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YouTube TV Test #5 and Final Decision
Major Update March 6, 2025: YouTube TV is now our TV provider! After 8 years of testing, the $$ numbers and YouTube TV technology aligned! Thanks to Raymond and Brandon at Comcast Tracy, CA for their help getting our 500 Mbps Internet working perfectly. 🙂 Test #1 with our VERY old (2004) TV in 2017 Test #2 with…
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YouTube TV Auto Adjusted Resolution to 480p Standard Definition During Super Bowl 2025
I switched from Xfinity to YouTube TV during the 2025 Super Bowl and was shocked to see a very crappy picture! I checked my network speed and it was normal around 500 Mbps down, sooooooo…. I looked at the YouTube TV stats and control stuff….. It turns out that YouTube TV Auto adjusted my Sony…
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Sony A8G Randomly Displays Discovery+ Subscribe Banner
A month or two ago, we started to see a Discovery+ Subscribe Banner randomly appear on our Sony A8G. (The below image is not what we saw, as I trashed that sucker last week, but, it works as an example) It could happen anytime…..during a STREAMING movie, watching the SF Giants…..anytime, but it was always…
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Adobe Firefly AI vs Google Gemini AI: Image Generation
For fun, I decided to take the prompt: Tropical beach with palms trees and a beautiful yellow and orange sunset in the background over the ocean And apply it to both Adobe Firefly and Google Gemini (for Gemini, the image has to be people-less at the present time). Both look great! And both offered multiple…
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Adobe Firefly and Google Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Here is a quick intro to a couple of the latest AI (Artificial Intelligence) apps I’ve started to look at in the past few weeks. Why am I looking at AI? For the ForCarol.org college scholarships, I asked Inyoung (2014 scholarship winner) and Yash (2018 scholarship winner) if it might be feasible to embrace AI…
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Testing YouTube TV: Part 4
It’s been a bit over a year since our last test of YouTube TV. Here are the links on TechyMike.com: Major Update March 6, 2025: YouTube TV is now our TV provider! After 8 years of testing, the $$ numbers and YouTube TV technology aligned! Thanks to Raymond and Brandon at Comcast Tracy, CA for…
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Phosphates in Your Pool: Read This First
Originally posted on ForCarol.org I did a quick research project when I learned that all the measures I took (and MONEY we spent!) to lower the phosphate level in our pool….did NOTHING! My ultimate decision: Leave the phosphate level high and kill the algae as needed. Caveat: This is a quick un-scientific study of pool…
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Using the Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel Watch 2
UPDATE Nov 17, 2023: The Pixel 8 Pro is great….the Pixel Watch 2 took a couple of updates to “Fitbit” and the Watch itself to get it ALMOST right. I have been using it since the last update (a couple weeks) and it is MUCH BETTER than I describe below. It is usable as long…
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Moving Domains from Google to WordPress
A few months ago, I got an email from Google telling me that Google Domains has been sold to another company. Oh, crap. That means the domains I had working out of Google Domains would be subject to another companies technology, pricing, etc. Not sure what to do…..I did nothing…… Until…… A few days ago,…
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Replacing our 30 year old Pool Pump
As you might remember, in 2021 I replaced our very old DE filter with a new cartridge filter…..link here. Since then, everything was working fine….until…..the hottest day of this cold 2023 year hit…… my also VERY OLD pool pump croaked. One look at the featured image (above) and I was shocked that it lasted this…
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