little gpses part 2
I've talked about little GPSes before, and I recently acquired another. There's just something cool about a small tech thing that can do a big job.
This time around I got a model that was never released in North America, the Garmin Drive 40LM. This little guy only has a 4.3" screen measured diagonally, and to the best of my knowledge is the last matte screen model in this size Garmin ever released.
Daylight Savings Time, which just happened 3-Nov-2024, is something I've never liked. And I'm pretty sure most other people can't stand it either. Both smartphones and the older feature phones auto-update their clocks for DST and always have, (or do they? More on that in a moment..) but there are a lot of clocks that don't, and this is how I personally deal with it.
Recently, there was some plumbing work that needed to be done where I live, and it required me to not use the water at all. I had to go without showering for a few days.
That was something I could deal with, since it's easy enough to wash with a wet cloth.
But what really bothered me was...
According to StatCounter, Microsoft Windows 11 has only commanded just barely over 36% of United States market share per the last three months. I'm being generous, because had I used the last 12 months of data, it would have been barely 31%. I know 36% isn't "nobody", but still, that's pretty low...
I switched to Linux about 500 days ago. No, I'm not telling you to switch, but the fact Windows 11 isn't the main OS on most PCs tells me a few things.
I consider Halloween to be the weirdest holiday of the year, because I don't even understand why it's called a holiday. I've never known anybody to get October 31 as their day off or be paid time-and-a-half for working that day.
Halloween gets even weirder for the following reasons: