Yorrike

The exterior design of the iPhone hasn’t really changed since the iPhone 6 from 2014. And, spoiler alert, they’ll look the same next year too.

The Faster Than Light drive they use in Another Life is called an Alcubierre Drive, which is an idea for a faster than light drive that doesn’t break any laws of physics. Only issue? Its “exotic matter” engine requires matter in a form that has never been observed and only theoretically exists.

I just finished watching Another Life on Netflix. I really, really liked it, but I’m disappointed it was written as a season 1 story which had multiple cliff hangers at the end.

I just laughed at a joke written entirely in French. I feel like I’ve reached a new level in my study.

Une bibliothèque n’est pas une discothèque.

The Expanse - A New Horizon - neatly sums up why I like The Expanse too.

I was worried with all these new services coming up, I’d be paying Apple around $30 every month for stuff. And then I realised I’m already paying them more than that for iCloud storage and Music. And now I’m sad because it’ll probably be $50 a month.

“I have charged my cellphone 3 times in the last week”

2019: “Wow! That’s amazingly long battery life!”

1999: “That’s terrible. You need a new battery!”

TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time

This iPhone XR is ruining me with regard to battery life. Just checked my battery percentage and thought “39%!? What’s sucking up power? I only charged this… 38 hours ago. Wow.”

I’ve been using soy milk in my coffees for well over a decade. Cow’s milk taste horrible to me now. Seriously, give a soy latte or flat white a try. It may take a little getting used to, but it’s better for the planet and, therefore, you.

[The Egg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI The Egg), by Andy Weir. Animated by Kurzgesagt.

Something big is on fire in Palmerston North

Update: apparently it’s roadworks. They’re laying down tarseal.

I wish I could move iCloud Safari tabs between devices. As in, I have a tab open on my iPhone regarding a Mac app, I want to throw it over to my Mac. Then I can deal with it there when, where it’s relevant, and get it off my phone.

E-scooter injuries as severe as car crashes - study - costing the health system $360,577 in surgery costs. Cue the angry anti-scooter brigade.

Meanwhile: Written off: The true cost of road deaths - 377 dead, costing ~$6 billion in 2018.

Maybe it’s learning another language that’s doing it, but recently the word “their” just looks weird to me. I keep typing it and thinking “Wait, is it their, or should it be thier? They both look wrong.”

Car blindness — Ignoring the true cost of cars

Avoid putting plastic into the environment by not using it in the first place. Here are two tins I had a local cafe fill with beans. Plastic used: 0g.

What If We CLEARED the Amazon?

Mars is awful. You almost certainly don’t want to go there.

Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!

Could Your Phone Hurt You?

(Probably not).

RE Disney Plus and Star Wars: “Disney Plus will rapidly expand globally, with plans to be in nearly all major regions […] within the next two years.”

So those of us, let’s say at the Galaxy’s Edge, will have to Rebel against the Empire in order to watch these shows before 2021?

Every All Blacks game is free to air on TVNZ. You don’t need the internet to watch the All Blacks play at the world cup. This isn’t a difficult concept to understand.

Terrible NZ internet prompts concerns over how to watch All Blacks at World Cup

If anyone in a good timeline ever happens to read this: hoo boy things can get bad. Really bad. Imagine if the Amazon was intentionally burned down - that bad.