Daily Tech News 13 November 2025

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Valve has followed up on its very popular Steam Deck gaming handheld with a desktop Steam Machine and a wireless Steam Controller. (Tom's Hardware)

Like the Steam Deck, the 6" black cube called the Steam Machine is at its heart a PC built on AMD components. It has a six core Zen 4 CPU, and a 28 core RDNA3 GPU.

It comes with 16GB of RAM in two DDR5 SODIMMs, 8GB of GGDR6 RAM for the graphics card, and 512GB or 2TB of SSD in an M.2 2230 slot. There's a vacant M.2 2280 slot to add storage of your own.

On the I/O front it has HDMI, DisplayPort, one USB-C port, four USB-A ports, and somewhat disappointingly, gigabit Ethernet.

It also has four built-in antennas for wifi, Bluetooth, and the Steam Controller, and a built-in 300W power supply so you don't need an external brick. It's cooled by a single 120mm fan.

And most importantly it comes running SteamOS rather than Windows.

Give how determined Microsoft is to drive its own users away, I am looking forward to this little device. It's literally half the speed of my current desktop (which has a 12 core Zen 4 CPU and an RDNA3 graphics card with twice the graphics cores and RAM) but for something that sits quietly in the living room attached to the TV it looks ideal.

No prices yet. Shipping "early 2026".

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Trying out the latest Framework 16 laptop with the RTX 5070 graphics option. (Tom's Hardware)

It's a Framework 16 laptop with RTX 5070 graphics - which on this particular laptop are upgradeable.

The one surprise is that the graphics upgrade somehow upgraded the display from 100% sRGB to 100% DCI-P3, which is probably really just a colour profile switch.
Microsoft really wants you to use their Edge browser. (PC Magazine)

For something other than downloading Chrome.
A study commission by Apple says that when Apple cut its commissions charged to developers, the developers mostly kept the savings rather than reducing prices to customers. (Mac Rumors)

Well, yes. And?
Need a faster CPU? How about 1024 cores at 6GHz, with 24 channels of DDR5-17600 RAM and 128 lanes of PCIe 7.0? (WCCFTech)

Oh, and it runs both x86 and Arm instructions.

One small problem: It uses 1600W of power.

Oh, and it's not expected to ship before 2027.

They have shipped FPGA-based emulators to developers, so it's not entirely vaporware. Other than that, wake me in a couple of years.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Radio killed the movie star.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 04:01 AM (ddZuf)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:01 AM (+qU29)

4 I think officially today I am a old guy

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)

5 Just turned 29, Skip?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 13, 2025 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

6 guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at November 13, 2025 04:04 AM (cRhQI)

7 Microsoft really wants you to use their Edge browser. (PC Magazine)
-

Need to use Edge maybe once or twice a year. Otherwise only Brave. Just added Grok as my default search engine. However sometimes Grok gives me TMI for simple things in life.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 04:04 AM (ddZuf)

8 Good morning. And hopefully good night. I am counting fluffy, fluffy sheep in the hope of getting to sleep.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 13, 2025 04:06 AM (zkrA4)

9 Harpo - Moviestar
I don't think I've ever heard that, even once, in my entire life.
The audience looks unmoved.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:08 AM (RuTUS)

10 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 13, 2025 04:08 AM (XQo4F)

11 4 I think officially today I am a old guy
Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)

Happy birthday, Skip!

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:09 AM (RuTUS)

12 For something other than downloading Chrome.

Well, yes. And?
----

Ah, fresh snark in the morning (evening for pixy).

Posted by: clarence at November 13, 2025 04:09 AM (cRhQI)

13 9 Harpo - Moviestar
I don't think I've ever heard that, even once, in my entire life.
The audience looks unmoved.
Posted by: m

Nah, just European.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 13, 2025 04:10 AM (BLOW1)

14 8 Good morning. And hopefully good night. I am counting fluffy, fluffy sheep in the hope of getting to sleep.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 13, 2025 04:06 AM (zkrA4)

Maybe count some little nuggets?

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:10 AM (RuTUS)

15 And most importantly it comes running SteamOS rather than Windows.
----
Hmmm. Could you dual boot that?

Posted by: clarence at November 13, 2025 04:11 AM (cRhQI)

16 nugget
noun
a small lump of gold or other precious metal found ready-formed in the earth.
• a small chunk or lump of another substance: tiny nuggets of chicken and shrimp.
• a valuable idea or fact: nuggets of information.

ORIGIN
mid 19th century: apparently from dialect nug ‘lump’, of unknown origin.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:12 AM (RuTUS)

17 Mornin'

That video may have brought about the rise of Motorhead! Ok, probably not.

youtu.be/q-0OQmnF1bY

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 13, 2025 04:13 AM (sAmhv)

18 Harpo recorded this song with ABBA's Anni-Frid Lyngstad on backing vocals singing the words "Moviestar Moviestar."

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:14 AM (RuTUS)

19 Happy Birthday, Skip. May you have a blessed day for you are a blessing to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 04:14 AM (2sfNr)

20 Meanwhile, a little koinkadinky in Berkley:

https://tinyurl.com/mspzcnsz

Obligatory Beach Boys hit:

https://youtu.be/Ve1NkLNF7o4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 04:15 AM (ddZuf)

21 (Wikipedia) He was popular in Sweden and around Europe in the 1970s and is best known for his worldwide hits "Moviestar" (1975) and "Horoscope" (1976).

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:15 AM (RuTUS)

22 10 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at November 13, 2025 04:08 AM (XQo4F)

Needs tiny Zamboni.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 13, 2025 04:15 AM (yKmBH)

23 I think officially today I am a old guy

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)
-

That was you on the ONT trex cover pic with the cake?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 04:16 AM (ddZuf)

24 4 I think officially today I am a old guy
Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)

Your nic says 29. Welcome to the party, pal.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 13, 2025 04:19 AM (yKmBH)

25 24 4 I think officially today I am a old guy
Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)

Your nic says 29. Welcome to the party, pal.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 13, 2025 04:19 AM (yKmBH)

haha!

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:20 AM (RuTUS)

26 Restore me, Lord! Devotional on 2nd Chronicles 24:1/14

https://tinyurl.com/4thvd722

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 04:22 AM (Yl2Ob)

27 tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 13, 2025 04:19 AM (yKmBH

Good eye!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 04:22 AM (Yl2Ob)

28 I certainly feel like it more lately

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:26 AM (+qU29)

29 13 9 Harpo - Moviestar
I don't think I've ever heard that, even once, in my entire life.
The audience looks unmoved.
Posted by: m

Nah, just European.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 13, 2025 04:10 AM (BLOW1)

Dolly Parton coulda really belted that baby out!

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:26 AM (RuTUS)

30 Microsoft really wants you to use their Edge browser.

I use Edge and shall continue to do so for another 13 workdays.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 04:35 AM (ExV1e)

31 *The audience looks unmoved.*
Posted by: m

As do I.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 13, 2025 04:35 AM (XQo4F)

32 2 Republicans voted with the Marxists
6 Marxists voted with the Republicans to end the Government shutdown

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:36 AM (+qU29)

33 Relaxing instrumental music from hymns and Fall colors:

https://tinyurl.com/4aev57w7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 04:37 AM (ix8EF)

34 2 Republicans voted with the Marxists
6 Marxists voted with the Republicans to end the Government shutdown
Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:36 AM (+qU29)

So... all the federal workers who underwent a mild financial strain during their, ultimately, six weeks of extra paid vacation, and all the SNAPians who died from being unable to sell their benefits in order to get fancy 12 inch nails... it was all for nothing?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 04:40 AM (ExV1e)

35
"...and all the SNAPians who died..."

*Ahem*
We prefer the term Snapanese.

Posted by: And we're hongry at November 13, 2025 04:43 AM (XQo4F)

36 Manuel gives Basil a language lesson. Fawlty Towers:

https://tinyurl.com/mrkv4xe5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 04:45 AM (2sfNr)

37 I'm fascinated by this Trench Crusade game that's supposedly coming out... Not in the sense that i'm ever going to play it, just by how there's a lot that's culturally fascinating about how popular it is before it even exists, and why. Thinking about the questions "why would they build their new world like this, why is it gaining so much traction, and is this a really good sign culturally even though it's so dark and brutal and almost blasphemous on its surface". I guess it's the "meta" about it I find fascinating. Even though nobody says "the meta" anymore. But you know what I mean.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 04:45 AM (06Hmj)

38 lol@ official White House X account:

https://tinyurl.com/42rjmdjf

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 04:50 AM (ddZuf)

39 it was all for nothing?
.........................................
They all were able to display there very sincere pumpkin patch, for all to see. Alas, the Great Pumpkin never arrived! Oh well. Maybe the next shutdown.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 13, 2025 04:54 AM (sAmhv)

40 Hakeem Jefferies and Chuck Schumer should have paid some whiz kid to do a video with Trump wearing some stupid hat. Instead of getting offended.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 04:55 AM (2sfNr)

41 WAVY10 is still humping the latest Epstein hoax

Posted by: Accomack at November 13, 2025 04:55 AM (Dpv2s)

42 Better wear an extra layer:

https://youtu.be/i2jLXvD9zPs

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 13, 2025 04:57 AM (XQo4F)

43 41 WAVY10 is still humping the latest Epstein hoax
Posted by: Accomack at November 13, 2025 04:55 AM (Dpv2s)

At what point is a hoax not a hoax?

Part of being a hoax is that it's clever enough that the average person believes it because they don't really have any motivation or suspicion to not immediately believe it.

But beyond some line, you're just bullshitting and only the most thoroughly committed acolytes even pretend you're not full of shit.

For whatever reason, it's starting to feel like "hoax" isn't the right word for this kind of Public Lie anymore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 04:59 AM (06Hmj)

44 "For whatever reason, it's starting to feel like "hoax" isn't the right word for this kind of Public Lie anymore."

Now do "climate change."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 13, 2025 05:00 AM (XQo4F)

45

Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks, finally home to seasonal temps and weather, AKA cold windy and light snow.

As usual, may all effort from you be rewarded munificently, with grievous heartburn for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 13, 2025 05:00 AM (vFbHf)

46 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at November 13, 2025 05:01 AM (D1kEJ)

47 WAVY10 is still humping the latest Epstein hoax
Posted by: Accomack at November 13, 2025 04:55 AM (Dpv2s)

Sure. Some folks on the right got caught up in it. No doubt, some even abandoned MAGA over it. All this stuff is done to make people emotional so that they can be manipulated to grant power to unscrupulous globohomo fuckwads.

It's not unlike the constant bitching about the DOJ "not doing anything".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 05:02 AM (ExV1e)

48 Now do "climate change."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 13, 2025 05:00 AM (XQo4F)

Heh. I think a great hypothetical example of what i'm trying to get at is if they were to come out tomorrow and say "Forget carbon dioxide, the real killer is light. We need to stop getting all these photons everywhere. Every scientist agrees."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:03 AM (06Hmj)

49 Looks like most of leaves are down so lots to get moved
I H8 Fall

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 05:04 AM (+qU29)

50 California mandates low-photon flashlights.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:05 AM (06Hmj)

51 Follow the money applies

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 05:05 AM (+qU29)

52 One photon a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at November 13, 2025 05:09 AM (XQo4F)

53
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 13, 2025 05:09 AM (tljrc)

54 Look at a satellite image at night and tell me North Korea isn't taking photon neutrality seriously.

We should be more like them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:10 AM (06Hmj)

55 So my recollection about today in history was 50 years ago I distinctly remember reading in the newspaper while at my grandmother's kitchen about the Edmund fitzgerald sinking.
As this year was exactly same calendar it was a Thursday.
Not that I couldn't be there on my birthday, and the lag of newspapers news I think that's very possible. Some years ago without knowing thought it was my 13th until saw it was 1975.

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 05:11 AM (+qU29)

56 I suppose the term I'm looking for is "Big Lie", but that's not really correct either. The Big Lie is supposed to work better the bigger it is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:12 AM (06Hmj)

57
Diana's internal clock has not readjusted for the time change.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2025 05:12 AM (tgvbd)

58 That was one of those years when the Gales Of November came early.

Posted by: G. Lightfoot at November 13, 2025 05:14 AM (XQo4F)

59 "The Big Lie is supposed to work better the bigger it is."

This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Fauci and Birx at November 13, 2025 05:17 AM (XQo4F)

60 56 I suppose the term I'm looking for is "Big Lie", but that's not really correct either. The Big Lie is supposed to work better the bigger it is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:12 AM (06Hmj)

"Fake News"?

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:18 AM (RuTUS)

61 A month ago decided to work a couple more years full time, at time would have be very helpful, a little bit fell through but still going to give it a couple more.
So off to work I go.
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 05:18 AM (+qU29)

62 "Fake News"?
Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:18 AM (RuTUS)

That's probably it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:19 AM (06Hmj)

63 That was one of those years when the Gales Of November came early.
Posted by: G. Lightfoot at November 13, 2025 05:14 AM (XQo4F)

And did she reciprocate? She did not. -- The Oprah Of November

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 05:19 AM (ExV1e)

64 One small problem: It uses 1600W of power.

Sounds datacentery.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 13, 2025 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

65 58 That was one of those years when the Gales Of November came early.
Posted by: G. Lightfoot at November 13, 2025 05:14 AM (XQo4F)

from the Chippewa on down

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:20 AM (RuTUS)

66

Most of our leaves are down too, but still not removable due to either wet from rain or covered with the 1-2" of global warming that gets replenished when it melts.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 13, 2025 05:20 AM (vFbHf)

67 Good morning! Gonna be another perfect fall day here in Cowtown. Gonna hit 83 this afternoon.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 13, 2025 05:23 AM (3Ope8)

68 G'morning, all!

Looks like the new high tech digital heat pump system we put in back in March blew a zone control board the night before last.

But the system was smart enough to put itself in central control mode, and still maintained he house within 1 degree of set-out, even with a low of 28 degrees overnight.

And all without using supplemental heat strips to produce heat.

So...pretty pleased with it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 05:24 AM (a1415)

69 62 "Fake News"?
Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:18 AM (RuTUS)

That's probably it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Hey. I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Russian Collusion at November 13, 2025 05:26 AM (XQo4F)

70 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:27 AM (u82oZ)

71 62 "Fake News"?
Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:18 AM (RuTUS)

That's probably it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:19 AM (06Hmj)

redsteeze is calling it a "new cycle":

Bonchie retweeted
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
17h
Replying to @ratlpolicy

If it were all truly damaging to Trump as they are running with, Biden's DOJ and Dems would have released all of this last year. This new cycle is how you know Dems are now trying to get out from under the shutdown narrative.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:27 AM (RuTUS)

72 "news cycle" I imagine

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:28 AM (RuTUS)

73 Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 05:28 AM (a1415)

74 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Sounds like you bought a good system, had a clean installation, and have maintained it well.

But you seem to have short half-life with some subassemblies.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:30 AM (u82oZ)

75 or "fake noise":

David Blinn
@DLBlinn61
16h

Replying to @redsteeze @bonchieredstate @ratlpolicy
That's always been my thought. They threw everything but the kitchen sink at Trump from 2021-2024. If there was dirt in the files, it would have been out last year when they could have maximized its damage. Now its just fake noise.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:31 AM (RuTUS)

76 While "The Farmer's Almanac" is going out of business, "The Old Farmer's Almanac", founded in 1792, is still in business.

Apparently, the whippersnappers couldn't make a go of it.

Posted by: no one at November 13, 2025 05:31 AM (W7XSX)

77 m

♩ The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead ♩

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:35 AM (u82oZ)

78 hmm
Good question:

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
19h
Tucker Carlson white-knighted for Zohran Mamdani in his newsletter again this morning.
Why?

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:35 AM (RuTUS)

79 Village Idiot's Apprentice

For once, your morning is colder than mine. We have a heat wave. It is 46 ℉.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:36 AM (u82oZ)

80 "But you seem to have short half-life with some subassemblies."

Yeh, that is a little disconcerting.

Let's hope that it was a one-off, as the zone boards do have a solid reputation for reliability and longevity.

But it is interesting with all the instrumentation that I have available to me, including energy consumption tracked and graphed in 15 minute increments from our utility provider.

I can literally see on the usage plot where the coffee pot energizes on the timer, and begins to heat up.

Interesting bits of trivia to play with, when the cats wake you up at 0415, and there is no chance of returning to sleep, so you find things to occupy the time.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 05:37 AM (a1415)

81 Our tax dollars at work in Great Britain:

https://tinyurl.com/mufmsnkx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 05:37 AM (ddZuf)

82 38.3 outside, right now.

But we will return to warmer mornings within the next two days.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 05:38 AM (a1415)

83 I hope Gordon Lightfoot (RIP) made a bazillion (Canadian) dollars off of that. And here's a cool honor:

(Wikipedia) The Mariners' Church in Detroit (the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral" mentioned in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald") honoured Lightfoot the day after his death by ringing its bell a total of 30 times, 29 for each of the crewmen lost on the Edmund Fitzgerald and the final time for Lightfoot himself.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:40 AM (RuTUS)

84 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Your Google file must be jam-packed with info on how you are living your life at home. No wonder they need bigger data centers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:40 AM (u82oZ)

85 83 I hope Gordon Lightfoot (RIP) made a bazillion (Canadian) dollars off of that. And here's a cool honor:

(Wikipedia) The Mariners' Church in Detroit (the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral" mentioned in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald") honoured Lightfoot the day after his death by ringing its bell a total of 30 times, 29 for each of the crewmen lost on the Edmund Fitzgerald and the final time for Lightfoot himself.
Posted by: m

I recall reading about that. Very classy!

It is a great song.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 13, 2025 05:41 AM (sAmhv)

86 Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:40 AM (RuTUS)

That's neat!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 05:42 AM (oT1li)

87 Morning all.
Time to grind the beans.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not pass on 3rd and 1 at November 13, 2025 05:42 AM (AOsQT)

88 "Your Google file must be jam-packed with info on how you are living your life at home."

More than likely, yes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 05:42 AM (a1415)

89 Just don't forget if you repeat a lie enough, it becomes a true story. Some scientists and politicians are very good at that.

Posted by: colin at November 13, 2025 05:42 AM (wlQdF)

90 m

Cool.

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" must be one of the most overplayed songs on the oldies stations, after "The Rains Down in Africa"".

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:43 AM (u82oZ)

91 It's Skip's birthday today. In case anybody missed this:

4 I think officially today I am a old guy
Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:45 AM (RuTUS)

92 colin

One verified fact can demolish the most elaborate theory. Looking at you, physics string theory.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:45 AM (u82oZ)

93 A BullWork "reporter" is told to do some stretch exercises:

https://tinyurl.com/2v789rxa

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 05:47 AM (ddZuf)

94 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Hope your routes are fun and safe.
We are going to need a bunch of more power plants.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:47 AM (u82oZ)

95 Greetings and good morning one and all. The long "nightmare" is over at least until January.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 13, 2025 05:47 AM (jjoN6)

96 What's that, Lassie...

Timmy fell in the well, and Maryland's Governor is hanging out with Antifa?

https://tinyurl.com/52jc8jrz

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 05:48 AM (a1415)

97 @78/m: My guess is that Tucker Carlson got convinced by Muslim propaganda.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 13, 2025 05:48 AM (O7YUW)

98 Way to go, Idaho!

https://tinyurl.com/37udx29a

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 05:49 AM (ddZuf)

99 @94/NaCly Dog: "Hope your routes are fun and safe.
We are going to need a bunch of more power plants."

Routes are safe. Some of the kids are challenging, though a lot of the littles seem to really like me. It's just some of the kids on each route that are challenging at varying degrees depending on the day and I'm guessing what's going on in their home lives.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 13, 2025 05:52 AM (O7YUW)

100 100

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:52 AM (RuTUS)

101 FenelonSpoke

An update on me. I have converted the three gold-diggers back into the friends they were before my wife passed. I have dinner with two of them on occasion. Last night one of them invited me in to watch some sports on TV after a dinner out. So I am less socially isolated.

Found out she is really a Karen, with the TV on all day, believes every Leftist cant, and we have very divergent interests. But not isolated.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:52 AM (u82oZ)

102 Figured m was lurking just waiting for someone to make the 99th comment. ;-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 13, 2025 05:52 AM (O7YUW)

103
Microsoft really wants you to use their Edge browser. (PC Magazine)

Indeed. It insists upon itself.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 13, 2025 05:52 AM (xG4kz)

104 On the plus side, Maryland is becoming the California of the East Coast.

So they have that going for them.

https://tinyurl.com/v7memj7f

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 05:53 AM (a1415)

105 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Thats great. One of the secrets of driving is that the younger kids are so much fun to interact with. And iif they like you, it is because you are a good person.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:54 AM (u82oZ)

106 May I introduce you all to Doctor Maya Cruz:

https://tinyurl.com/2k8s6ap8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 05:55 AM (ddZuf)

107 m

Your skills are as sharp as ever.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:55 AM (u82oZ)

108 Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:52 AM (u82oZ)

Thanks for the update, Salty. I am glad you are less socially isolated.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 05:58 AM (ELdpA)

109 Good morning morons and happy birthday Skip

Hummingbird in the birdbath yesterday morning was amazing to watch.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2025 05:59 AM (vL0rw)

110 Philistines upon you, Deutschland:

https://tinyurl.com/bde4a9r2

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 05:59 AM (ddZuf)

111 On the plus side, Maryland is becoming the California of the East Coast.

Having lived in CA and seen the disasters in that state, I cannot grasp why other states look at it and say "That's so cool! Let's do that!"

It's as if they think it's preferable for everyone to be equally miserable.

That being said, I'll have to wait until I get home to read the article. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at November 13, 2025 06:00 AM (jjoN6)

112 15 And most importantly it comes running SteamOS rather than Windows.
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Hmmm. Could you dual boot that?
Posted by: clarence

Yep. It officially supports Windows, just doesn't come with it installed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 13, 2025 06:01 AM (BLOW1)

113 Christian comedian Tim Hawkins. Worship songs for men:

https://tinyurl.com/328zknr2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 06:02 AM (ELdpA)

114 98 Way to go, Idaho!

https://tinyurl.com/37udx29a
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

That's fantastic!!

youtu.be/oBYVmnMFMtA

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 13, 2025 06:02 AM (sAmhv)

115 "1024 cores" -- made by "Tachyum".

Superluminal and tasty?

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 13, 2025 06:07 AM (1Nv0l)

116 FenelonSpoke

LOL. Tim Hawkins has some great worship songs for men.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 06:11 AM (u82oZ)

117 That's fantastic!!

youtu.be/oBYVmnMFMtA

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 13, 2025 06:02 AM (sAmhv)
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Love bagpipe music. In almost every childhood parade I went to.

Sadly, Scotland, a beautiful country, has destroyed itself.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 06:11 AM (ddZuf)

118 Have a wonderful day, everyone.

May you find a big pile of leaves, and fall into it in the spirit of the Fall.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 06:12 AM (u82oZ)

119 Be safe, Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 06:13 AM (a1415)

120 Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 06:11 AM (u82oZ)

Yes; He's a very clever fellow.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 06:13 AM (lQ+/f)

121 One verified fact can demolish the most elaborate theory. Looking at you, physics string theory.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

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Even Leonard Susskind now says string theory is not the theory of reality. I wonder if Ed Witten is wavering. If it all turns out to be a crock, what a waste. One of the smartest people to ever live spent his life chasing a chimera.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 13, 2025 06:14 AM (1Nv0l)

122 String Theory? That bring back memories. 1988. Same guys talking about String Theory were also talking about New Age religions.

New Age? Try old paganism.

Posted by: no one at November 13, 2025 06:17 AM (W7XSX)

123
We had the gSon and gDaughter here on Tuesday. They requested that I escort them to "the creek" -- the small gully made by street runoff in the wooded area at the corner of our development.

They built a bridge that ran from the roots of a tree against the bank over to the opposite side. It was about eight feet long and about two feet above the desultory flow. Deadfall was their medium. They cobbled together / wove / tangled something of a bridge-like nature and gSon crossed over on it.

Then they re-engineered it with more materials while cheerfully ignoring my warnings that they ought not place their trust in tree parts that had been deadfall for who knows how long and to what degree it may be rotted.

I enjoyed watching them play together outdoors, something they seldom do, and to feel sad that carefree moments doing whatever suited their fancies outdoors as my generation could do when we were their age has, sadly, mostly disappeared now.

gSon tested the improved bridge by crab walking along it. He had only traversed about a third of it when it gave way and he was crab walking in the water. I larfed. He got hot chocolate for having soaked his pants. We all had fun.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 13, 2025 06:18 AM (xG4kz)

124 So apparently, actor Timothée Chalamet is now a Nazi because he wants to have a family and disagrees with his friends that choose not to have children.

Maybe someone should tell the left that the first thing GIs did when they got back from the war was boost the population.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 13, 2025 06:18 AM (jjoN6)

125 Sadly, Scotland, a beautiful country, has destroyed itself.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 06:11 AM (ddZuf)

Gimmedat has destroyed most places.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 06:18 AM (ExV1e)

126 112 15 And most importantly it comes running SteamOS rather than Windows.
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Hmmm. Could you dual boot that?
Posted by: clarence

Yep. It officially supports Windows, just doesn't come with it installed.
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I was not thinking about windblows.

Posted by: clarence at November 13, 2025 06:19 AM (cRhQI)

127 May you find a big pile of leaves, and fall into it in the spirit of the Fall.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 06:12 AM (u82oZ)

My leaves fall in March... as God intended.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 06:19 AM (ExV1e)

128 Evening and morning to all on this Thor's Day, as we skip along to the middle of November. It's 60 F. here and going up to about 80, so the kind of temps sensible climates have in late September with real fall.

Today Linda is dragging me out to some "scavenger hunt" event at World Market. They do this several times a year. They hide some gift cards all over the store with a clue that they are "next to something green," for example. People surge in like they're being given water in the desert. Maybe it won't be too busy on a weekday.

Obviously this is the kind of thing that no self-respecting third-grader would be caught dead doing. However, I can walk over to the Barnes & Noble for a coffee and to leaf through the few magazines that interest me.

Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

129 @128/Wolfus: "Whassup?"

Just getting ready for work. How are the furry thugs doing? Have they adapted to their adjusted feeding time?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 13, 2025 06:22 AM (O7YUW)

130 Have as good a day as you can. Catch up with y'all later.

Posted by: clarence at November 13, 2025 06:23 AM (cRhQI)

131 I was not thinking about windblows.
Posted by: clarence
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SteamOS is linux-based. You should be able to dual-boot into any other linux distro.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 13, 2025 06:23 AM (1Nv0l)

132
On the plus side, Maryland is becoming the California of the East Coast.

Congress should force feed nearly all of DC back to Maryland and strangle the DC statehood issue in its crib.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 13, 2025 06:23 AM (xG4kz)

133 Sadly, Scotland, a beautiful country, has destroyed itself.

Yes, on both counts. Glad I saw it when I did (1991 & 1992). I was stationed in the UK so traveled around a bit. Scotland, IMO, has the most wild, beautiful land in Europe. I am a bit biased. I have pretty strong Celtic bloodlines, mostly Scottish and Welsh.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 13, 2025 06:24 AM (sAmhv)

134 It is raining here so all the San Franciscans will be lighting their hair on fire and driving into telephone poles.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2025 06:26 AM (vL0rw)

135 123 I enjoyed watching them play together outdoors, something they seldom do, and to feel sad that carefree moments doing whatever suited their fancies outdoors as my generation could do when we were their age has, sadly, mostly disappeared now.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 13, 2025 06:18 AM (xG4kz)

I enjoyed watching them play together outdoors, something they seldom do, and felt glad for their carefree moments doing whatever suited their fancies outdoors as my generation could do when we were their age.

There, I fixed it.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 06:29 AM (RuTUS)

136
There, I fixed it.
Posted by: m

You did. Thanks!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 13, 2025 06:31 AM (xG4kz)

137 We all had fun.
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Sounds like a blast.

Reminds me to text Girl F. later to demand my grandbaby.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2025 06:31 AM (vL0rw)

138 Whassup?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Any updates on when you'll be making your move to the Indiana/Kentucky area?

Posted by: Tuna at November 13, 2025 06:32 AM (lJ0H4)

139 Just getting ready for work. How are the furry thugs doing? Have they adapted to their adjusted feeding time?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 13, 2025

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They are nothing if not adaptable!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

140
Is it true that Indiana wants you, Wolfus?

https://youtu.be/fZL_tZxyBDo

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 13, 2025 06:37 AM (xG4kz)

141 "String Theory" is to Physics as Alchemy is to Chemistry.

Twaddle. Bunkum. Charlatans sucking cash out of rich dullards.

But not entirely useless, since a lot of the tools that come out of their parlor-trick nonsense are useful to people who really do want to learn how the world actually works.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 06:39 AM (06Hmj)

142 "String Theory" is to Physics as Alchemy is to Chemistry.

Twaddle. Bunkum. Charlatans sucking cash out of rich dullards.

But not entirely useless, since a lot of the tools that come out of their parlor-trick nonsense are useful to people who really do want to learn how the world actually works.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 06:39 AM (06Hmj)

I have developed a new cosmological theory I call "Yarn Theory". Give me a grant.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 06:40 AM (ExV1e)

143 Alchemy was never about transmutation of base metals into gold.

It was about putting a coating of gold around a lead slug to then fool the unsuspecting. That is why the death penalty was used to administer justice.

Posted by: no one at November 13, 2025 06:42 AM (W7XSX)

144 I have developed a new cosmological theory I call "Yarn Theory". Give me a grant.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 06:40 AM (ExV1e)
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"Twine Theory" FTW!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 13, 2025 06:42 AM (IBQGV)

145 I have developed a new cosmological theory I call "Yarn Theory". Give me a grant.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 06:40 AM (ExV1e)

Yarn is a gas.

A yarn collection will expand to fill its container.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 06:42 AM (06Hmj)

146 The Thursday memes from Midwest Chick are here for your perusal.

https://tinyurl.com/272n7hux+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 06:42 AM (ExV1e)

147 Any updates on when you'll be making your move to the Indiana/Kentucky area?
Posted by: Tuna at November 13, 2025

***
I haven't gotten up the nerve to dist Linda down and talk about this. Some of the house listings the Owensboro agent has been emailing me are attractive, some are meh.

Salty and Notsothoreau have been suggesting Kansas for a while. I like the houses I see there on Realtor, but the property taxes tend to push the monthly note on even a decently-priced home into a higher range than I like.

I guess I need to screw my courage to the sticking place, get some prices from U-Haul about storing my furniture and the like, and get an apartment in Evansville or Owensboro. From there I can range around and see if Terre Haute, for instance, appeals, and if I like living in IN or KY.

Scary if I have to do it alone. But, "Feel the fear and do it anyway."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2025 06:43 AM (wzUl9)

148 Pinned Tweet
Magills
@magills_
Nov 11
“The moon. We all see it. Some people claim we’ve even been there. Maybe. Maybe not. But my next guest is here to answer the question we are never allowed to ask. Is it really made of cheese?”

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 06:46 AM (RuTUS)

149 I read that as 'yam theory'
and I was all 'wtf'

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't throw it on 3rd and 1 at November 13, 2025 06:46 AM (AOsQT)

150 Scary if I have to do it alone. But, "Feel the fear and do it anyway."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Yeah, moving is scary especially when you've lived in one place for so long. We're here for moral support when you make that decision to jump.

Posted by: Tuna at November 13, 2025 06:46 AM (lJ0H4)

151 149 I read that as 'yam theory'
and I was all 'wtf'
Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't throw it on 3rd and 1 at November 13, 2025 06:46 AM (AOsQT)

All forces are mediated by some form of mini-marshmallow gauge boson.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 06:47 AM (06Hmj)

152 Is it true that Indiana wants you, Wolfus?

https://youtu.be/fZL_tZxyBDo
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 13, 2025

***
I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2025 06:47 AM (wzUl9)

153 Scary if I have to do it alone. But, "Feel the fear and do it anyway."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Yeah, moving is scary especially when you've lived in one place for so long. We're here for moral support when you make that decision to jump.
Posted by: Tuna at November 13, 2025

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The scary part, too, is the various bits of money that will have to be dribbled out on moving, storage, and renting, until I can get down to the business of buying a home. Which I have never done and is a haunted house all in itself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2025 06:52 AM (wzUl9)

154 There, I fixed it.
Posted by: m

You did. Thanks!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 13, 2025 06:31 AM (xG4kz)

Have you ever thought of becoming a developmental editor? I hear there's money in that.*

*no one does it for free

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2025 06:52 AM (uQesX)

155
All forces are mediated by some form of mini-marshmallow gauge boson.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

While gSon enjoyed his hot chocolate with mini marshmallows the other day, I envisioned one of those huge marshmallows pin cushioned with toothpicks on which were impaled mini marshmallows. A marshmallow roasting extravaganza it would be.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 13, 2025 06:53 AM (xG4kz)

156 While gSon enjoyed his hot chocolate with mini marshmallows the other day, I envisioned one of those huge marshmallows pin cushioned with toothpicks on which were impaled mini marshmallows. A marshmallow roasting extravaganza it would be.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 13, 2025

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Imagine if you will a giant marshmallow fashioned into the shape of the Stay-Puft Man. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2025 06:55 AM (wzUl9)

157
Imagine if you will a giant marshmallow fashioned into the shape of the Stay-Puft Man. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

By far the funniest part of "Ghostbusters" was the appearance of the giant marshmallow man during the battle with Gozer the Gozarian.

Bill Murray's line -- "Now there's something you don't see everyday" -- always makes me laugh.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 13, 2025 06:58 AM (xG4kz)

158 From The Telegraph

Iran's reservoirs are almost dry due to drought; they are just days away from being completely dry.

Will the Mullahs' god give them a miracle?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 13, 2025 07:01 AM (yKAnq)

159 Morning peeps.

The aurora was hyped up yesterday, so of course it was a bust last night. Did see it on Tuesday night... mostly by happenstance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2025 07:03 AM (NwnyJ)

160 The mullah's god will give them death.

Posted by: no one at November 13, 2025 07:06 AM (W7XSX)

161 Now that the shutdown is over, my office is noisier. I do not approve.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 13, 2025 07:07 AM (jjoN6)

162 By far the funniest part of "Ghostbusters" was the appearance of the giant marshmallow man during the battle with Gozer the Gozarian.

Bill Murray's line -- "Now there's something you don't see everyday" -- always makes me laugh.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 13, 2025

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And yet it made a kind of sense, a character moment for Ray. "I tried to think of something from my childhood . . . something that would never harm us. . . ."

And that line from Murray is just one of hordes of sly remarks that really made the movie the classic it is. "You don't often see that kind of behavior in a major appliance." "What a lovely singing voice you must have." "Don't cross the streams? Okay, important safety tip. Thanks, Egon." "I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2025 07:10 AM (wzUl9)

163 Apparently, a lot of the lines in Ghostbusters were improvised. And the movie has aged very well.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 13, 2025 07:12 AM (jjoN6)

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