There is a lot to unpack here, so I apologize for writing a post nearly as long as the article.

I’ve been using a password manager (paid) for over a decade and have completely different passwords for each account that I log into online. And they’re wonderful gibberish like tEP4%^5f81Y^H*&w or eF3a2p8$mmZrvZ that I have no hope of remembering. I don’t want to.

Yeah, I never understood why password changes were helpful at all. If someone gets your password, they are going to use it pretty quickly I would assume. If you change your password every 6 months or so, you’d better hope they stole your password the day before you were set to change it anyway otherwise it seems…

Back ups protect you from 4 things:

Why do people need to backup their PCs?

Nadella has REALLY turned things around. VS Code, Edge Chromium, real Office on Chromebooks, SQL on Linux, Linux on Windows. They have become VERY open source and very cross platform friendly. Ballmer was a jerk. Gates really changed his perspective on things in the later years, but Ballmer just held fast to the old…

I actually miss the days when the most annoying part of a website was an animated banner ad or popup (and to think we used to complain). Now it’s the notification about cookies, a popup asking you if they can send you notifications, asking you if the site can use your location, ads everywhere, an auto-playing video…

An amazon fire stick costs $30. You can afford to replace that every so often as they get upgraded. A new TV costs a hell of a lot more than that, and the e-waste it creates by throwing it out is simply irresponsible.

Join me in the pseudo-luddite movement! We have yamaha receivers and speakers in big wooden boxes that work for 20+ years!

A lesson I learned a long time ago: NEVER buy the latest and greatest. Buy the previous generation but only after reading reviews. Hell buy the generation before that.

This is why I want a TV with a good picture and shitload of ports. That’s all. Then when the New Shiny comes along, I can put the New Shiny on the TV without replacing the whole thing.

I agree - all of these systems are too failure prone, or limited eventually. My route obviously won’t work for all, but for my purposes it works great - I simply re-purposed a spare older i5 PC with older nvidia video card as my “tv pc” (in a nice silverstone case that looks like a sleek VCR) - now I have a blu-ray…

The thing I still struggle with sometimes is remembering that most devices can connect to more than one bluetooth device at a time these days! I’m so used to one-to-one that sometimes I still think that will cause an issue for me.

Sleep-deprivation induced dyslexia, log #5214:

I really enjoyed the Wheel of Time books over the years, but man, they could have used some editing. The bit I remember most is when a character spends a page and a half looking around for a place to tie up her horse.

He isn’t wrong. Both are fantasy. Both are bloated and difficult to read through.

Never button up your case until you’re absolutely certain everything is going to work.

I feel like the phrase “plot hole” get overused. I realize this is a bit like screaming about Alanis Morisette’s definition of irony, but “plot hole” doesn’t mean “literally any question I have that isn’t perfectly answered to my satisfaction.” It means a logical contradiction or gap in the story. So, if Superman dies…

I’m getting those also. I figured it’s because they know that I’m getting old...

Yeah, so... Can we have an actual thoughtful discussion about the problem, instead of more of this meaningless and repetitive crap?