Posts from February 2025

Oh yes, we're going here. I've been going all-in with learning how to do things with optical media lately, so I went ahead and acquired some CD-R discs. You might be asking why I would even bother with this. I'll answer that.

In '23, I copied a lot of data off a big pile of old (some ancient) discs I had, both CD and DVD. After getting everything copied over and backed up, I vowed I would never return to optical media storage ever again. Well, that's changed.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]