Long time no see Mr Android.

Bought a sofa today, feeling like an adult.

In my defence - I was as JUST below my comfort level for a device I wanted to toy with for a very long time. Let’s see how it goes!

Ups.

My Ivory subscription ended and I’ve switched to Ice Cubes. Honestly, not a very big difference which I think is a great thing for Ice Cubes. Also I can see that Ivory is a Tweetbot morphed into Mastodon client because Ice Cubes have more Mastodon-related features.

I’d love to buy an iPod, mod it to have 1TB of storage, and listen to music from it instead of paying for Spotify or Apple Music. However, the challenge of downloading, buying, and even finding the songs I love is making this very difficult to do.

I want to have ChatGPT integration in most of the things unfortunately. Because, honestly, it works for me

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For 29zl (around €6) I’m getting now 120GB of 5G data. I love how cheap internet is in Poland.

Saw wallpapers from MKBHD app - honestly it I’d pay for it I’d be furious.

Signal wishlist:

• Pinned messages,
• Better media search (show me all the .pdf’s and links sent in the chat),
• Round videos (like Whatsapp/Telegram),
• Audio messages transcription.

Panels.art - I mean just go to Unsplash.

Linux, Vim, Omakub and on being vendor agnostic | Eddie Dale:

The other aspect that appealed to me from Omakub, was the "us agains the mega corporations" mindset. Whether it's Microsoft, Apple, Google or Amazon. I keep feeling this urge. An urge to move towards more open standards. I have a Kindle, but my next e-reader probably won't be from Amazon. I have an iPhone, but I'm not sure the next phone will be from Apple.

This is exactly where I’m at!

Spotify’s daylist is something different. I haven’t been that understood by a piece of music-related software. Honestly, it’s always on point and the suggestions are always wild (but good wild). But in terms of being understood by a piece software, recently I’ve made multiple changes to automations working in our home due to finally having time to sit down and take a peak into what Home Assistant allows. And since then I had thoughts like “it’s getting too hot” or “it’s getting too dark” and at - literally at this second, HA turned on a thing because it became exactly too hot or too dark.

Doing buttons, clicking them to do a thing is obviouisly an upgrade from manually doing things, but I think I finally understood what does it mean to have “the smart home”. My current approach is that whenever something happens or just annoys me (or the wifey) - I try to either make automation at this moment or I write down what happened and what could happen. Also now I get why would I buy light sensors, air quality sensors and - most importantly - occupancy sensors. Having that additional information about room being occupied is great. Even for that simple “room is occupied == true” condition.

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.