Aug-26-2025
How to buy things from companies that may go out of business using your credit card .. Airlines for example. Bankruptcy priorities.
https://www.thestreet.com/travel/ravn-alaska-airline-shuts-down
Windows 10 won’t be supported any anymore, what does this mean? Oct 17 2025
How to troubleshoot a machine that’s behaving badly check:
Check storage is at least 10% free
Hard drive or solid state drive hardware test smart etc
Disc check storage on that
Check for fans and overheating
Test the motherboard if you can
In some instances, weak battery or failing power supply and screw stuff up
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Why pilots use an iPad?
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Latest free Thunderbird * Email Can connect directly to your Gmail contacts. It also has a managed subscriptions option.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/kN1uX7DNxm
Robo call processing with VOIP
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2-in-1 Apple Carplay Wireless Adapter for Wired CarPlay Plug and Play, for iPhone iOS 10+/Android 11+ See here
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Problems with home/work WiFi signal strength? A WiFi Mesh System might help.
https://a.co/d/ii7Zlmy
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Aug-12-2025
Rhino propane tanks are not full!!
AOL Dialup Ending!
Losing our connectionion to Nature
Class action against Microsoft for ending Windows 10 Support soon
Reader View in Safari can Bypass Paywalls…
Using Safari, tap the icon of the rectangle with two lines under it to the left of the search bar and select “Hide Distracting Items”. Then tap the screen and tap hide until the paywall pop-up disappears and proceed to read the article.
Also– Disable Javascript ot use
Jul-29-2025
5th Tuesday of the Month show!
Age Verification for Rude Sites a nonstarter-
Done By State; VPN subscriptions soar.. as do photos of parent driver licenses, etc
The Evils of Prohibition and Unintended Consequences
Google now Preferring AI and veering towards consensus and therefore Gaming the System
SEM-METER Power for your House
A Little about WAZE app and GOOGLE Maps
July-22-2025
Don’t use third-party password managers
https://mashable.com/article/password-manager-breaches-lastpass-lessons-learned
Jul-08-2025
AirTag issues
“Unsecured” WiFi networks– is this a Problems?? how About Evil Twin??
QR code Fraud or “Quishing” is like Phishing: a Look Alike Site or Credetianl
that are not what they seem
with bogus stickers added to ads or at events
PG&E Fraud Increase due especially to recent changes in their payments system…
Pool pumps, after today’s Zentech. I found info about “Pump Affinity Laws”. I wasn’t aware of them. Power consumption decreases by the cube of the reduction in speed. ie: reducing pump speed by half causes power consumption to drop to 1/8th of original level. AMAZING!!! Keith Gebhardt
Mystery Tech Fails–
– the Backup tape (or Flash Drive) failed affected by a car heater on the way home
– The PC Desktop crashing exactly every 20 minutes in a small out of the way town
– the office computers that mysteriously slow down because unless it’s Saturday
no one can hear Dead FAn
– SMART Drive Hard Disk Test utility slow downs:
For MAC: DRIVEDX. For PC: CrystalDiskInfo
Fod SSD (More resaerch Needed) SSDLIFE
Weird Problems with PCS and MAC is attached to failing storage over USB
The X-Y Paradox, the 3-body problem and the 2 envelope problem : )
Finally Conway’s Game of Life Here are the Rules and a Demo
Finally:
Apropos Nothing:
He who controls the past controls the future.
He who controls the present controls the past.
Or, She, I guess. or It. Or They.