Telephones… you wish, Alexander Graham Bell would have come up with a design that mandates a conductive plate in the earpiece, so you can remotely shock your peer in case s/he says something stupid, behaves like an asshole or both,…
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… but we are all Facebook users!
“What’s your problem? Nobody is forced to use Facebook, it’s your choice!” Err, no! just because that stupid argument is parroted ad nauseam throughout the internet since, forever, doesn’t make it true. In reality, we are all Facebook users, no…
Posted in Persepective, Rants
Simple hardware hack to make your PC fast again
Did you ever have feeling that your computer has been getting slower lately? Got dropping Framerate for no apparent reason? Everything generally feeling more laggy, even though the software stayed the same?
Posted in Tips and Tricks
Google banned Huawei from using Android?
Now, that’s what I call a bomb to start the week with. Supposedly, existing devices will continue to function, but that’s just a technicality. Google could easily lock them out as well if ordered by Trump to do so (A…
Posted in Android
Bypassing Google Play region blocks via VPN or Proxy
Beware, this is going to be a technical post, containing a lot of speculation. So, wouldn’t you want to use Raccoon to download region locked Android apps? Good news is, it works, bad news is it’s fickle. You need a…
Is Google Plus shutting down the prelude to something bigger?
Wow, Google is finally retiring it’s social network (well, the one that was publicly called one, Gmail and Youtube are social networks, too). I guess, a lot of SEOs aren’t happy at all right now. After all, Google is not…
Posted in Persepective
Error retrieving information from server. [DF-DFERH-01]
Marvelous, DF-DFERH-01 must be one of the most common Google Play errors out there and there’s virtually no documentation of what it means. Shit ton of (steamroller tactic style) advice on how to fix it, though: “reboot device”, “clear cache”,…
Posted in Note to self, Tinkering
So long Github and thanks for all the fish
I have to admit, I’m mildly surprised by Microsoft buying Github. I mean, I always expected Github to eventually sell out, but I thought the buyer would be Google. Speaking of which, I wonder how pissed big G currently is,…
Posted in Rants
The GDPR is here! Panic!
Just had this curious question scroll by: “Should I lock European users out of my website because of the GDPR?”
Posted in Persepective
GDPR is probably the best piece of legislation of the decade
Sure, everyone is currently moaning and bitching about getting compliant and having to spend money on it, but that is actually a good thing! In the past, collecting data by invading everyone’s privacy came at virtually no cost. Everyone knew…
Posted in Rants
