don't use distilled water in a coffee maker
I learned this one the hard way, but fortunately I didn't wreck my coffee maker.
One would think that using distilled water would be better than tap for brewing coffee, right? That's what I thought. I was wrong.
i'm glad arcade machines are somebody else's problem
One time in my life I had an arcade machine in the house. It was a video arcade game, Mortal Kombat 3. I think I had it for a year or maybe slightly longer, then sold it. I've no regrets about that whatsoever.
Once or twice a year I'll go play some arcade machines. I enjoy the games, but I am VERY glad I don't have to maintain these things.
how to get a super short physical address
Navigation is wrong, and often. This is how to make it right, and also make it very easy to store locations for retrieval later.
when 512GB is actually 476
To this day I see negative Amazon reviews from people who bought computer media storage and believe they got scammed - except they didn't.
One of the more common ones are people who buy a 512GB flash drive, plug it in to their computer or phone, see a total storage limit of 476, and immediately think they got ripped off. Wrong. The number is accurate.
battle of the image formats (jpg jxl webp avif heic)
I recently did a massive reorganization of all my backups, which included thousands of JPG files I had to move around.
The JPG image format has been around for over 30 years. Yeah, that long. JPG goes all the way back to 1992. As old as it is, it's still the best image format. However, I wanted to see if the newer formats available were any good, so I did some tests, and here's what I came up with.