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Top 10 Fast Food Restaurants/Cafes and 10 Top Menu Items

Wednesday, 2025.01.01 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Here are the top 10 menu items for each of the top (semi) 10 fast-food restaurants/cafes/coffee chains in the United States, along with their approximate average prices as of ~January 1st, 2025. Please note that prices can vary by location and over time. If you have anything to add or correct, feel free to mention it in the comments! 1. McDonald’s Menu Item Average Price Big Mac $5.99 Quarter Pounder with Cheese $6.49 McChicken $2.49 Filet-O-Fish $4.79 10-piece Chicken McNuggets

Save $500 Instantly on Your Ford Mustang Mach-E or F-150 Lightning [referral link posted below!]

Tuesday, 2024.11.26 J.D. H. Leave a comment

🚗💨 PSA: Save $500 on a Ford EV – Here’s How! 🤑 Alright, listen up, future EV drivers! If you’re about to snag a Ford Mustang Mach-E® or F-150® Lightning, don’t sleep on this: you can save $500 just by using my referral link. 🎉 Yep, no strings, no hoops—just $500 off. Why pay full price when you don’t have to? It saves you $500 bucks and it earns me Ford points credits worth about $100, thank you in advance!

Resolving External USB HDD Mount Issues on Synology NAS (exFAT) (1813+ and others)

Thursday, 2024.11.21 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Resolving External USB HDD Mount Issues on Synology NAS (exFAT) If you’ve recently connected an external USB HDD to your Synology NAS and encountered an error message like “System failed to mount external device [USB Disk 1] partition [1]”, you’re not alone. This issue often arises when the external device is formatted in the exFAT filesystem, which requires additional support on Synology systems. In this post, I’ll guide you through identifying the issue and implementing a simple solution using the

Topaz Video AI 5 Mac Mini M4 benchmarks

Wednesday, 2024.11.13 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Topaz Video AI v5.3.6 System Information OS: Mac v15.01 CPU: Apple M4 32 GB GPU: Apple M4 21.333 GB Processing Settings device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1 Input Resolution: 1920×1080 Benchmark Results Artemis 1X: 07.97 fps 2X: 04.57 fps 4X: 01.57 fps Iris 1X: 13.16 fps 2X: 02.89 fps 4X: 00.92 fps Proteus 1X: 08.80 fps 2X: 05.25 fps 4X: 01.54 fps Gaia 1X: 02.36 fps 2X: 01.70 fps 4X: 01.19 fps Nyx 1X: 01.49 fps 2X: 01.28 fps Nyx

How to Reverse/Fix Scroll Wheel Direction on a Mac Mini M4 (and Pro)

Wednesday, 2024.11.13 J.D. H. 3 comments

If you’re new to a Mac Mini M4 or recently switched from a Windows PC, you might find the default scroll wheel direction on macOS a bit counterintuitive. Apple’s “Natural” scrolling mimics the motion of a touch screen, which may feel odd for traditional mouse users. Fortunately, reversing the scroll direction is quick and straightforward. Here’s how to do it: Step 1: Open System Settings Step 2: Navigate to Mouse or Trackpad Settings The next step depends on whether you’re

Healthy unprocessed snacks for at home movie watching

Friday, 2024.06.28 J.D. H. 2 comments

Here are some healthy, unprocessed snacks you can enjoy while watching a movie at home: These snacks are not only healthy but also provide a variety of flavors and textures to enhance your movie-watching experience. My personal favs are veggies with humus, olives with crackers, and the dark chocolate for dessert 👩‍🍳💕

Disable side channel mitigations for better performance [VMware]

Friday, 2024.05.24 J.D. H. Leave a comment

On Workstation Pro: More info here:

Help, network transfer stuck at ~10mb/s~11mb/s [SOLVED]

Friday, 2024.05.24 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Network speeds were super slow, turns out I needed to power cycle my inexpensive gigabit switch as after transferring ~3TB of virtual machines and connecting a variety of clients it had basically become stuck in Fast Ethernet LAN speeds of 100 Mbps (resulting in real world SAMBA2 speeds of 10-11mb/s, rather than the normal Gigabit Ethernet speed 1000 Mbps (~100mb/s file transfer speeds)