Did your school ban Tamagotchis? They taught a generation that a pet could die because you were in math class. Tbh, our phones beg for attention just as loudly, but at least the Tamagotchi admitted needy 🥚💩

'We value your privacy,' says the pop-up with 847 partners and a 'Reject all' button.... hidden behind more buttons. Try Consent-O-Matic and let software click no for you 🍪

Microtransactions in a $60 game is like having steak at a fancy restaurant and they sell the knife separately. 🙄

Do you restart your phone at least once a week? It clears stuck apps,memory, etc etc. Even the NSA's mobile security guide says to reboot weekly... so, yanno

Have you tried charging your phone in another room at night? It sounds tiny, but 'one more scroll' at 1 AM turns into logging on your computer and losing all the sleep. Trust me I know

The amount of social security scams that happen to the seniors I work with is so upsetting 😢 A famous billionaire sent them (deepfaked) promise that they'll pay you? Yeah sending money to randos is not how they became billionaires. If it's live, urgent, and asks you to send first, it's a scam. 🚩

The Pomodoro technique says work 25 minutes, then take a 5 minute break. ADHD version: work 3 minutes, break for 40, then hyperfocus for four hours and forget the timer exists. 😅 still, visual timers help

The listing photos feel AI-generated, the reviews all say some variation of 'very good product thank you,' and the brand name is seven random capital letters. That's the full Scam Slop combo. But I still like my JORTZY USB cables. 😛

oh hi I'm just going to leave these non-partisan voting memes to remind you the polls are open for another few hours and to go #vote

Downloaded a 'complete' game, then a 90GB day-one patch, then a 40GB update. The disc in the box is now a coaster. Back in my day, the cartridge was the whole game, and if it didn't work you blew on it, which also did nothing.

Inbox zero is BS. I'm a digital hoarder and my inbox has 74,382 unread emails. I keep each one as an act of future-me optimism. 😂 How many unreads do you have?

Trick or treat, in exchange for this candy you accept that you will allow us to train our AI algorithm on your data. Happy Halloween!

Privacy tip #1337 - A pop-up screams 'Your computer is infected! Call Microsoft now!' with a siren sound. Microsoft does not put phone numbers in pop-ups. Close the browser, with Task Manager if you have to, and never let a stranger remote into your PC.

Check whether your info showed up in a data breach at haveibeenpwned.com. If it did, don't panic! Just start using a password manager so one leaky site can't unlock the rest of your life. 🔐

This one hurts. I lost my dad years ago, watching TNG with him as a kid was such a fond memory. I looked up to both Captain Picard, and my Dad. 😭

Found a 2TB flash drive for $12. It is a 16GB drive lying about its size, so your files look saved right up until they quietly aren't. Before trusting a bargain drive, run a free capacity test like H2testw or f3.

Every 'smart' device is just a dumb device that learned to talk about you behind your back.

Y2K happened because old software stored years as two digits to save memory. Thousands of people spent years fixing it, nothing exploded, and everyone decided it was overhyped. That's IT work in one sentence: do it right and people think nothing happened.

#Privacy tip #1337 - Posting a photo can share where you took it. Many phones save GPS coordinates in the file's metadata. Big platforms usually strip it, but direct sends and email often keep it. Turn off location tagging in your camera settings.

Remember this? Iomega Zip drives were famous for the 'click of death': a failing drive that just clicked instead of reading your disk. So you'd try another disk. More clicking. 🫣

Most servers run #linux and many are kept alive by volunteers. Somewhere, one maintainer is holding up a project you use every day. Buy them a coffee. ☕ (or a power root energy drink)⚡

Seeing ads for 'AI-powered quantum sleep monitors' that cost $200. It is a 2014 pedometer taped to a watch strap. At least scammers used to put effort into the plastic casing?

Before you toss a broken gadget, check iFixit. It has free repair guides for thousands of devices, rated by difficulty. Worst case, you learn the battery is glued in with the strength of a thousand suns, and now you know who to be mad at. 🔧

New York passed the first US electronics right-to-repair law in 2022, and more states followed. If you bought your toaster you should be allowed to fix it without a 'certified technician' and a $300 diagnostic fee... change my mind

IT helpdesk translation guide: 'Have you restarted it?' means 'I know you haven't.' 'Interesting' means 'this will take all afternoon.' 'Works on my end' means 'it's you.' Restart it anyway...It fixes more than anyone admits. (even me lol)

ADHD productivity app lifecycle: discover a new app, spend six hours setting it up, color-code everything, feel unstoppable, never open it again. I really need to KISS... and let it be boring, but I don't wanna. 🧠

The save icon is a 3.5-inch floppy disk, which held 1.44 MB. That's less than one HD photo from your phone. In 2026 an entire generation clicks a tiny shrine to a storage format they probably have never touched. 💾

Text-message 2 FA is better than nothing, but SIM swap scammers can talk a carrier into moving your number to their phone. For accounts that matter, use an authenticator app or a hardware key, and ask your carrier for a port-out PIN.

In 2024 Ubisoft shut down the servers for The Crew, and people who bought it could no longer play. That sparked the Stop Killing Games campaign, asking publishers to keep games playable after support ends. Buying shouldn't secretly mean renting.

If I can't play it in ten years without asking the publisher's permission, I didn't buy a game. I rented hope.