Posts from February 2025

I had a "rugged" flash drive, but mine is dead to the world. I've only seen a flash drive have real-deal hardware failure once before what I'm about to describe. Years ago I had a 512MB (yes, megabyte) SanDisk cruzer, and beat the crap out of that thing. One day, it started rejecting any attempt […]

Before I saw this cable, I thought of every type of USB connector type I've ever used. There's "the big rectangle" A type that everybody knows, the one most people call a "printer cable" because of it's notchy squared shape, mini USB (all my older Garmins use this), micro USB (smaller and flatter than mini […]

In my mind, "SSD" doesn't translate to "old", but yeah, that storage tech has been around for a long time. One of the oldest SSDs I have is a that I bought direct from Crucial themselves back in 2012. I don't remember how much I paid for it, but it probably wasn't cheap. This is […]

This new guitar from Fender is not going over well, at least from what guitar players on YouTube are saying. Yes, if you look up , this is a new model at the time I write this. You will see Fender on the headstock, and a price tag below that of a . So what […]

There's a shed where I live. It has electricity (ooh, fancy) and in there is a lone CFL bulb that's been in there for... 7 years or close to it? When turned on cold, it takes a good solid minute for the gas to charge so it achieves full brightness. But once that gas is […]