One of the things I already miss about AZ is the MVD. It was quick, efficient, and not a headache like the CA DMV.

I've invented a car registration situation so complex that the folks at the DMV spent 30 minutes talking to each other to figure out what I need to do

should I subscribe to the merc

whoever said AAA is better than the DMV is lying

Buying ikea furniture new: spend hours assembling it yourself

Buying ikea furniture used: spend hours fixing how the last guy assembled it wrong

Moving be like: It's been four days and I'd like to know which box my underwear is in

Renewed my passport online last week, the website said to expect it to take 4-6 weeks for delivery. I got my new passport three days later.

Literally the first time in my life that I've been positively surprised by US Government Efficiency.

Still in disbelief.

They're both terrible to me. I've used android for a long time so I'm a little more used to it, but I prefer to use a real computer when possible.

I switched to an iPhone recently expecting it to be better since people always praise Apple making intuitive software. It is just as bad as android.

Honestly iOS has horrible UX

decentralization is just highbrow commoditization

I don't understand how people deal with artificial sweetener. It has this terrible metallic-banana taste to it and is just downright nasty.

Thankfully I got an SE 3

This place is amazing

was not prepared for a new Mac Miller album today

if you told the elementary school me that grown ass adults my age would be getting into fistfights over pokemon cards in costco in 2025 I would probably thought you were crazy but yet here we are...

just about nothing

this is incredible

"I'd rather have the Chinese government monitoring my data than US companies sharing my data with US law enforcement or the US government!"

uhh I guess? but that's a strange argument to make. That's like saying "I'd rather be shot in the head than shot in the chest".

You really want neither.

The migration from tiktok to rednote is amusing because it isn't a careful "here's another platform that supports our communities and has ethical data and moderation policies", it's literally a "let's just find any random Chinese app because we're pissed"

I think the iPhone SE is probably as close as I'm gonna get. Frustrating.

It's time for me to get a new phone, current one is having some weird hardware-related problems. All I want is something that is small (around 5"), has a headphone jack, and is newish so that it still gets software and security updates.

Literally nothing exists.

facebook doesn't need fact checking anymore because everything on it is reliably false

The bezel-less phone trend was a mistake. The amount of times I drop my phone on my face in bed because there's literally no good way to hold these giant phones with no bezels... It hurts man.

2024 Photoessay: Rekindling the Inner Child 2024 through my lens.

Been a while since I've updated my blog, so here are some photos from 2024.

www.diplateevo.com/photoessay-2...

Finally putting together another blog post. This one's going to be more personal and I'm excited for it.

wow bitcoin hit 100,000. Only 31,072 more until a nice round number

What in the world is going on in Korea

really has to be a special place in hell for people on fb marketplace who confirm they are going to show up and then no-show and no-respond when the time comes

Social media has all changed so much over the past couple of years that I feel like I no longer have a pulse on what content goes where. In any case, here are some photos of a sick Lada 1500.

unifi products are such a rabbit hole