Or “How I bought an insane thing and want to feel justified about it.” I would hope that anyone old enough to drink has at least heard the phrase, “humans are not rational, they rationalize.” We do things because we want to. We come up with the logical reasons, afterward. Not always, of course (notContinue reading “How to Rationalize Anything”
Category Archives: Tech
Bye Bye Oculus
I bought some headphones for it, hoping for better audio. No such luck. Bad audio and blurry, pixelated graphics. It’s gone, even leaving aside that every other menu is designed to make you buy something, not be useful. Not that I used it much, but now I will use it never. Anyone want one?
1,984 Miles Across the Room
The Laird asked about getting my baking pictures out of my phone. They travel 1,984 miles (3,192 km) to get across the room. The easiest way to transfer the files from my phone to my computer is via Google Drive (it’s not as if Microsoft is a better company). Starlink satellites orbit at about 342Continue reading “1,984 Miles Across the Room”
Annoying Computer Shtuff
Microsoft decided that I must upgrade to Windows 11. The joy overwhelms me. My wireless headset stopped working. It’s there in the list of audio devices, but it doesn’t work. My wireless NICs disappeared (in neither settings nor ipconfig). I had a spare cable and an open port on the router, so I’m wired, now.Continue reading “Annoying Computer Shtuff”
Swing Moves
“Swing” is a very ambiguous term. Leaving that aside, I want to learn more moves. I’ve tasked The Laird with picking some out. I found this YouTube video: Clearly that goes too fast to learn much (anything?) from it. “It would be nice,” I thought to myself, I thought, “if there were a way toContinue reading “Swing Moves”
Fenris, Chained
Fenris is now chained. He cannot access the Internet, but he can still vacuum. The picture is the Blockly logic for clicking on his icon and toggling his state.
Fiat Lux!
My first home automation script worked! On Saturday, I wrote an “at 0600 on weekdays, turn on the lights” script. On Sunday, nothing happened. On Monday, the lights turned on! The script:
Me Casa es Su Kasa
My goodness but [expletives deleted] lightbulbs are snoopy! The Kasa “smart” lightbulbs want to know everything about you to upload into the Kasa cloud app, which of course requires setting up an account. Want to guess my password? Hint: It’s the title of this post. Thankfully, once you get them WiFi-ed, you don’t need useContinue reading “Me Casa es Su Kasa”
sudon’t
sudo is a Linux command that gives one administrative privileges for the following command. There wouldn’t be much point in it if just anyone could use it, willy-nilly, so there is a list of users allowed stored in /etc/sudoers. One must “sudo” edit this file or, again, there would be no point in it. InstallingContinue reading “sudon’t”
RISC vs CISC
RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) and CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) are two different CPU architectures. Their names pretty much explain the difference. The argument over which is “better” has been around forever. When I learned VAX assembly language, I remember being impressed that there was a single instruction to evaluate a polynomial. Granted, oneContinue reading “RISC vs CISC”
