Any new tech that emerges should be viewed as either “How will they use it to scrape all my data?” or “How will they sell this to the military?”
Or both.
Eternal shitposter who probably has something more important he should be doing.
Likes: Nice headphones, iPods, Apple stuff, music.
Dislikes: Nazis, Apple
He / Him
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Any new tech that emerges should be viewed as either “How will they use it to scrape all my data?” or “How will they sell this to the military?”
Or both.
I saw my wife playing this years ago, and always fancied having a go, but never got around to it.
So a few months back we got it going so it could stream to our Apple TV and off I went. Spent a few weeks playing it in the evenings and having a nice time.
Then Ubisoft put out an ‘update’ to it, that broke it completely. A massive update for a ten year old game. Cunts.
So I guess I’ll never finish it, because fuck Ubisoft.
I inherited my Nan’s Dyson DC25 when she went to live in a care home. Used it a few times and it was fine, but figured I’d strip it down and give it a damn good clean out.
The fucking thing damn near sucked up my carpet.
It’s still going strong now. Had to replace the little nubbin that drives the brush bar a few weeks ago, but other than that it’s still solid. Not bad for a 15 year old vacuum cleaner made to modern standards.
Assistant to the General Manager.
I love fixing up classic iPods, and as much as I enjoy it, any mention of it comes with “but why?”, then the person asking refuses to understand why I still like using iPods even in this time of streaming music.
Gary Numan is two weeks older than Gary Oldman.
I’m in the middle, downloading lossless music to put on my iPod.