Shouts Out to Wobs!
Hello folks, Last Show of 2022!
AT: 12:06PM Dec-22-2022
Solstice was at 1:47 PM on Dec 21 (yesterday) Pacific Time
Confusingly, the perihelion when Sun is closes to Earth in general
is about 2 weeks later: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 at 8:17 am PST
Even Worse– the ‘Dead of Winter’- the coldest time- Is mid-season around
early Feb 2023
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Bankman Fried– the Bankman Is Fried 

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ChromeOS: Cheap Laptops: MediaTek Laptop over Centrino (IE Lenovo)
Way more of a Workhorse than easier models, can run Android Apps AND Linux
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A Little About eSims and MVNO s in General
MINT Mobile Deals: USE THIS LINK
Uses T-Mobile/Spint conglomerate 5G
Finally— deals approaching!
Frequency Allocations are Everything

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Best of 2022: native Password management :
Chrome And Safari- Please do not use anythign else!
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Legal Changes 2023- Mainly Privacy CPRA
CA Prop 24 election of 2020 goes into effect!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Privacy_Rights_Act
“Right to Be Forgotten Act” 2022
RealID Enforced in May
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Noon-1PM Today Show!

• I have a 2012 Toyota Prius– Some Notes.
• Infernal Combustion- Hybrid- plug in Hybrid – All EV!
• Ventura os mac 13.0
• European Trip

Classical guitar video game cover!
Intro for Mario Bros Video Game on Classical Guitar

Google Gsuite/Workspace Free Edition Ending Aug 01 2022– More Info

Instagram, FB throttling feed- 15% going to 30% “Interest” Videos despite user dislike
ad revenues down..

LibreOffice 7.3+ for those who Hate Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint clone..
OpenOffice? StarOffice? we talk about this.

UEFI Virus- Explained.  & what the heck UEFI is, anyway:
Earliest control program your computer launches, formerly BIOS.

Surge Protector…

Today’s Show follows the show of a week ago about automobile economy
Sorry, I lost the Email from a listener talking about ‘costing’ her Hybrid for max Fuel Efficiency

Open Windows Create Drag.
A/C can add 10-20% for fuel consumption.
Get Tire Pressures Right.
Take off unneeded roof racks.
“Drag is the square of speed” which is where the compromise “55 MPH” came from
Type of Fuel in California makes NO difference (Unless you can find it without ethanol- not going to happen and NOT cheap) efficiency: Public Transport, car pooling.
‘Fuel Additives Boost Mileage’ are ALWAYS bogus.
But Perception Trumps Reality, Right?
Stop n Go Traffic Hell on MPG- IE driving around on the 4th of July : )
Us Old Timers used to use a vacuum gauge on the inlet manifold to demonstrate engine load…

UK price of gas currently $9 a gallon BTW.
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Rechargeable Batteries for domestic items
NOT ALL are Created Equal.
Turns out the ENELOOP brand formerly owned by Sanyo, bought out by Panasonic,
are far and away the best kind despite costing up to 50% More.
‘High Internal Resistance’ means they have a long shelf-life without discharging themselves, plus a relatively high capacity and ‘ampacity’.  Great Article on Wikipedia
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This brings me to Fake Products on Amazon:
How do you know what you are buying are real ENELOOP batteries and not sub par knock offs? User Comments. Any vendor that has NOT been around for at least 6 months with dozens of comments should be AVOIDED

Further Gripe– I went to buy “Terramycin Antibiotic Ointment” as the prescribed  medication for my cat’s conjunctivitis- this is a common eye inflammation also known as ‘pink eye’ that creates an itchy inflamed periphery between the creature’s eyelid and cornea.

If you look up those 3 words above, all sorts of pet eye products show up that are NOT antibiotic but have used the keywords, and often the word ‘natural’ comes up.

All well and good but a diagnosed condition like this if not properly treated can lead to blindness and at the very least, terrible discomfort.and the opportunity to affect other mammals– and Yes, You.

In one case I found a graphic of a tube of this material where “Terramycin” (A brand name for oxytetracycline) was pixelatated to the point of illegibility —
I can only Guess this is to prevent fraud detection scans by the brand owner from picking it up….
It has ZERO reviews, by the way,.
So these fraudulent vendors jump ship when the bad reviews along the lines of ‘it is not what I asked for and not what it says it is and does not work’ flood in,
(My favorite said: “Label is full of typos”

.. the vendor Ups Stakes and creates a NEW store.
Shame on you Amazon!

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Wordpress ver 6 Out. Compatibility?

Good Morning! Today’s Show:

Apple Repair Program- Not as Cool as it at first seems!
As for Self Service Repair.. HmmM!
Harks back to earlier thinking by ‘the other Steve than Jobs’- Wozniak- about ‘Opnness’

Elon Musk Buys & privatizes Twitter–
& what exactly are Freedom of Speech and facts?

Some Things about my Dental Work in Mexico