When Android Apps Just Won't Play Nice I recently had my kid's tablet throwing a fit. Instagram would just close itself a second after launch, then the browser started freezing. No specific error, just a…
The phantom "Offline" status is my least favorite ticket I distinctly remember the last time I walked into an accounting department to fix a "broken" printer. The LED lights were solid green. The network cable…
Nothing grinds my gears quite like booting up a game, excited to finally relax, only for Windows to throw up a cryptic error box: "The program can't start because VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing from your computer." It's…
Stop Giving Away Your Data For Free: A Sysadmin's Take on App PermissionsLook, I'm tired of seeing folks click 'Allow' on every single app permission prompt like it's a game of whack-a-mole. Every day I…
Stop paying monthly subscriptions for "premium" screen recording software that just wraps FFMPEG in a shiny UI. I got tired of explaining this to the juniors on my team every time they needed to document…
I have a drawer full of old Androids and iPhones because I'm too paranoid to sell them. The idea of some stranger running a data recovery tool on my old Galaxy and finding a cached…
If I had a dollar for every time a client told me "the button is still blue" after I deployed a fix, I'd have retired to a vineyard in Tuscany by now. Browsers are aggressively…
Marketing departments love big numbers because they assume you failed high school physics. If I had a dime for every time someone complained that their "10,000mAh" power bank only charged their 4,000mAh phone twice before…
There is no greater lie in the tech industry than the "Up to 1050 MB/s" sticker on an external drive box. I have a drawer full of "high-speed" drives that throttle down to 1998 floppy…
There is nothing quite like the panic of seeing the "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it" screen right when you are trying to pull up a QR code for a flight.…
