I’m super bored reading these kind of stories. I’ve been free from such software and hardware for many years so at this point it’s just boring. However, I do have a solution instead of trying to sue them for monopolizing or overcharging: just force a really simple, plain language disclosure document before the sale of any Apple Inc device. Here…
Category: Life Skills
How to Convert YouTube Video into MP3 Audio
EDIT 24/10/04 The blog post that keeps living on (with edits) ha. I discovered today that youtube-dl doesn’t work but yt-dlp might be a re-named version of the same thing. I just did a sudo apt install yt-dlp and everything worked like it used to work below with the old commands. Thanks whoever kept it going! EDIT 20/12/22 Ever get…
How to Fix Black and Decker Coffee Grinder in 10 minutes
Ever seen this coffee grinder? Hopefully you weren’t unfortunate to buy it, but if you were and dropped the lid JUST ONCE, you will know that Black and Decker designed this to break. They had to actually think long and hard in a design room to figure out a way to make sure this would break in the first…
How to Eat a Digital Elephant One Bite at a Time
I can’t believe I didn’t blog this before but let’s put my regrets aside. So, you have come to realize that everyone who knows how technology works was right – it’s all spying on you. And, well, you don’t like it but – you don’t know where to start. You feel overwhelmed. Many people have these kind of feelings I’m…
Wayne’s Random Vegan Lowish Sugar Oatmeal Cookies
Vegan. Low(ish) sugar +++ Wayne’s Random Dairy-Free Somewhat Low-Sugar Oatmeal Cookie Things +++ ** In a small/medium mixing bowl, stick a strainer thing on top and add: –>1 cup of whole wheat flour –>1 teaspoon (or more?) cinnamon –>1 pinch of nutmeg –>1 teaspoon of baking soda **In another bigger bowl add: –>1/4 cup brown sugar –>1/4 cup white sugar…
Sinners Sin: Dealing With Disappointment in Myself and Others
“What do you expect? Sinners sin.” – Unnamed Pastor, 2001 Struggling with disappointment in others and in myself seems to be a never-ending theme in my life. Deep in my heart and in my mind has always been the very keen awareness that there does exist somewhere perfection. The concept of perfection is set deep in all of our consciousness.…
How to Sync a Calendar Between Owncloud/Nextcloud and Thunderbird Lightning
For some reason this is not that intuitive the first time and there don’t seem to be many/any specific tutorials out there. I kept getting a ‘modification fail’ error message or other errors. So, here you go: In Nextcloud/Owncloud 1. Log in to your browser-based owncloud/nextcloud page 2. Go to the top left and click the down arrow to access…
Working with PDFs in Ubuntu
Ubuntu is by far the best operating system in existence. One of the things that hasn’t been broadcast around much is how Ubuntu is also awesome for business. If you run a business (or work in one) you will know that PDF files are one of the most standard documents that you work with, or would like to work with. …
How to Back up and Move from One Email Server to Another
My goal: Move my email safely from one email service provider to another (IMAP). I was surprised that it wasn’t that easy to find a simple step by step tutorial out there to do this. I hope this tutorial will help someone. If your email account is old, this process may take quite a bit of time, so please allow…
Cardboard Electronics by NewFoldr Most Exciting thing in Hardware for a While
Check this out. Just so cool. The hipsters should be all over this, I’m thinking. I like the idea of being able to add your own creativity to something electronic. This is the missing ingredient for our generation. We need to go back to the days when there was a ‘radio shack’ and dad and kid worked together on something…