Tekchip
brockh.at
Tekchip
@brockh.at
The rantings of a mad genius, or just a mad man?

Opinions are my own.

25 years I.T., US Army veteran, drone pilot, student.

https://blog.brockh.at
Dug, past tense. 😆
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
P.S. I might have one to sell soon if the US Gov has it's way. 🙄😬 8th times the charm they seem to think. Oh boy...
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Hard to beat DJI. I bought a Mini 2 SE for a couple hundred dollars a few years back and it's been excellent. DJI's sensor systems are so good crashing the drone is rare. I have biffed it a few times and the frame and hardware is fine. Replaced rotor blades at worst.
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I did just see the start of episode 4 and see there is a video game category, finally. Still absolutely wild how little video game categories or questions so far. 😑
November 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Please don't use Windows 10. At most you can pay to get one more year of security updates. If you don't pay it becomes security swiss cheese pretty quickly. If you do pay you're just delaying the inevitable.

Installing Linux on current hardware or getting a Mac are your only two safe options.
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Check out Libre Office or OnlyOffice (you can pay them for support if you like just like MS). They're great! Maybe try to talk your institutions into saving some dough and being more open. www.libreoffice.org and www.onlyoffice.com OnlyOffice also does all the cloudy multiplayer that O365 etc does.
Home | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft
Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.
www.libreoffice.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The massive spend in the aforementioned is Office Suite. We really need to break the hold of MS Office and proprietary document formats. Somewhat ironically MS Office supports open doc formats just fine so sharing open formats to Office users isn't a blocker in terms of doc portability.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I presume the answer, as it tends to be in most even remotely capitalistic societies is money. It's bundled with the massive spend MS has managed to get universities to make so universities are compelled to use it lest they feel they didn't get their money worth.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
End of the Internet
hmpg.net
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I feel like there's a dick sucking joke in there somewhere. 😬
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM