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Deleted tiktok, Instagram and reddit from my phones. Again. I think this is the moment in which my mental health needs them to be unreachable.

Pixel 8a is amazing.

Day One on Windows. Finally.

I also love when Apple influencers are screaming about how Apple behaves badly but ask them if they would make a change and then suddenly there’s this one very, very critical workflow that they wouldn’t be able to reproduce on other OS. But if only!

Lee and Jason made some good points regarding change.

And Lee said:

I’ve gotten to the point where I’m less and less interested in listening to those that on one hand say Apple etc are gross then go out and buy the next thing they release.

Even though he didn’t say it, I immediately thought about all of these Apple influencers with podcasts. Apple bad, but new phone yes please.

I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one trying to escape the Apple ecosystem.

iPhone 16e without MagSafe – bummer. Not that I was interested in it, but I thought they would be adding it to every product. And it looks like the 16e has even worse wireless charging capabilities than my own 14 Plus.

Interesting things that are happening in our household are talks about how we should probably switch from being an Apple-mostly household to being more open. And interestingly, I’m not the one that has the strongest opinions here. My wife has even started thinking about the Nothing Phone (probably the not-yet-unveiled 3/3a) as a successor to her iPhone 11 Pro.

421 days of adding something new to Day One, 223 days of tracking calories in Lose It, 2010 days of playing Torn. You might say I like routines.

Maybe related to my previous post but maybe not – I’m moving off Google and Apple Photos onto Ente.

If you want to, you can use my Referral Code – NMWZUZ and get another 10GB for free.

I’m getting older, and I don’t care as much about open source and such. But at the same time, the older I get, the more concerned I become about being screwed over by another proprietary software changing its rules or something similar, forcing me to find an alternative to whatever I was using. It’s so annoying!

Material You or whatever it is called on Android is much better than whatever iOS is doing. But that’s like my opinion.

Now I get why people with their own flats are so resistant to even considering renting a flat in the future.

I’m much closer to getting rid of all of my social media than I was ever before