Blog – S-Config

Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence.

September 14, 2026 by S-Config

WOOO BOY! Here we go!

Content warning: AI Pictures used for reference of the subject. Now's the time to back our and block this site forever to preserve fragile minds.

Initially, we weren’t going to cover this topic, as we felt so many other bloggers were far more qualified to write about this business, its overall societal and emotional impacts, and why you should or shouldn’t use it. Until we received an e-mail attacking a person for gifting us AI Art. To whom it WILL concern, we thank you for driving us to write this article as well as tell said parties that critiqued such art to go fuck themselves. If it continues, we will certainly amplify the fucking thing.

Continuing onward: For those who care about the diatribes spewed from my keyboard, written by a human being. How would you know? Because AI isn’t as reckless as we are when it comes to grammatical mistakes, as well as thinking lesbians are cool people.

Would you like to know more?

Stopping the smart TV from being used against you.

August 29, 2026August 26, 2026 by S-Config

Smart TVs are everywhere! But who is the master?

Amid the overall electronics boom thanks to A.I., one piece of electronics is almost unchanged financially. That is the digital display or flat-panel monitor. With good reason! The entire entertainment and streaming industry wants one of these devices in your living room. Not only wanting access to your wallet; companies are willing to violate customer trust to squeeze a few extra pennies out of the devices they sold you. To these companies, you technically never really owned the device, but instead purchased permission from these companies to have it exist in your household. Like a true tech-valley rapist, they will break into your home, listen to everything you do via the microphone, track every movement that you make thanks to their backdoored OS, and most importantly, spread malware onto devices they don't even own.

Whoah S! Mal-ware? Isn't that a little harsh? - Anonymous

Malware, by definition, is software you never asked for and was installed without your permission. At least in LG's case. Using Legal Ninjitsu to state that by agreeing to install their monitor 'driver,' you also agree to install every other bloatware application that they choose should come with it as well. Like advertising, it takes a shit all over your desktop to churn profits for LG.

Read on to continue the descent into madness.

DIY Lighting Part 2 – PCBWay and Vengeance.

July 26, 2026 by S-Config

We've built our first batch of DIY lights for the house. And we have regrets.

Previously, Previously

Building anything is always filled with lessons on what you are, and what you are not supposed to do. This, of course, refers back to your DIY LED lighting project, wherein we got so fed up with purchasing lighting we just made our own. It worked.. But it was not problem-free.

Read onward for those who care:

DIY Controller wall mounts.

July 3, 2026July 2, 2026 by S-Config

DIY Controller (and MAYBE keyboard) wall mounts.

Organization is a neat thing. Especially if you're the kind of person who has control(er) issues as we go. No, seriously, we have two totes filled with controllers! In many cases, we don't even have the game consoles that these controllers originally came from. Yet, we cycle through these controllers a lot when testing drivers or just playing a game that absolutely requires a gamepad to play.

Read on if you want to see us hang things on walls like some bizarre home interior decoration channel.

Goodbye Pi.

June 2, 2026 by S-Config

It was fun; It was real, not sure if it was both.

As weird as this turn may be. We've been selling all of our Raspberry Pis and Raspberry Pi-like clones. Partially because of one of our blogs, where buying thin clients gets you more scalability and near-equal power savings to that of a Pi. But partially because we feel that Raspberry Pi as a company has lost sight of what kind of product they are making as well. This may feel like an article of closure. But as we close one chapter, we open the next with future projects.

Previously, Previously, Previously.

Read onward to continue to diatribe.

KillSwitch.

June 6, 2026May 25, 2026 by S-Config

Put a kill switch on it!

TLDR version: Always-online devices are working against you. Add a muthafuckin' kill switch!

There's a simple piece of electronics that was around in the 80's and 90's, which we believe is in desperate need of a comeback in 2026. To be fair. These devices are still being made, just not in the way we're about to show. Read on if you want to know more.

May the post – er, exist? New GPU?

May 10, 2026 by S-Config

Yeah! May! Use that capitalist marketing strategy to remind people of their childhood during the dumb parts of the year!

This started as a life update post, which people liked. But sort of evolved into its own monster of me purchasing a GPU. So read on if you want/care.

Advanced Bootleg – Samsung SSD 870 Evo

June 20, 2026May 6, 2026 by S-Config

This is probably one of the best bootlegs we've seen.

In the year 2026, when big-bad AI suddenly consumes all the world's memory and storage because a group of Chinese companies says so. For GPUs and NPUs that haven't been made. Going into data centers that haven't been built. To get a net profit return on this theory would result in the entire GDP of approximately five Americas. Now, more than ever, people are looking for a good deal on storage and RAM, and the market is flooded with bootleg storage devices on AliExpress with deals that are too good to be true.

Which they are!

For the lulz, we got a USB stick 5 years ago that claimed to be 1TB. It turns out that after you stored 64mb onto this thumb drive, everything else went corrupt. This is because of a technique that allows people to fake the storage ID on the chip. So you load up something that costs you pennies with an ID of an expensive storage device. Sell it on eBay and close the account before the buyer could even file a fraud complaint, only for eBay to pick up the tab.

We have a friend who goes by the name of "Dakilla" who slid this Samsung 870 Evo SSD drive over to me. We have to say this is the most interesting bootleg we've seen. Bootleg 870 Evos have been covered by other YouTubers. But this one in particular is on another level.

Read on if you care.

Using a 24-pin ribbon printer in 2026

July 3, 2026March 22, 2026 by S-Config

Okidata 395 ribbon printer test page blog title.

First, we fixed our 24-pin ribbon printer. But, is it WORTH it?

Earlier this month, we fixed the Okidata 395 printer, which was the successor to the 393. The 393, of course, is Okidata's 24-pin series designed to handle a continuous business environment printing dating back to as early as 1983 (ours had a power supply dating around 1987). It was the very first printer we not only repaired but were certified to repair at an Okidata site in Wisconsin.

Oddly enough, not many businesses we knew had such a printer. They either used the ultra-cheap 320 9-pin printers or just went over to a hammer-matrix printer.

But it's time to ask the question: What does it do? How well does it do it?

Is this something businesses could still use today? Or is this a relic of the past that collectors would get just to fill the room with that aesthetic of the 1980s, where shit was just loud as fuck. Read onward for those who care.

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Addressing tech forums.

August 30, 2026March 17, 2026 by S-Config

Perhaps we need to rethink "Method 2" showing support on our page.

On our support page, we have a statement about helping a blogger share links to other sites. Because if you liked what we had to say and want to share it with others. That's really nice of you. So thank you.

Sometimes, when we offer a hot take, backlash happens. We expect this. When we get something wrong, we almost feel relieved that it isn't so bad in the world after all! Our article about "Microslop" was published on a tech forum known as Y Combinator and was removed rather quickly, as it violates their posting/commenting policies. So, the TLDR response to that is that we wish we could get that kind of treatment for any blog articles we publish on that forum because we're just a blog! A personal shrine. To put my hot take as a legit article about in the tech space does a massive disservice to reporters and websites that write about the world of software daily (at least to the ones that still haven't been replaced by A.I.)

Side note: We also did a little dance.

Read on if you want to hear more of my diatribes on this subject.