{"id":2498,"date":"2015-09-05T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T12:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2015-09-05T13:24:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T17:24:52","slug":"saturday-5-september-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/09\/05\/saturday-5-september-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 5 September 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:34 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Before I bought Barbara her Kindle Fire HDX, I did some reading. The consensus seemed to be that tablets, including the Fire, were well-suited for content consumers but sucked for content producers. After months of using Barbara&#8217;s HDX and my own Fire HD, I conclude that Kindle Fires suck, period. Short battery life, unreliable WiFi connections, and my HD locks up frequently and requires a power reset. Barbara is also frustrated with her HDX, whose WiFi connection is even less reliable than my HD&#8217;s.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">It may be that not all tablets suck as badly as the Fires. I&#8217;m prepared to believe that Amazon butchered the OS in the interests of encouraging customers to buy their products. If I have time, I may replace the Amazon OS on my HD with a vanilla Android.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Or I may simply start using the Dell notebook that&#8217;s been sitting unused for months on my side table. It runs Windows 8, but even that has to be more reliable than these Kindles.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">13:24 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Just back from a small Costco run. I didn&#8217;t grab much in the way of shelf-stable stuff, other than 12 gallons (45 liters) of bottled water, 22 pounds (10 kilos) of assorted pasta, six large jars of applesauce, a can of Gatorade lemon\/lime drink mix, a couple large boxes of Ritz crackers (which have surprisingly long shelf life even in the original cellophane tubes), a jar of cashews, and a couple other small items.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Barbara is out doing yardwork at the moment, while I do laundry and ship kits. This weekend, we&#8217;re going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplysogood.com\/2013\/03\/artisan-no-knead-bread.html\">make bread the easy way<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:34 &#8211; Before I bought Barbara her Kindle Fire HDX, I did some reading. The consensus seemed to be that tablets, including the Fire, were well-suited for content consumers but sucked for content producers. After months of using Barbara&#8217;s HDX and my own Fire HD, I conclude that Kindle Fires suck, period. Short battery life, unreliable WiFi connections, and my HD locks up frequently and requires a power reset. Barbara is also frustrated with her HDX,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/09\/05\/saturday-5-september-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Saturday, 5 September 2015 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39,44,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara","category-personal","category-prepping","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}