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Costco Concierge Service – The Ugly Truth

Open letter to Costco (I actually sent this as a real email): Good afternoon Costco Administration, I’m writing to you in the hopes that you could inform your organization about how the Costco Concierge service may be frustrating your customers and potentially cause harm to your brand. Feel free to forward this email to any… Continue reading Costco Concierge Service – The Ugly Truth

Raspberry Pi VPN: Try Private Internet Access (PIA)

This is not an ad. I use PIA and find it both useful and affordable. If you have been frustrated as I have with the implementation of VPN using Debian-based Raspberry PI Linux distros, you will be happy to know that PIA has created an ARM version of their VPN client software. Head to their… Continue reading Raspberry Pi VPN: Try Private Internet Access (PIA)

The MiSTer FPGA

If you are into various “retro” computer systems and video games, there’s a Hardware emulation platform using FPGA created by Terasic Technologies. An open source hardware add-on called MiSTer gives the FPGA hardware additional functionality, including an integrated USB hub, SDRAM, VGA video, analog out via headphone jack, and many other functions.The board naively has… Continue reading The MiSTer FPGA

DIY Atari 7800 Arcade Joystick

This is an unglamorous project with great results. You will need: an old Atari 7800 Pro Controller, a Happ Controls Joystick and 2 Arcade buttons and some kind of project box. This is the exact project box I used (I get nothing for linking this).Most of the Happ Style joysticks and buttons are counterfeit but… Continue reading DIY Atari 7800 Arcade Joystick

Forced Labor Camps in China make American Goods

This is exactly parallel to what the Nazis did to Jews. Slave labor camps, subsidized by the government. This is sickening and must stop! American companies need to sever trade relations immediately! https://www.wsj.com/articles/western-companies-get-tangled-in-chinas-muslim-clampdown-11558017472?mod=e2tw

In response to social media censorship, I have created an account on Telegram. t.me/thinkzinc If you haven’t used Telegram but like catching up with whats going on in the world without censorship or filters, Telegram is the way to go. At first I couldn’t figure it out. Looked like yet another instant messenger app. You… Continue reading Telegram

Is Record Store Day RSD a Rip Off?

Record Store Day for all of it’s good and bad has been a conflicting topic for me for a while.

Legal Nintendo NES Rom dumping?

The next podcast & video will be about legal rom dumping/ripping. Talking about legal emulation is the precursor to then talking about the RetroPie, a Raspberry Pi setup that allows you to play just about every Retro Game in one spot with almost perfect accuracy and HDMI output. It’s my preferred way to play these… Continue reading Legal Nintendo NES Rom dumping?

Would you like to be Google free?

By now you have probably heard that Google spys on your growing habits, searches, traveling locations, app usage and more. Google is so pervasive that it’s almost impossible to stop from being “the product” that gets sold and resold right? Wrong! Now there are great Google alternatives. Duckduckgo has setup a great guide that you… Continue reading Would you like to be Google free?