Amazon just sent me an ad for a $475 hair dryer that has a cell phone app to configure it.

I think I need to get back to work restoring my SX-28A.

(An iconic WW2 short wave radio receiver for those of you a bit weak in electronic archeology)

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Newish here. Learned today that any private message from someone you never heard of that consists of "Hi" is not going to end well

My house is full of Alexa stuff.

I was trying to do something Bluetooth and discovered there are hundreds of BT messages flying around from MAC addresses that I have no clue what they belong to.

Being a geek, this is unacceptable. I set out to tie names to addresses.

Mistake.

So... Has your team made any baskets yet?

Have you ever deliberately thrown one of these things away?

Threw yet another non-stick pan in the trash after just less than a year of use. Apparently non-stick applies to the metal pan as well as the food.

Bought an All-Clad replacement on sale on Amazon.

Does this make me a Kitchen Snob now?

With all the crying, people seem to forget that a clear majority of voters elected this bunch and they're doing exactly what they said they were going to do.

And don't put me down as some sort of MAGA moron. If Trump was on fire, I wouldn't piss on him to put him out.

A year or two ago, I set up a few small LLMs here in the house. Not really impressed. They were slow and kinda pointless but I did learn a lot. After a bit, the machine started collecting dust.

Let's get this circulated!! 😤