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This is my usual annual reminder that you have to check your Xfinity plan, which changes all the time. This year, in 2025, as an example, we were on the(Continue Reading)

People never tell me anything, but trolling through Alex Tong’s site and he mentions, “He’s the 2019 North American Junior 505 champion”. I’m like, what? No one tells me anything,(Continue Reading)

OK, to summarize annoyances today: So the easy commands to yank are: Dealing with Roo Code modes This is a sort of primitive agent system, and it is confusing when(Continue Reading)

Ok, this is a good one. If you are using Google Meet extensively, then the Google Meet app works well; it’s just an encapsulated browser, but still. The real mystery(Continue Reading)

One of the cool things about US Mobile, besides the incredibly low price of $33/month if you pay annually, is that it includes 100GB of data in the US and(Continue Reading)

OK, I think I’ve finally figured out a bunch of things about making Zoom Backgrounds. The first is that it will only accept 1080p SDR videos, so here’s the easiest(Continue Reading)

Welt’s been two decades of loving Lord of the Rings and watching it on everything from the Cinerama to home theaters to phones. But, there is nothing quite like getting(Continue Reading)