pawel orzech blog

March 2025

22.03.2025 → Not sure how it happened, but it happened, and suddenly I’ve
19.03.2025 → I like how Android works in terms of theming. I’ve changed m
18.03.2025 → I’m a simple man. I see Pebble. I buy Pebble.
17.03.2025 → 150523
17.03.2025 → First day of my month-long vacations are going pretty fine –
16.03.2025 → 100% sleep performance. 😎
15.03.2025 → Say what
12.03.2025 → I can so I do jump between phones. You can’t catch me. One d
11.03.2025 → The more I use the cheapest Pixel available with Gemini on i
11.03.2025 → I love that Android lets me snooze notifications for an hour
09.03.2025 → I’d love to read more blogs about people trying to escape Ap
09.03.2025 → Damn you Balatro. Sole reason of my current sleep schedule b
08.03.2025 → Longest sleep of the last 30 days! Bad luck Brian – still in
03.03.2025 → Deleted tiktok, Instagram and reddit from my phones. Again.
01.03.2025 → Pixel 8a is amazing.

February 2025

27.02.2025 → [Day One on Windows](https://dayoneapp.com/blog/windows-app-
26.02.2025 → I also love when Apple influencers are screaming about how A
26.02.2025 → Lee and Jason made some good points regarding change.
23.02.2025 → 212756
21.02.2025 → I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one trying to escape t
19.02.2025 → iPhone 16e without MagSafe – bummer. Not that I was interest
15.02.2025 → Interesting things that are happening in our household are t
14.02.2025 → 421 days of adding something new to Day One, 223 days of tra
13.02.2025 → Maybe related to my previous post but maybe not – I’m moving
13.02.2025 → I’m getting older, and I don’t care as much about open sourc
09.02.2025 → Material You or whatever it is called on Android is much bet
07.02.2025 → Now I get why people with their own flats are so resistant t
04.02.2025 → I’m much closer to getting rid of all of my social media tha

January 2025

29.01.2025 → Main sim is in Pixel, again. But this time I just demoted ip
26.01.2025 → Only thing I need my iPhone is whoop journal every morning.
22.01.2025 → Support small web, support independent social media, own you
21.01.2025 → Magicking hard.
21.01.2025 → The less I use social media the better I feel and I didn’t t
21.01.2025 → That was quick. USA dropping out from Paris Agreement, WHO a
19.01.2025 → 185107
19.01.2025 → Trying to move to Actual Budget from YNAB (YNAB renewal date
18.01.2025 → Whenever I use Pixel 8a (I do it everyday) I’m amazed how gr
17.01.2025 → I need to take camera out with me more. Either my film Canon
09.01.2025 → I know how privileged this is, but I can’t wait to finish th
07.01.2025 → Another League of Pigs episode and another shoutout to the p
04.01.2025 → It’s growing on me. Not sure what watch would be next. From
03.01.2025 → … new watch, who dis? Casio Duro. Wanted to see if I’d lik
02.01.2025 → 🍿 [The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)](https://w
02.01.2025 → 🍿 [Wolfs (2024)](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/877817) –

December 2024

28.12.2024 → Found myself new obsession – [Pale Jay](https://open.spotify
28.12.2024 → Funny thing about Nothing Ear A is that even though they hav
27.12.2024 → The case with two phones is that when one of them dies there
25.12.2024 → Nothing Ear A, actually great headphones. Five stars.
25.12.2024 → Can’t lie – it does feel amazing that I do have everything I
23.12.2024 → I really want and I probably shouldn’t buy an iPod. This sto
22.12.2024 → I’m on fire.
21.12.2024 → Something I found out about and loved ever since – you can g
20.12.2024 → [The EU wants Apple to open AirDrop and AirPlay to Android a
18.12.2024 → Halfway there.
18.12.2024 → Soon it’s going to be two weeks without Vivaldi Sync…
17.12.2024 → Big, proper games won’t come to macOS as long as storage on
17.12.2024 → Vivaldi sync stopped working a week ago and it’s taking ages
17.12.2024 → End of the year on iOS homescreen:
16.12.2024 → Ending 2024 homescreen-wise:
15.12.2024 → Just ordered new iPod Nano 7 Gen battery. Let’s fucking try
14.12.2024 → Let’s imagine for a second that this isn’t a blogpost or mic
14.12.2024 → Instead of buying an iPod I should just get mp3 of whatever
14.12.2024 → I’ve had about four Windows updates in the span of three day
13.12.2024 → That’s a lamp.
13.12.2024 → Honestly it’s a gimmick but when it works and is useful, it’
12.12.2024 → The biggest tech revelation for me this year is that I don’t
11.12.2024 → Wait, so with 18.2 I’m not getting ChatGPT powered Siri on o
09.12.2024 → New watch who this.
07.12.2024 → Took me five years to draw a dick with my weight data.
07.12.2024 → One day I might even accept being a two phone person.
04.12.2024 → Never change iOS widgets. Never change.
02.12.2024 → I wish new hobbies wouldn’t cost about $100 to start. I’m lo
02.12.2024 → Leaving Apple Watch behind will be problematic for sure, but

November 2024

30.11.2024 → Made up my mind. Just paid for a year of Whoop (thanks to Cy
27.11.2024 → I don’t want to but I have to admit – Windows is as buggy/cr
25.11.2024 → Frank Ocean.
24.11.2024 → I don’t get why Apple Watch doesn’t do the same shit Whoop i
21.11.2024 → Back to my regular tech rambling. Whoop would be much more u
20.11.2024 → I’m not able to actually say anything, speechless.
20.11.2024 → I can’t thank anyone enough for helping out. Seriously. Than
20.11.2024 → My mother has liver cancer. We have started a fundraiser to
20.11.2024 → Sorry, not sorry—another iOS vs. Android thing. Basically, b
18.11.2024 → This is never going to be not funny. Apple Music works great
17.11.2024 → Because I can, I’m sometimes moving between iPhone and Pixel
15.11.2024 → 🍿 [A Real Pain (2024)](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1013
12.11.2024 → Get a free WHOOP 4.0 and one month free when you join with m
11.11.2024 → I wanted to break myself a bit more from Apple ecosystem wit
09.11.2024 → Moved to iPhone yesterday but got annoyed in first 12 hours
08.11.2024 → RSS bankruptcy. Not going to read 2000 articles.
08.11.2024 → It looks like after stopping podcasting I have stopped carin
08.11.2024 → My Defaults (2024)
06.11.2024 → Perhaps we should stop thinking of the USA as a country to l
06.11.2024 → Americans, what the hell
01.11.2024 → ChatGPT search is crazy

October 2024

30.10.2024 → iPhone wants me to use MacOS and be enclosed in Apple ecosys
29.10.2024 → Chill out please
28.10.2024 → Apple Music working better on Android wasn’t on my bingo car
27.10.2024 → 5 icons in a row are better than 4 icons in a row. I don’t m
27.10.2024 → To use an iphone is to use a phone in slow motion. This is h
27.10.2024 → Android apps are good enough that I don’t miss any particula
25.10.2024 → And today on Android I’ve installed Sum Up and now all of my
25.10.2024 → Two weeks with my Pixel. That was quick! Still is my main ph
23.10.2024 → Since I have moved onto the Pixel I find myself using Gemini
21.10.2024 → After a week I’ve got used to the bigger border or fingerpri
20.10.2024 → That’s my home screen after a week with Pixel 8a. My iPhone
20.10.2024 → Pixel shots are good enough to post, without ANY touches.
20.10.2024 → Powązki. This is that golden autumn everybody was talking ab
19.10.2024 → This is just crazy. I love it.
19.10.2024 → BuzzKill and Hurry for Android are worth every cent.
19.10.2024 → Warsaw being pretty.
17.10.2024 → Just to add to the point of iPhone feeling more expensive/pr
16.10.2024 → Few random thoughts about iOS vs Android:
15.10.2024 → First time getting an update on Android day 0.
14.10.2024 → iOS notification system is like 0.1 version of what Android
13.10.2024 → I feel a bit more understood by this phone. It does interest
13.10.2024 → If this is what Pixel 8a does I want to see what 9 Pro can d
12.10.2024 → I can admit that app quality is sometimes a bit worse on And
12.10.2024 → This phone makes sense for me even just for the camera. I’d
12.10.2024 → I did some nighttime photography with Pixel today and it’s j
11.10.2024 → This is where I’m at.
11.10.2024 → I’ve just lost a 3000 words essay about Android notification
11.10.2024 → I’ve made a note that’s basically a to-do list before fully
11.10.2024 → Another thing I’m a fan of – Spotify is downloading songs in
11.10.2024 → I know I’m very screen focused but this is the thing I inter
11.10.2024 → What pisses me off now is that this phone costs like $250. A
11.10.2024 → A long time ago it was a known fact that iPhone is the best
11.10.2024 → 120hz is awesome. And this phone costs less than my current
10.10.2024 → My main SIM card is on Pixel 8a. I’ve moved my signal accoun
10.10.2024 → Long time no see Mr Android.
06.10.2024 → Bought a sofa today, feeling like an adult.
05.10.2024 → In my defence – I was as JUST below my comfort level for a d
05.10.2024 → Ups.
05.10.2024 → My Ivory subscription ended and I’ve switched to Ice Cubes.
02.10.2024 → I’d love to buy an iPod, mod it to have 1TB of storage, and

September 2024

30.09.2024 → I want to have ChatGPT integration in most of the things unf
28.09.2024 → ![](https://bunny-wp-pullzone-x7pjhy2wkp.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/88f9bd
28.09.2024 → Wordle 1,197 2/6
28.09.2024 → For 29zl (around €6) I’m getting now 120GB of 5G data. I lov
25.09.2024 → Saw wallpapers from MKBHD app – honestly it I’d pay for it I
25.09.2024 → Signal wishlist:
24.09.2024 → Panels.art – I mean just go to Unsplash.
23.09.2024 → Linux, Vim, Omakub and on being vendor agnostic | Eddie Dale
22.09.2024 → Spotify’s daylist is something different. I haven’t been tha
20.09.2024 → Your boy made it to the credits of Frostpunk 2!
16.09.2024 → Sixth episode of Mad Men today. It takes courage to binge th
15.09.2024 → Yeah not really
15.09.2024 → The keyboard.
13.09.2024 → I saw someone posting that they wanted to switch to Android
09.09.2024 → It’s actually nice to live in a world where I don’t care abo
09.09.2024 → Last year’s iPhone 15 and this year’s iPhone 16 make me feel
09.09.2024 → Thanks Apple not really interested. Wojtek told me about eve
05.09.2024 → Ok, im gonna check it.
05.09.2024 → Fortnite is great, but Epic Games Stores app on Windows is a
03.09.2024 → >Telegram clearly fails to meet this stronger definition for
02.09.2024 → Now I’m sitting and thinking if there’s anything I forgot to
02.09.2024 → Tomorrow wil be my first day of using Linux only for Work. N
02.09.2024 → Holy fuck.
02.09.2024 → Threads are fine in terms of being integrated with ActivityP

August 2024

30.08.2024 → I’ve been tracking calories for about six weeks now, and it’
28.08.2024 → On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind
27.08.2024 → I need to learn docker. The time has come.
24.08.2024 → Long day.
24.08.2024 → I’d even wish it was Chrome but I don’t trust them at all. B
24.08.2024 → I’d actually love to have all of my life in a web browser. J
23.08.2024 → I’d love to buy myself an Android phone and my wife even sai
23.08.2024 → Was just listening the Arc podcast (the one about browser) a
21.08.2024 → There’s a good and bad part to it. Good part is that I’m goi
21.08.2024 → Next time I’m going to consider using RPi4 on something I us
20.08.2024 → Even though MTG:Arena is not available on Linux it just work
20.08.2024 → New SSD just came in. Ubuntu is already installed. The only
20.08.2024 → I switched to Apple Music a long time ago, but I still use S
19.08.2024 → Homescreen 08/24.
19.08.2024 → New profile pic who dis
18.08.2024 → It started to feel bad to be so deep in Apple ecosystem when
16.08.2024 → When you’re curious but need only one spoiler.
16.08.2024 → Ordered 512GB SSD to put Linux on. Two systems on one machin
16.08.2024 → Oh, I figured it out. I’ve got couple of SATA disks laying a
15.08.2024 → Ok, so wspanialy.eu is unfucked, finally. Everything is set
15.08.2024 → Fucked up badly with Wspanialy.eu. Working on getting it bac
15.08.2024 → Today I was already deep into the rabbit hole of getting Ubu
14.08.2024 → I had Pixel 9 Pro in my basket and now you tell me that most
13.08.2024 → Last couple of weeks my Windows started crashing so I’m seri
08.08.2024 → I mean this doesn’t seem so secure if you need to have discl
07.08.2024 → I’m not great with light packing unfortunately and each holi
04.08.2024 → PGP
04.08.2024 → I’m kind of broken in different ways, one of these ways is t
03.08.2024 → About Thursday’s night. #TaylorSwift
02.08.2024 → 🍿 [Burnt (2015)](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/295964) –
01.08.2024 → When I start to think about all of this, I wonder: do I trus
01.08.2024 → Apple Music please get your shit together and be fast becaus

July 2024

31.07.2024 → Making Vivaldi look like I want (like Chrome lol) is hard an
30.07.2024 → Trying out Vivaldi. I like Brave, dislike their attention to
29.07.2024 → Two years ago. All good, even perfect 🎉
29.07.2024 → Suddenly Brave and Vivaldi on my PC are breaking up websites
28.07.2024 → > “She resumed payments for databases and software that help
27.07.2024 → Update – I got my iPhone case on. Had to do some real work o
27.07.2024 → Look ma! Tomatoes!🍅
24.07.2024 → Sometimes I put my phone in a case (it’s 99% of the time the
22.07.2024 → It feels funny to have HomeAssistant set up and ready for a
22.07.2024 → That’s the issue with PC’s that can’t be moved easily – it’s