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How to Repair Your Stuff so You Buy Less of It
We obsess over the wrong metrics. A national fixation with productivity relegates still-useful items to overburdened landfills because we feel we’d
Tag : Consumerism
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Audio Pro, the Swedish alternative to Sonos for whole-house music
Whole-house music is great. Buying things from our Swedish brothers, sisters, and binary-resisters is great as a way of showing support for their
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How to use a television as a digital picture frame? (2022 edition)
From 2012, Best LCD television for use as a digital photo display?: must be programmable so that it comes on in “photo display” mode so that
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Xfinity xFi Pods mesh network review
One of the worst things about having moved from an apartment to a single-family house is that we were kicked out of the AT&T fiber 1 Gbps
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Department of First World Problems: the Tile tracker system
One of the good things about Florida is that you can walk out of your apartment or house without bothering to put on shoes or more clothing than gym
3 Myths of Ownership That Are Stealing My Money
A couple of weeks ago, I shared some thoughts with you from Courtney Carver’s book “Soulful Simplicity.” In this book, she also talks about
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3 Myths of Ownership That Are Stealing My Money
A couple of weeks ago, I shared some thoughts with you from Courtney Carver’s book “Soulful Simplicity.” In this book, she also talks about
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UniFi versus Araknis versus Ruckus
Our old apartment was small enough that the AT&T Fiber-supplied modem covered the entire space with awesome WiFi. The new house is just a little
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Materialism & the Loss of Soul
Kingsley L. Dennis, Contributor Waking Times The non-material, or non-visible, realm does not lie dormant. It is active, constantly. It is what
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What is the best 15-16-inch laptop right now?
It is time to replace my 5-year-old Dell XPS 13. Despite multiple return trips to Dell for service, the computer has never worked properly, refusing
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More Is More: Artist Xia Cheng’an Celebrates China’s Lowbrow Culture
Who gets to say what’s tasteful and what’s tacky? Why should designers succumb to the dictatorship of minimalism? Is anyone else getting a little
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How to Buy Less and Buy Better with the Less But Better Method
by Tara McKenna, founder of The Zero Waste Collective Tara McKenna The best way to curb consumption is to not buy anything at all. Did your jaw just
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GPU performance improvements since 2015 (and why not just use motherboard graphics?)
Moore’s law says that we should get GPUs twice as fast every two years (GPUs are inherently parallel so adding more transistors should add
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People who were afraid to leave their bunkers for two years want to wear the same watch as the Apollo 11 astronauts
Two Apollo 11 astronauts wore the Omega Speedmaster after riding the Saturn V to the moon. Swatch has recently released a replica “moon watch”.
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Robert Stark chats with Default Friend
Robert Stark and Matt Pegas talk to Default Friend about online subcultures, incels, and generational trends. Default Friend, Katherine Deee, is a