Some people, when dumped, take the hint. They delete your number from their phone, cry into a pint of ice cream, and go on with their lives.| dr molly tov
I borrowed an energy monitor from my local library. It's a device you plug in to determine how much energy your various electronic possessions consume. The one I borrowed even allowed me to program in what I pay per kilowatt-hour, which allowed it to calculate automatically what I was paying per day, month, and year.| dr molly tov
I bought a bicycle today. As usual, let me back up. I owned a bicycle before today. It was a Shimano my husband bought for me at Costco on the grounds tha...| dr molly tov
Sorry about the pun in the title. I am too middle-aged to resist them. I logged into my old Bear blog account to update my home page with a URL to . I use...| dr molly tov
Apparently Elon Musk has decided he takes issue with basic facts now: "stop donating to Wokepedia"| dr molly tov
By far the most common pushback I get when I talk about my recent divorce from Big Tech is "but it's so convenient!" "It" being Google services, Apple services, Microsoft, or Meta, mostly. (Absolutely no one I have talked to claims Twitter is "convenient," even if they're still on Twitter.)| dr molly tov
Two different people today have sent me screenshots or showed me social media threads in which they got into a pointless online argument with someone who is probably a bot and whose mind definitely will not change as a result of the "interaction."| dr molly tov
Yesterday, I read this very helpful piece about how to get started with Lynx, a command-line browser.| dr molly tov
Like a lot of people, I've been almost surgically grafted to my smartphone for years. But in the last two months, my habits have changed so much that this ma...| dr molly tov
March really has it out for my family. My spouse died in March. His brother died in March, almost exactly one year later. And today, I got a text message...| dr molly tov
I've seen headlines and references to "social media addiction" for years, but I always dismissed them as inflammatory. After all, I'd taken long breaks from ...| dr molly tov