pawel orzech blog

I’ve had about four Windows updates in the span of three days. Each one, of course, requires a reboot. So now, instead of letting it update my PC, I’ve postponed every single update for five weeks just so it *finally* lets me use the PC without being in a constant state of rebooting. This has never changed—every single macOS, iPhone, or Android update is something I welcome with open arms, but whenever Windows needs updating, I’m on the verge of crying myself to sleep at the mere thought of it.

That’s a lamp.

Honestly it’s a gimmick but when it works and is useful, it’s crazy good.

The biggest tech revelation for me this year is that I don’t have to rely on Apple that much. I’ve embraced the open waters. I haven’t moved to Android completely (yet?), but I’m a bit of a “two-phones” type of guy now. I dropped the Apple Watch and went with a Whoop + normal watch combo. Apart from my Mac, I got myself a really nice tower PC that I use every day. There’s more to it, too—I had to find multi-platform apps, and I’m happy to say I’m good. Everything works great, and I live happily in this messy ecosystem.

Apparently, I didn’t need so many things I thought were necessities. It’s freeing.

Wait, so with 18.2 I’m not getting ChatGPT powered Siri on older devices? What?

New watch who this.

Took me five years to draw a dick with my weight data.

One day I might even accept being a two phone person.

Never change iOS widgets. Never change.

I wish new hobbies wouldn’t cost about $100 to start. I’m looking at used iPods and some of them are very cheap but need some tinkering…

Leaving Apple Watch behind will be problematic for sure, but holy shit I will not miss my wrist vibrating whenever there’s a notification from an app that I forgot to turn off on the AW. Too old to being easily bothered with access to myself.

Made up my mind. Just paid for a year of Whoop (thanks to Cyber Monday discount I saved about €60) and bought a normal, regular watch. Now I’m gonna be able to track all of my activity, be less dependent on Apple ecosystem and finally rock a watch that could work for my entire life. I’d say that’s a good thing.

I don’t want to but I have to admit – Windows is as buggy/crashy as it was advertised on reddit and such. My MacBook’s uptime is like 7 days and that’s because I updated it a week ago. I’m feeling happy when my Windows machine works a couple days without crash.

Frank Ocean.

I don’t get why Apple Watch doesn’t do the same shit Whoop is doing. They have the same data, but Whoop is like thousand times more helpful. I tries to understand my patterns and gives me actionable advices that – seems like are good. Damn you Apple because I wanted to return that Whoop and I’m not so sure anymore.