The bloom and lighting effects in Expedition 33 make the game almost unplayable for me, even with the settings dialled down. Everything is either too bright or too dark, and there’s just too much visual noise. Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be able to get much further.

Slack’s half-baked AI summaries have lead to some of the most unintentionally funny things I've ever read.

I’m confused why a bigger deal wasn't made out of PlayStation putting Helldivers 2 on Xbox. We never hear the end of Microsoft releasing stuff on Sony hardware.

I will almost certainly not be able to finish Kingdom Come: Deliverance. It's nothing against the game, I just don't know that I have the attention span for another 15 hours of methodical sword fights between sessions of riding around the countryside on horseback.

I will buy an iPhone 17 for the fabric case alone.

A couple of weeks on Android reminded me how dependent on iMessage and FaceTime my family and I are. I was legitimately upset that I couldn't send my kid a message or jump on a video call when he's visiting my parents without him having to download multiple new apps.

Meta hasn't built anything new in over 20 years. They've bought and copied their way to continued relevance. Complete chaos, disorganization, and failure is exactly what people should expect whenever Zuck announces the company's new focus.

The vast majority of the new games that got announced yesterday look so boring and similar. They're all bloody, gross, Souls-like action games or shooters. Seeing them without titles, you'd have a tough time telling them apart.

I'm especially annoyed when it isn't crystal clear before they launch how apps plan on asking you for money. Case in point, I was excited to use Macrowave but only just found out that there's a subscription required to use broadcaster features.

I ended up replacing our TRMNL with a Raspberry Pi running MagicMirror connected to an official Pi display. For $30 less than the TRMNL X, I got a bigger colour display, complete control (and privacy) over what shows on the screen, and the satisfaction of knowing I'm not giving money to a homophobe.

One interesting side effect in switching to Android is that, because there are no numerical counts on red badges for app notifications, my overall anxiety is lower when I'm using my device. When I inevitably switch back to iPhone, it'll be one of the first things I turn off.

I set a modest reading goal of 100 books this year and I’ve blown past that. I know there's plenty more to read out there but I'm at the point where I'm struggling to find new manga series that stick with me for more than a volume or two.

Kids these days will never know the pain of having to rewatch the same 40-50 episodes of Dragon Ball Z over and over while waiting for them to translate more.

I dug out my Pebble Time only to find that the battery is cooked. So bummed.

It's still wild to me that Google shut down their dedicated podcasts app and told people to use YouTube Music instead. The app is beyond terrible.

We're all drinking out of shitty paper straws trying to save the environment while these rich assholes fly around in private jets.

This past volume of Rent-A-Girlfriend was the breaking point for me. It's hard to come to any other conclusion than one where Miyajima is just milking the series for whatever it's worth.

I hate the word “enshittification”. It’s so overused and silly that it’s lost all meaning at this point. I’m well aware a lot of services and software have gotten inherently worse because executives need the line to go up. At the same time, I think by giving it a cute, funny name, in some ways, we’ve numbed ourselves to it all.