My 2023 in songs. I have to admit I didn’t know that I’m listening to so much hip-hop.
Thought about doing Pawel.69 but it’s gonna be easier at work if I’m not gonna have the ~sex number~ in my username.
Signal » Blog » Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Huh their take is actually very, very good. Usernames just as a way to contact someone without phone number and you can change your username and then nobody can link it to your phone number? Brilliant.
Yay! Signal (beta) added usernames! Finally.
Is there a #Beluga alternative? I like how it works (and how it’s designed) but it’s only one man thing and I’m not 100% sure it’s here to stay. (Also the app is so-so without support for proper desktop, etc)
It’s going to be refreshing to use a device without a battery. Counting days till it’s here! Wednesday can’t come soon enough.
Because new PC is coming on Wednesday, today is a day I’m gonna move shit around in the office to make space for it. This also means that one of the consoles (probably Xbox) is making its way back to the living room. PS5 and PC will be in the office while Nintendo Switch with Xbox will be in the living room. Pretty fire setup I think. I’m gonna play more PS5 games I think (and if I want to play Xbox games they might be available on PC) so it makes sense to leave it in the office where I can’t bother wife with occupying a TV.
The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in jail, the country’s prison service has said, in what is likely to be seen as a political assassination attributable to Vladimir Putin.Source: Russian activist and Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison | Alexei Navalny | The Guardian
I’m not saying it wasn’t expected but it was unexpected.
Remember when I said I’m gonna buy this PC in a week? It’s gonna be here next Wednesday. 😅
I will be able to play games! This is going to be crazy. Also with 64GB of ram I might be able to have SEVEN tabs in Chrome!
Next two weeks might be crazy so I’m gonna order a PC in about a week so it will come after all that craziness. I’m actually really interested in how it is gonna go. I’m ordering a proper PC (without getting rid of my MacBook Air) because to get a Mac that allows me to play games I’d have to spend two times more than I’m gonna pay for this PC. And honestly - there’s literally no way in hell I’m gonna pay for a computer $2-3k. It’s just not right to pay this amount of money for it.
And this PC I’m gonna get will have like 2TB of SSD, 64GB of RAM and some top-of-the-line CPU and GPU. In an Apple ecosystem that would be insane amount of money.
It is also interesting that 10-15 years ago when I was using Windows there were apps for everything and nowadays it looks more like a desert. On other hand though - everything is a website these days, so I’m not sure if that’s even an issue?
High chance of me actually buying a proper PC (that I can always use to VNC into my mac if needed). I think it’s going to be interesting considering I’m thinking about getting an absolute beast of a PC (you know, these CPU numbers are big and there’s like lots of RAM so it has to be good).
And to think that I’m doing that to play Magic: The Gathering Arena without issues… (that’s only half true, I’d like to be able to do other stuff too).
Persona 5 Royal is a great game. It is also an awesome Switch port. Highly recommended. 👌
Mastodon stans: “Federation and open protocols are awesome so everyone can run servers and services!”[someone makes Mastodon to Bluesky bridge with the federation and open protocols]
Mastodon stans: “No, not like that!”
Sometimes I don’t get people. You wanted an open network, right? Right? Eh.
February 2024.
Also, I’m on a photo too! Unfortunately I got a bit chubby during my stay (food was too good to pass on) but I’ve fortunately already lost whatever I’ve gained there. But here is my face! Also - from now on - I’m Mr Snack.
Also I’m pretty sure a little bit of that chubbyness comes from that wide-angle lens I’ve used most of the time. This was shot without auto-focus. I told you I’m good!
Just to add to my last post with pictures from Tenerife. These are all fully digital shots taken with:
- Sony A6000 + 50mm/1.8 + 24mm/1.8
- Canon G5 X Mark II
- iPhone 14 Plus
All of them were instantly transferred to my iPhone, and post-production was done in Lightroom on the iPhone. I used some analog-like presets that I have collected over the past couple of years.
There will be some analog pictures as well, but I haven’t had the chance to send them to the lab yet, so it will take me a moment.
If I were to go on that trip again, I would definitely stick with the same setup. The Sony A6000, especially with the 24mm lens, was great to shoot with. It has a large sensor that allowed me to capture photos even in harsh conditions. The 24mm lens also produces very film-like photos. Even though my 24mm lens from 7Artisans is fully manual, I have to admit that I am faster than autofocus (on Canon, for example), so that wasn’t an issue. I’m happy to say that most of my shots are in focus, or at least partially!
The Canon was a great camera to have in my bag whenever we traveled somewhere. It is small, and the battery lasts long enough that I didn’t need to carry a spare with me. With its lens, I was able to do pretty much everything I wanted. Need to get close? Sure, it can go as wide as 8.8mm (FF: 24mm). Need to zoom in? No problem, 44mm (FF: 120mm) is usually sufficient. The only issue with this camera is that it struggles in low-light conditions. Fortunately, the lens is fast (f/1.8 - f/2.8), but that isn’t always enough. However, post-production can fix that, so it’s all good.
And my phone is always with me, so whenever I couldn’t take a proper picture, I would use my iPhone. I do miss the tele-lens from the pro models, but I don’t mind as much as I thought I would.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk!
Tenerife, 2024
11.02.2024
The time has finally come. It is time to share my photos from my last holiday. In January, I visited the (not so close) island of Tenerife and stayed there for a while. So let’s dive in into my warmer-than-usual January.
Our visitor - I wouldn’t call him our best friend because he wasn’t that friendly but he DID let me cuddle with him for a moment.
First part of the stay was mostly this - a stay. We did enjoy a bit of pool time. It was a great time to just sit down, put on some music and relax. But then, second week comes and we find ourselves driving car more and more, so we had a chance to take a look around the island.
Of course we had to snag some sweet pics of sunset but I just couldn’t resist doing it.
Then, for a brief moment - sky turned pink. And in this pink lightning - there’s my wife.
Then it was time to go further we ever went - quite literally! We went to see the nearby mountain (that’s actually a volcano) - El Teide.
To change a scenery a bit we moved down, to the top-right area of a map. I’m pretty good with geography as you can see. Top right, Tenerife, top right area on the map. There we went.
Of course - nothing good in life lasts forever so we found ourselves with Kalima. That unfortunately made our life a little bit worse for a moment. There was no more pretty sunsets and everything turned a bit orange. So we got not-the-best goodbye from Tenerife but that’s fine. We are gonna get a better one next time?
Interesting to see so many people being unhappy with current state of 1Password meanwhile me - on Chromium-based browsers and Firefox - I haven’t been happier with 1Password. I would like to pay less but there is NO WAY I’m gonna ditch it for iCloud passwords.
I might try to use Bitwarden because they’re cheaper but it’s going to be hard for Bitwarden to stand in for 1Password that I love so much and my whole family is using. Their integration with Fastmail to create masked emails is unbeatable.