@tedmielczarek I really kinda miss this style of earbuds, wireless but wired between the buds so you can wear it like a neckband when not in your ears
https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Wireless-Bluetooth-Headphones-Microphone/dp/B09YLFHFDW
Tamagotchi
Not really a huge update, but my Tamagotchi continues to voyage home. Kinda wonder how long the battery will last
@tedmielczarek Yeah, I guess that's the problem... not cool anymore, a few models still exist but dwindling as a style every year. Still, seems like they might be better for kids and folks likely to lose little things (i.e. me)
You know, it's a bummer really liking things from problematic people.
Separate the art from the artist, yeah yeah, but sometimes folks do heinous shit and ugh
@christianselig Yesssss, this and the front camera notch - both of which so many non-iPhones have adopted too - make me so reticent to upgrade to any phone at all until hopefully these fashions pass.
@socketwench Yeah, I always use a case. Though my latest phone is the thickest I've had in the past 5-7 years, because it's thick enough to cover the whole phone back with padding and then a little more depth to account for the camera bump and even it all out
@kusuriya Like, I don't as much mind the pin-hole cameras that Samsung has done, meanwhile it seems like Apple went further to make it a "dynamic island" big capsule - and THEN they added the notch to the laptops.
@socketwench I broke a phone once... my poor Treo 600 that I thought was a good idea to put on a dorky belt pouch that I ran into a wall when I derped around a corner once
@christianselig I guess my other thing is I don't greatly value what all those sensors are doing 🤷♂️ @kusuriya
@christianselig Personally, I find FaceID to be a pain. Fails a bunch if I'm wearing a mask and/or sunglasses. If my phone is lying flat on a table, I can't just tap the screen on, I have to pick up the phone and glare at it until it unlocks.
Maybe less secure, but I miss my old Samsung phones with convenient finger print scanners. I also liked a few Android phones where I just traced a glyph to unlock. Muscle memory was fast
Also I wish I liked going to shows. Bunch of good ones coming to town soon, it seems
Things like that make me wish I could temporarily manifest as a friendly ghost or send a little unobtrusive drone to hang out
@mathowie I've had similar thoughts and then also oof kinda gross but also free beer was nice
@billmerrill Yeah, they're coming here at some point too and same same!
@signal9 @thegibson @voltur @FirewallDragons I always wonder what happens when they offer a button like this? Like, if they already used the data in training, the egg's scrambled. They can't humor your revocation later.
@thegibson @signal9 @voltur @FirewallDragons I wouldn't be surprised if there are a bunch of these kinds of switches that don't actually do anything, but feed into a "sentiment analysis" someone touts to show how many users didn't turn it off as a positive metric
I have training budget left over at work. I am scheming to make the case that I will read training course materials on a Steam Deck screen if they let me expense it.
(i don't expect this will work)
wife: oh hey you made breakfast really fast
me: toaster's haunted
wife: what?
me: (loading a pistol and heading back into the kitchen) toaster's haunted
I am not a number. I am a meat popsicle.
"There are just black holes, where the stars would be watching. Just black holes, where the stars should've been."
And that's one of the least ominous lines of this song. Also, most threatening bagpipes I've ever heard. (I don't think that's bagpipes, but I don't know what instrument it is)
One of my favorite songs.
This track "Folded Hands" from Bill Leeb's new album "Model Kollapse" makes me want to go be surly & brooding at a corner table in a goth club back in 1997 or so.
Also super happy to hear ACTORS and Shannon Hemmet teaming up with Bill Leeb
https://frontlineassembly.bandcamp.com/track/muted-obsession-feat-actors