doing it. Or, if you've already done it, you can still take the advice I guess. www.siliconinsights.org/the-ultimate...

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Hot damn gas at BJ's in Sevierville is now $3.77, it was in the $3.30s just last week, maybe week before last. I wish I could fill up my car with all the surety I had that Trump 2.0 was going to be a disaster for America.

For the first time, FiftyPlusOne shows the Alaska Senate race as lean Democrat. Texas is probably not far behind. Democrats are up to a 65% chance to take the Senate.

So this would be like a three year generation? It's never been this bad.

Huh, my speakers finally have adjustable volume in Windows 11. I'm glad it got fixed somehow but I really would have just preferred it work from the getgo instead of taking a random update to resolve.

In less than four days, my CachyOS review has hit a thousand views! Really happy to see SI pick up right where it left off.

64% in the Senate. Is it too early to call it?

96% is quite the number. Oh, and in the Senate Alaska and Texas are drifting closer to lean Democrat territory. Iowa is also split 50/50 now. Everything that could be going wrong for Republicans, is.

Well, my month with CachyOS is finally over. The verdict? I'm gonna keep my CachyOS installation, and I'll only be touching Windows 11 if I actually have to. The Windows experience got especially bad after reinstalling it on a new SSD. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqI5...

From 59% to 62% in the span of a few hours. Absolutely insane.