You’re welcome to disagree, but blocking app updates will break things. Allowing updates only has a slim possibly introduce an issue down the road. You can always roll back, but most users just aren’t going to understand why Skype, Outlook or whatever quit connecting, or why Uncle Bob get’s X feature but they don’t -…

As an IT pro and someone who is the “computer guy” for lots of other family & friends, I really wish there were less of these posts being pushed out there. Disabling updates should be something only a Advanced Techie should be doing, and only then when very specific reasons are causing it. It should not be a normal…

The hard part there is that most folks are already on the + calories per day but consider that their baseline. Without knowing their exact output, they don’t know how much their input should be. There are tools out there (I use a Fitbit charge HR), but stepping on that scale and charting your progress really is…

In 1492 America was not “wild” like we usually think of it. There were already settlements of significant size, trade routes and established paths - many of the explorers made journals mentioning roadlike natural formations and large orchards and massive, but empty settlements - as though they were being intentionally…

I daily carried picks in my tech bag when I was a data center administrator - people lost keys to the cages with startling frequency and I was also in charge of physical security assessments. That said, no idea why he’d “need” them, but there’s nothing wrong with “wanting” to carry them - judging from the rest of the…

I rethought this a little, if you just want to protect your glass, check out the waterproof cases on the market, they usually have a protective glass over the phone lens. If you want actual filters without incorporating a zoom or wide angle lens into the kit, I don’t know of a handy solution, you would likely get some…

That makes me cringe a little - but I get it, the best camera in the world is the one you have on you when you need it. Look for a case that fits your phone that has interchangeable lenses. Next, check their lens and see if it has threading on the outside towards the subject to accept a filter. Then do a search to see…

Dehaze is interesting and a good advancement, but it’s akin to using a sharpen filter on a photo that was a little out of focus or had motion blur to me. It takes a guess and is sometimes right, but having the camera pick up the right pixels during the shot seems more accurate to my eyes. Somehow the post production…

If nothing I say could convince you, that’s fine, but it’s not particularly rational approach. In reality, it’s usually not impact at all, but usually your lens lightly being scrubbed against something else hard, the edge of another piece of kit in your bag when the cover pops off, the sand and grit that accumulates…

A protective lens makes sense depending on your lens. For cheap setups, it’s probably overkill. For SLR users, the UV/protective filters are there to save your incredibly expensive glass. It’s usually a < $40 lens to protect a $500-$2000 lens. In the field, it’s also incredibly handy to swap UV filters when something…

It’s probably worth mentioning that some of these filters are readily applied via software, where others, such as UV, Polarizing, Macro or ND cannot be easily emulated in post production. B&W or color tinting such as warming or cooling is trivial to apply digitally.

That mock up looks great and would be a vast improvement in my opinion. Sadly, they wouldn’t make it as it’d compete with the Grand Cherokee.

As a Jeep owner since the mid-90’s (one Commanche, one XJ and one Grand Cherokee), I can safely say they have thoroughly botched every recall that has impacted each one of my vehicles. The bad safety belt notice went out 2 years after the recall was announced and parts were 2 months out from there. The airbag recall…

I moved to a standard leather and haven’t looked back. Hair wipes off clean, nothing stains and neither of my dogs were terribly interested in it. I did get a few claw scuff marks, but as mentioned in the article they buff out easily. No idea on suede - had a dog that liked to lick so I didn’t want to go that route.…

This must depend on the microfiber... I had a microfiber couch that attracted pet hair like a magnet and it ended up stuck in the weave. While easy to clean stains, getting hair out was next to impossible so I was glad to see it go when I moved.

The that generalization were true, all of the more expensive cities in the area (Denver proper, Westminster, Lakewood, Parker, Greenwood Village) would all be higher on the list....

Aurora is actually the cheapest city to live in the entire Denver metro. So no, that generalization doesn’t hold up. I live just to the south of it where things like rent are twice the going rate in Aurora. (Crime rates are pretty high for the area so it’s not always the best place to live.)

My condolences to his family for their loss. We were both in the Slackline and Climbing scene and while we didn’t see eye to eye on many things and had only met a couple times, it’s always a tragedy to lose someone that way.

Note in the video at 1:10, he has the alternative names noted, including wash, corgi, chemmy...

Maybe they are right. Born in ‘81 and yes, I’ll spend more money for certain tech features. I drive around 30,000+ miles / year and I’ve already ruled out buying a car without adaptive cruise on my next car.