Artist, writer, and blogger
We've built our first batch of DIY lights for the house. And we have regrets. Previously, Previously Building anything is always filled with lessons on what you are, and what you are not supposed to do. This, of course, refers back to your DIY LED lighting project, wherein we got so fed up with purchasing ... Would you like to know more? Read more
DIY Controller (and MAYBE keyboard) wall mounts. Organization is a neat thing. Especially if you're the kind of person who has control(er) issues as we go. No, seriously, we have two totes filled with controllers! In many cases, we don't even have the game consoles that these controllers originally came from. Yet, we cycle through ... Would you like to know more? Read more
The flow of spice. Quick blog time. Let's see if we can keep it short and sweet (Bad news, it didn't work), but here we go! Special thanks to FloatOverblow for the sick shooping in the title! About money. None of anyone's business how this site makes money. But this year has been particularly good ... Would you like to know more? Read more
It was fun; It was real, not sure if it was both. As weird as this turn may be. We've been selling all of our Raspberry Pis and Raspberry Pi-like clones. Partially because of one of our blogs, where buying thin clients gets you more scalability and near-equal power savings to that of a Pi. ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Put a kill switch on it! TLDR version: Always-online devices are working against you. Add a muthafuckin' kill switch! There's a simple piece of electronics that was around in the 80's and 90's, which we believe is in desperate need of a comeback in 2026. To be fair. These devices are still being made, just ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Yeah! May! Use that capitalist marketing strategy to remind people of their childhood during the dumb parts of the year! This started as a life update post, which people liked. But sort of evolved into its own monster of me purchasing a GPU. So read on if you want/care. GPU DEATH!!! Probably not the ... Would you like to know more? Read more
This is probably one of the best bootlegs we've seen. In the year 2026, when big-bad AI suddenly consumes all the world's memory and storage because a group of Chinese companies says so. For GPUs and NPUs that haven't been made. Going into data centers that haven't been built. To get a net profit return ... Would you like to know more? Read more
First, we fixed our 24-pin ribbon printer. But, is it WORTH it? Earlier this month, we fixed the Okidata 395 printer, which was the successor to the 393. The 393, of course, is Okidata's 24-pin series designed to handle a continuous business environment printing dating back to as early as 1983 (ours had a power ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Perhaps we need to rethink "Method 2" showing support on our page. On our support page, we have a statement about helping a blogger share links to other sites. Because if you liked what we had to say and want to share it with others. That's really nice of you. So thank you. Sometimes, when ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Microslop. There, we did our part! This article will more than likely buy us a blacklist on the Bing network. For those people younger in the crowd, asking, "What's a Bing?" Ohh, bless you, child, for nature is healing. First, a special thanks to the PCMasterRace thread on Reddit for the graphic and credit to ... Would you like to know more? Read more
An emotional experience with the Okidata 395. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was an event called "Y2K" in which the computer industry scared the living fuck out of businesses, claiming that computers would fail horribly unless every PC on the planet were upgraded within a year. While there was ... Would you like to know more? Read more
RedDragon K585. Although our title sounds like a Subway ad gone horribly wrong. It's at least honest about what you are actually getting, then RedDragons "Wired One-Handed Mechanical Gaming Keyboard", because if a person who recently lost their arm or hand was looking for a solution for full keyboard functionality in an ergonomic package for ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Relics from the 90's return to us. Sometimes you hang out in old industrial warehouses. Like normal human beings do. Perfectly average thing. Wandering about seeing the leveling pits where machines used to be, as well as flooded warehouses with tables holding up tube monitors with Wyse terminals for machines that haven't been powered on ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Wherein the blog has failed successfully - January Update. This is just some updates that we had to let the readers know. Our spam blocker decided to put all of the comments from the alt-nets right into the garbage. Shame on you, spam blocker! But we guess it's to be expected since alt-nets default to ... Would you like to know more? Read more
OHAI Everyone! Happy New Year. On one hand. We're happy that we have our health. We're happy that we're not (back) on the streets again. That there's still food on the plate and a roof all albeit temporarily, over our heads. A lot of our friends and family did suffer through this year. In different ... Would you like to know more? Read more
What's up, cheap 3rd party controllers! Out of all of the controllers that we've seen hit our bench, PDP Rock Candy's were surprisingly one of the few we rarely saw. Despite their price, if they broke, people didn't bother to repair them. Just toss and get another. There were generally three types of people who ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Getting back to the Nvidia Shield with some controller action. It's Christmas, and apparently, what I got was a bunch of controllers that were broken. Perfect gift for a guy like me! As you could see in the picture. We got two Nvidia Shield 2015 controllers, Model #P2570, and one 2017 Model #P2920. All on ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Incoming "Glorious" repair. Just when you thought the keyboard blogs were done. In comes a different keyboard to my bench known as the "Glorious GMMK3" keyboard which is supposed to be one of those DIY level keyboards for people to get into the joy purchasing your own switches, your own keycaps, cramming housing insulation into ... Would you like to know more? Read more
A word of caution before we begin: This article will contain some dirt-horror as we're going to tear apart our very first Redragon K556 that we purchased back in 2019, then later used heavily for work. This article is almost an addendum to the previous one, where we fixed two K556 keyboards with very minimal ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Sometimes our recommendations come back to haunt us. RedDragon is one of those recommendations that has done exactly that. Made this blog a while back because we were so pissed with Razer and Corsair that we just told people who wanted a mechanical keyboard that was somewhat repairable to just get a Redragon because at ... Would you like to know more? Read more
About progressive imaging support. One of the things about running a website is that you sometimes forget some features that were always there. We have chosen to remain a heavy graphical site. We are not going to replace everything with minimalistic fonts. Because of this decision, it's in our best interest to make sure that ... Would you like to know more? Read more
The World Wide Web. This was going to be a sidenote in one of our websites, which slowly exploded into an article on its own by complete accident. Read on if you want to know more. Name and Slogan. Wow. Let's Share What We Know - World Wide Web slogan. The logo above was made ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Here comes the endless e-mails. We've been getting our fair share of e-mails from our carrier trying really fucking hard to get up to upgrade our phone. This may come as a shock to some of you out there in FOSS land. Because we actually have two phones. One on an Iphone 12. The other ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Small review of the MeshPocket QI2. We travel a lot. Hang out in a lot of airports. Thus, we couldn't take our Heltec V3 with us to the airport because well!! That bodge solder job is going to make a TSA agent worry a little bit. But also near the end of my travel cases ... Would you like to know more? Read more
And now, from the end-user POV of I2P. In a previous article, we also thought about the NotBob review. Our experience was setting up I2P on our VPS so that we could share our website on another alternative network out there. After all, with our moderate success with .onion/Tor networks. Why stop there? We think ... Would you like to know more? Read more
A review from the realm of I2P incoming! In our journeys of checking all things throughout the alt-net, we check to see if we still exist out there. One article caught our eye.. We got a review from "NotBob" - http://notbob.i2p/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?page=397. Read on if you want to know more! Okay! For those who are unaware of ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Hello, magic printer that gave me a job and fed me in the early 2010s. If you work in an environment where you have to constantly ship physical goods out the door. Hell, if you've even visited the post office and had a clerk print you a label. You've probably seen a thermal label printer ... Would you like to know more? Read more
We're back at it again! For those who witnessed our first sleeper PC blog, our second sleeper PC blog, and finally putting a stupid fan into said sleeper PC.. Thank you. Hardware hacking articles are super fun to write. This opens up opportunities again to hack modern technology into ancient gear. This time around, a ... Would you like to know more? Read more
If you stream everything, well, let us say you can stop reading. This is a quick journey on why we play with music files and how we tend to fix them over 20+ years of collecting them. So if you have playlists on Spotify or YouTube, or SoundCloud or MixCloud. This article is probably going ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Special shoutout to MayVaneDay for this one. A person who has hosted a multitude of sites, which we show within our Cellar Door. The Oracle that not only checks the activity of all of the websites within the alt-network but also leaves comments, which is rad! Their blogs and some of their direct messages to ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Basic boi time in Second Life - from prims to mesh. How to put your art into SL. It's been a while since we touched the "Metaverse" category within our blog, and we figure to add a tutorial on how to do something that seems mundane at first. This is adding a texture to an ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Perhaps we travel too much. One of the things that writers tell you if you have writer's block is to write about what you know. Now, we know there are plenty of pretentious articles about airports and how to survive them. One item that we bring a lot is a hardened case for tools. Tools ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Wherein we changed the CMS. Changing one's CMS (Content Management Software) is possibly one of the scariest things that a blogger with hundreds of comments, automations, and modifications can possibly do. Although it wasn't a far jump to go from WordPress to ClassicPress. We still took all the precautions, despite lots of warning messages. We're ... Would you like to know more? Read more
All the questions. All the time! Although no one tagged me to answer the question challenge. It's something that we read in our RSS feed in which SizeOf(Cat) answered. It seems like a fun article to do. Thus, I don't need your tagging!:D Read on if you would like to know more. Question 1: When ... Would you like to know more? Read more
LoRa is essentially an SMS-based CB Radio for nerds. Saved you the read. Sometimes, you gotta get out. Touch grass. Walk around downtown. Hang out at your local coffeehouse while hipsters come up to you asking for money. Offer them your still-wrapped chocolate muffins if they publicly state that the B-52s are and always will ... Would you like to know more? Read more
The little browser is back. Although they are now on version 3.2.0, Version 3.1.0 of Dillo was brought back to life by a developer by the name of Rodrigo Arias Mallo in 2024, with the first release adding SSL support to this browser. Dillo was born in 1999, which is right at the Dot-com explosion ... Would you like to know more? Read more
No, not dead. For starters. Happy New Year out there. We didn't do anything extravagant like go to a garage filled with video games or go to Illinois to visit a group of people that resent me. Nah! We just stayed home and played a little bit of System Shock. Be told how we're terrible ... Would you like to know more? Read more
It was a fun experiment. But experiments can end. We've made the decision to obliterate the Lainchan web ring button collection as a primary page on our site. There will be a handful of sites from there that will be transferred into our Cellar Door. In particular, sites where the web admin has reached out ... Would you like to know more? Read more
We're unsure how we feel about the name "PINEcil." But sure, let's review this! This is for readers who want the TLDR version. It's a nice portable soldering iron, and so far, there have been no complaints. We'll update you as we use it. Would you like to know more? Read on for my half-baked ... Would you like to know more? Read more
We may be a bit late to the party. But we decided to investigate OpenNIC which appeared on Webrings early when I joined some of them in 2022. What is OpenNIC you ask? Well, regular top-level domain (TLD) names such as .COM/.NET/.ORG used to be run by the US government but eventually, ICANN took over. ... Would you like to know more? Read more
We got some e-mails about our previous Logitech post of people showing their love of the IntelliMouse, but someone contacted us directly asking what happened to that IntelliMouse that was used in the pictures? Well! Good news! It's back up and running! Read on if you want to see all the gory details. As well ... Would you like to know more? Read more
If Google de-lists you. Why continue to 'Think' with Google? First, there was Google's parent project which purchased "YouTube". This brought forth the word "Demonetization." Which was effectively telling content creators to play nice or else they make no money. Now, Google uses the "Don't be evil" Motto their developers once had and print it ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Hanneke Faber, CEO of Logitech wants to sell YOU a "Forever Mouse" that YOU pay... Forever! This whole process reminded us of another concept that the crypto-bros came up with "Unstoppable-Domains" in which MayVaneDay covered this article exceptionally well. But that's not the same as "Forever" you ask? Well! there are forever domains too! Which ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Hello Twitter/X and Firefox. You're on the naughty list! Outside of becoming the old man that shouts at the clouds. Or listening to the wind, like grandma told you never to do. The OTHER thing we like to do when we can is help readers during these times. Where enshittification is magnified due to companies ... Would you like to know more? Read more
We were born into this. As we say this, putting on our best English-men Bane impression from Batman. To us dark-mode was a statement hearkening back to the year-2000 style hacker sites serving as a warning. Simply put, don't trust the internet. Don't trust this site, and especially don't trust any company sites that want ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Simple post time. This week on stupid Android games. We talk about the game of "Advertisement" and how Google in particular has been playing stupid games with everyone in the world for fun and profit. We've used a similar statement about content creation. It's not just a person coming up to you to take a ... Would you like to know more? Read more
It's June 2024, I'm doing okay! Just because we were silent didn't mean we were doing nothing at all. Some items on this site were quietly being moved around and worked on. Let's go through a few of them. The title of nostalgia. What's up with that title picture you ask? Well, during one of ... Would you like to know more? Read more
We sometimes eat dirt when learning this lesson. We are not perfect nor absolute. Just a node of server. Corrective action. A blog article has been removed over the subject of a collapsing internet. The concept that eventually you can sum up the entire internet to a handful of social networks and products from a ... Would you like to know more? Read more
Although late to the party. Here's to 2024! This New Year's Eve we spent at home and by ourselves. It was super uneventful really. Didn't go to the Barcade like the year prior. Nor did we go to the lakeshore. Or to a warehouse listening to speed metal cooking 36lbs of meat in a 55-gallon ... Would you like to know more? Read more
December is always crazy for us. Not because of the site, but because of the world of RL pulling us away from the site. But we think that's common practice for the age we live in. We live in a country that keeps us barely alive financially preventing us from actually thinking about what is ... Would you like to know more? Read more