Posts from October 2025

For a good long time, I used GPS navigation with no traffic reporting whatsoever. Something like 13 or 14 years. It was in the late 2010s that I started using it due to a goof. At that time, that older Garmins started getting cheap. What was hundreds of dollars when new could now be had […]

I think this is either due to either my upbringing, being middle aged, being set in my ways, having a general annoyance with useless modern "features", or a combination of all of that. I drive a car that's over 15 years old that has a manual transmission. My main computer is over a decade old […]

Under a week, actually. The doomsday date official support ends for Windows 10 is 14-Oct-2025. Even though I have Windows 11 installed on my other computer, I still have an SSD that I kept with a full install of Win10 on it. Why?

Just for grins, I looked up expensive digital watches since I prefer digital over analog. There were two things that immediately stuck out. First, with little exception, everything was either too big or too goofy. Second, it turns out I already own the second classiest digital timepiece, and it's not expensive at all.

Near my computer, I have a little . Mine is the one that looks like a little arcade cabinet. I remember many years ago back in the '80s when those things were at Toys 'R' Us and I wanted one so bad. Back then, I wanted a set of three. A Pac-Man, a Donkey Kong […]