My iPad Pro from 2020 has been pretty unusable since I broke the screen and had it replaced. So instead of paying NZ$500 to have it replaced again, I bought a base level A16 big standard iPad for NZ$520 off TradeMe. No Face ID, but otherwise it’s just perfectly good. Who really needs an Air or Pro?
Aaaaaaand my Apple Watch has died. It started with continuously trying to call emergency services last night. Gave it a charge, rebooted it and now the Apple logo appears for 3 seconds and then it turns itself off. Sigh.
I watched the last two seasons of The Boys: Season 4: Boring and pointless, even at 1.75 speed Season 5: Just bad - it felt simultaneously rushed and like it was wasting my time. A rare feat. And the conclusion was wholly unsatisfying. ★★☆☆☆
That was, without a doubt, the most boring WWDC keynote I’ve ever watched.
Maybe 45 km of biking, no matter how cruisy, is a bit too much for ~27 hours. I feel my internal battery is nearing empty.
I’m trying to get through watching The Boys, but it’s just painful to watch and it’s one of those shows I have to pause multiple times due to it weirdly invoking anxiety. I don’t like it, but there’s discourse I want to dive in to.
I feel like I probably should try Mastodon again. But I really can’t be bothered. I’m connected enough.
In Star Trek The Original Series there were 7 main characters. In TNG there were 7 (8 including O’Brien). DS9 had 8. Voyager had 8. However shows like Game of Theones has hundreds. The Witcher has dozens. It’s too many people to keep track of. People lose track and interest.
After buying and using a keyboard with a knob, all keyboards without, feel incomplete. On its own, volume up and down and mute when pressed. Hold down a function key, screen brightness and pause play when pressed. Another function key, keyboard brightness and colours.
I got excited there’d be another episode of Starfleet Academy to watch this evening but then remembered the season had finished and then I was sad. Monarch Legacy of Monsters just does scratch the sci-fi itch.
If your website only works in Chrome, it’s not a website.
Tech frens: what’s a, preferably free, certificate signing authority I can use for creating an https certificate?
I didn’t bother with The Witcher season 2. It started with “last time on The Witcher”, and I remembered nothing. But now I’ve started watching it again and it’s actually good. One thing of note, I have the lowest resolution Netflix, but even I can see the edge of the contact lenses they’re wearing.
Now that Linux is getting popular with the normies and gamers, there’s some gate keeping Harold hardcores who are running Free BSD as a desktop operating system.
Don’t do that. That’s a silly idea. No one’s impressed. You’re using all the GNU tools anyway, with a lot more hassles.
Looking forward to running my AI first company using blockchain and and accepting only crypto, based entirely in the Metaverse.
I’ve been using Linux for around a quarter of a century. I used it on the desktop, in the early 2000s, until I switched to using a Mac (a 2005 or 6 12" powerbook). This week I installed Kubuntu with KDE Plasma on an old laptop. And my god, it’s the real deal. It’s surprisingly good. Maybe I switch?
There’s two things keeping me on iPhone:
I would like to experiment with running an Android phone but those two thing, and especially iMessage, will keep me on iOS forever more.
🖖🏼 I thought Tilly was going to be in Starfleet Academy…
Hmmmm… should I renew? I’ve been on regular paid Duolingo for years, but that this isn’t enough for the “Max” tier and their firing everyone and relying on AI garbage, I’m sceptical.
By the noodley appendage of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the flailing tentacles of Cthulhu, why does anyone use Windows server? Windows. Server.
So it turns out, since it’s all lithium ion, that “disposable” vape batteries can be used to power a house.
I closed my Twitter account 2 years ago, as of yesterday and I have absolutely zero regerts.
I want to start reading books again. But I want to do it on a device like a Kindle. But I don’t want to give Amazon a single cent. Any recommendations on how to do this?
Microsoft 365 sounds like a threat.