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Your boy made it to the credits of Frostpunk 2!

Sixth episode of Mad Men today. It takes courage to binge this hard.

Yeah not really

The keyboard.

I saw someone posting that they wanted to switch to Android but because they don’t want to think about tech they will buy iPhone. Again. If that’s you I have a tip – you don’t have to buy new phone. You can use whatever you have, it’s probably enough.

It’s actually nice to live in a world where I don’t care about new iPhones. I know, I’m repeating myself, but this is a new thing for me and I’m trying to cherish every moment.

Last year’s iPhone 15 and this year’s iPhone 16 make me feel good about getting that Android phone. At this point – seriously – I’m waiting for a discount for either Pixel 8a or 8. I want to spend about $400 or less for one of these and I’m going to be golden. Seriously, I want to prove (mostly to myself) that great phones with great capabilties can be cheap enough. There’s no way in hell I’m ever going to spend $1000 and more for a phone. And thanks to our new flat – I don’t even need an iPhone to control it because of OS-agnostic Home Assistant. The only thing that is still keeping me glued to iOS is Apple Watch, but maybe I should just get that Garmin and call it a day? I’ll definitely miss the UI and watchfaces but I think I can manage with some mid-end Garmin that can show me the temperature and calendar event. These are interesting times, seriously. Even though not much is exciting for me in the news – the lack of this external excitement is actually making me excited about big moves.

Thanks Apple not really interested. Wojtek told me about event happening because I wasn’t even aware that it is happening today. 😂

Ok, im gonna check it.

Fortnite is great, but Epic Games Stores app on Windows is abysmal. Not sure if I’ve ever used slower software than this.

>Telegram clearly fails to meet this stronger definition for a simple reason: it does not end-to-end encrypt conversations by default. If you want to use end-to-end encryption in Telegram, you must manually activate an optional end-to-end encryption feature called “Secret Chats” for every single private conversation you want to have. The feature is explicitly not turned on for the vast majority of conversations, and is only available for one-on-one conversations, and never for group chats with more than two people in them.
Source: blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/2…

I’m trying very hard to move away from Telegram. I’ve already switched some conversations to iMessage, and I’m trying to get my wife to stick with Signal (though it lacks some crucial features for us). We’ll see how things go in a month. Ideally, I’d like to move everything to Signal or a combination of Signal and iMessage, but right now, I’m torn between Telegram, Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp.

WhatsApp is something I won’t be able to fully get rid of—our entire family uses it, and since it’s encrypted, that’s sufficient for now (I’m aware of the metadata issues, but that’s okay for the moment). iMessage will stick around since I’ll be using iPhones for the foreseeable future. I don’t want to feel forced to use it, especially since I also use Windows and Linux, but it’s not a dealbreaker.

Life was easier when I didn’t care about Telegram’s encryption and privacy issues. Eh. EH.

Now I’m sitting and thinking if there’s anything I forgot to move from Windows to Linux (even though I didn’t “move”, I just installed it side by side and everything on Windows is still there). Also Windows is here to stay since I can’t play Warzone on Linux, so I will have to use Windows too and that’s fine. I just don’t want to use Windows everyday.

Tomorrow wil be my first day of using Linux only for Work. Not sure if it’s gonna work out but let’s see. I can always boot into Windows if needed.

Holy fuck.

>In a pitch deck to prospective customers, one of Facebook’s alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users’ smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.

futurism.com/the-byte/…

Threads are fine in terms of being integrated with ActivityPub, but holy shit if this isn’t an engagement hell. Because I see how this app tries to hook me in I can’t (and will not) use it.