Darren

Does it incorporate Smart Pipe™ technology?

Yeah, I’m in the process of shifting all of my workflows over to Linux/Android from all-Apple, but my Macs are a huge sticking point. My main computer is an M2 Macbook Air, which is ridiculously quick. I’m basically just waiting for Asahi to gain display port over USB, at which point I’ll ditch macOS. But until then…

I still miss Roger.

The inability to focus mixed with the forgetfulness is my Achilles heel.

Like, I’ll put the butter in the microwave for TEN SECONDS to softe it, then forget I’ve done so until it beeps and now my butter is a puddle. Ten fucking seconds.

It’s as easy as using two shells.

We’ve got one of those ones that attaches to a regular toilet, and I gotta say that it’s fucking wonderful.

However. The water pressure in our house can be kinda weird. Mostly it’s normal, but sometimes it’s like a jet washer for a few seconds. And those few seconds after you’ve first opened the bidet are like getting reamed out by a Karcher.

Mr Mobile talked about this in his review of Oppo’s Find N5.

Essentially, while the product is great and folding phones are finding more utility, the price is still prohibitively high.

I upgraded to a Pixel 9 a few months ago because I specifically wanted to run GrapheneOS. I did considered a Pixel Fold, but really couldn’t justify the extra cost. Maybe next time though…

Is the original image art? Who’s to say.

But turn that image into a meme and it does become art. And that’s wonderful.

This is why Miyazaki is so against AI. Man can’t handle the junk in the trunk.

Correct

And the UK as a whole.

“Alright mate?”

“Yeah, you?”

“Yeah”

• fin.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Hungrambed

The last Marvel offering I saw in a cinema was Avengers: Endgame.

Literally nothing since then has looked like it offered anything different or better, so at most I’ve watched a couple on D+, or torrented them. I just don’t give a shit about any of that stuff any more.

The last Marvel thing I watched was Agatha All Along, which I only finished for the sake of completion. The moment we learned the identity of the kid, I pretty much stopped giving a shit, because at that point it just dropped into being yet another MCU property being used as promotional material for whatever they’ve got coming next.

I really enjoyed S01 or Andor, but I can’t be sure I’ll bother with S02 because I don’t trust them to keep it self-contained, basically requiring me to watch 3 other series so I can have some idea of what’s going on. They pulled that shit with S03 of The Mandalorian, so I never finished it.

Go fuck yourself, San Diego.

You joke, but staring at the shitty LG LED TV I bought a year ago, I get mad at how much research we have to do these days just to make sure we get the best <PRODUCT> possible for the budget we have.

Not that long ago you could walk into a TV show room, pick the best one they had that you could afford and that was that. We’d have our brand preferences, but by and large we could buy a TV that would last us ten years.

Now, in order to stand a chance of getting five years out of a product we have to do weeks of research, scour a bunch of forums, mentally having to vet out replies that feel like they’re shill accounts. We have to become miniature experts in every field where we need to spend money, and it’s just fucking exhausting.

In my case, I was labouring under the belief that LG make really good TVs. Turns out they make really good OLED TVs, but their LED panels suck balls. So within nine months of buying this panel, the backlight has become patchy as shit, and now I’m having to go through the bullshit of returning it in order to get a better one.

I was diagnosed at 39 while working for the company I’m currently with. At the time I was a welder. Since then I’ve been promoted into the office.

I had NO IDEA how much that physical job was helping me to control my stupid brane.

See, I don’t understand why anyone would need to immediately follow that many randoms. And I don’t get the need to speedrun social media.

But hey, it takes all sorts.

You can follow hashtags on Mastodon. So if you want music recommendations you can follow #NowPlaying, (for example) and every time someone uses that tag it’ll appear in your timeline as if you follow that person. It’s nice for follow discovery too, because if the same people keep posting links to tunes you dig, then it’s a fair bet that you’ll have similar interests.

I’ve not tried it myself, but I guess that in theory, you could follow a bunch of hashtags without ever following an actual account.

I dunno. I joined Mastodon back in 2022 and just…followed people.

They weren’t the same people as on Twitter, but it didn’t really matter in the end. I now follow almost 600 people and never feel like my feed is empty.

One social media site doesn’t have to be better than another, it just has to be sufficient for your needs.