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Using the Netgear Nighthawk (RS100) Dual-Band WiFi-7 Router
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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
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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
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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
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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,…
