Hopefully no different from life now.

Steam Deck + noise cancelling headphones.

I haven’t worked out the sleeping part yet, but will be scouring the comments here for ideas.

Has it ever been ‘playable’?

Definitely the Okama Gamesphere.

Smidge! Buy smidge. It works really well against a variety of biting things.

Moving to Ireland. Better than the UK in almost every way.

I thought Fairphone would solve this for me, but the thing is too damn chonky.

• A general feeling of alienation from society. Particularly younger people.
• Dislike of ‘modern’ music.
• Nostalgia over the way things used to be as you have lived long enough to witness the enshittification.

I used to, because I had a buggy TP-Link modem/router, & adding a cap was the only way that port forwarding would magically start to work. I have no idea why. The bug never got fixed.

Having recently migrated, the only things I miss from the UK are:

• Public right of way networks (country trails, etc)
• Slightly more stable weather
• Slightly cheaper coffee & chocolate
• Starling bank

If you were Polish, those would be your balls.

Pubert

It catches up with all of us eventually. One day you find you just have to start cutting back.

True, but I found a flashing colour more informative. I knew instantly what it meant. With an AOD I’d have to look more intently at the phone or bring it closer to my ageing eyes.

No, but I was considering switching back to having one. I had an iPhone + Linux laptop combination for a while, which makes getting your music on your phone impossible. Now I’ve switched to a phone with CalyxOS, getting my FLAC & mp3 files on my phone is doable again, so I might not go the route of getting a dedicated mp3 player.

I kind of miss it. It was discrete and useful.

Untrained dogs while you’re out on a run is another level of hell. & there are so many!

I think the arkenfox project website has some good info on this. For a good privacy baseline, you basically only need to enable strict mode and download the ublock origin extension, then change some settings for the extension (e.g. add filter lists).

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

The sad thing is I’m not sure Labour will reverse (m)any of these policies if they take power in the next election.

What’s the best horror film for Halloween?