“No, you cannot watch this 45 year old cartoon, streamed from an ad-funded service, on hardware you own and paid for, because what if you were stealing it”

Ugh. Fuckin drm, man.

Accidentally let my phone update itself to a version that demands age verification, which I’d been trying to avoid. Somewhat unexpectedly, it didn’t actually demand anything new evidence, but took the sensible option of just spotting that my apple account is really old.

So now the barrier for me being pleasantly surprised by a tech firm has fallen as low as “maybe just do something minimally irritating when a much more intrusive thing could be done instead” which is just 😔

We were visited by the spicy pillow fairy!

I picked it up, and wondered what the strange warm squishy package was. And then put it down quickly.

(it was just warm as it was in the sun, not actually brewing up, but it was still unsettling)

Nobody knows where it came from, or who decided to wrap it in a plastic bag and dump it outside the office bathroom window. It has subsequently been moved to the lithium battery naughty corner.

Its hard to convey how big commercial glass houses are. This place has 7, and each is approximately 100m x 100m.

I’m doing a lot of walking, and even with the magic automatic sunshades and ventilation, it is quite a lot sweatier than my usual software dev work 🥵