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Seeing ads for 'AI-powered quantum sleep monitors' that cost $200. It is a 2014 pedometer taped to a watch strap. At least scammers used to put effort into the plastic casing?

Before you toss a broken gadget, check iFixit. It has free repair guides for thousands of devices, rated by difficulty. Worst case, you learn the battery is glued in with the strength of a thousand suns, and now you know who to be mad at. 🔧

New York passed the first US electronics right-to-repair law in 2022, and more states followed. If you bought your toaster you should be allowed to fix it without a 'certified technician' and a $300 diagnostic fee... change my mind

IT helpdesk translation guide: 'Have you restarted it?' means 'I know you haven't.' 'Interesting' means 'this will take all afternoon.' 'Works on my end' means 'it's you.' Restart it anyway...It fixes more than anyone admits. (even me lol)

ADHD productivity app lifecycle: discover a new app, spend six hours setting it up, color-code everything, feel unstoppable, never open it again. I really need to KISS... and let it be boring, but I don't wanna. 🧠

The save icon is a 3.5-inch floppy disk, which held 1.44 MB. That's less than one HD photo from your phone. In 2026 an entire generation clicks a tiny shrine to a storage format they probably have never touched. 💾

Text-message 2 FA is better than nothing, but SIM swap scammers can talk a carrier into moving your number to their phone. For accounts that matter, use an authenticator app or a hardware key, and ask your carrier for a port-out PIN.

In 2024 Ubisoft shut down the servers for The Crew, and people who bought it could no longer play. That sparked the Stop Killing Games campaign, asking publishers to keep games playable after support ends. Buying shouldn't secretly mean renting.

If I can't play it in ten years without asking the publisher's permission, I didn't buy a game. I rented hope.

Me: I'll install Linux to be more productive. Also me, three weeks later: on my ninth distro, tweaking a terminal theme I look at for 20 minutes a day. Productivity was the friends we made along the way.

In 2016 Juicero sold a Wi-Fi juicer for $699 that squeezed its own juice packs. Then reporters showed you could squeeze the packs by hand just as well. The company shut down the next year. oops. 🧃

um @opensource.google, what gives? #privacy

I have 84 tabs open because closing one feels like deleting a memory. Many browsers can save a whole window as a bookmark folder, so you can close all 84 without grieving. Will I ever open that folder? No. But I'll know it's there.

xkcd proved in 2011 that 'correct horse battery staple' beats P@ssw0rd1! by a mile. Size does matter. Pick 4+ random words or let a password manager generate something long. Just not that exact one. Every bruteforcer has it memorized now. 🐴

Apple once made a game console. The 1996 Bandai Pippin cost $599, ran a stripped-down Mac OS, and flopped so hard it regularly shows up on 'worst consoles ever' lists. Apple would rather you didn't bring it up.

Vim has been around for over 30 years, and 'How do I exit Vim?' is still a legendary question among developers. The answer is Esc, then type :q and press Enter. Happy Monday! 🤓

In 2000 RadioShack handed out free CueCats: barcode scanners shaped like a cat, so you could scan a magazine ad to open a website you could have just typed. Each one had a serial number tied to you, so the cat also knew what you scanned. Ancestor of the QR code menu.

Your phone has an advertising ID so apps can recognize you across other apps. Here's how to delete them. Share with a friend and surely we can make ads slightly worse at stalking us. 👀

Googled myself and a people-search site had my age, my old addresses, and a 'possible relative' who is my ex's mom. Most of these sites have an opt-out page buried in the footer, or at least they should...right?

"I have nothing to hide" is a great line until you remember you have curtains, a phone PIN, and a lock on the bathroom door. Privacy isn't hiding. It's choosing.

In 1995 we thought video calls would revolutionize society. Now we just use tape over our webcams so the FBI agent doesn't judge us eating shredded cheese at 3 AM. 🧀

If I'm forced to watch AI at least have it be like...a wiener puppy with a nose like a hot dog... That is begging for actual hot dogs at a table. Or the baby fighting eagles. None of this realistic crap.

We already know corpo smart hubs are harvesting our data. But what can we DO about it? Check out this tool 🤓

don't blame Linux

HUGE NEWS! The End of Mass Surveillance? Judge Rules Against Flock Cameras #privacymatters

Clearly I'm a squid and don't understand feminism... Can someone explain to me the terms "girl dinner" and "girl math?

what tech do you like that you shouldn't? 👀

Want your open source, DIY dream car or truck? And it's electric?! Too bad it was woefully underfunded. 😔 rip

Those who also use Snapchat, what do you like about the app) I need to know... I download it but then soon delete, and the cycle repeats every few years. 😅

My car radio just advertised "100% human. Always." What a crazy Cyberpunk future we live in now.

Facehuggers are NOT as nice as they sound... but yay horror games? #xenomorph

Is this the Brain Rot equivalent for my generation? 🤔

Especially on mondays

Did you know there was an ENTIRE COUNTRY with only FB for internet? It was called "free basics." #privacy #bigtech #cybersecurity

Treat Mondays like a lvl 1 boss fight. You might not have all your gear ready, but you've got enough health points to make it to Tuesday.

What's your favorite comment that you've seen in code? Here are some of mine: # don’t judge me. have a good weekend.

Do you watch videos on 2x speed? 3x? FASTER? I feel like I'm weird that I still watch them 1x. MAYBE 1.5x.