Building a page of shame. My father sure was duped a few times when he was building the collection...

Highlight of the day: found my favorite earbuds, long presumed lost 🫘 Not in the mood to get rid of the in-ear ones—guess I can now choose them depending on the mood.

After an update, my fairly modern smart TV got this gracious gradient behind a clock. I guess we're really hitting the new design trend cycle—this visual element looks like it came from 2011 and 2025 simultaneously

There was some sort of paint can, which I kept ignoring for months, tucked away in a kitchen drawer by my rented flat's landlords. Today, I've decided to throw it away, but

As for the second part, that's on me and my desire to run one of few cards which explicitly runs as a fixed disk in a UDMA-5 mode. Unfortunately, most CF-to-IDE adapters do not include voltage selectors anymore.

The first part is because most CF cards report themselves to the system as removable disks, and that confuses operating systems that expect to be run on a fixed one.

Check out this aggressively-worded support page from SanDisk: support-en.wd.com/app/answers/...

Keeping up with the latest advancement in tech

From the mailbox: GoDaddy reacts to being labeled as "lawbreaker" by a Russian censorship agency by shutting down accounts which it believes are based in Russia, tells domain owners to start transferring them elsewhere by New Year's Eve.

Unexpected Bliss on 2004 North Korean stamps. colnect.com/en/stamps/st...

"Nuclear str... Michael the Archan... on Moscow and Puti..." An intriguing piece of village idiotism on a bus stop in Moscow.

I know it's a long shot, but does anyone here know what a "Li" setting on some Tecsun shortwave radios does? On my PL-398MP, switching it on makes the Ni-MH setting flash.

Would my receiver support LiFePO4 batteries with that setting on? The instruction manual and Google lead me to nothing.

I didn't plan on owning two shortwave radios, but here we are—thanks to my brother for the early birthday gift!

Got a Tecsun PL-398MP, which is functionally identical to the PL-310ET I own but, thanks to its size, seems to have a notably better reception and a much more ergonomic key layout.

I’m not a tech person, to be frank. I can’t code, can’t do web design, and there is no field of computing where I have progressed beyond informed awareness.

I’ve learned of JSON-LD today and here’s how I’m choosing to spend a Friday night: teaching myself of making a CV only a robot can appreciate.

In 2022, Yandex gave their European subsidiaries new, generic names, with Yandex Services AG (which they published their media apps through) becoming Intertech Services AG. Guess that name isn't nondescript enough anymore...

Every regional POI in Russia of a medium importance, provided it had undertaken some renovation in 2010s, seems to have one of these identical kitchy Promobot robots, constantly mumbling with a Microsoft Sam-like text-to-speech voice. This one, found in a Perm airport, seems to be shunned

WiMAX is alive! In my hotel room, as a brand of a TV remote cover, for some reason.

Since my new phone doesn't have a headphone jack and I still need a backup pair of wired headset, I've got a Samsung USB-C one (EO-IC100)—and what a perfectly competent pair of cheap buts it is. We're talking about EarPods level of cromulence.