Yorrike

I’ve got the day off. So I’m brewing.

I used to be a huge console gamer. But a mixture of growing up and my ADHD anxiety, “you could be doing something more productive”, has meant I barely game anymore.

However, I started playing Zelda Breath of the Wild again yesterday and suddenly 5 hours had vanished. No regerts.

Any solution to the Drake Equation that doesn’t result in zero is wrong.

The assumption that life is common? All good. The assumption that multicellular life is common? Sketchy (took 4 billion years to go from single cells to multicellular). Intelligent life? Get outta here.

I wish Microsoft Defender on iOS didn’t use the VPN. Of course, I only have it on because my company requires it to have a compliant phone. But it stops me using my VPN and my pihole DNS to block ads.

The eternal question. Do you run a bunch of small VMs in Proxmox, or run a bunch of Docker containers on a single machine?

Never get in to the following things if you value having money:

• Horse riding
• Fancy cars
• Competitive road cycling
• Custom mechanical keyboards

While watching a few “what happens at the end of the universe?” YouTube videos over the weekend, a question was sparked in my brain which made it feel like it was fizzing. The question: why does anything exist at all?

I ferment my beer in a modified fridge I keep outside under a plastic cover. I hate the setup. It was fine when I had a garage, but now I want something I can fit inside.

Turns out there’s ways to build your own fridge. But I’m thinking of an alternative and I’ll have to document it.

Caps lock is a scourge.

You Americans with your “Kansas is pronounced kan-sas” and “Arkansas is pronounced Argh-kan-sas”.

The Acolyte had high and low points. Brilliant and stupid bits. But that’s on par for Star Wars. I really enjoyed it, and the finale was excellent. This is coming from a Star Wars cynic and Star Trek super fan 🖖🏼

I need some help. I set up my HomePod to play music every weekday morning and I can’t find where it’s set. It’s not in Shortcuts, it’s not in the Home app, and it’s not an alarm set in the health app. I googled for more than an hour yesterday and can’t find it anywhere. Where else could that be set?

I didn’t want a smart home. But I’m slowly ending up with one.

I’m just going to turn off the news until 2025.

I’ve come to a time in my life where my last non stick pan is now super stick. And I’m going to get a cast iron pan. Can anyone recommend a brand that’s not $1000 for a single skillet, but is still high quality?

Last night my iPhone warned me my own AirPods had been tracking me. It felt like Ned Flanders telling Lovejoy he was worried that he was coveting his own wife.

Pasting and dragging images in Windows makes no sense to me.

You copy and paste an image, it’s copied into an email. You drag the image from one email to another and it references a local image cache file on your PC. WTF? I’ve never had this issue in macOS because a drag is a copy paste.

I’ve cobbled together a raid1 array with a couple of USB drives. Currently copying data over, around 2TB. It reckons it’ll take ~10 days over WiFi. My calculation now is, do I get a USB-C to Ethernet adaptor delivered and transfer that way, or do I let it ride. Which will be quicker…

Urgh. Fine. I’ll do my tax return. But if the IRD is reading this, let me be clear: I absolutely love making spreadsheets.

I way there was an iPad Pro mini.

Our tickets are raised by a pack of wolves.

Going through subscriptions to trim my spending. Disney+, which was $120 per annum in 2023, and rose to $150 this year, will be one hundred and ninety of the lord’s own New Zealand dollars come 2025.

I’m this →| |← close to cancelling and just binging for a month here and there.

I wish more TV shows and movie franchises would just break with canon. James Bond is a good example of this working. It’d work for the likes of Star Trek too. Just tell stories. Weirdo nerds be damned.

If you go to bed with enough time to get a full night sleep, and sleep, you wake up feeling OK and your brain works better.

I just came up with this new thought technology life hack all by myself.

I brew beer as a hobby. Sometimes (but definitely not always) I get drinkable beer as a bonus to share with my friends. Anyway, the brewing is the hobby. And I’m a data nerd so of course I have the fermentation visualised.