So far, the key interest for me have been the potential drastic improvement in battery life. I’m almost willing to sacrifice a bit of short term productivity to get there. I don’t know that the experiences sound any worse that trying to get my favorite development environments productive on Windows or a non-Debian flavor of […]
Monthly Archives: December 2020
How to Cancel Humble Choice
I tried to cancel Humble Choice a couple of months ago, after getting sucked in to a membership a few months ago, but either I didn’t complete the cancellation, or I didn’t have enough time to completely follow-through. I had a little bit of a challenge finding the cancellation link this time, so I wrote […]
Fuji EnviroMAX AA vs. Sunbeam Batteries
So we have a battery hungry front door lock that requires 4-AA batteries to power. I noticed that the Sunbeam batteries purchased from Dollar Tree (3 pack for $1, or $1.33 per replacement) were getting replaced every month or so, so I was curious if that was normal as well as how much I was […]
Sylvania vs. Amazon Basics LED bulbs
I’ve been tracking the Sylvania 60W 2700K Equivalent A29 (affiliate link) vs. the AmazonBasics 60W Soft White Non-Dimmable (affiliate link) over the past year and a half after noticing that I was replacing bulbs a lot. With 40+ bulbs in the house, it’s not as uncommon as I would have initially expected to be replacing […]
ASCII/Punycode TLDs for Internationalized Domains
IANA has a list of TLDs alphabetically by domain. One thing notable are domains of in the following format: These are internationalized TLDs, specified in a Punycode encoding for the unicode domain name. Some of these representations are just for non-ascii characters: Others are representing fully non-Latin alphabets: Most of these non-Latin representations are either […]
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Experience
Prep AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2020 from freeCodeCamp on Youtube (this was good passive listening early on) LinuxAcademy / aCloudGuru courses (including the interactive labs). The course now at https://cantrill.io was the most informative, but I got the official SAA-C02 course from aCloudGuru is good coverage if you have the background. Overview of […]