Miscellanea for 2025-05-14
- Hello world!
- Looks like I ended up with an AI-heavy posting day, today. I think I broke the seal yesterday. I'll probably post about other things in the near future.
- I've been meaning to write something up about the Rube Goldberg machine that runs this blog now. Writing this bullet point to irritate myself to do it soon, maybe.
- I bought a BOOX Tab Ultra C almost 2 years ago. I use it almost daily for writing notes and journal entries. It's also been pretty great for reading comics in color. Two things I really don't like about it:
- It's got a camera bump on the back, so it doesn't sit flat on a table without a case on.
- The case that came with it is disintegrating into dust.
- So, I'm considering trying to design my own replacement case - or at least a layer to stick on the back to even out the camera bump.
- Hoping to use #3dprinting and embed magnets that line up with the device's own internal case mounting magnets.
- But, like, why put a camera bump on a tablet?
- Why design a camera bump into anything, really? Just make the device thicker and fill the rest of the space with battery.
- I need to stop before I go on a cranky rant about my intense disgust for camera bumps and notches and other failures of design from Apple that the rest of the industry have just copied.
- Really, I'm just caremad, because I used to be a huge fan of Apple - had the sticker on my car and everything. But, they have betrayed me over the years with stuff that seems to matter only to me. 🤷♂️
- Just noticed that jpmonette/feed - a node.js module for generating RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds - got a new release a couple days ago after about 4 years of dormancy.
- Looks like they may have possibly fixed a few of the issues I had with it, when last I tried using it. 🤔
- I need to work links & bookmarks into this new blog in a better way. Like these:
- Nintendo Revises User Agreement, And If You Break It, Nintendo Reserves The Right to Brick Your Switch
- Well, that just makes me want to jailbreak my Switch even more and then never again connect it to the internet.
- Critical Warning for External Purchases in App Store
- Yeah, it's stuff like this that's got me fixed on switching back to Android with my next phone.
- I've only bought one iPhone and I've never felt the Courage or the Magic the whole time I've used it. It's never felt like my phone, always felt like a loaner with a breathalyzer and a bill acceptor slot.
- That said, the thing is physically a tank and will probably survive intact to annoy me for a few more years before I can justify the replacement cost.