I’m a life-long PC person. I don’t understand why anyone would want a gamepad. The controls and labels aren’t standardized. Their capabilities aren’t standardized, either. Among the three major console companies, all of them have an X button and all of them put it in a different place, and aftermarket versions may…

Wool, Shift and Dust are a completed series of novels, if you’re truly worried about what will happen in the Silo TV show. I don’t think the TV show will stray too far from the book series overall, but I was somewhat disappointed with how the books ended. I don’t have any access or plan to access Apple TV now or in…

I am still patiently waiting for proper high resolution audio. Amazon’s music offering has a legitimately terrible mobile experience and there’s no world where I would give Apple money for anything. Google pissed me off when it mangled the transition from Google Music to Youtube Music (it matched less than 2% of music…

Trek has plenty of time-travel related nonsense. I would not hate it if the thread of Calypso were picked up someday. It was a delightful Short Trek.

You don’t owe Youtube anything. It’s a poorly run platform that keeps making user-hostile decisions. You also don’t owe creators anything. Either they choose to create because they have a desire to do so, or because they are making a living. If the tiny fraction of a cent per individual ad impression is enough for…

I have yet to experience issues with either uBlock Origin + Sponsorblock or SmartTube.apk, my preferred Youtube experience for AndroidTV, which also fully incorporates ad and sponsor blocking tools. uBlock + Sponsorblock does work with Firefox/Android as well and is less of a massive PITA than messing with ReVanced.

Why does this need a part 2?

In downtown Chicago, you can go to Xoco (Michelin Star-Chef Rick Bayless’s most casual offering) and get a Tlayuda for $12. Every time I have one it’s like seeing the face of a long lost love.

There’s a Hardee’s at the Portage, Indiana rest area of the Indiana Toll road, about 10 miles from the Illinois state line and about 40 minutes from downtown Chicago outside of rush-hour traffic. 

It kinda looked from the movie like they were pulling up scales that cover some sort of worm orifice, forcing the worm to keep that segment above ground. Guessing that if they lower the tension on that scale, it’ll get closer to the ground and they can jump or roll off?

I regret that I can star this but one time. Uber and the purportedly still being released complete Achewood collection (which won’t be complete any longer since Onsted started working on new comics) are kind of my last ties to anything that might be published. Emphasis on might.

Dave and Buster’s peaked when it had Battletech pods. Everything else it does should be an apology for no longer having Battletech pods.

Kong: Skull Island is a really watchable movie that is really elevated by the monsters instead of just boring tropical carnage. The later movies miss the human connection found in that first flick, but it does give me hope that good things can be done.

I’ve had the opportunity to work for ESPN and privately for a Comcast Sports presenter. I’ve been in broadcast booths for professional athletic events.

Canon has a considerably less expensive 5.2mm stereoscopic lens that you can slap on an inexpensive full frame R-series mirrorless body to record VR content. The cost to get started doing this is between $2700 and $3000; the lens is $2000 by itself.

I own an S24+ but I gotta say that I use exactly zero native Samsung apps. I disable or uninstall almost everything that comes from Samsung. I don’t even use OneUI, Gallery or Samsung’s dialer. Circle to Search is basically just Google Lens with a shortcut that makes it more obnoxious to bring up Google Assistant.

I would far rather have the real-life repairability of LG’s mid-2010s devices than anything in today’s glass-and-aluminum sandwich world. My LG G5 and V20 had removable backs and maybe six screws keeping me from the cameras, USB port or screen assembly. No, they weren’t water-resistant, but I really do feel that…

I’d give the fast food cheese a pass on general principle but IMO if you’re getting Burger King, you have to go croissant and if you’re getting McD’s, skip the egg as well as the cheese. Just get the biscuit and sausage.

I’ve already ordered an S24, but the first thing I do to any Samsung device is give it a Samsungectomy, using ADB commands to disable almost everything Samsung (or my carrier) adds to the device for my user account.

Alexa mostly does what I expect it to do. I understand how the keywords work. I had to explain to my partner how to be precise in speaking to her, but I’ve given things easy to remember names so it can communicate with my Hubitat and other smart home devices.