I recently tried to set up a printer using instructions from a YT video. The information was incorrect, and I wasted two days fixing my mistake. Misinformation was always present, but now AI has put it on steroids. Please don't blindly follow instructions or run commands that you don't understand.

In tech, have as broad a skill set as you can manage. If you ever decide to do something for yourself, you will need to know a whole bunch of stuff. Plus, it's far easier to learn and remember things when you're young.

Android won't be killed by Google, but your Google Play Developer account could still face a ban for reasons unrelated to Google Play.

I use Proton Mail; NOT GMail, but I use Google to leave reviews. Sometimes when I log into my Google a/c, I get a nasty message: "​It looks like this a/c was created or used with multiple other accounts to violate Google's policies. The account might have been created by a computer program or bot."

Learning Android, Firebase, or any other Google technology is risky. Google won't shut them down like they do with smaller products, but if your Google account gets banned, for example, for leaving reviews, then all that work goes to waste.

... these profits that only exist on paper are called "phantom profits" b/c they're not real profits that can used or spent because they haven't been received yet. The fun part is the bill going into how businesses should capitalize and amortize their electricity expenses, based on dev vs non-dev.

... you can't immediately count all of that spending as a loss on your taxes. You have to deduct that spending over several years. So, on paper, it might look like you're making more profit than you actually are b/c you haven't deducted all of your expenses yet ...

In the US, there's Section 174. This Tax Law states that all software development costs have to be amortized, like physical goods, over 5 years if done in the US, and 15 years if done outside the US. In simple terms, this means even though your business has spent money on developing software ...

Light soy sauce weighs the same as regular soy sauce.

I was reading about humidifiers and here's the important bit: If you use a humidifier, don't use water that contains minerals because they can be blown into the air along with water molecules. These are small particles and they can travel deep into your respiratory system and deposit the minerals.