The Android app shows this… if you select “Not Interested”. However I can’t see the complete text for most of them. No problem, I’ll just change the display to Rotate, except the Instagram app doesn’t rotate on my phone for some reason. No problem I’ll use the desktop app so I can see the options …
Monthly Archives: October 2023
JCL course
Just saw this JCL course on YouTube. JCL? Which JCL? There’s more than one. Undoubtedly they mean MVS (style). It’s almost 2 hrs. long, so might be worth a look.
IMSAI 8080 & Altair 8800
Build these classic iconic retro computers…in emulation : ) Downloaded z80pack release 1.37 here on GitHub. Here’s his YouTube channel. The 2 images below are the 2-D models, the IMSAI defaults to 3-D as in my previous video, press V to toggle 2D/3D. The Altair 8800 only has 2-D. Install The install instructions README-frontpanel.txt in …
OS/390
I tried to watch a Spanish OS/390 install video, I saw on YouTube. All the comments were in Spanish, so nothing helpful there. It seems OS/390 can be downloaded from archive.org. So I downloaded ISO 1 of 13. I had a funny feeling. And looked more into it, and it seems illegal to run without …
NFTs…briefly
Just saw this, posted a year ago so 2022. This electronics expert was asked a question about over-hyped technology. He laughs and calls NFTs garbage. Come to think of it, I haven’t heard much about them for a while now. So I still stand by my original comment, in 2021.
Reinstall Go
I wrote a few small programs, in the past. Try and get myself re-motivated. Probably the best way for me to learn Go is to uninstall Python. Or have the will power not to turn to it. bill@bill-MS-7B79:~$ go versiongo version go1.21.3 linux/amd64 Restarted an old Udemy Go course. My previous Go experience was self …
Visual Voicemail fiasco
Have a new phone so reinstalled. It says checking account then “Something went wrong. Try again later”. I’ve cleared cache and data, tried again…same thing! Later… It asks me to create a 4-7 digit password. I do, it says password is incorrect. It wasn’t I can count to 7 and I only entered digits…not characters. …
Tried the Mercury browser
These last 3 posts are all related. So both Brave and Vivaldi seem to block YouTube ads out-of-the-box. Then yesterday, I learned about Thorium based on Chromium and it too seemed to block YouTube ads out-of-the-box. However Mercury based on Firefox doesn’t block YouTube ads. I wonder if Pi-Hole blocks them? Thorium is very interesting.
Thorium – a new web browser
Heard Chris Titus talking about this, he gave it a glowing review. Based on Chromium. They say…The fastest browser on Earth. Sounds very interesting. Installed and will be testing. The same site offers Mercury…based on Firefox. Have to check that out too.
Ads in YouTube
YouTube warned me in Firefox with ad blocker extension. It appears that Brave and Vivaldi blocks them. Of course Chrome doesn’t.