Not a lot to say just acknowledging that the Apple M1 chip sounds very interesting!
Category Archives: Computer
Cutting the cord
Cutting the cord seems to have become a thing today. I’m a long time cord cutter before the term existed, I did it to save money. At one time I had all the premium channels. Ending cable caused some withdraws to be sure. Now I get over the air (OTA) TV reception, using a converter …
Amazon Kindle Fire
Unless I learn different, I’d have to think hard about getting another Amazon Kindle Fire. I’d switch to an android tablet. Why? Let me count the ways. It uses a customized version of android but is NOT android. You can sideload android apps and they may or may not work. I have a older Kindle …
Android charging/data cables
You can’t judge a book by it’s cover. Bought a new Type-C cable for spare at “Five Below”, which use to mean $5 and less, but as soon as the opened one near me it became $5 and up, despite the name. These cables appear to be nice. Nice packaging. quality appearing braided cable. However …
My old USB Flash Drive
256MB not GB. No longer works.
Firefox dark mode, dark pages?
I often start my day early, and there is nothing worse, at least it feels that way at the moment, than opening a web page, where most of the page is white. So I do a little research and learn about dark themes. But wait that only affects a small aspect of Firefox, such as …
Carvana…continued
This is my experience…so far. YMMV. Well it started out good. I had to virtually sign some documents Saturday…which I did. I Received the following text on Saturday. Today I go to Carvana website where I am shown the following. I’m excluding some purchase details, only showing the left side of screen. As you can …
Attempting to buy a car through Carvana
Entirely online…so computer related!
What happened to Firefox 81.0?
Slow downloads, high CPU usage, YouTube pages (comments) not completing. Suspected my ISP at 1st. But that doesn’t explain high CPU usage. So tried Google and the afore mentioned problems weren’t there.
Browser source code
Playing with Beautiful Soup and…when did this happen? Brought up some websites to scrape locally. Save HTML in Firefox and Google Chrome. The view was right but when I “save page” the source has been heavily modified, to barely resemble the original. I use to do this all the time…that’s how I originally learned HTML. …