Robotics failures

Apple scorcher

Got home, reached in to grab my Mac Book Pro out of my bag and it literally scalded me (had to run my hand under cold water). Evidently it didn’t sleep properly when I closed the lid and it just sat in the bag cooking. Lucky it didn’t catch anything on fire. Can only imagine […]

Searching for a viable Facebook/Twitter alternative

Spent a decent number of hours over the weekend looking at the field of OSS and private Facebook and Twitter alternatives. Initially, the two that leaped out at me were Diaspora* and Mastodon. I decided to take a shot at installing Diaspora, in spite of it’s messed up name, because it is pro-ported to be […]

Win10 teething problems

Nothing but problems since upgrading to Windows 10. Although the user interface is much nicer than 7 and worlds better than the piece of garbage 8.x, I highly advise against upgrading for now. My guess is that it’s an upgrade issue as virtually all the chatter re: problems with W10 seem to relate to upgrades.