Back in MY DAY, we’d call that an image macro! A meme is an idea that spreads organically, not just a cool picture!

I go to a phone store every time I get a new phone!

checks when my last phone was bought… 2018

I go to a phone store every six or seven years!

A ball of 90% pure (tested myself) round me is about 200USD. A couple bumps gets me gakked for at least an hour. I could OD easily for about 100USD… that’s like 8GB of DDR4 or some shit hahaha

Oh my gawd it’s best thing. Hospital was insane but very interesting and by the time I got home I was feeling pretty awesome… my boss told me to not think about work and that he set me up for a leave of absence I still get paid for with HR. I’m treasuring every day.

Oh dear… I was in hospital a few weeks ago and I’ve been recovering at home. In the last two weeks I’ve manly played three games: 64 hours in the first, 50 hours in the second, and 10 hours in the third (that one was all in one day)

I’d never use a thing like GeForce Now either way, but I’d be boned hahaha

Today it’s Pokémon AND drug fun!

18/14 for me! I knew wayyyy more of the drugs than Tolkien characters—80% of my Tolkien answers were lucky guesses!

Supporting giant evil DOES sometimes get you free stuff… I know folks who have accidentally been shipped multiple of what they’re ordering (in two cases, the items were quite expensive) and when they’ve brought it up, they were told to keep the extras.

Maybe not worth the evil, but hey, free stuff is cool.

I love my iPhone, I’ve been using them for like 12 years (I loved Android but switched when physical keyboards stopped exiting cuz I liked iOS’s keyboard a lot, then fell in love with most of the rest of the OS and how long I could keep my phone for before replacing.)

The one thing I absolute hate is the App Store. It’s insane. It’s so counter to the rest of Apple’s “simple stuff that works” … “ethos”. I use VERY few apps, I only have a couple installed on my phone. Say I want one, though. I open the App Store right now. Main page it dumps me on: 75% of the screen is a Tinder ad (I’ve never used a dating app and I’ve been with my partner for 15 years.) The rest of the screen space below that is a Google Gemini ad (I don’t use any Google products or services anymore, wtf Apple?)

I click on the “Games” tab below and it’s an EXTREMELY busy, loud, colorful assault on my senses. Absolutely not! The “Apps” tab isn’t any better, huge ads take up 50% of the screen and below that, GET TIKTOK AND TINDER. Uhhhh no, never.

Okay, let’s go to search. Click, and it gives me a search box at the bottom with some suggested apps and games I might like. I can appreciate that Apple’s data collection is allegedly a lot lighter than other companies, because none of the suggested shit is anything I would ever touch in my life. Let’s download one of the very few games I have on my phone: Ascension, a deck building game. I type “ascension game” and the first result is an AD FOR A WEIRD MEDICAL APP THAT DOESN’T SAY ASCENSION ANYWHERE AND HAS 70 REVIEWS WHYYYYY?!

An absolute mess compared to the mostly great layouts of their other programs on the iPhone. I do not love the latest iPhoto UI change but I can deal with that. The App Store is fucked.

Ewwwww nice. I’ll continue avoiding those hahaha.

My office has a nugget ice dispenser, they got it about six months ago… I’ll never stop using that when I stop by there, even when it’s disgusting. Nugget ice is the best thing ever.

Oooo why’s that? Disgusting ice machines? I only ever get takeout so I never get store drinks, but I used to always get lots ice as a kid cuz I loved to chew it.

Uh … yeah, it’s his livelihood. He writes books on programming with Apple machines. Of course he’s still going to do the things he’s been doing his whole life.

The apostrophe made the bottom sentence really difficult for me to read for some reason.

WITCHCRAFT

Nahhh your comment didn’t come across like you think, it totally makes sense. They really fucked the web site completely.