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I'm still taking a break from social media, just posting here to say that I've noticed people unfollowing or even soft-blocking me and I just wanted to say I'm sorry for whatever I did to upset you, and I hope you'll someday let me back into your life.

So in summary, cats are terrible, but also amazing.

This pinball-metroidvania is on sale for $5 and it looks very cute. Posting here primarily for @Austin_Dern's benefit.

Looking forward to the inevitable trend of taking food that’s become inedibly toxic and spoiled and then using some expensive process to make it just barely edible, for the sake of trendiness and being “real”

(Prior art: fugu, “raw” water)

I'm still taking a break from social media, just posting here to say that I've noticed people unfollowing or even soft-blocking me and I just wanted to say I'm sorry for whatever I did to upset you, and I hope you'll someday let me back into your life.

I've been so frustrated by social media and discourse tendencies for so long now and I feel like today was a last straw for me. My therapist has been highly recommending that I take a break from all of it and, well, yeah finally listening to her.

everyone's tired and mad and I get that and we all need a lot of change

but let's try to be kind to each other instead of assuming bad faith always

love how everything is about "sides" and even compromise is a side that everyone hates

just fuck all this fucking shit

god i'm just so fucking tired

the other day I had a weird issue with my NAS and my desktop only communicating at 100Mbps, and it turned out that one of my cat5e cables was, for some reason, only transferring at 100Mbps. I figured the cable was bad and set it aside for disposal.

Today I looked at it closer and it turns out it only has two twisted pairs inside, and is, therefore, not at all cat5e. Now I wonder where I got this cable from, because the sleeve markings sure look legit!

Remember when “I’m coming down with a case of Corona” just meant “I’m bringing shitty beer to the party?”

Out of curiosity I decided to see what happens if you plug a MacBook Pro into itself via USB-C.

It sees itself as being connected to power, and also as powering something else. And it also sees a Macintosh as being connected to itself.

I'm not sure whether to feel disappointed or relieved at how anticlimactic it was.

I also give entirely no fucks about Apple One or Fitness+.

Also I’m vaguely tempted to upgrade my watch to get the SPO2 meter. Seems especially useful these days. But I just upgraded my watch a year ago and that’s a lot of money just to get one nice-to-have feature.

I do wonder if the side TouchID button on the Air is a sign of things to come with the next iPhone. Or maybe they’ll finally borrow another thing from Google and put it on the back. The touch sensor placement is approximately the only thing I actually like about the Nexus 5X.

Also the feature differences between the Air and Pro are enough that I don’t mind having them.

New Air looks like it might be a bit faster but honestly CPU speed isn’t the big driving factor for me on an iPad, as long as its fast enough for drawing and basic video stuff (and the iPad Pro is plenty fast).

Plus, FaceID is still a lot nicer than TouchID, at least on an iPad which I’m mostly using indoors and maskless.

But, when I bought it I also got a pretty big discount on AirPods Pro which I’m enjoying and I think the iPad Pro vs Air cost difference is about the same as the AirPods discount. So it all works out I guess?

(Yes it’s price ratcheting and it’s annoying but whatever.)

I ordered a new iPad Pro several weeks ago and it’s been back ordered all that time. Now Apple has announced a new iPad Air which costs a lot less and also has pretty much everything the Pro does (that I care about) but doesn’t ship for another month. I’d have probably chosen a different device to buy if I’d known how this would be.