This past week I bought a new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Nano (say that five times fast). It’s been awhile since I have set up a new machine, so I started to document setting this one up. I’m surprised how quickly I had it set up, no wonder I haven’t automated it. In no particular order, here are the apps I use regularly. Browsers Windows comes with Edge installed, but I also install Google Chrome, Brave, and Firefox.

Here’s something you don’t think of when using flashcard apps, the fact that most card decks are automatically set to public. And if they contain nuclear secrets, that can be a problem.

One way that police track down illegal weed growers is to monitor energy usage. However, there is another profitable venture with free energy, and that is mining Bitcoin.

A Comcast customer wanted to use Ubuntu and decided to download it over Bittorrent. His reward? A DMCA notice. Just to be clear, Ubuntu is freely distributable, and using Bittorrent to download files is also legal.

Jenna Fischer has given us a behind the scene look on Jim and Pam’s proposal at the “gas station”. I’m sure they had a good reason to build a set, but, still.

Before you get too excited, Disney didn’t actually change the content of the film. Besides adding lots of lens flare, JJ Abrams added a lot of blue to The Rise of Skywalker, which Disney has now removed in the version on Disney+. The stills look better than the original. Unfortunately, this doesn’t improve the movie enough to get me to watch it again.

In The Great Wings Rush, The Verge digs into the onslaught of chicken wing delivery and how restaurant chains are trying to get a piece of the action. Even Chuck E. Cheese is in on it. For myself, I like a good wing as much as the next guy. However, I am also lazy when it comes to my food and wings require a little too much effort for my taste (pun intended).

Yes, there is a blog about typerwriters.

On the 20th anniversary of the Star Trek Voyager finale, The Hollywood Report laments on how the finale missed its greatness. The biggest argument was that we didn’t see how the crew re-assimilated (pun intended) back into their old life. My biggest beef with the finale was how they castrated the borg, but we’ll save that discussion for another day. In the case of the finale being underwhelming, let’s look back at a great TV show that had the same premise, Gilligan’s Island.