Meri Kirihimete to everyone out there š
Meri Kirihimete to everyone out there š
This holiday season, clean your iPhone’s bum. There’s probably a lot of fluff in there.
When I was young, maybe 6(?), on Christmas Eve, some legend went around the neighbourhood yelling āHo! Ho! Ho!ā at around 7:30. I remember my sister and I literally running to bed so Santa wouldnāt miss our house. To that legend, whoever you are, wherever you are, I remember.
A few years ago I decided to write a short story for nanowrimo. I got half way through with major themes, the characters and the setting. But couldnāt really tie it all together. I just explained the story to ChatGPT and said āhelp me tie this togetherā, andā¦ it did! Holy crap!
Iām loving my M2 MacBook Air. Although Iāll need to get a screen to plug in to for productivity reasons. I could buy an almost retina 27ā 4K screen for ~NZ$650, or I could buy the 5K 27ā studio display for THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Itād be an amazing screen, but not that amazing.
Everything is going fine over at Twitter. They just donāt like *checks notes* any other social media. Wait, what!?
Fellow tech nerds. I’m looking for the modern version of an Apple TimeCapsule. A few TB. Low power. Wifi NAS. Doesn’t have to have RAID. Don’t want to hook up a raspberry pi to a harddrive.
Load up a YouTube video on my new computer for the first time. Inexplicably see an advert. Realise I hadn’t installed Vinegar yet. Like browsing the web when I’m away from my piholed local network - the internet is terrible!
If PÅneke/Wellington keeps cracking 20Ā°, whanau, Iām going to have to switch to ice coffee. It is the way.
Iām not saying it is, but unsealing, unboxing and starting a brand new computer is as close to a religious experience as Iāll ever likely have. Right up there with the first glug of an ice cold lager on a hot day.
After 7 years of faithful, flawless use my 5K iMac is either being turned into a server or sold (havenāt decided yet).
Iām incredibly disappointed thereās no way to natively turn it into a monitor for my new laptop. The screen is still fantastic and vast.
I have a sketchy Raspberry Pi that eats SD Cards and constantly crashes. I have called it kererÅ«, which is a joke other Kiwis will get. Had to eventually get it running off a drive plugged in via USB, and itās been pretty stable since. The lesson is, SD Cards are fragile.
New laptop. Busy Weekend. Still unopened.
(take that Hemingway! (yes, I know itās unlikely he ever wrote the for sale a baby shoes line.))
We got an espresso machine at the office this week. Iām tuning in a perfect flat white while others are adamant that espresso is made with a grind resembling boulders. Never let a bunch of nerds go at a machine they think they understand but actually donāt. āļø
Iāve officially joined the league of bespectacled gentlemen. Itās been a good run, though. But death and age comes for us all. Hoping to avoid the former for a little longerā¦
Apple stopping the production of the Airport, and by extension, the Time Capsule, is so absurd. The weird, inelegant hacks I have to do to make Time Machine work like it used to with a Time Capsule is ridiculous.
Especially considering thereās no iCloud Time Machine.
I simply canāt express how much Iām looking forward to all of central PÅneke/Wellington having the speed limit dropped to 30 km/h. Driving in to town should be tortuous. More people walking, scootering, using public transport and bikes. Plant trees in decommissioned car parks.
Just had a long, rolling earthquake here in PÅneke. 5.2 M initial magnitude. A little too exciting for a Friday evening.
When everything fails, itās probably DNS.
Woo hoo! Second day of summer. Todayās high temperatureā¦ 15Ā°C!?
Rode in to work a little earlier today. Much less traffic, a lot more people on bikes! (there were a couple behind me out of frame too). Felt a lot safer riding in a pack of 9. SO looking forward to the Newtown cycle lanes being finished.
My āYes, I know youāre support, but Iām not going to follow any of your recommendations or answer any of your questions so you can help me, and instead do a bunch of other stuff instead.ā t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.
Iām going to do it, whanau. Iām going to buy a new computer to replace my 7 year old 5K iMac. Unless someone gives me a reason I shouldnātā¦?
As an example of the dangerous driving, this is how close the sign-written ute got passing me. I have the video too. A friend said āwait it out over the weekenā, but Iām still angry about it, so complaint to be laid. The lesson is, donāt endanger people ina company vehicle.
My āDangerous Drivingā photo/video album has been growing quickly in the last two weeks Iāve been riding around with a camera on my helmet. 4 worth me going through the hassle of pulling them off the camera and editing them. One of which was a sign-written ute (pick up truck).