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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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Watching Movies: Streaming vs Theaters
I have said many times on ForCarol.com, that going to the theater to watch movies is at the beginning of the end. Even though a few “blockbusters” have done well recently (the newest one being Super Mario Brothers) if you study the box office, you will see that the latest blockbuster is doing well at…
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Using Chrome OS Flex to Turn an Old Windows Computer into a Chromebook
Lets see if this works! Lori’s old Toshiba laptop was the greatest thing since the invention of the integrated circuit at the time we purchased it. Now it is a POS. Well, the hardware rocks, but, the Windows software sucks, and the computer is virtually useless in it’s current state. In fact, it has been…
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Using the Pixel Wireless Charging Stand (2nd gen)
I like the idea, and technology, of wireless charging. I like the idea of having my Pixel 6 Pro being a clock at night. Putting those requirements together with a Pixel Wireless Charging Stand (2nd generation) seems like a match made in heaven. Is it? Yes! With Qi wireless charging capability, the Pixel Stand is…
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Chasing a WordPress FSE Editing Issue: Possibly Related to Chromebook
Last Update: July 23, 2022, 11:15 PM Pacific Problem SOLVED! Today (July 23, 2022) I “powerwashed” my Chromebook but still had the problem! Note: I had previously made one of my old computers a Chromebook, and everything worked fine there. WTF???? I went thru the apps on the Chromebook and low and behold, there was…
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Beta Testing Android 13 on My Pixel 6 Pro
Update August 2023: I just downloaded Android 14 to test on the Pixel 6 Pro. So far, it’s working great. In October 2023, I will be getting the Pixel 8 Pro. 🙂 I downloaded Android 13 Beta last night (May 11, 2022) on my Pixel 6 Pro and did some quick testing. So far…… Everything…
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Using the Pixel 6 Pro
Ordering Adventure I spent the morning of October 19, 2021 at the Vet for Blaze and TRYING to order a Pixel 6 Pro, a case, and a 30 watt charger. I experienced N-U-M-E-R-O-U-S problems with the Google web site (I suspect they under-estimated the interest)….. Here is the error code I experienced: Then, after an…
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Beta Testing Android 12 on my Pixel 5
Still playing engineer even though I am supposed to be “retired” except for my blogging and ForCarol.com, Inc. charity directorship, I decided once again to beta test the latest operating system for the Pixel 5: Android 12. So far, and we are one week or so into version 2 of the Android 12 beta…..this has…
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Paradigm Shift: Bye Bye Windows Hello Chrome OS
UPDATE: Two weeks after I started using the Pixelbook….this is the very best “computer” I have ever owned! Period. UPDATE June 27, 2021: I have the Logitech bluetooth mouse working on the Pixelbook Go. Works great. And……I plugged my hard drive into the Pixelbook Go and I could see, and manipulate, all my old files!…
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