Nifty Lifty!

I pre-ordered at the start, but opted to cancel.

There were a couple of question marks over chip manufacture and compatibility via the Android layer that i wasn’t sure about, and it hit me that what i really wanted was to distance myself entirely from the pocket computer.

I’ve got a de-googled, open source tablet if i need to do anything, a computer, and a phone if i want to make or receive a call.

Keeping me hooked into the 24 hour news cycle, surveillance capitalist drama, isn’t something i should be nurturing.

I know it’s pretty tinfoil hat, but it seems like the tide of public opinion turning against Israel has given rise to an acceleration of plans to heavily regulate the internet in many western countries.

Very middling hardware though.

Melania wanted me to stick my whole arm in her then cried when I knocked over the box of baking soda she keeps up there.

Ah, so a bit like asking the burglar to show you how they got in?

Is this Francis? Poor little bloke isn’t with us any longer.

It’s hardly shocking that only reading the Cliff Notes gives you a less extensive knowledge of subject matter.

I think it comes from the French "feux’, which means lights, as in lights in the sky. The phrase was coined by pilots over France.

It must be serious, he put his special little windcheater on for the announcement.

I used to visit Filesoup’s forums a fair bit, and Homestar Runner too.

She’s got to put a statement out every day, otherwise people might forget how important she is.

He’s shit and everything, sure, but this is The Express. I wouldn’t even use the paper to wipe my arse.

We’ve got one member of the household down with COVID, one down with a cold (so far) and two feeling like a bag of smashed crabs. The Autumn lurgy has hit like a steam shovel this year.

His face, in general, was very maddening tbh.

That semi-colon made me wretch.

He hasn’t nonced enough kids.

I’d argue it doesn’t “just work” any longer. I recently left iOS for Android, after 10 years with an iPhone. The keyboard was the first issue, the OS stalling and making the device heat up was another. The lack of actual smarts got a bit annoying, too. You ask Siri something and it goes down a k-hole.

I’ll probably end up on a Fairphone without any Google tripe, which is a shame, because I quite like my new OnePlus 13.

And the UK is still in the middle at the top…