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Turning off predictive text in iOS does wonders for stopping random words appearing when you’re typing.

I’m considering doing a welding and metalwork course so I can build eBikes.

If you delete a message you’ve sent in Apple Messages, is it removed from everyone’s devices, or is it one way like text messaging? (Just out of interest)

Watching the DS9, season 3 episode “Explorers”, Jake Sisko asks the computer “are there any messages for me?”

“One, from Wellington, New Zealand”

I love NZ getting name checked in sci-fi, but it’s disappointing it’s still “Wellington” and “New Zealand” in the 24th century.

Privacy destroying advertising: it only works for the scumbag tracking middlemen Cutting Out the Adtech Middlemen — Pixel Envy

I’m not worried about catching COVID-19, because it’s incredibly unlikely in Aotearoa. What I’m weirdly worried about catching now, and my OCD is in overdrive to avoid, is a cold.

Still running on Lockdown/Rāhui time. 3 months on.

This sounds like the start of an alien invasion movie. Sowing doubt: people around world receive mystery seed parcels.

Culinary idea: deep dish toast.

I was just listening to the Apple Music New Music mix. A track came on and I thought “you guys are really pulling the Smashing Pumpkins vibe.” I checked my phone, and the band? Smashing Pumpkins.

I’m a good geologist. Unfortunately geology work is impossible for me as I’d have to be away from home for a majority of the time (I’ve had generous offers of work). I can program but no one would hire me because I’m over 25 without 10 years experience. What should I do?

Enthusiastic (more than my usual OCD) washing of hands, frequent use of hand sanitiser and winter means my hands look like slowly cooling magma rather than skin. Ouch.

Why Children of Men haunts the present moment

Children of Men does not take place at the end of the world, which has already happened, but within its chilling coda, where, as Fisher writes, “internment camps and franchise coffee bars co-exist”.

Children of Men haunts me.

Cost of preventing next pandemic ‘equal to just 2% of Covid-19 economic damage’

For All Mankind is good, but lost me in the last few episodes. Sci-fi is never about pew pew lasers. It’s alway about people. However, there’s a line between science fiction and science-themed drama, and For All Mankind feels like it’s the latter.

Another in the long line of potential “cures” that have been touted over the decades. Pay no attention until it’s been proven to work.

Israeli firm says micro-pancreas to ‘cure’ diabetes ready for UK trials

There’s something about this replacement screen on my XR. It’s weird, it feels… softer? Lighter? Uet super bright and vivid. Using a 4 for 72 hours can’t uave changed my perspective that much, since I’ve mostly been using my iPad Pro 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sweet glorious victory. I have my 2 year old phone back with a fixed screen, so I can re-retire my 10 year old phone. Turns out if your phone does very little, incredibly slowly, you hardly use it!

My phone for the next week (while my XR is sent off to have its screen repaired). It’s gloriously small. And woefully slow. It’s a 10 year old phone! And I’ll be doing nothing but messaging and listening to podcasts, because that’s all it can really do.

Taking a bit of a break from Twitter. And since I have compulsive muscle memory, it’s PiHole to the rescue.

The existence of marionettes implies the existence of warionettes.

Remember hacky sacks?

Sometimes I’m listening to a random playlist on Apple Music and I wonder “man, what playlist is this? These songs are all bangers! … oh it’s my favourites list.”

I ordered some grain for brewing three beers of different styles over the next few months. Instead of getting all grains in seperate bags by grain type (like normal), I got the whole lot in a single sack. So I guess I have to brew an extra pale white stout saison.

Not going to say what this is, but needless to say, I nailed it in the last 24 hours.