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The character limit on Bluesky sucks. When did this happen? Can't even post a thought without maxing over 192 characters.

An Atheist Doesn’t Believe A god Exists, But If He Did I'm in several Facebook groups that present religious individuals versus atheists. I'll admit that Facebook's algorithm puts it in my face constantly, more than I really care for, but something that I've absorbed into my thinking over time as…

Reality Bites

Tell me how you really feel.

I Think I’m Done I first started drinking at 16. I was at a party, had one Old Milwaukee's Best, while some dude was singing Motley Crue's "You're All I Need" in the kitchen, and was convinced I was drunk. Shortly thereafter, I started drinking every day, and that continued throughout most of my…

The Feature That I’ve Always Missed Since Moving to Windows 11 With a few tweaks, it resembles the original Windows 10 media controls vibe.

If You’re Paying for Prime Amazon Photos Might Be an Option… With a Catch At the cost of a Publix candy bar a month for 200GB of photos. Google Photos is a pretty cheap option to store your photos but that 200GB is a limitation.

Social Incontinence at Its Worst My social personality is very up front with people, and it's hard for a lot of my "friends" to take. I am sarcastic in casual situations, but when I get serious with "friends", I am direct with them in regard to my opinions and a lot of them don't like it. I get a…

More Days, More Time After having worked a 4 day 10-hour work week for about three and a half years (doesn't feel like it's been that long), I thought I'd had it made. "I only work half a week! 4 out of 7 days." But after having recently returned to the normalcy of a typical 8-hour day I began…

I Know My Computer Tech Posts Are Weird, But… I'm obsessed with "web apps". If you look at my Windows 11 taskbar, half of the shortcuts are links to websites that I've installed "as an app" in the Edge browser. No "favorites" toolbar, no nonsense, and they remember their positioning on my screens.…

When You Think You Won’t Need It, You Will You never know when you may need it and if you think your Windows 10 recovery USB disk may save you, you're wrong.

Thursday Night Fridays Has Been Canceled! As of June 1st, Thursday Night Fridays has been canceled indefinitely.

No Excuses The trend of the weekend has been, "Philip, I hurt for you." "Philip, they're assholes!" It has been the talk all weekend because people that are close to me think that everyone should understand me, and like me. It's true. I don't really have a lot of friends. But that's because I…

Boys and Their Toys I should probably create another blog category called "Geek Fest" but having multiple displays for so many years, I can't believe I was never made aware of this Windows feature for so long.

So Was A $3,852 Display Upgrade Worth It? Short answer? No. Do I want to return everything? No. Do I have buyer’s remorse? No. And yes. “WHAT are you talking about, Philip?”

Social Media Exhaustion I've been obsessed with "projects" my entire life. For the majority of it, it's always been technology and music. Sometimes those obsessions combined. Sometimes they grew into phases.

Alexa is helping me train the dogs. I say “speak!“ They get a treat. She says “quiet!” I hold my finger to my mouth and they are quiet. They get a treat. For those who don’t know, this is the standard way to teach a dog not to bark. It teaches them the difference between barking and being quiet.

An oldie, but a goodie.

What kind of nerd would put this amount of thought into purchasing a keyboard? 😲

Mental Note: For future reference, replace out Alexa's name in any projects when asking the assistant for assistance or ya might get some 'tude.

AI Coding Limitations AI really needs to step up when it comes to analyzing web pages for coding suggestions. More often than not, I have to provide them with the HTML of a section of the page for them to be able to read it.

Jetpack Comments Configuration for WordPress Hopefully a helpful post for those that fell down the rabbit hole looking for answers to why the social media options don't show when testing your Jetpack comments in WordPress.

The AI Trade I've worked based off of a Help Desk ticketing system my entire life. Even when I was out of work and decided to contract technical support out to people, I used my own ticketing system. It's just the way my brain thinks and learns to approach & prioritize the needs of my customers.…

Want to limit what your young children can see when browsing the internet?

AI Will Collapse the Economy I worked with a customer the other day where he was on an old, legacy web platform of ours and wanted to rejuvenate its appearance. This legacy platform came out about 9 years ago when "mobile-friendly" was just a catch phrase at the time. Not a web designer, he did a…

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He’s not falling for the “we don’t wake up until 1 o’ clock on Sundays” spiel.

Apparently TikTok’s Logan’s new addiction. So far she’s swiped next, loved a post and almost went live.

The Beaver Builder Updates Are INSANE–At a Cost I am a HUGE Beaver Builder fan. For those who do not know, Beaver Builder is a page builder for WordPress. It's the builder that I use on Cheydes of Black. It is the simplest, most versatile, no frills page builder I've ever used. Back when I first…

About ready to lose my mind! Alexa is having issues with SmartHome & I have to actually walk over to the wall to turn the kitchen light on. GRRRR!!!!

Rockin' It!

How to Block Certain Countries from Accessing Your Website with Cloudflare

PAPRIKA- 200 days @nycacc.bsky.social is in danger and needs East Coast foster to save her!! Repost her please! 🙏

Training time yesterday. I know Skylar hits his wall when he just falls over and plays dead on every command.

This is an AMAZING track! I've haven't listened to Bruce Springsteen since I was like 14, but this song rocks! 'Not the Springsteen that I remember.

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New dog crate. Does the living area look too crowded?

Oh shit! 100% real.

How to Install Windows 10 to an Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast Properly For 25 years I have always had a particular way to manage my computers' operating system in a full-proof manner to allow for fallbacks. "If something fails--revert". This includes, at the very least, a RESTORE partition, ideally a…

Every time I talk about this, I get pushback. They want to change the conversation. This post was before I went all out Atheist.

I have to admit, Trump's a top-notch promoter. I've seen nothing but Bruce Springsteen praise in my timeline on all platforms for days.

My wife had friends down from up north to Florida for a week. I don't know how to help this guy, yet I feel everything he's feeling. He's 54, I'm 55. Anxiety about the future. He has no one alive left in his family. He's lost. I'm lost. Worst case scenarios for survival ruling your mindset.