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Michael Crider

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News, reviews, and short-form videos for PCWorld. Formerly Android Police, Review Geek, How-To Geek, Digital Trends. Opinions are my own. I have a personal website, almost never updated: thegumshoe.com I write fiction: http://amazon.com/author/crider

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When someone says β€žScientists do not want you to knowβ€œ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

03.03.2026 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 9012    πŸ” 3916    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 160

This made me really happy though.

Colluding with racists because you think trans people are expendable should cost you your job

04.03.2026 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 257    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

I held on to a copy of Creative Suite 6, the last one before subscription only, for almost 15 years. Just getting it to run on new machines became an issue since it can't properly scale on high-res laptops.

I finally switched to Photopea, and I'm fine paying $5 a month to get rid of the ads.

03.03.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I accidentally pressed the "show all my windows at once" button.

I have 28 windows active.

Not tabs. Windows.

I think I may have a problem.

03.03.2026 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Woah."

03.03.2026 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
27.02.2026 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bastion from Overwatch with the Overgrown skin, holding a yellow bird.

Bastion from Overwatch with the Overgrown skin, holding a yellow bird.

27.02.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've seen someone so used to filters on themselves, presumably including live video filters, that they had a physical revulsion response when I sent them an unfiltered photo I took of them.

I think about it a lot.

27.02.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
three fluffy orange pomeranians that progressively get bigger and more fluffy

three fluffy orange pomeranians that progressively get bigger and more fluffy

this is the only thing I will accept for the pombon evolutions

27.02.2026 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4397    πŸ” 1338    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 15
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Lenovo's new folding handheld gaming tablet thing is ridiculous Lenovo's Legion Go Fold Concept will apparently debut next week, according to a report. It's a fantastically weird folding gaming tablet, sandwiched between two controllers.

Lenovo has another weird one. And by this, I mean truly weird.
www.pcworld.com/article/3072...

26.02.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

I don't like this Smiling Friends, it just doesn't appeal to me. But I can respect the hell out of creators bringing something to a natural conclusion.

They're leaving SO much money on the table, money no one could blame them for taking. It is genuinely impressive to end it after three seasons.

26.02.2026 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If wishes were horses.

26.02.2026 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Prediction markets making a stink about insider trading at the same time that they tout their markets as authoritative information simply boggles my mind

25.02.2026 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 183    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Why are half of the Audible daily deals self-help junk?

I'm looking for sci-fi and fantasy junk, dammit, with occasional bouts of extreme horniness.

And don't tell me you don't have it, it's all over the regular sales.

25.02.2026 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Companies aren't people, you can bully them.

And you should. It works.

25.02.2026 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take)
YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take)

youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs

25.02.2026 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

[whispering to paramedic before I pass out] save me but not enough that I have to go to work tomorrow

24.02.2026 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1853    πŸ” 306    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2
Turn the whole company off and turn it back on again #xboxgames #redfall #gearsofwar #microsoft
YouTube video by Ron Funches Turn the whole company off and turn it back on again #xboxgames #redfall #gearsofwar #microsoft

www.youtube.com/shorts/1bB3B...

24.02.2026 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's an old Christian axiom that imperfect people can't create a perfect system. And as flawed as the dogma is, I think there's something to that.

We've tried thousands of different times in almost every imaginable way. Eventually it falls apart or gets corrupted by power and greed.

24.02.2026 04:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember when Musk said he was going to get rid of the bots? I guess they just weren't the right kind of bots.

Not enough AI-generated sexual assault, for one.

24.02.2026 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Toronto harold satire site headline: "Canadian Olympic hockey teams to bring back silver medals to home country that has healthcare and stable democracy"

Toronto harold satire site headline: "Canadian Olympic hockey teams to bring back silver medals to home country that has healthcare and stable democracy"

okay, this is funny, though

23.02.2026 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4917    πŸ” 904    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 34

Given its medical policies, anything floating in from the Trump regime is more likely to be a plague ship.

23.02.2026 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
washington post headline saying "the power of AI transfixed wall st and washington. recent research suggests it may be a mirage" as if these idiots just crawled out of a cave

washington post headline saying "the power of AI transfixed wall st and washington. recent research suggests it may be a mirage" as if these idiots just crawled out of a cave

oh word???? no shit????? for real????????

23.02.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3409    πŸ” 614    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 63

I dare someone to air a daily Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish.

23.02.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tested: Ducky's OK-M keyboard is the new budget champ This keyboard comes with hot-swap sockets, dual wireless, and VIA programming, all for just $65. It's unbeatable at that price.

This little Ducky keyboard is a shockingly good value.

It went up by $5-10 at the last minute.

PC hardware in 2026 sucks. www.pcworld.com/article/3063...

23.02.2026 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Russia Rips Off Warhammer 40k | Extra Credits #shorts
YouTube video by Extra Credits Russia Rips Off Warhammer 40k | Extra Credits #shorts

I saw this in an Extra Credits short this evening, and I wanted to make sure it was real before I passed it on. www.youtube.com/shorts/7mtAG...

There are enough news organizations posting it, and it's gone on long enough without a refutation, that it seems legit.

23.02.2026 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If part of the appeal of a game is shooting people, even if you're playing a criminal or an objectively horrible murderer, it seems like those who want to shoot people in real life will find something appealing and identifiable in that intentionally terrible protagonist.

23.02.2026 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Three: The axiom that it's impossible to make an anti-war film, ascribed to FranΓ§ois Truffaut.

We can probably expand that.

Warhammer, Helldivers, even something like Spec Ops: The Line, all have elements of "war is bad"...and all of them kind of lose the message while making war entertaining.

23.02.2026 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Punisher, the real one, directly tells cops he's sick of them idolizing him In a new issue of The Punisher, Frank Castle takes two cops to task for idolizing him and trying to follow his vigilante path.

Two, an obvious parallel of US cops and wannabe cops taking up the Punisher logo, wanting to look cool while they shoot unarmed people in the back.

And again, the fiction itself tells them why this is stupid and awful. Directly from the mouth of Frank Castle. www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/th...

23.02.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0