Installing Windows 11 without requiring network.

I’ve been using Windows for a very long time and over the years there have been things that have been done with the platform that I like and things that I don’t really care for. The one thing that’s happened in the last several years that really kind of pisses me off is the requirement … Read more

VMWare and alternatives.

Working in software I frequently find myself having to test things with my companies products and other products that our stuff is interacting with or potentially competing with. A huge tool for this has been the ability to run virtual machines on both my desktop, laptop, and dedicated “servers” that I keep around. For the … Read more

AI, and some griping about it.

The last several years the news has all been about AI and how it’s going to completely transform the world. And over the last couple of years I have had a really hard to pin down feeling of foreboding about all these advancements that have come out using these new tools. Recently I came across … Read more

Ah, now that’s interesting.

So, now that the MacBook Neo is starting to get into peoples hands and they are starting to tear into the thing there are a coupe of interesting things about this device that are starting to make me think that it might be something that I would be interested in putting my hands on. The … Read more

New laptops, same(ish) as the old.

So Apple has announced some new laptops and I’ve seen a couple of reviews about the MacBook Neo that’s coming out and I have some thoughts about it. Some folks seem to be really critical about the device having a CPU that was previously used in the iPhone or about the amount of memory and … Read more