"Talking to myself again...": Tech ramblins

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Tech ramblins

My old Samsung Note 2 phone has been slowing down, and I was considering upgrading. But... it does what I want, and still works fine... except its slowing down. But.... New Shiny! But..... Busted Wallet!

Humph. This morning I DL'ed some sweet AVG and cleaned the old girl up. That, and ditching a few resource hog apps, and it's running high and fine now.

I *may* ditch FaceBook on the mobile as well. The app is ad-swamped, and insists on never, ever, showing me a straight up feed. Every refresh has my friends posts in weird and wonderful orders, with FB demanding to choose what I see or not see. Also, it suddenly wiped my settings and now auto-plays videos after I specifically set it not to. That grates a bit. Okay, it grates a lot.

Seeing as I'm tech minded for the morning, I'm also looking at a home router upgrade. Faster, better, fully bionic.... and something I can control from my phone with an app, LOL.

Yesterday I watched one of my students locking a housemate out of their router since he hadn't paid his share of the bill. HMMMmm says I..... that would be a darned nice option to have, what with a little girl in this house who likes to sneak about and be on the computer WAY after her bedtime.

Snerk.

1 comment:

freddyboomboom said...: May not be for you, but I upgraded our home wireless network to the Google puck mesh doohickeys.

I bought a three pack.

Now all the wireless networking devices can get good signal all over the house.

And I can see, using the app on my phone, what devices are connected and how much bandwidth each is using (current, last day, last 7 days, last 30 days, last 60 days). Set quality of service for the devices streaming video. Lock out devices.

Just giving my experience. I'm pleased with it.; August 13, 2018 at 11:33 AM

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"