Why electric vehicles burn so well
Electric cars, e-bikes, e-scooters: they all use lithium-based batteries, and they all seem to burn very well. While many agencies and officials claim traditional cars are at higher risk of bursting into flames, we don't seem to hear so much about them in the news....
How to make Chrome less Google-friendly
With Chrome version 69, Google was very naughty. It was quite easy to miss this little tidbit, but it seems Google decided to make Chrome automatically log you in to Chrome itself if you used the browser to log in to any Google web service. Before, you didn't have to...
The Internet of Things and 5G: It’s all BONKERS!
Ah yes, the IoT, or Internet of Things. The future is apparently filled with internet-connected everything, including dust (yes, dust). We're already seeing the beginnings of this brave new world, mostly in the form of smart thermostats, smart appliances, and things...
“Linux on Windows” missing after a Win 10 upgrade? No problem!
Another Windows 10 upgrade is here: the Windows 10 October 2018 update. For those of us using WSL, or "Linux on Windows", that means potential mayhem. When the last Win 10 upgrade version was released, I installed it. I then discovered that my Ubuntu icon no longer...
A crash course in how the internet works
Way back in 1995, I was a freshman at university. I had this new thing called "The Internet" at my fingertips. It was cool, but I wanted to know how it worked. I asked someone, and they wouldn't answer the question - mostly because they couldn't answer! Today,...
How to Remove or Block Cookies in Chrome
I use Firefox as my main browser, which is why I wrote the earlier article Remove individual cookies in Firefox (yes, it changed again). I also use Chrome as a secondary browser since I have 2 screens and too many tabs for one browser! Recently, I had to do some...
How to choose a dumbphone: It ain’t easy!
If you decide to ditch your smartphone, then you have to pick the right dumbphone. "You must choose, but choose wisely." There are many factors that come into play, like where you live and what wireless provider you're using. But it gets way more complicated than...
Surveillance Valley: What you need to know about the Internet
I recently finished reading the book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. Now, I've known for awhile that the world of high-tech - and especially the internet - doesn't quite work the way everyone thinks it does. We worship tech...
How to turn off those annoying notification popups in your browser
Will you allow this site to send notifications? NO! And stop asking me, dangit! For ages now, I have put up with these silly popups. Then, one day very recently, I asked myself why. Why was I putting up with them?! In the absence of a good answer, I figured out how to...
Remove individual cookies in Firefox (yes, it changed again)
Our friends over at Mozilla have done it again! It seems that with Firefox 61, it's now impossible to delete an individual cookie for a specific web site. Oh sure, you can clear all cookies, and you can clear all cookies for a certain site... But if you want to just...
Censored on Social Media? What else is new…
Here we go again! From Alex Jones to Diamond & Silk to Telesur, suddenly social media is penalizing certain voices rather dramatically. The majority of the people I talk to think that the whole thing's ridiculous, and I tend to agree. Most people are even afraid...
Episode 3: Reactivating Windows 10 after a major hardware upgrade (again)
A little over a month ago, I had the opportunity to upgrade a whole slew of Win 10 machines. Back then, I wrote this article: Reactivating Windows 10 after a second major hardware upgrade Now, I thought I had everything figured out in terms of re-activing Win 10 after...
How to turn down your home WiFi’s transmit power
Your average home WiFi router or access point often has a setting so that you can reduce its transmit power level. This is pretty handy to know given what I talked about in my earlier video, Are WiFi, Bluetooth, 4G, and 5G bad for you? The typical range for 2.4GHz...
Run cron jobs in Windows Subsystem for Linux
If you're running Ubuntu or another linux shell in Windows 10 via WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), you've probably wondered about using cron. Cron is super-handy for doing things, like, running a backup. You see, as useful as WSL is, it stores all the linuxy files...
What you can do about 5G, WiFi, etc.
In my last vid, 5G is just the tip of the iceberg, I talked about a bunch of recent studies showing that all this crazy wireless stuff is having negative effects on our health. Naturally, the question on everyone's mind is: What can we do about it?! Well, minimizing...
Help, I can’t delete a file from my Desktop!
So this is a fun one! You have a file on your desktop. It can be anything: PDF, Word Doc, text file, whatever. You try to delete it. Instead of going into the Recycle Bin, you just get the "deleting" dialog box with the progress bar, and then... Nothing happens! YAY!...