I bought a battery powered USB cable tester for both 'A' and 'C' type cables. It has a series of LED lights showing you how the cable is wired internally. The trick was doing some research to see what the connection were applicable to. Did both data and power cables. I was finally able to sort out most of my cables.

Over the years I've bought 3 ThinkPads. My original purchase was made when I was doing a lot of traveling and portability was my top criteria. ThinkPad's 14" chassis came in at the lightest I could find at the time. I quickly fell in love with the "rubber-eraser" pointer. When it came time to replace I bought another one. My only complaint was the internal storage was usually only available with a max of 1TB and I want 2TB.

Alexa: Did you know your printer is getting low on magenta ink? Would you like to order some?
Me: Shut the fuck up. And don't talk to my printer.

I just plopped $40+, got a key, and MS rejected it. "Contact the seller". How come others didn't have a problem? What do I do now?

I've legally changed my name to "Anonymous".

Right. So who does this person confide in? Republican controlled congress or senate?

"White House Says Anonymous 'Coward'..."

So who's the Anonymous Coward that goes by the name "White House"?

What? Why didn't the oil/gas CEOs get all of it?

Remains to be see how "hard hitting" the questioning is when the members of congress received substantial donations from Facebook and associates.

Hmmm, close enough to WTF

Which phone apps spy on you? All of them.

To paraphrase...
A Pixel is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Gutenberg has been found guilty of promoting theft of writings, saying that Gutenberg did nothing to stop the users of his presses from printing copyrighted materials.

The article mentions that some group managed to create a honey pot for robocalls. Seems like an excellent source for training material for some voice recognition and artificial intelligence.

Can't Big Blue, Amazon Alexa, Siri, or others provide a service that can be configured to answer your phone, detect a robo call, and keep the caller engaged in conversation as long as possible? We need a Liza upgrade.