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They’re available on Amazon for a decent price. I’m not sure if the model I last referenced was including WWAN, but an FZ-55 mk1 was approximately $1k (USD). I think I paid right around $1380 for my FZ-55 mk1 and it included 4G LTE modem when it arrived. I set it up with a Consumer Cellular unlimited data line at $60 USD per month and it gets pretty decent signal in my living room. Oddly enough, perhaps due to tower loading, the bandwidth is around 50mbit download at home, and less everywhere else usually with stronger signal. It is a bit heavy, but it has… Read More »The quest for WWAN (4G LTE): The refurbished Panasonic Toughbook

A support guide for mental illness diagnoses in the United States of America. If you are diagnosed with a mental illness, your process will be similar in this country. I’m not really familiar with personality disorders or how they compare, but for mental illness here is a survival kit for how to keep your sanity, your job, and your life in the process. Most likely you are younger in age. I am 40 years old and have been figuring out my life and how mental illness affected it since I was diagnosed in 2015 with psychotic disorder not-otherwise-specified (NOS). Your “official” resource guide is the… Read More »The disability and/or mental illness to-do list (Under construction; last update 6/7/2026)

The site will always ever be “under construction,” however I have some new updates coming to improve functionality. I’ve moved the server already off of BuyVM to my own hosting, however as of today the new server is a NameCrane shared DirectAdmin account which will tremendously improve site stability. While running my own server on a static IP was a grand idea, I figured for a low yearly cost I can alleviate some of the pain with the process of power outages in Carrick, PA from interfering with website stability versus trying to setup a large UPS to do the same and still have issues.… Read More »April, 2026 Updates

I tried this at first with Virtualbox, but I was unable to get nested virtualization working even with the “magic command” to allow it. So, after some digging around on ChatGPT, I figured, why not try Hyper-V and eliminate software that doesn’t need to be installed in the first place except for a windows feature that is available on Windows 11 Professional. There’s a few tricks to get it working: Basic fundamentals To turn on nested virtualization for a virtual machine named “Proxmox”. This step allows KVM acceleration in Proxmox greatly improving performance. Set-VMProcessor -VMName “Proxmox” -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true For a virtual machine named “Proxmox” do… Read More »Nested Virtualization with Hyper-V and Proxmox

They have like 500 drink flavors, if what you want is a bit of coffee with syrup in it. But more to the point, why is the menu in like 8 point font that’s so small even people with normal vision can’t read it? But wait, there’s nothing on it! Do they even want a menu? Are they protesting against menus so you have to order with their mobile app? And the staff… And the people who go there… Free wifi, but wifi bother? I can smell espresso so good it’s making me hungry and have heart palpitations already.

A funny conversation happened in the hospital yesterday that ended with a story about Pitt’s Burgh, the apparent realization from a cuban man who was the milieu therapist at the time that Pittsburgh is the way it is and probably has been for a long time. For what reason he said this, I don’t know, but let’s act a bit thoughtful this morning and figure out what lead to him saying that and why he got owned by himself. This man admitted to being born in the US as a Cuban individual. He experienced racism for that at one point by having been told even… Read More »Pitt’s Burgh

It may be a smart phone, but smart phones are dumb. I paid a lot of money for this phone but it’s not a way into my life. There is no right in the constitution which says if you call someone, you’ll be able to reach that person. It may be a law somewhere which says you have to have a phone, but why? You can’t even exist without a phone, email, an address (which in turn requires utilities), email requires internet access and a phone/tablet/laptop/pc… Do you spot the trend? Don’t get me started on text messages, data, the endless push notifications and don’t… Read More »Why I hate my iPhone

The LCD-XC are a closed version of the LCD-X headphones. They are planar magnetic headphones which can be found on eBay for $800-1000 and new cost about $1300 or so. The M17 is a digital audio player (DAP) cable of many features, acting as a balanced headphone DAC or unbalanced depending upon your configuration, and can also act as a digital audio interface via coaxial SPDIF to an external source. It has a micro-SD card slot and runs Android. While the Android firmware can’t be updated and support has fallen off for this older DAP, it still runs Spotify and has wifi and bluetooth too… Read More »The Audeze LCD-XC and FiiO M17 Review

I’ve been eyeing US Mobile for a while now. I’ve had AT&T, Verizon, Consumer Cellular, Cricket Wireless, and I’ve also wondered about Visible. However, US Mobile stands out at the top of my list for mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the United States. They have a deal for lines with their annual plan for $235/year that includes unlimited hotspot using tethering with very, very generous caps. The only catch is, be careful for being flagged for abuse on their network, especially with speed tests. However, if you use their service respectfully, for the price, it simply can’t be beat. You won’t find a referral… Read More »U.S. Mobile For the Win!

Everyone uses gmail now. I remember when gmail was in beta and its limited access meant, unless they had available slots in their program, you couldn’t get a gmail account. Gmail was world class in spam filtering technology, but now, the free version is it’s weak point. 1) It enables bots to create spam accounts that abuse it, having significantly reduced it’s credibility as a mail service, and 2) Hi-jacked email accounts are rampant, 3) The free version is loaded with ads that are cleverly disguised as spam, defeating the whole purpose of preventing spam in the first place. You could pay for a gmail… Read More »Why you shouldn’t use GMail