This is a blog authored by an old-timer geek.
Editor@Rantopolis.NetGIGOTOS is a huge problem. Consumerism, marketing, the need to feed, FOMO, all of the problems of envy. Contrary to what media advertising portends, you don’t need anything new. Your stature won’t increase, but your bills will, if you follow envy.
After looking around, I decided on the Garmin Venu SQ to be my first fitness watch. The criteria to select this model was based on these values: Not part of the Apple data cabal Did the minimum of: Steps count, heart rate, pulse Ox measurement Was meaningfully waterproof Had a good build quality Purchase price […]
This site doesn’t track you. On the way here, however, many processed did track you. Most are out of my control. Your browser may not rat you out, but often it does just that. This is because it sends information about the browser version, your monitor’s geometry, the host platform (your operating system details) and […]
Part of the evil of social media is the desire on the part of various individuals and organizations to attempt to make lies into truth. If you repeat the same lie frequently enough, the meme goes, it can’t be told from truth. That statement is also a lie. Political and religious themes are driven in […]
I’m an older tech geek. I grew up in relative privilege. I’m more or less reformed. As a white male, I had no idea that the rest of the non-white, non-male world was having difficulties. I was raised in Catholic schools. The nuns were naive at best, but their altruism was admirable. Their Good Book […]
