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"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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  • Nothing OS 2.0.2 released for Nothing Phone 1.

    Nothing has released the Nothing OS 2.0.2 (link) and rather than waiting what I decided to do was side load it via the following instructions (link). The whole process was very smooth and when it came back up I found that it was more responsive although I did change the icon pack from the monochrome…

  • Government debt and the National Party tax policy.

    If you’ve been following the election so far there are the usual suspects whipping the population into hysteria about how the whole system is going to collapse in on itself due to Labour’s free spending ways (link) (link) – put ‘nz increase public debt’ into Google News and see the avalanche of doom and gloom…

  • Always good to try new things.

    Well, I gave Firefox another whirl and although there are improvements in terms of speed not to mention it is the browser recommended by uBlock Origin developer, I found that it wasn’t always smooth sailing. An example of that would be using Firefox with the web version of Skype where it works smoothly with Chrome,…

  • I’ve hit peak side orders.

    I ordered a pizza online a few minutes ago and normally I’ll grab a few sides but these days I can’t help but look at the sides and sigh with boredom that there is nothing interesting on offer, the same things on offer. The other place I buy my pizza from used to have interesting…

  • Getting life sorted out.

    I finally got myself motivated enough to head to the local tech store to buy a USB-C earphones – NZ$45 for some Samsung AKG EO-IC100 and so far they have been pretty good when combined with Poweramp Music Player and Equaliser I am getting some good audio quality, good bass, no distortion etc. although I…

  • Maybe Samsung isn’t so bad after all.

    Just had a look at videos of Samsung’s launch of their One UI 6 beta programme and it appears that things are getting better in terms of the overall UI experience – yeah, I’m one of these strange people who focus on usability rather than fixating for almost an hour over the camera setup. After…

  • Voting may not change the world but we can use it to minimise the harm.

    I thought it would be best to write a follow up to a toot/post I made over on Mastodon to expand upon the point I was making – the benefit of microblogging is that it is easy to get ideas out into the ether of the internet but many times they’re terse and lacking the…

  • Looking forward to Nothing OS 2.0.

    I was hoping that Nothing OS 2.0 would be Android 14 based but with the launch of the Nothing Phone 2.0 the Nothing OS 2.0 is based on Android 13 which will be coming to the Nothing Phone 1 – it’ll be interesting to see whether the kernel is upgraded to a newer version but…

  • UnifiOS updates released.

    Ubiquiti has released two updates, the first being a UnifiOS update for my UDM which updates it from 3.0.20 to 3.1.15 and firmware for the Unifi AP AC HD has been updated from 6.5.28 to 6.5.62. Both the UDM and the access point have been rock solid since the update but keeping in mind I…

  • Apple releases updates.

    Apple has released a bevy of updates, on macOS the firmware was updated from 8422.121.1 to 8422.141.2 and the firmware/driver for wifi from updated from 20.96.28.1.8.7.146 to 20.96.31.0.8.7.148, I haven’t noticed any difference in terms of speed but equally I haven’t noticed any regressions. Safari has also been updated to 16.6 however I am still…