Category: Product Guides

  • Check in Alert

    For people who live alone who fear a fall or other incapacitation event, it could be useful to alert someone to check in with the requestor. ==Prior art== https://www.ncoa.org/adviser/paid-media/best-medical-alert-systems-pm-7 I know someone who sends all is well messages, but missing a message will not trigger a response in regular people. We tend to ignore things…

  • Cat Proof

    The computer should earn the trust we give it. ECC memory, cosmic rays happen. Endurance SD cards –and even these should not be trusted. Storage — would be nice to have two or more m.2 drives on a laptop. older laptops may have msata and sata. Choose a brand with very high TBW and warranty.…

  • The Best Computer

    Price/UI/capabilities/endurance Monitor: 16×10 display 1440p but a notch taller. 24inch matte display, full color gamut 120hz variable refresh rate CPU/GPU should be supported for a long time and have good power use. hardware decode and encode is nice. GPU good enough for applications desired. CPU is probably good enough already. Laptops are great for power…

  • Backup and Data Retention Practices

    Your data is important. UPS uninterruptible power supplies can help your computer shut down safely.Computers need to save things to disk, if the power goes out, work WILL be corrupted. UPSes have confusing buttons and someone may turn off the UPS hurting the computer. Filename length, backup folders should have short directory names because the…

  • Security Goals

    Prevent access to data by bad people. Including their queries.Figuring out who the bad people are is difficult. A good policy is to not trust unless one has to. Allow access to people who are supposed to have access, in the appropriate way. Some queries of your data may be allowed/searches for malware.These people should…