Just now, there was this weird scratching noise. I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out what it was. Thought it was the computer making a bad sound, then thought it was a rat or something scratching on something. Then I realized it went away when I turned off the speakers. Finally tracked it down to a Tumblr tab. But I still have no idea what on ( Read more... )

I had to replace my mouse on my PC because it keeps double clicking everything, resulting in double posts on Tumblr, which has gotten to be such a pain in the arse that I finally replaced it with my spare mouse. Even clicking on things that bring up lists of links was getting impossible. That should be done with now ( Read more... )

Most awesome feature of my smartphone yet: mobile wifi hotspots! I sometimes have difficulty connecting to the Xfinity hotspots in the area on my little laptop, but now I can just turn mobile hotspot on, and have my own little wifi router with me whenever I need it! And with the unlimited plan, there's little risk of overage. Technically, the only ( Read more... )

I've spent the last couple hours trying to figure out how to line up two pictures (one in each layer) and make the top layer partially transparent, so that the bottom layer fades through the top layer, but only in a selected area ( Read more... )

This website shows you a new image of a person’s face every time you reload it. But none of the people it shows you are real; they are all AI generated. Marvel at how far AI tech has gone ( Read more... )

So Comcast convinced me to get high speed Internet (I think 60 MBPS, ten times the speed of my previous Internet) because it's not any more expensive for the first year than what I had already, and after that it's like $60. Since I'll be keeping $86 a month extra due to my storage unit being closed out, once I pay down my deposit I'll have more ( Read more... )

My bigger laptop's old battery was dying. Started one day when I turned on the computer and after five minutes of using it, it went into sleep mode. When I woke it up I found it was down to 2% power, which was odd because while it hadn't been plugged in at the time, I know for a fact it had been at 100% the day before at shutoff ( Read more... )

Computers are like magic. Seriously! A witch or wizard slaves away for days, even weeks or months, writing arcane symbols in a specific sequence to create a servitor to do a specific task or set of related tasks, including using a servitor to make the process of writing and printing easier, or servitors specifically designed to make other servitors ( Read more... )

My laptop only has 3 USB ports. I use one for the external fan, to keep it cool. Another for the mouse. That usually leaves the third one available, but today the third one is being used by my old 2 GB MP4 player, because I'm putting something in it that is taking forever. Which wasn't a problem until I wanted to use the ergonomic keyboard. I tried ( Read more... )

I waited for over an hour for my Ubuntu machine to make this 16 GB swap disk for itself, several days ago, since it was previously at 256 MB, and I haven't noticed any improvement in speed. If anything, it's gotten worse ( Read more... )