Tech ramblings of the (HR, Day,Week,Month)
I was under the impression this was common knowledge but apparently not. So here is how I no longer set 50 thousand calendar reminders, and still forget and get charged by my free trials.The trick is virtual credit cards.You can use any virtual credit card but I will be showing you how I do it using Privacy.com. For full transparency this is using my referral link.First, create an account at...
Windows 10 going out of support is gonna be a shitshow. I don’t even know how to communicate with friends and family, that are going to miss the boat that the time is now to figure out what the plan is. The tariffs almost feel like collusion from Microsoft lol. October is gonna be a shitshow no matter how much I try to get in front of it.So here is warning number one of many, Windows 10...
It’s been a while since I last posted. I’m not sure why. I have a lot of things to do. I’m working on an advertisement for my editing services, and I might update my editing website. I need to improve my Obsidian workflow and daily task management; my current system isn’t working well. I have a half-baked solution, but I lack note rollover and good organization. I’m...
I was reading an article this morning from The New Oil about how scams are evolving and how to avoid them. Inside the article, he writes, “as another interesting note, while people ages 34 to 44 tend to get scammed more often, people ages 18 to 24 tend to lose more in scams. This counters the idea that only tech illiterate old people fall for scams or that you can be too poor to be targeted...
This is day 8 of #100DaysToOffload
I don’t usually spam out blog posts when the news hits about things, but I am making an exception here as I found this super exciting. Framework, for those of you who don’t know, is the computer company that makes repairable and truly upgradeable products.Framework announced three new products. One of them is just an update to the Framework 13 mainboard which is cool in the sense that...
A few different things all came together to write this post today.My Kindle’s battery died. The Kindle hubbub (though not relevant). A failure to find a self-hosted Instapaper alternative. And Juan’s article—Tools That Just Work. A bit of context, my everyday workflow for reading, as mentioned in my RSS article, is as follows: “My setup for reading is FreshRSS instance on my...
Been a wild couple of weeks. Was having stability issues with my PC. Spent hours going in circles for a Notion+Obsidian alternative. Moved CRM’s for my editing business and drinking way too much coffee. PC Stability Issues I was having tons of memory issues in Battlefield 2042, and then started getting more weird BSODs in Windows itself. (Unironically Battlefield 2042 may be the best non...
I don’t claim to be the worlds greatest technician. I claim to be competent. Unfortunately the average technician I run into is incompetent. Wondering if other IT people reading this have the same experience or if it’s specific to where I live. My friend reached out to me about his computer, he said someone told him there might be a virus. He brings me the computer, it’s a...
For years, I have been recommending Honey. I was under the impression they were tracking your web and purchasing behavior and selling it for advertising. Which, for me, was a fine tradeoff, as most people are already being tracked, and at least now they got something useful. Well, it turns out, as you’re probably already aware, they were stealing affiliate links, as well as providing the ability...
