Category Archives: Web/Tech

NY Times Says Getting Rid Of Net Neutrality Will Make U.S. Like China Or Something

With the vote on doing away with the Obama era rules on Net Neutrality coming today, supporters of this big government plan are getting nuttier and nuttier. We had the banksy idiocy, proclaiming you’d pay $1.99 for each Google search (which would simply mean, if it happened for real, that people would just use other […]

Hot Take: Getting Rid Of Net Neutrality (scam) Will Mean Paying $1.99 Per Google Search Or Something

The desperation of the NN supporters, something enacted by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats which wasn’t needed before 2015, is strong with the Dark Side (via Twitchy) https://twitter.com/thereaIbanksy/status/940989790677291010 Obviously, Twitchy has plenty of responses. This one stands out It'll be like those dark days 2 years ago… When there were no free websites at all https://t.co/0EgtRW12mi — […]

FCC Vote On Net Neutrality Coming Thursday

If the media explained exactly what the Obama era net neutrality actually did, what all the actual cons to it are, it wouldn’t poll so well. Net Neutrality sounds so positive, right? Regardless, we didn’t need it before 2015, and we do not need it now (The Hill) The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving […]

Who Knows About Amazon Echo And Smarthubs?

OK, an interesting question for you folks. I have some Best Buy credit, and I’m considering getting an Amazon Echo. The question is, which to get, the Echo or the Echo Plus? The Plus has a smarthome hub built in, but, it is somewhat limited. But, then, I do not play on hooking a ton […]

Man Who Helped Create Facebook Unintentionally Explains Why Net Neutrality Is Unnecessary

Andrew Mccollum is the chief executive of Philo, an Internet television company. He was also part of the team that helped create Facebook. The NY Times has given him a platform to tell us why we totally need the Government in charge of the Internet, by deeming it a utility, just like the phone system […]

Killing Net Neutrality Will Be A Death Blow For Innovation Or Something

Which is why all the really big tech/Internet companies who already have all their own power and stuff really, really want to keep Net Neutrality around. This comes from the insane people at Salon who are oh-so-supportive of the free market, you know Killing net neutrality is a death blow for innovation … On Cyber […]

Question On Buying A Computer From You Smart People

It’s been awhile since I’ve purchased a laptop. My Samsung lasted 6 years before the hard drive died. I’m still pretty tech savvy, but, thought I would ask you smart people what you think. I’m looking at 3 laptops, but, the primary two are the HP Envy X360 at Best Buy and the HP Pavilion […]

Quick Review: Asus Zenpad 8 Z380M

I’ve been using the Asus Zenpad 8 Z380m for a little under 2 months now, and I have to say I really love it. I had been using an Acer 8 inch tablet for the previous 2  years. Well, sort of. The first one I purchased had bad lines in the screen. The second had […]

24 Hours With The Asus Zenwatch 2

While I’m definitely a tech geek, I tend to be more interested in useful and worthwhile. But, I’ll go with cool and this could be fun now and then. I’ve had some extra birthday money sitting around, and there’s just about nothing else I’m interested in or need. At least that’s fun. I could get […]

Questions: Is The Site Running Better Than It Was? Anyone See Any Issues?

The Virtual Private Server I use has been having problems for awhile now, but, it has gotten much worse over the last few months. You may have noticed some downtimes, for which I will either notice and reset the server, or it will automatically reset. But, one big problem was that the CPU usage would […]

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