Checked all the obvious, made sure nobody is allowed to get through on messages on my phone, DND isn't being set on the watch so it's not that triggering the known bug where it fails to take. It's very bizarre. And only seems to happen with him, particularly when I'm asleep. Very fscking annoying.

Well, this is a weird one. Inherited a Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 off my uncle when he upgraded. All good, works well enough, nice upgrade from the Watch 3 in a few respects.

Came with a weirdism. For some weird reason, despite being fully wiped, messages from said uncle punch through DND. No idea why.

A computer industry pin, with the text "I'VE GOT A FOOT-FETISH" and underneath it "For the new Honeywell Mouse", and a drawing of a beige 1980s computer mouse

Good morning to everyone except the worst computer industry promotional pin.

Photo of the Google TV Paramount+ sign in experience. Thankfully I didn't have to use the on-screen keyboard much thanks to a Bluetooth one, but it was still painful.

The Paramount+ app is hot garbage on every single platform I've used it on. Makes Sky Go look good, which is impressive. For the love of $DEITY let me sign in via QR code or the app on my phone on Google TV. Entering credentials on a remote is awful, and still pretty bad with a Bluetooth keyboard.

Ah, of course. 3 nights of awesome sleep means I get 4 hours last night. Screw you, body.

Gorrammit. Manged to put my dental appointment in for tomorrow when I was at the dentist. Turns out it was today, and completely missed it. Rang up incredibly apologetic and horrified, I never miss appointments. It's annoying that even I'm subject to human error, I hold myself to a higher standard!

Still got my TA CD box somewhere (and my SupCom deluxe edition box). Chris Taylor did some cracking RTSs, and those Jeremy Soule soundtracks were awesome, TA just blew everything else out of the water. Get your D-guns out!

First series of TGT I think they were trying to figure out how they wanted it to feel with a brand new slate, but I certainly enjoyed the first TGT series more than the new format Top Gear. Going to keep watching my way through TG for now, I heard good things about the latest presenters.

I agree with that. While the old presenters clearly had chemistry, this first "new" series feels more like acting. Getting the guests to describe what the other guest was doing just felt a bit pantomime-like. In theory I've no issue with new presenters, but it lost something with the format change.

That said, I'm getting to see a lot more of the absolute legend that was Sabine Schmitz. Eddie Jordan is making me chuckle too.

🥲

I'd forgotten just how enthusiastic Chris Evans is/was. I'm not entirely against it, but I can see why the existing Top Gear fans didn't necessarily gel with the complete change of style, it's a much louder and excitable way of presenting the show. I do prefer the dry wit of the previous trio.

Finished re-watching Top Gear from the beginning of the 2002) series, up to the end of the Clarkson/Hammond/May era. Was great, and got considerably less cringey as time went on. Just reached Chris Evans and Matt Leblanc. Feels like Top Gear meets TFI Friday. Bit weird and jarring, but not awful.

Amazon _really_ want to ram down my throat that I've cancelled off my Prime membership every time I go on their site or their app and to resubscribe. Only picked it up for a month as I needed some stuff next day delivering over the period of a week, but the constant prompting is quite annoying.

Agreed. Though I also saved it as a text file just to be safe, because Windows being Windows, there's no guarantees. 😏

Sometimes I appreciate my paranoia. Had a prompt I was waiting to feed into Claude this morning in its input box from last night, and suspended the computer, but because I didn't trust it not to do something stupid, backed it up into a notepad first. Good job too, Windows decided to update/reboot.

The highlight of these interactions has to be "Stop chasing marginal optimizations and print successfully. [...] Print the damn Benchy and enjoy the results! 😊"

I approve of its attitude after I'd asked it a ton of calibration questions before actually hitting print 🤣

Finally got the 3D printer I was given years ago up and running, after a near complete rebuild of it, replacing its motherboard, investing in bed levelling sensors, and calibrating the shit out of it, using Claude to instruct me as a practical exploration of AI use. It's been surprisingly good.

I believe in Kane! 😁

Been playing through the remaster of Command & Conquer Red Alert. The upscale is pretty. The pathfinding is awful, just like the original, and the game is incredibly frustrating. I both love and hate it. Grrrr. Still, it's been fun

It's a strange feeling decommissioning the production fleet I maintain.

I imagine a sea of LEDs on switches, slowly blinking out.
But they're mostly VMs, so they don't even have a light.
The code that defined them will be gone soon.
The sound of hundreds of fans will stop.
And silence will fall.

🥲

Got to save those kids from being eaten by a grue.

Hurray, more unintended consequences of a badly thought out law 🙄

"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

Had a good revival run on CoD DMZ, but sadly the in the last week it's full on fallen to the cheats. Between aimbots, wallhacks and undermappers, it's just not fun anymore. Shame, but the game has been abandoned for nearly 2 years.

RIP DMZ. It was fun while it lasted. Might be Arc next, we'll see.

I love when my body decides to randomly derp out, turn before I'm ready to, and try to fall sideways down the stairs. Definitely absolutely needed that to go with the rest of the aches I've got today. 🙄

Windows 11: "These applications are preventing shutdown."
Option 1: Shut down anyway, and terminate the programs.
Option 2: Cancel.

Press option 2. Computer immediately shuts down anyway.

🤷‍♂️

You know what I'd find an absolute killer use for AI? Taking videos that describe how to do/fix something, and turning them into a Haynes-style manual that I can read with pictures that I can follow without pausing every 3s and having to rewind, and not have to watch a video in the first place.

ADHD has been _rough_ this week. I've stuff I know I need to do, but I just can't quite get over the inertia and get started on anything. And it's making me miserable. Sometimes I feel like a prisoner in my own body and mind.

I put in the titration request this week. Fingers crossed it'll fix me up

Doing a re-watch of Agents of SHIELD. Forgotten how much I enjoyed watching Melinda May do her thing. Man, that woman does things for me, but I always did have a thing for charismatic capable women kicking arse. I'd even rate her above Black Widow.

Ming-Na Wen is a pleasure to watch in her roles.