“it” is also dehumanizing. But I’ll give you that one.

Regarding the surge protector specifically:

It’s a failing of the English language that there isn’t a word specifically and only meant to be used as a gender-neutral singular.

So what you’re saying is unless you’re a professional, don’t repair it. And if you are a professional, you’re probably making enough bank such that repairing it is a waste of time and money, so don’t repair it.

If the thing that’s wearing out is the MOV, would an alternate for someone handy with a soldering iron be to replace the MOV in the surge protector?

I haven’t used any third-party anti-virus apps in a long time. I don’t find them necessary since Windows Defender does a decent job and anti-virus software can be overly aggressive and intrusive. And it’s not that it flags false positives or consumes resources, but doing something like actively disabling OS…

lets just reduce english to the only lower case letters periods and spaces

Another option for the overly cautious but handy is to spice open the USB cable and cut one of the data lines.

There was a website, who tends to publish misinformed tech tips, that said you should only use power banks because you can even be hacked through the power plugs in the airport.

I feel like FFXIV’s negative of a monthly subscription is offset by the quality of content you get, along with the care the development team gives to its fanbase. And while I’m aware of other non-sub MMOs that didn’t rely on gacha or microtransaction models, I feel like the only way a game with a large player base…

Except how do you “catch ‘em all” in a given game? Not every Pokemon is available in the games by themselves or even within the same generation. So it’s still a misleading to say “you can have every Pokemon in a game” when you have to have the previous games and in some cases use an online service to transfer…

Sometimes you have to let go of the past to embrace the future.

While a specific case is neat to know, I feel like this could be generalized to cover the issue in general.

Game Freak is a small-ish company that employs about 140 people as of 2018. By comparison:

You, person, deserve more stars.

There are some people who’s ideal Pokemon game for whatever reason is every Pokemon and going to every region. Honestly, that sounds boring AF.

Because the price of a flu shot is based solely on whatever deal the insurance and the provider have struck. This is true for just about any drug, procedure, or other medical charge: prices are negotiated between two giant companies, and we as consumers have no say and often no choice in the matter.

I found holding a key and poking something metal (or some other thing where you’d zap if you touched it) discharges the static painlessly.

Redo trips me up too many times. Word and Notepad++ uses Ctrl + Y, which on Notepad++ it’s annoying when every other text editor does use Ctrl + Shift +Z because I’ll be like “oh, I actually want to redo this,” I end up inserting a control character, and now I lost all that history.

At least this is better than one article I read that said to not even use the airport’s power plugs because you could be hacked through them or something.

I mean, powerline networking is a thing, but: