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On smartphone sensors
As Pokémon Go is taking over the planet, some people have discovered that their cheap smartphones are lacking a gyroscope–although smartphones that have at least 2 GB of RAM and Android or newer (Pokémon Go's requirements)…
The world is swarming with incompetents…
Some time ago, during a job interview, I was asked at the end why in some version of my résumé I wrote in the soft skills section "attention to detail; good in finding correlations; good in…
Debunking some myths about SSDs
SSD seemed to be the second best invention since sliced bread and Netflix, unless we remember those OCZ SSD models that died too early after a rather small number of writes. Still, modern SSDs have much improved,…
“A” for “Acer TravelMate P6”
The shoemaker's children go barefoot, they say. As I don't have children, in my case this paradox applies to myself. I always had the cheapest computer and the cheapest smartphone that are powerful enough for what I…
I’m set for ESET
For some time, most likely up to a year (if not more), I'll be using ESET as a security product on my laptop. Even before switching to a new laptop, I tried ESET NOD32 Antivirus 10 (2017)…
I’m sorry you had to use TeamViewer
I pity you for your need to use TeamViewer. Or RealVNC. Or Remote Desktop (Terminal Services). Heck, even Remote Assistance (Windows Desktop Sharing). I got it, you must use it at work, and hopefully such a…
Hopefully, Ransomware will reach everyone
It's Good Friday, it's been raining all day long, I'm a bit dizzy and certainly pissed off by this Windows thing. This laptop is overly modest with regards to the CPU, and this bloody Windows 10…