At most turns in this book, I was happy to write off this thesis as the musings of a crackpot. Kingsnorth’s foray into trans-related issues and his defense of conspiracies is just stupid. The assertion that progress wants the end of us is unnecessarily extreme. His holding on so much to religion and the idea […]
Previously, I’d used the NEWDERY Portable Power Bank, and it was something of a marvel for its time. It had it’s troubles, however. One of them was the Apple Watch charge point not being magnetic. Because of that, this power bank would be a pain to use in the car and keeping the watch on […]
This topic of truth is something that has been on my mind. Recently, I wrote that trust needs a major innovation. What is clear, however, is that truth and fact are quite different things. Coincidentally, Werner Herzog releases a book titled The Future of Truth, umm, yea. I’m in. Herzog has always seemed like something […]
Coming in the standard tower look that APC popularized, Unifi’s product is white rather than the typical black look. The UPS comes with the battery unplugged and one simply has to open the front panel and connect the battery. Once the UPS is then plugged into the network it can be adopted by your Unifi […]
Ubiquiti Networks (or Unifi) have made a ton of different network gateway devices over the years, from the Dream Machine to the Dream Wall, to the original UCG. These have all made full use of the Unifi Network Controller’s abilities. In the cases where you have no gateway device, the controller is great software, but […]
Iodd seems to be adept at making clones of other company’s products (see Zalman). This one may be a clone also, though it’s hard to know. The ST300 drive enclosure is something of a unique product. It’s an external drive, yes, but when you place CD image files in a folder named _ISO, you can internally mount up to four virtual drives and boot from them. This is great for installing operating systems as it’s the standard format for these. Today, I take a look.
There has been a ton of talk about the many changes of the (once) simple text editing tool in Windows called Notepad. A recent insider build of Windows 11 with version 11.2510.6.0 of Notepad features some very interesting new features to this venerable tool. For purists who like to only edit text, they hate this […]
I love this book. It’s so perfect for 2025. Cory Doctorow came up with the word, in 2022, to describe how all the digital services that increasingly dominated our daily lives seemed to be getting worse at the same time. I managed to read the book…
The absolute most common thing I do with my daily-use computer is file management, but a close second is taking screenshots of just about anything. This is such a common occurrence that the demand for a great screen grab tool has led me to expect a great deal from whatever tool I use. Previously, I’ve […]
It’s not a regular occurrence for me to test an app these days. Things are far too chaotic and the time isn’t always there to try out things. Journelly itself is quite simple and easy; this is what appealed to me about it. All of the text-based features you expect are there including spell-check and whatever else you invoke from the keyboard interface. Yes, even the Apple A.I. stuff is available too…