Yorrike

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If you’re in to Dinosaurs (with feathers!), great CGI and David Attenborough, Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV+ is on this week, with a new episode every night. That’s my week’s entertainment sorted.

→ 12022-05-23 at 22:05

1.) What did I just watch? 2.) Why doesn’t every album come with a production extravaganza like this!?

Sturgill Simpson Presents Sound & Fury

→ 12022-05-14 at 22:29

I know it’s winter when I break out my serious jumpers. The ones where even I, as a rather rotund gentleman, am left swimming in warmth and comfort. Happy mid May everyone.

→ 12022-05-14 at 17:04

My Fastmail free trial ends in a few days. My opinion at the moment is it’s really good, and I’m going to use them for a year and then reassess.

→ 12022-05-11 at 11:08

And just like that, my G-Suite account is gone. Now for my gmail account - which I’m almost 100% sure I can never ever get rid of. But it costs Google money to provide it so I’m fine with it for now.

→ 12022-04-28 at 17:27

I’ve had a free G-Suite account for 12 years. I’ve migrated all my email away from it. The time has come to press delete (something I’ve wanted to do for ages). Time to burn that G-Suite account to the ground.

→ 12022-04-28 at 16:51

So I know that micro.blog has Mastodon integration, and that it all appears on the timeline. But I haven’t noticed anyone here using it and talking to people on other servers… am I missing a big part of mb that’s locked into Mastodon too?

→ 12022-04-28 at 01:22

Sometimes, as a geologist, I wonder what delicious fruit and vegetables have existed in the last half billion years that we’ll never get to taste. The potential variety is mind blowing.

→ 12022-04-27 at 19:11

The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History.

→ 12022-04-23 at 17:42

Hey fellow home brewers (or pro brewers). I’ve reached a level in my home brew where I’m consistently brewing good beers (clarity aside, that’s a work on). What recommendations do you have for where I go to kick up my skills a level? I’m thinking of tackling a lambic…

→ 12022-04-23 at 16:23

Me? Just listening to music on my iPhone on headphones that are almost 50 years old. Through 2 adaptors.

→ 12022-04-22 at 16:24

That moment you wish you’d bought a single AirTag because you’ve lost your wallet somewhere. (found it, BTW, but took me an hour)

→ 12022-04-19 at 16:57

FFS, iOS autocorrect. I am writing a sentence that’s clearly in English. Stop autocorrecting the definitive article “the” to the French for tea, “thé”. Even if I’m writing in French, don’t autocorrect that word. How often am I writing « je veux boire du thé »? I don’t drink tea!

→ 12022-04-19 at 14:56

A Free G-Suite Email Refugee Finds a New Home

Using an ancient free G-Suite account, I always knew the day would come when some Google engineer would look at a server or database and think “I don’t like this, it’s messy and old”, and the free loaders like me would have to either pay Google (no thank you), or move elsewhere.

I’ve moved elsewhere.

Though I would have liked to have transferred to Apple’s iCloud+ email with custom domains, it seems like it’s a little half baked. An option for the future that’ll save me a little money if and when they fix the odd little issues (I’m paying for it anyway).

After being given the same advice from pretty much everyone, I’ve transferred my email over to Fastmail. Transfer process was pretty easy, they have an import feature that’ll go to your old account and just suck all the email in from there. I think it took a couple of hours, but everything made it across from what I can see.

Setting up my custom domains was straight forward. I’ve removed all references to google from my domains and it all seems to be working as expected.

I’ll give it a good shake with the 30 days free trial, but it’s looking good so far.

I can’t rid myself of Google just yet, though. I have an 18 year old GMail account that’s got a lot (a lot!) of accounts attached to it, and I frankly think it’ll take years to untangle from that. If that’s even viable.

→ 12022-04-14 at 00:02

Ok fellow tech nerds. Where should I transfer my email with custom domains to, iCloud (which I’m already paying for) or Fastmail?

→ 12022-04-13 at 16:07

On my new sense of taste and smell post COVID: I’m smelling and tasting things like I ever have before. Cheese is like a taste ballet. The coffee I’ve been drinking for a year has a weird after taste, like almost a coconut curry? Hoppy beer tastes overwhelmingly incredible.

→ 12022-03-27 at 11:45

My sense of taste and smell is back with a vengeance. Things taste and smell amazing! It’s like my tongue has had a hard reboot. Did you know gruyère cheese has a delicate nutty flavour to it!? I’d forgotten. But there it is! May taste a hoppy beer tonight to blow my mind!

→ 12022-03-26 at 10:41

For a beta, Universal Control in macOS/iPadOS is really, really good. Yesterday I had Outlook open on my iPad, and I dragged a file I needed from the Downloads folder on my iMac, straight into a new message in Outlook on my iPad and it worked. I was delighted.

→ 12022-03-25 at 11:13

Despite doing everything, triple vaccination, masking even when others weren’t, limiting where I went and who I saw, I tested positive for COVID on Sunday night. And let me tell you whānau, even when triple vaxxed, this virus is no joke. Basic stuff requires Herculean resolve.

→ 12022-03-22 at 20:25

Watching Picard season 2, and being a massive Star Trek TNG fan, I know that in the time they’re in, Data’s head is buried underground and Guinan knows where, from the episode Time’s Arrow🤔

→ 12022-03-19 at 22:24

Wellington and the south western suburbs then into Te Moana-o-Raukawa as the sun has a rest on the western hills.

→ 12022-03-16 at 20:17

T’was a magnificent sunset rainbow.

→ 12022-03-16 at 19:56

Good grief, Netflix, don’t put the “New Episodes Weekly” banner over Rick and Morty when there’s no new episodes. You’re going to have me self-propel into a parallel universe and no one wants that.

→ 12022-03-13 at 20:04

Watching episode 2 of Picard, and no. I do not like the mirror universe. Thumbs down. This isn’t what I need in my life at the moment, mental health wise.

→ 12022-03-12 at 21:27

I’m going to have to buy a laptop for work. Although I could use this iPad as my laptop if I had two things: an iOS version of Preview and a native Terminal.

→ 12022-03-12 at 21:26