There’s a relentlessness to work at the moment. Every couple of days feels like. another management pack is required to update yet another group of people with vaguely similar information. Thankfully, a week off to recharge from this coming Friday. Will also be NAS build time – took delivery of fans, cables and a quite beautiful CPU cooler today. A 3d print is required and then I can get cabling.
I’ve always liked products that gain utility over time, especially something like the AirPod which Apple inclemently improve every year without the need to buy. anew version. Trmnl announced a great firmware update – more grays, less flicker and better battery life. I’ve loved my little Trmnl over the last few weeks – tempted to get the larger Trmnl X.
OpenAI released GPT-5 to everyone. In the land of bumpy launches, this didn’t go well. I don’t think I’ve seen a Reddit forum look more like a Black Mirror episode than I did the day after GPT-5 was released. There’s far more people co-dependant on ChatGPT than I dared think. Not good.
Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon – Tim Cooks performance at the Whitehouse was sad to see, but he probably had to do it for the good of Apple. The share price rose 13% this week alone, although I’d much rather that be due to a break through device or a Siri that actually worked.
Wplace – this is wild. A 4 million pixel art war based on the world. People are so creative with just simple pixels.
Battlefield 6 Open Beta was a blast. Felt a lot more solid than the last Battlefield and still has that mix of frantic action, large maps with quieter sections and buildings being destroyed around you just when you thought you’d found cover. Love it.
Watched 28 Years Later. Actually watched the first two films in the series as well. 28 Days Later was great, 28 Weeks not so much. 28 Years was a bit of a mess. Didn’t know what it wanted to be.
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