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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • There was a really fun show I found… Let me get the name… “Joe and Katherine bargain holidays”, where they"vacation" on a “budget”, in the first (or second?) episode the go to an owl sanctuary, where they learn it’s 3$ (pounds) to hold an owl, Joe is flabbergasted by this and announces that he’s going to spend more money holding owls than on anything else in this episode, I think they started with 10 owls for 30 pounds, then asked to round it up to a dozen, then a bakers dozen. It actually looked like something I’d gladly spend money to do, and I would imagine it’s a pretty good cause.

    The series is posted to YouTube, and if you haven’t seen “task master” I cannot recommend it highly enough. Joe and Katherine are on season 2. Save season 7 until you’ve seen enough of it to be comfortable with what’s going on, because it’s an amazing season (as they all are) but the cast is the least restrained in their antics.












  • That’s a shame, my favorite way of gaming on the deck (outside of some console port games) is Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, I play 4x and grand strategy games, along with many games that are “have not been tested for the deck”. This new thing looks like it would be a huge pain because you’re either going to have to play it while looking down at it on a hard surface, or you’re going to be imparting motion on the device every time you try to use the keys (or the keys will be so soft that they’re prone to sticking/errant inputs).

    My only trouble with Bluetooth m+kb on the deck is some games refuse to acknowledge you’re not using the controls, and will pop up the keyboard interface every time a text entry box is opened, that’s annoying but most games don’t force that.



  • I was just talking about this yesterday.

    My wife has a top of the line “remarkable” with upgraded storage space, she’s grandfathered into that option, which is no longer available. it’s now entirely monthly subscriptions, she wouldn’t have had the opportunity if she weren’t an early adopter.

    We used to swear by “never buy iteration 1 of a generation” but today it seems that if a product is going to be successful, it’s going to get degraded in iteration 2.

    Textbook enshittification. Now you have to take a chance on something being good and the company sticking around, and buy in before it gets on the radar of investors.