KL Forslund

At the start of the year, it was obvious companies were enshittifying software with AI. So I wrote an article with ways to shut that off (See references section at the end for link). Now, at the end of the year, it’s time to take further steps. Here goes. Why Stay on Windows Depending on what you need to run, I assume you need to keep running Windows, and just want to shut off as much crap as you can. Maybe I’ll explore a linux conversion someday, but for now, I need a Window

AI is the devil, and we need to turn if off everywhere we can. Let’s get to it. I’m a Windows user so some of this is not going to apply...

I've been under the weather, so the wife fired up an old BBC series we hadn't seen that had portals and dinosaurs in it. I'm a sucker for...

Others had it worse, but the Freeze of 2021 wasn’t fun for us, either. I feel like it’s a touchy subject because I got lucky and I had...

We honor the dead on Memorial Day, but they’re here to remind us every day. We forgive on Forgiveness Day, but we should be doing that...

It’s time to put a bubble in your ear. Everybody misses their friends. Seeing all of them would increase the risk of infection for...

Depending where you live, we’re one to two weeks into the social distancing. We need to stick to the plan, but also people need to...

The coronavirus has crept into my affairs. No, I don’t have it. I’ve got the allergies again, pollen season ramped up in February and by...

Last week, I caught wind that an author I’d met long ago had their books stolen and put for sale on a pirate site. They had the situation...

Do you ever wish you had the ear of the engineers of a product you use. You could whisper ideas and suggestions based on your experience...

I used to think I was pretty good at writing. I could turn out a clever phrase and churn out pages of readable content.Then I started...

What can you do when you are 400 words short of the word count requirement in a story? A writer friend asked that this week, so I took a...

I was looking for Alexa articles to read, when I came across one from the Irish Times. The author gives a good chiding in what I...

Imagine, if you will, upgrading your house, making it better, faster, smarter. Then one day, nothing works, because a vendor’s server is...

Ever want to make something work, and dig into it deeper than anybody else? And then, you find the secret, the thing that other people...

People ask me questions, because I’m a Know-It-All. I try to be a good one and share what I know, what I can deduce, and admit what I...

I’ve done pretty well recruiting a team of volunteer beta readers. Like me, they’re all busy, so out of eleven readers, only two or...

In the novel I’m writing, technomage Alex Rune uses a hacked version of Siri-like technology to cast spells. After checking with my...