Copilot Helping Me IT

I took on a networking project and had to expand my IT knowledge base. I’ve set up and worked on simple networks a lot over the years, but nothing that required five ‘hops’ through managed switches to connect a server and a workstation. One of the things that trips me…
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New AI Photo for Christmas

Current Mood: nerdy
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…and we’re back!

Note to future self (and you, Dear Reader): WordPress on Docker, behind an nginx front end, spread across two servers in a home environment (see photo) is not a good combination to maintain data reliability. To summarize: I’ve always kept old computer parts around and, almost a decade ago when…
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Another Repair Success

When they tell you the new one is more than $200, you tell them, “I do it for three-fi’ty!” This was a really fun repair that exercised the skillset for my new job. Awesome way to get my hands into something without any risk. I’m told these fixtures normally get…
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AI Writes Seinfeld

The other day, I had a friend send me a video of a Seinfeld parody where the characters are from Mario Bros. Since the AI thing has become so prolific and it’s increasingly obvious people are just throwing anything at the wall in an attempt to “go viral”, my first…
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Paid to Meme?

Saw a friend post on Facebook: “I need a meme about Zillow’s Zestimate being inaccurate.” Got me thinking about all the random meme’s I’d generated for LiquidWeb over the years (mostly to complain about customer’s). If I could get paid to generate memes, I’d be a thousandaire! Here’s the latest…
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Fixed a Harbor Freight Solar Battery Charger

In case this is broken in the future: the video is basically a repair of a cheap solar float charger from Harbor Freight. The positive lead and it’s solder pad had lifted away from the backing metal that the solar cells are built on. I couldn’t build up a new…
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AI Generated – Mediocre Creamy Garlic Crock Pot Potatoes

We had some potatoes starting to rot and Wife said I should look up a scalloped potato recipe. In my CIS college classes, one of my professors drilled into us, “work smarter” and “make the machine do the work” so I decided to be extra efficient and just aske chatGPT…
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My AI photo generating process

I’m trying for photorealism, but the only card I can make Stable Diffusion work on is an ‘ancient’ AMD R9 200 series video card with 3GB of VRAM so the resolution is incredibly limited. Still, there’s something magical (and oddly addicting) about being able to render MySpace-like images of fake…
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Making Google Money

Every time I get one of these “your edit helped,” emails from Google, I just think, “I did free work and helped make Google $62 billion last year.” This is why, for the most part, I stick to editing on OpenStreetMap. Much less restrictive usage policy and it’s not directly…
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