Tried firing up my old iPod Shuffle over the weekend. Turns out the battery inside had a similar idea. I’m way too nervous to detach the spicy pillow in fear of causing a fire just to save the logic board 😥 RIP to a real one

My Retroid Pocket Classic arrived in the mail right before the holidays and I’ve been busy with it ever since! Here’s a side-by-side comparison with the original Game Boy Color in Atomic Purple.

Finished reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. I think my most useful takeaway from the book is scheduling leisure time for myself. I used to read, draw, and play more when I was younger, but time has a way of gifting us more responsibilities that require our attention.

Brought my TrimUI Brick with me expecting a queue while at the advanced polling station. Was kind of disappointed that there was only one other person in front of me, and this would only be a short 5-minute visit without any playtime 🙃

After sleeping on it since last Fall I finally mustered up the motivation to finish off Death’s End by Liu Cixin over the last couple of months. Faced with tragedy at every turn I really started to feel bad for Cheng Xin at the end, but one spoiler-free quote stuck with me that really underlined the entire tragic saga: “Humanity chose you, which meant they chose to treat life and everything else with love […]”.

The #Plex app redesign for iPhone and iPad is objectively worse in almost every way. It’s like they saw the Sonos app disaster rollout as a blueprint, not a warning.

Thank you Microsoft for being the catalyst that finally helps me move my entire family group chat from Skype into the open arms of Signal. Thanks and good riddance!

Attempted to clean out my MX Keys keyboard tonight and managed to damage my spacebar. I’m not a complete novice when it comes to disassembly, but I’m shocked by how very delicate and fragile the clips are under these key caps.

TIL that Jim Davis wrote a Garfield comic strip in which Jon drinks a cup of dog semen to impress nurse Liz. Thanks, #heyriddleriddle

Egg nog in October?? Pour me a glass!