Enel X Abandoned

On Wednesday, Oct 2nd, 2024, at 7:05:19 AM Pacific Time, I received the following email from Enel X Way North America: TLDR: We're shutting down the company. Also, no more customer support for you, and the app will stop working too. The charger will still charge…

The Tortoise, the Hare, and the Duck(DNS)

"Slow and steady wins the race" they say. They are wrong. When it comes to website load times, every millisecond counts. For every 1000ms of additional latency, visitor satisfaction drops by 16%. Every time I visited my selfhosted services (including this blog), I noticed that it would take…

In Memoriam: System Preferences (2001-2024)

On 2024/09/16, at 5:12:02 PM GMT, Apple pulled the plug on System Preferences' life support. She passed away surrounded by loved ones, after a 3-year health battle. Her memory will never be forgotten. Long live System Preferences. Apple supports the last 3 major releases of…

Making a Bootable macOS Installer

I needed a bootable macOS installer for my 2016 MacBook Pro 13". I wanted to install the greatest version of macOS ever created - macOS Mojave. 32-bit binary support my beloved. 😍 Internet Recovery wasn't letting me install the default OS, macOS Sierra. I suspect that this had…

Hello Zee, Goodbye Future

You know those ugly battery cases that used to be all the rage? The ones with the giant chins and terrible MicroUSB connectors that sat offset from the charger? But hey, it was worth it for the additional battery life... or something. The problem was that it was another $60…

Bluesmart is dead, long live Bluesmart

I am currently writing this from an airport table in 🤮 New Mexico. I was dropped off by an Uber, found the terminal, and went inside to print my boarding pass. After a 10-minute wait in the TSA line, I approached the check-in station where they check my ID… except they…

How VResh turned VRotten

One of my mothers is vegan, and somehow that's related to this story, apparently. My other mother doesn't have dietary restrictions, so they met in the middle and I ended up being vegetarian. When we went somewhere for food as a family, we needed somewhere vegan,…

Dear Walmart,

This is a spinoff of my "Dear Amazon" post. If you have not read that post first, stop now and do that. I was curious today if Walmart sold suicide cords, since I knew that they had 3rd-party sellers on their website. Here we go again. Aaaaand there&…