Technology

eXodus

So, it appears that there is a mass X-odus leaving the X platform for the more refined and better “governed” Bluesky that has been in beta for a very long time and has finally opened up to the public. Bluesky lacks the several negative experiences resulting from Elon Musk’s throttling routines on the X platform,…

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How Hard Is It to Obtain a Keyboard That Does Everything?

I’ve probably spent a good 5 hours, at least, this week searching for the ideal replacement for my Logitech K811 keyboard to no avail. I have 3 or 4 of them. At the time, I paid about $60-$70 for each. Now? $239.99 on Amazon (and everywhere except for used ones on eBay). I-N-S-A-N-E-!!! “So I…

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I Wasn’t Really Motivated to Upgrade to the Meta Quest 3 Until…

Working from home for almost a decade, I often prefer to wake up slowly and do my work in bed on a laptop. The only problem with this is that a laptop screen is hard to see and requires lots of tab switching compared to three 32″ curved monitors, with two 27″ vertical monitors sandwiching…

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The One Major Flaw of Apple Products That Needs to Be Resolved Immediately!

I can’t tell you how many times, during a stressful situation, requiring immediate assistance from my Apple iPhone & iPad, where Apple Maps would not function correctly. In one dream that I had, I was in another state, my car broke down, and I was in the middle of nowhere, snow everywhere, riding a bike…

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Time Travel

As my bio states, I’ve been a blogger for over 20 years–before blogging was a thing. I referenced it pretty much as my online journal. One of my first sites was theplanetarium.com, which, looking back, is a pretty stupid domain to go by since it’s not at all what the domain suggests. When I first…

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Hack Week

This must be Hack Week. While I’m still locked out of my hacked Facebook account, I woke up this morning to about 600 emails subscribing me to about just as many sites and subscriptions. ‘Spent the day updating passwords for all of my accounts and at the end of the day decided to sit down…

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Things To Consider When Using Social Networks To Log In To Online Services

I know that we all love simplicity. Having to create a user login for so many of the sites that we frequent can be such a pain and it’s so easy to just click in, perform a few taps, and you’ve avoided the signup routine, however, what happens if your social media account gets hacked?…

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Windows 11 Insider Preview Build Thoughts

Of course this is the first rendition of the Insider Preview of Microsoft’s Windows 11 so it is bound to have issues due to things that aren’t yet worked out. Having a multi-monitor setup, six, one of the basics is having access to the toolbar and only the open application on that taskbar displaying in…

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