# Cheydes of Black


## Posts

- [I Think I'm Done](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/i-think-im-done/): I first started drinking at 16. I was at a party, had one Old Milwaukee’s Best, while some dude was singing Motley Crue’s “You’re All I Need” in the kitchen, and was convinced I was drunk. Shortly thereafter, I started drinking every day, and that continued throughout most of my life up until about a…
- [The Feature That I've Always Missed Since Moving to Windows 11](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/the-feature-that-ive-always-missed-since-moving-to-windows-11/): With a few tweaks, it resembles the original Windows 10 media controls vibe.
- [If You're Paying for Prime Amazon Photos Might Be an Option... With a Catch](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/if-youre-paying-for-prime-amazon-photos-might-be-an-option-with-a-catch/): At the cost of a Publix candy bar a month for 200GB of photos. Google Photos is a pretty cheap option to store your photos but that 200GB is a limitation.
- [Social Incontinence at Its Worst](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/social-incontinence-at-its-worst/): My social personality is very up front with people, and it’s hard for a lot of my “friends” to take. I am sarcastic in casual situations, but when I get serious with “friends”, I am direct with them in regard to my opinions and a lot of them don’t like it. I get a lot…
- [More Days, More Time](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/perspective/more-days-more-time/): After having worked a 4 day 10-hour work week for about three and a half years (doesn’t feel like it’s been that long), I thought I’d had it made. “I only work half a week! 4 out of 7 days.” But after having recently returned to the normalcy of a typical 8-hour day I began…
- [I Know My Computer Tech Posts Are Weird, But...](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/i-know-my-computer-tech-posts-are-weird-but/): I’m obsessed with “web apps”. If you look at my Windows 11 taskbar, half of the shortcuts are links to websites that I’ve installed “as an app” in the Edge browser. No “favorites” toolbar, no nonsense, and they remember their positioning on my screens. Examples below. One-click access to Meta AI, no searching shortcuts in…
- [When You Think You Won't Need It, You Will](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/when-you-think-you-wont-need-it-you-will/): You never know when you may need it and if you think your Windows 10 recovery USB disk may save you, you're wrong.
- [Thursday Night Fridays Has Been Canceled!](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/thursday-night-fridays-has-been-canceled/): As of June 1st, Thursday Night Fridays has been canceled indefinitely.
- [No Excuses](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/no-excuses/): The trend of the weekend has been, “Philip, I hurt for you.” “Philip, they’re assholes!” It has been the talk all weekend because people that are close to me think that everyone should understand me, and like me. It’s true. I don’t really have a lot of friends. But that’s because I prefer it that…
- [Boys and Their Toys](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/boys-and-their-toys/): I should probably create another blog category called "Geek Fest" but having multiple displays for so many years, I can't believe I was never made aware of this Windows feature for so long.
- [So Was a $3,852 Display Upgrade Worth It?](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/so-was-a-3852-display-upgrade-worth-it/): Short answer? No. Do I want to return everything? No. Do I have buyer’s remorse? No. And yes. “WHAT are you talking about, Philip?”
- [Upgrading from an $80 $380.00 Keyboard to a $75 One](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/upgrading-from-an-80-380-00-keyboard-to-a-75-one/): No keyboard in my 28 years of computing has ever become such an extraordinary part of my daily computing process as that of the Logitech K811 keyboard. In fact, I've never really thought about keyboard usage all that much until that day came when I became sick & tired of those God-awful mechanical keyboards.
- [Alexa’s a Coding Co-Worker Now](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/alexas-a-coding-co-worker-now/): While I tend to work with various AI assistants when applying custom coding to stuff on my site & other projects, I never really thought of Alexa as that type of assistant outside of turning the lights off.
- [AI Coding Limitations](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/ai-coding-limitations/): AI really needs to step up when it comes to analyzing web pages for coding suggestions. More often than not, I have to provide them with the HTML of a section of the page for them to be able to read it.
- [Jetpack Comments Configuration for WordPress](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/jetpack-comments-configuration-for-wordpress/): Hopefully a helpful post for those that fell down the rabbit hole looking for answers to why the social media options don't show when testing your Jetpack comments in WordPress.
- [The AI Trade](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/the-ai-trade/): Even when I was out of work and decided to contract technical support out to people, I used my own ticketing system. It's just the way my brain thinks and learns to approach & prioritize the needs of my customers.  In 2026, nothing has changed when it comes to that, except for one certain thing.
- [Talent, Creation vs. Technology](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/talent-creation-vs-technology/): My reasoning was, and is, that I can try so hard to max my skills, be creative, spend years learning guitar, buy a shit ton of studio equipment, and will never be "the best" or adequately communicate, uniquely who I am in that respect.
- [DNS Settings Every Home Network Should Utilize](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/dns-settings-every-home-network-should-utilize/): I'm a huge Cloudflare fan when it comes to hosting DNS for domains & websites, but there is also some conveniences to using Cloudflare's public IP addresses to host DNS for your home network.
- [AI Will Collapse the Economy](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/ai-will-collapse-the-economy/): So, what do we make out of this? Is college worth it if your technical knowledge is soon to be replaced, not to mention the debt that you'll pay for the rest of your life?
- [My “Go To” Web Hosting Technology](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/my-go-to-web-hosting-technology/): "While I've have had interest in web technology since the late 90's, it was always a "I want this, how do I do it" approach as opposed to formal education."
- [Death](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/death/): "The way I see it, when your life has lost all value, I don't want to prolong it."
- [The Beaver Builder Updates Are INSANE–At a Cost](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/the-beaver-builder-updates-are-insane-at-a-cost/): "In that I absolutely HATE the name "Beaver Builder" I opted for the "Agency" version, just for the "white labeling" which allows you to rename the "interface" to your "brand" for clients."
- [Rockin’ It!](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/rockin-it/): "I'm lost, homeless, & jobless and trying to navigate it and end up lost riding a bicycle in the middle of nowhere, my iPhone doesn't work, before my alarm goes off to do another workday."
- [How to Block Certain Countries from Accessing Your Website with Cloudflare](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/how-to-block-certain-countries-from-accessing-your-website-with-cloudflare/): "But then I started thinking, "Cloudflare is pretty powerful" and enables you to do a lot of stuff, for FREE even."
- [Conversations at the Pool](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/conversations-at-the-pool/): "Everyone knows I'm an Atheist. My wife always prefaces the fact that I was "Agnostic" when we were married and she feels like there's still "hope" and somewhere along the way"
- [How to Install Windows 10 to an Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast Properly](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/how-to-install-windows-10-to-an-intel-nuc-12-enthusiast-properly/): "I have always had a particular way to manage my computers' operating system in a full-proof manner to allow for fallbacks. 'If something fails, revert.'"
- [My Dog Cussed Me Out in English And…](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/k9s/my-dog-cussed-me-out-in-english-and/): "I know this sounds crazy, but today he lost it, looked at me, and kind of in a mad kid's voice said, '#%?! you! I know when and where you sleep, Daddy!'"
- [Strike 1, 0 Balls, 0 Outs – The Mini PC Search](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/strike-1-0-balls-0-outs-the-mini-pc-search/): "I have always built my own computers since the very first PC that I ever bought was a flop. Typically, I do a new build every 4-5 years so I'm due."
- [Jetpack AI WordPress Integration](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/jetpack-ai-wordpress-integration/): "I typically redundantly search various free stock photo sites for these for any given post, so I decided to dig more into the options and realized that they were linked to the free Jetpack WordPress plugin."
- [Plant Parenthood](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/plant-parenthood/): "I never, ever, in my life, believed that I would even spend two minutes worrying about house plants."
- [Age Is Just A Number… pfft!](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/age-is-just-a-number-pfft/): "My head was obsessively full of ambition. Just ideas in my head that I wanted to figure out and conquer."
- [Your Brain’s Recycle Bin](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/your-brains-recycle-bin/): "They can't let go. They recycle the same thing in their brain over and over resulting in the same outcome during the process of becoming adults."
- [eXodus](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/exodus/): "Many have described the Bluesky experience as that of Twitter back in the golden years..."
- [Christians for Trump](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/christians-for-trump/): "It's the same battle from when I was a kid.
- [How Hard Is It to Obtain a Keyboard That Does Everything?](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/how-hard-is-it-to-obtain-a-keyboard-that-does-everything/): "At the time, I paid about $60-$70 for each. Now? $239.99 on Amazon (and everywhere except for used ones on eBay). I-N-S-A-N-E-!!!
- [I’m No Longer An Atheist](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/im-no-longer-an-atheist/): "Based upon the feedback that I've gotten from recent posts--and actual conversations in real life--I'm sure a lot of you can feel the relief knowing that I am no longer an Atheist."
- [The Evolution of Music vs Your Age](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/the-evolution-of-music-vs-your-age/): "When you go back in your mind, as far as you can remember, what was the first song that appealed to you?"
- [The God Handbook for Dummies](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/the-god-handbook-for-dummies/): "You can't be "all powerful" yet be subjected to an adversary, such as a fallen angel that YOU created and can't get rid of. It's a hard sell."
- [CHAPTER FOUR: “Discovery”](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/chapter-four-discovery/): "As always I pursued a game of pool to start off yet another chaotic night of drinking excessively and ended up playing with the devil—literally."
- [CHAPTER THREE: “The Escape”](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/chapter-three-the-escape/): "Upon my decision to destroy the naive ignorance to how life was outside of the walls of my upbringing I decided that in order to accomplish this I would have to experience that which I feared and what was unfamiliar to me."
- [I Wasn’t Really Motivated to Upgrade to the Meta Quest 3 Until…](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/virtual-office/): "Via lots of experimentation, my main goal in my digital life, since the mid-2000s, was to be able to do everything on any device that I can do on my main computer."
- [The Religion Card](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/the-religion-card/): "I grew up going to school with a Bible in hand, at age 13 I preached my first sermon."
- [God Likes The Kill](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/god-likes-the-kill/): "The problem with Einstein's euphoric approach is that a "god" is all powerful or he/she isn't really a god."
- [Meme-Fest](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/meme-fest/): "Just figured I'd compile a thread of the many, many reasons why I believe the way that I do."
- [Guys Are Dumb](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/guys-are-dumb/): "One of my first lessons was to be as basic as possible. "Laugh at everything." You kind of had to learn the lingo as well. Avoid speaking plain English."
- [What Motivates You When It Comes To Politics?](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/what-motivates-you-when-it-comes-to-politics/): "Raise your hand and explain how you justify your political stance. Honest answers only."
- [Modern Christianity Vs Gen X Christianity](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/modern-christianity-vs-gen-x-christianity/): "Back in the 70's we were warned about this, but I have to digress and say that every phase of Christianity in general has had their times of hypocrisy. By its very nature it is derived from hypocrisy."
- [The One Major Flaw of Apple Products That Needs to Be Resolved Immediately!](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/the-one-major-flaw-of-apple-products-that-needs-to-be-resolved-immediately/): "A few hours into the party I realized that one of our dogs came up missing. I immediately started panicking!"
- [From Demon to Angel](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/k9s/from-demon-to-angel/): "Logan was the biggest challenge I've ever faced with dog training. My 'go to' comment when meeting other dog owners is that she's just 'crazy'."
- [The Religious Challenge – Step Right Up!](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/the-religious-challenge-step-right-up/): "I beg my "Christian" friends & family to tolerate my rants and raves in regard to religion in general and approach my lines of questioning with a realistic and open frame of mind."
- [CHAPTER TWO: “The Breaking”](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/chapter-two-the-breaking/): "Discipline was strictly enforced in what was left of my family. “Spare the rod, spoil the child” was the given motto."
- [CHAPTER ONE: “The Autobiography That I Will Never Finish”](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/the-autobiography-that-i-will-never-finish/): "I grew very accustomed to the strange behavior of church goers and accepted it as normal and eventual adopted it as my own to a certain extent."
- [Why Christianity Requires Extremism & The Abandonment of Morality](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/why-christianity-requires-extremism-the-abandonment-of-morality/): "If there is anything that I took away from that upbringing it was the sensitivity to right and wrong."
- [ATF Form 1 SBR Pistol Brace Registration Info](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/atf-form-1-sbr-pistol-brace-registration-info/): "This video pretty much walks you through the entire process of registering your SBR step-by-step and simplifies the process."
- [4-Day 10-Hour Work Week. Is It Worth It?](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/4-day-10-hour-work-week-is-it-worth-it/): "I've always been curious what it would be like to have a three-day weekend every week and was eager to give it a try."
- [Time Travel](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/time-travel/): "As my bio states, I've been a blogger for over 20 years--before blogging was a thing. I referenced it pretty much as my online journal."
- [Hack Week](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/hack-week/): "This is exactly, to a T, what happened to me, even down to archiving the purchases so that I wouldn't notice them."
- [Things To Consider When Using Social Networks To Log In To Online Services](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/things-to-consider-when-using-social-networks-to-log-in-to-online-services/): "A quick password change and a confirmation code sent to your phone number that you never receive, and you're pretty much locked out of any service tied to the social network."
- [10 Months Later](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/k9s/10-months-later/): "Never had a dog with a middle name but he knows when we say 'Alton' he’s more than likely in big trouble."
- [Windows 11 Insider Preview Build Thoughts](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/news/windows-11-insider-preview-build-thoughts/): "This may be a deal breaker for my every day work PC since I need quick access to switch devices to take calls for work."
- [Sunday We Are Having A Baby](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/k9s/sunday-we-are-having-a-baby/): "Replacing the hole Morgan left in our hearts wasn't an easy process."

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- [Technology](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/technology/): Keep up with the latest technology news from Cheydes of Black. Talent, Creation vs. Technology My reasoning was, and is, that I can try so hard to max my skills, be creative, spend years learning guitar, buy a shit ton of studio equipment, and will never be “the best” or adequately communicate, uniquely who I…
- [VR](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/vr/): Everything VR. I Wasn’t Really Motivated to Upgrade to the Meta Quest 3 Until… “Via lots of experimentation, my main goal in my digital life, since the mid-2000s, was to be able to do everything on any device that I can do on my main computer.” Read More
- [Thursday Night Fridays](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/thursday-night-fridays/): A flex, four-day work week and Thursday nights are my Fridays. Late nights, fireball, and early morning posts. Talent, Creation vs. Technology My reasoning was, and is, that I can try so hard to max my skills, be creative, spend years learning guitar, buy a shit ton of studio equipment, and will never be “the…
- [Politics](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/politics/): Sure to start an argument. My Dog Cussed Me Out in English And… “I know this sounds crazy, but today he lost it, looked at me, and kind of in a mad kid’s voice said, ‘#%?! you! I know when and where you sleep, Daddy!'” Read More Christians for Trump “It’s the same battle from…
- [Plant Parenthood](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/plant-parenthood/): Everything related to keeping the plants from dying. Plant Parenthood “I never, ever, in my life, believed that I would even spend two minutes worrying about house plants.” Read More
- [Current Events](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/current-events/): My perspective on current events. AI Will Collapse the Economy So, what do we make out of this? Is college worth it if your technical knowledge is soon to be replaced, not to mention the debt that you’ll pay for the rest of your life? Read More Death “The way I see it, when your…
- [Religion](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/religion/): True to style, let’s talk another controversial topic. Death “The way I see it, when your life has lost all value, I don’t want to prolong it.” Read More Conversations at the Pool “Everyone knows I’m an Atheist. My wife always prefaces the fact that I was “Agnostic” when we were married and she feels…
- [K9s](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/k9s/): Everything Canine Related My Dog Cussed Me Out in English And… “I know this sounds crazy, but today he lost it, looked at me, and kind of in a mad kid’s voice said, ‘#%?! you! I know when and where you sleep, Daddy!'” Read More From Demon to Angel “Logan was the biggest challenge I’ve…
- [Autobiography](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/autobiography/): The autobiography that I will never finish. CHAPTER ONE: “The Autobiography That I Will Never Finish” “I grew very accustomed to the strange behavior of church goers and accepted it as normal and eventual adopted it as my own to a certain extent.” Read More CHAPTER TWO: “The Breaking” “Discipline was strictly enforced in what…
- [Perspective](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/perspective/): Latest perspectives from Cheydes of Black. Death “The way I see it, when your life has lost all value, I don’t want to prolong it.” Read More Conversations at the Pool “Everyone knows I’m an Atheist. My wife always prefaces the fact that I was “Agnostic” when we were married and she feels like there’s…
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- [About Us](https://www.cheydesofblack.com/about/): Who We Are Philip & Rhonda started dating in October of 2017. We married on 02/02/2020 (0202/20/20 backwards) a rare, once in a lifetime palindrome day that hasn’t occurred in 909 years. We pushed it a little further and were married at 02:02PM and the ceremony ended at 02:20PM on Superbowl Sunday.​ Photo Gallery Wedding…
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