Monthly Archives: December 2021

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WordPress suckiness

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Well, in making yesterday’s post, I encountered a wordpress error when I wanted to edit the post.  It would give me a ‘critical error‘.  However, it would only give that error for yesterday’s posting.  If I tried editing a previous post, either without embedded graphics, or with, it worked fine.

I tracked it down to an issue with WP User Manager plugin that I use for various system settings.  If I temporarily disabled it, I could edit yesterday’s post fine.  So, after I did, I re-enabled that plugin.

I may have to look into upgrading the main blog version, as I have 5.3.2 installed, and I believe 5.7.2 is available.  However, that can wait for awhile, I think.  But, this issue is most definitely worth remembering.

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More cost savings

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As if cutting my internet costs in half from about $140/month to about $70/month wasn’t enough, I finally cut the cable cord (well, almost).

Many people nowdays get most of their viewing content over the internet, myself included.  My monthly cable bill was about $170/month, and I don’t think I had anything special like HBO or NFL channel.  That is steep.  So, I went to ‘basic’, which is basically local networks.  Xfinity still gets $70/month for that, which is highway robbery.

I did that a month ago, and I’m fairly happy, as things like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, XBMC, etc are all internet-served.  Same thing with many new movie releases.  You can stream them when they get released.  So, net savings per month for the ISP and the cable is about $170/month.  🙂

So, a fiber internet upgrade allowed me to rely more heavily on streamed content, and will save me about $2000 per year.  Not too bad.  😀