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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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Category: Technology

  • Random thoughts.

    This week has been pretty good with it ending the week where I have found out I’ll end up getting a bonus for the work for the last 6 months of the year which will be nice for when I head overseas – paying for travel insurance along with a bit of spending money. It’ll…

  • Apple releases updates for the remaining platforms.

    Apple released this morning (Friday NZ time) updates for macOS, tvOS, watchOS etc. which includes not only a whole lot of security fixes (link) it also includes a pretty major upgrade for Safari (link) which translates into performance improvements, improvements in web standards compliance and much more. In the past I’ve been pretty harsh on…

  • Some random thoughts.

    So there have been a parade of articles come out regarding ‘Project Titan’, an rumoured electric car from Apple, has been shut down (link). I can’t help but get a sense that the whole ‘Project Titan’ has been getting slowly wound down over the last several years with the next generation of CarPlay being announced…

  • Thinking about Firefox and other things.

    I’m reading through articles talking about how Mozilla is planning for the future in terms of generating revenue and growing Firefox market share. The thing is, if you want to grow market share then you need to win over the tech enthusiasts, the family member who is ‘good with computers’, the van guard of early…

  • A couple of days off from work.

    I’ve been powering through having a sore throat and coughing because I didn’t have any sick leave left and I’ve used my annual leave for my trip overseas at the end of May so I’ve decided to take two days off to properly recover rather than pushing through and find it hangs around for longer.…

  • Progress is being made.

    Got in contact with mechanic working on my scooter – looks like it is almost ready except the battery needs to be replaced so they were waiting on me to give it the go ahead where they will order it on an overnight courier down from Auckland. I’m not surprised that the battery needs to…

  • End of another week, start of a new week.

    Well, hopefully on Monday I’ll be able to pick up my scooter after having it in the repair shop for the week, I haven’t heard anything back but I hope that means its ready to be picked up but with that being said I haven’t received my vehicle licence yet so I’m going to have…

  • Burnt by jumping in too early.

    As mentioned a few days ago I upgraded my Nothing Phone to Nothing OS 2.5.2 (Android 14) via side loading (downloading the zip from Google then loading it using the dialler method) but what I found is that the more I used it the more buggy I found it to the point that I did…

  • Nothing OS 2.5.2 has been released

    Rather than waiting for it to eventually arrive in my country I decided to download and manually install the upgrade to Nothing OS 2.5.2 by using the direct download link (link) (I’ll do a factory reset later on so that I can clear off all the old cruft and set it up like a new…

  • Well, it was meant to be posted at the end of last week.

    Another day another dime and this morning Santa came late and dropped off a chest freezer that’ll be put into my office (no room in the kitchen) where I’ll gradually build up a good supply of food so that there is less temptation to buy take outs. It’s been a week of taking this approach…