Cancelling a VPS contract with #Ionos and they're forcing me to phone them before I'm allowed to cancel (no doubt so they can try and up-sell). I hate this kind of scummy tactic - doubt I'll be using them in the future.
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Been thinking about setting up #Tailscale for accessing my #Synology off network. Just went to sign up, and you have to use a 3rd party SSO provider. I hate that. Why can't I just sign up with a bloody email address??
I have an algae problem in one of my tanks and it's very annoying. I've resorted to removing everything from the tank and submerging it all in Hydrogen Peroxide. Screw you, algae!
It feels like every other week I get an email from [service] that my subscription price has increased. 😡
I will not redesign my blog. I will not redesign my blog. I will not redesign my blog. I will not redesign my blog. I will not redesign my blog.
I've decided I want to keep a local copy of all my notes. Control your data and all that.
So I've setup a little tool that allows me to do that and will cross-post to Mastodon. If this works, you should see it on the fedi. 🤷🏼♂️
Now that Nova Launcher is pretty much dead, does anyone have an alternative they can recommend?
I want to get rid of the stupid search bar #Pixel phones are forced to have on the home screen.
My iPad Air died a few months ago after many years of service, so I bought a secondhand Pixel Tablet. My god this thing is astonishingly bad, especially to type on - the keyboard is horrendous. Oh, and the fingerprint reader is in no man's land on the side of the device.
Really, really shit.
It came with the speaker dock, so I'm just gonna use it docked in the kitchen. Can anyone recommend a decent #Android tablet at around 7"?
Well that was probably the most disgusting thing I've ever bitten into. 🤢
Spent a couple hours improving my little #Jekyll CMS, #Hyde today. At this point, I'm really happy with it. Here's a little screencast I recorded to demo it:
There once was a bloke called Kev,
Who tooted, then vanished. Whatev.
He tried other sites, but they were all rather shite,
So now he’s back where the nerds unite.
🦣
Screw it. I've ripped out all the comment and indieweb functionality. I was already starting to battle with noise and shit - it's just too complicated. I'll let Manton handle all that for me in Micro.blog.
Didn't last long, did it? 🤣
Spent some time this afternoon hooking up webmentions properly between Micro.blog and kevquirk.com so everything from Micro.blog now (hopefully) feeds back to the mother ship. We'll see if/when someone replies to this note. 🙃
Will everyone please stop taking about #Omarchy. It's too tempting!
My new CMF 2 Pro came with a free pair of Nothing Buds Pro 2. I wasn't expecting much as they're only £49 at full price.
But Jesus, these things are great! The sound is almost as good as my £200+ Sony buds.
Switched to a Nothing Phone CMF 2 last night. It's really, really nice. Can't believe it's a £200 phone.
If you're following this blog via RSS, I'm really sorry about the spam. I've made some functional changes to how the site works that required me to regenerate the RSS feeds.
The more I play with #Obsidian, the more I realise why people love it so much. They've thought of everything.
I know lots of people don't like services like ChatGPT, but I get so much use out of it. It use it to tweak language here and there when needed (among other things). It's great for things like "hey Geeps, I don't like this paragraph, but I can't think of a better way to write it...".