Matisyahu's Blog

Well, I’m working on Matariki but on the upside there is a bonus – I get time and a half plus a day in lieu since this is my normal day of work (I work a Wednesday to Sunday schedule). One thing I’ll need to remember is completing the time sheet at the end of my shift – I’m sure I won’t forget.

The first crop of reviews for the Nothing Phone 2 are being uploaded to YouTube:

For me, I’m no great urgency about getting the Nothing Phone 2 but it is great to hear that for a small player in the market to get to 800,000 without the exhaustive network of resellers, a massive marketing budget, deals with carriers etc. they’ve done remarkably well. For me, I purchased my Nothing Phone 1 from PB Tech in Wellington (Nothing Phone 1, 256GB storage, 12GB RAM) and have been a happy user ever since – Google Workspace being my cloud provider of choice.

It’ll be interesting to see what the performance difference will be like with the flagship level SoC that it now includes with the Nothing Phone 2. Personally, I think the greatest benefit isn’t the hardware necessarily but the software, the fact that it is crapware free, isn’t chock full of shovelware that third parties pay OEMs to preload or what takes place in the US where mobile phone carriers ram a whole heap of third party nonsense on the phone by default.

Now onto the Trump trial where his legal team are attempting to delay and stall for as long as they can:

So the Trump legal team want a delay until after the elections – we all know what would happen if it was delayed, Trump loses the election, he complains it is due to the court case looming over the election campaign even though it was his legal team who asked for it and his support base aren’t actually interested in facts if it contradicts the larger narrative of Trump being the perpetual victim of the system and in turn see themselves as victims.

The worse part about this whole MAGA movement is the fact that people aren’t interest in facts (as Chris Christie points out all the broken promises Trump has made) or policy but instead vote based on vibes, sticking it to the libs etc. etc. By the way, this situation isn’t unique to MAGA voters, I would hazard to guess that for a significant number of people they vote based on vibes or continuing the tradition of being a ‘Labour Family’ or a ‘National family’. If people were voting based on policy then it would be possible to talk about policy and why one policy is better than another but when the basis is has no grounding in reality it isn’t surprised that the quality of the discourse heads down the toilet.