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Continue reading →: Scuffing your hardwood floors
We seem to be in major home focus these days, but we have a set of chairs that are really hard on the hardwood floors. Well there are some easy things to do. The first is to get a felt protector that glues on the bottom. The main problem here…
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Continue reading →: Blackout curtains
When you live in a spot where the sun comes up at 5AM and sets at 10PM, a good set of blackout curtains begins to look pretty good (that or use eyeshades but they are a little uncomfortable). So what are some good ones to try, well there are review…
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Continue reading →: More cool Apple Photos tips and tricks
I hadn’t realized these tricks, but as I use the thing more, I’m learning, but for MacOS, here are some good things to know First is that you can actually add faces to the system. It is a little complicated, but in Mac Photos, what you do is to go…
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Continue reading →: BENQ 3200PT Calibration on High Sierra
Well, my trusty (like 10 year old) Datacolor Spyder3Elite is finally obsolete. Not because the sensor is bad, but because they don’t support it anymore. How sad is that! I’ve actually found color calibration is getting better, particularly if you use sRGB as the default. On this Benq 3200PT, Tom’s…
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Continue reading →: Urban Myths Part Deux: Keeping your gas car is better
OK, there is another urban myth which is, well it is obviously far better to keep my gasoline power car for as long as possible instead of getting a new EV. Or to ride the bus instead or take an Uber hybrid Urban myth #1: I should keep my old…
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Continue reading →: Urban Myths: EVs worse for the environment than Gas Card
Ok I’ve heard this a few times that since EVs use burn more carbon in making lithium ion batteries and the electricity uses coal and is dirty. In looking through the lifecycle analysis a few things fall out But the short answer is that EVs do have a higher footprint…
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Continue reading →: A Better Route Planner Parameters
Here’s the ticket to getting to within 5% of your time to a destination and that same accuracy on recharge times. Well as we plan long trips, range anxiety means that we pay a lot of attention to charge state. The onboard Tesla navigation system does a really nice job…
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Continue reading →: Living with a Bolt, The Tragedy of Non-Integrated Vehicle Electronics
OK, I guess I’m writing way too much about cars these days, but having had the Bolt for over a year. Here’s a summary of the peculiarities. Almost all of these are because the following systems are completely separate and do not talk with each other. It’s a consequence of…
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Continue reading →: 2018 The State of USB C Charging
Well things are getting a little better, in the first half of the year, some great things happened. The main issue is that the reviews from wirecutter.com are mostly worthless because they do not use the fakespot to look at legitimate reviews and do not do long term testing, although…
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Continue reading →: AirPod Case Reviews
OK I’m by no means scientific, but by a search through Amazon.com plus checking with Fakespot.com for spammed reviews, there are many of these, here are some recommendations for protecting your very valuable AirPods, so in order recommendations are: Catalyst Waterproof case with Carabiner, these are the quite expensive at…