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 […]

Right up front, let it be known this is an out-of-the-box STOCK feature in any modern Linux distribution with KDE Plasma. No plugins or special programs are even necessary to do what you're about to see. One of the most annoying things about Windows 11 is the taskbar. It's at the bottom of the screen, […]

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 […]