Free is Magic
So, after waxing poetically about CDs and DVDs from 2 decades ago and ripping a couple of select anime series[1] and movies, I turned around and threw away the disks. As opposed to searching...
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Where Photos Go from Here
As of June 1st, Google Photos has formally ended its unlimited—albeit slightly resized and compressed—photo storage, nudging users towards one of their paid storage subscription plans. It's a classic rent-seeking business...
To Wiki is to Explicitly Organize
I've spent an unhealthy amount of time and effort trying out various note-taking apps. In fact, I've chronicled some of those migrations on this blog—more as a warning to avoid...
The Abrupt Spotlight on Remote Education
For those of us lucky enough to be able to work from home, there's the reality that both aspects of work and life are now inexorably juxtaposed. In particular, for parents of kids...
Buying into Network Attached Storage
Recently, I recycled a decade-old Mac Mini. It was my first personal Mac, after owning and building my own PCs for years. It was cheap but somewhat underpowered, and eventually it got too slow to...
An Involuntary Internet Detox
You know those articles that bloggers come up with periodically, wherein they realize that constant connectivity and FOMO can be toxic so they unplug, for days or weeks at a time, then reflect on how...