Darren

I’ve been gifted a few old Samsung S3s for using in our workshop at work. They’re all the same model, but it turns out that one of them runs a different processor. So I’ve been able to put LineageOS on two of them, but the third refuses to unlock.

Meanwhile, I moved into the world of Android a few months ago after having iPhones since 2009. Within half an hour of taking delivery of my Pixel 9 it was running GrapheneOS.

Fuck Samsung.

This isn’t always true though, so obese people end up not receiving the care they should, because their dr couldn’t or wouldn’t see past their weight.

Given what a shitty cabal of arseholes Apple has become, it kills me how good my M2 Air is. It’s a genuinely incredible bit of hardware.

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 !!! AMERICA, FUCK YEAH !!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Same goes for sexual abusers too.

Doesn’t matter how good that first Lostprophets album is, I just can’t listen to it knowing what Watkins got up to, so I’ll listen to music by people who didn’t fuck a literal baby.

I periodically delete my Metallica collection so I can re-download it for no other reason than fuck Lars.

Trump has the right to BoC.

To be fair, an iPad can be used for way more than the average punter will do with theirs. I used to broadcast my radio show with mine, using a mini as a midi controller for my mic. It was pretty cool.

But yeah, for all the workarounds and hoop jumping I had to do, Mixxx could do it all on a regular computer, for free.

So these days mine is a social media / note taker / third screen for my Mac. Very much not worth the £600 Apple are rinsing for this thing. I can’t imagine how disappointing it must have been to shell out for an M1 Pro in the belief that Apple were about to beef up iPadOS. Then they…didn’t.

I did the iPad-only thing for a year back in 2019/20 and while it was fine, I spent much of the time low-key irritated by the shit I had to jump through hoops for. Shit that a regular computer can just do.

By the end of my experiment it was abundantly clear that Apple had 0 interest in making iPadOS more useful for anything more than whatever its apps could do. Five years on and my opinion hasn’t changed. I still use an iPad (mini), but mostly because it was a gift which comes in handy for note taking.

There was one paragraph about AI. Hardly a ramble.

This is true, I was there.

Maybe I was wrong about this guy. Maybe he’s actually pretty chill.

This one is my spirit animal.

Set to search only file sizes of >320 and revel in limitless FLACs.

Step 1. Download Kazaa Lite Step 2. Use Kazaa Lite to download Kazaa Step 3. Profit

Over on Twitter I was keen to chat to people with large follower bases in order to perhaps hook in to some of that. On Mastodon I generally have no idea how many followers people have because it really isn’t important to me any more.

If someone is interesting, and their engagement good, then I’m happy to be a follower.

I’ve found almost the exact opposite.

Engagement on Lemmy is mostly fine, but I chat with people all the time on Mastodon

I think the key is to meet people on their level, to find people who share your interests and sensibilities. Follow plenty of folks and chat to them and before long you’ll have a grand little community.

He was the absolute perfect casting choice for Lee Scorseby. It’s a shame the movie was dog shit and the studio killed the series, but I wouldn’t have blamed the BBC in the slightest if they’d approached him to reprose the role. Instead we we got Lin Manuel Miranda, who was fine. But he wasn’t Sam Elliott.

Mopping out Laszlo’s masturbatorium.

I always undo my laces before taking off my trainers.

No matter how tired I am, I always take a few seconds to untie my laces, because if I don’t I’ll wear through the heels and then I’ll need new trainers.