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Category Archives: Soapbox
Making a fortune in 2022
The amount of IT that is at your finger tips in the year 2022 (or really since 2015) is amazing. It is possible to research how to make vegetarian chili or get help in selling your old computer monitor. From … Continue reading
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A bit of (excessive) advertising
I am actually glad that I do not see how many minutes per week I spend at YouTube. It is a convenient place to get some news, see some how to video and if you need to relax there are … Continue reading
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Art imitating life
I just saw the movie “Don’t look up” Synopsis – spoiler alert Two scientists discover a planet killing asteroid that is headed directly towards earth. The story details their difficulties bringing this fact to the government. Once this issue is … Continue reading
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Trust us, the cartridge is genuine
Allegedly, The chip shortage seems to be affecting the ability of some companies from supporting their own DRM. DRM is one way for content creators to control their content to ensure that others cannot access that content. This type of … Continue reading
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safe computing – data storage I
Only the most harded soul or boring individual has no pictures or stories to share. It is easier than never before to share photos of cats, children, girlfriends or selfies. Simply take the photo and either email it or send … Continue reading
Year of the Linux Desktop – 2026
It seems like only yesterday (2003) that a large government entity, the city of Munich, announced it would be converting their cities personal computers over to their own edition of Linux called LiMux. The good news was that perhaps 80% … Continue reading
A prelude to 1984
The book 1984 by George Orwell is about Winston Smith who works for a repressive regime that rewrites history to fit their current narrative. It has actually quite a few years since I read this book but you might think … Continue reading
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The fall from grace
It is actually quite easy to label a group as the “enemy” if you have never spent any time with them. Governments in foreign lands are the perfect faceless enemy that provides the focal point for criticism or even hate. … Continue reading
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Think of the children
I actually was a child once and have children of my own so I can understand wanting to protect some of society’s most vulnerable people. A topic such as child porn is probably the worst possible thing that could occur. … Continue reading
A trojan horse
Gaming and office productivity tasks which pretty much describes all of the things you can do on a computer. If you want or need to do either of these then Windows 10 is a great operating system to have. There … Continue reading
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