Amazon, the online marketplace founded by Jeff Bezos is basically the biggest online shopping site. But, there’s quite a few scams, and I’ve seen two laptop scams recently, and I want to put into perspective how crappy these laptops are if they weren’t on sale (to be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were… Continue reading Amazon laptops are a joke
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Using a custom DNS for better security and privacy
I think that we have to be careful more than ever to the places we go to online. Like seriously. Threats are constantly evolving, and I want to show you all how to use NextDNS, a free DNS service which you can put on all your devices (bearing in mind that you’ll be limited to… Continue reading Using a custom DNS for better security and privacy
3G switch-off in the UK
3G was the third generation of mobile communication technology, launched in the UK back in the early 2000s. It’s been operating for 20 years at this point, but it’ll soon cease to exist on some networks in the UK. This post will detail what steps you may need to take due to the switch off.… Continue reading 3G switch-off in the UK
Share your DVD drive with other computers
Physical media is slowly becoming obsolete. No modern computer really comes with a CD or DVD drive. That sucks, especially when you might have a lot of audio CDs, or some old software. Today, I’ll show you a quick and easy way that will allow you to use an older computer to share your DVD… Continue reading Share your DVD drive with other computers
Tech Tips / Beginner’s Advice to the Fediverse (Mastodon)
I signed up for Mastodon in late November last year. I didn’t use Twitter or anything prior. It was purely just a new experience, after my last experiences with text-based social media, was ermmm Miiverse. I like Nintendo alright. Today, I wanted to give you some beginners advice to Mastodon and the fediverse, and hopefully… Continue reading Tech Tips / Beginner’s Advice to the Fediverse (Mastodon)
Tech Tips / Start making synchronised lyrics for your music
I probably sound like a psychopath by telling you that I don’t use a cloud-based music platform. In fact, I only use it to play my music more easily on my Google Nest Mini, and even then, it’s content that I have uploaded from my library. One thing that sucks half of the time with… Continue reading Tech Tips / Start making synchronised lyrics for your music
Misc / I’m fed up with planned obsolescence/bad support
This post is really just me complaining about being fed up with planned obsolescence and awful software support. Let’s start with the awful software support shall we? I received a new TV after upgrading from a Samsung H5600 (which interestingly received an update recently from version 2900 to 2910, the first update in 8 years… Continue reading Misc / I’m fed up with planned obsolescence/bad support
Tech Tips / Use aliases to organise your emails in Gmail
Hey there. I’ve known about this for a while, but Gmail has an aliases feature. Basically, for any ‘@gmail.com‘ domain, you can add any alias, and it’ll still appear in your email. But with some filters, we can organise it into some labels, which is what we’re going to do today. Part 1: How do… Continue reading Tech Tips / Use aliases to organise your emails in Gmail
Tech Tips / Making an old Windows computer a WiFi extender
Are you fed up of WiFi that’s underdelivering your expectations? What if you could bring out your old laptop for example, hook it up to Ethernet, and allow it to broadcast a WiFi network? Today, I’m going to show you exactly that. Please note: you need to have a device that is able to find… Continue reading Tech Tips / Making an old Windows computer a WiFi extender
Plugin Marketplace / My complaints with the program
Subscribe now Share Hi there, I’d like to make a post talking about my complaints with the Plugin Marketplace program, and hopefully help Roblox improve the program with some of my points. The plugin marketplace program was introduced sometime in 2020 or 2019 from memory, and the concept of this was to allow Roblox developers… Continue reading Plugin Marketplace / My complaints with the program