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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Android. I like being able to install apps from places other than the official app store. Do I do it often on my phone? No. But I also have an Android-powered retro handheld gaming doodad (Retroid Pocket 3) and that’s full of all kinds of homebrew, from Sonic fangames to emulators to a sourceport of Mario 64 that could never be gotten from the Apple appstore.

    Do I like Android? Yes, but as much as I used to. I used to really look forward to exploring a new version of the OS, but over the past five years or so there’s been a steady march to iOS-ify it and dumb it down. Now, when I install a new version of Android, I get a sinking feeling in my stomach as I see all the nifty stuff being removed :(



  • 12 months to see a hospital physio who got me in front a surgeon the next day, he wondered how I was still walking.

    Same thing happened to me with my lipoma. it was 15cm in diameter by the time a GP finally referred me for surgery. The surgeon said “yeah we like to remove them when they’re 5cm diameter or greater”. Which was the size it was when I first saw a doctor about it.

    It was about 18 months before I got surgery, when they told me it was a 6-month wait. So I’m sure you’ll get seen before too long =)









  • at what point are we customers going to revolt and demand ownership rights over things we pay for? I pay $300 for a copy of some software I don’t own and won’t even install after a certain amount of time? I have to submit to forced updates that break functionality I rely on, but any feedback I give is ignored? I’m not allowed to resell games I’ve finished and no longer want or need in my collection?

    I have an expensive computer, but all the processing happens “in the cloud”?

    Fuck this.