Weeknotes W19

👩‍👦 Happy Mother’s Day! We got a couple of clothes for her, and of course, some nice flowers too. My dad took her for lunch at a fancy place and left us behind 😭
📽️ After the shopping spree, we went to the movies and watched Thunderbolts, I had heard that it was actually good, and I agree with that sentiment. It was nice to see civilians being saved for once. Really good stuff.
📱 Unfortunately, my phone’s power button started acting up again, so the device bootloops endlessly until I press and hold it for a bit. This hardware issue doesn’t happen often but it’s annoying and worrisome. I already have a Xiaomi Mi 12T Pro, but I don’t like HyperOS. It’ll have to do, while I decide between a Nothing CMF 2 Pro or a Pixel 9a—feel free to let me know of any suggestions.
🌐 Skype is gone. I thought about writing something about it, but it wasn’t really that big of a deal for me. If anything I’m annoyed because Microsoft replaced Windows Live Messenger—which I actualy used quite a bit—with Skype more than a decade ago. However, the one friend I had on Skype introduced me to Daft Punk back when Get Lucky was on the radio everywhere, so I am grateful for that. I stopped using it early on though. RIP.
🎒 I have been watching Weak Hero on Netflix, a kdrama about kids in school who got involved with some gang doing plenty of crimes, and they are trying to dismantle their operation. It’s based on a manhwa which I actually really like. The way the plot develops in this is so different, I don’t know if I like it, but I definitely enjoy the fight scenes.
🧪 I watched all of the fourth season of Dr. Stone and well, it was actually great! I really enjoyed the way the story progressed, and how there’s a battle between two scientists. Just turn off your brain for a bit and have fun! I love these characters so much, solving every problem with the power of science!
🃏 I didn’t play with the Nintendo Switch at all this week. During the weekend we played some Snap instead, and it got really really fun! Once only two players remained, they played War, and the winner got a bag of snacks!

📖 Reading

The Space Merchants - Finished! This book ended up going in a very different direction, and I honestly enjoyed the journey quite a bit. My review is up!
How To Grill Our Love - Read up to chapter 70. I recommended this rom-com to a friend and ended up reading some more chapters of it, it’s still very wholesome and I really like it!
DanDaDan - Read up to chapter 188. There’s a new menace and people with powers now working for some evil plot. This is still pretty bonkers and quite fun!

🕹️ Gaming

Ys: The Oath in Felghana - I hadn’t played this game since March. Last time I played I had gotten stuck at a miniboss in the final dungeon. As soon as I returned today, I defeated it first try! I have been exploring a new area of the dungeon and getting progress done.
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - I beat one optional boss and I’ve been exploring the castle, in a new area I got access to, thanks to a new power-up.
Ultimate Chicken Horse - Played a a couple of matches with friends and had a great time. I hadn’t played this one in ages, at least not as seriously as this time.

🔗 Links

Blog posts

⚰️ I really wish the Fediverse had more permanence - This was a pretty interesting take about the decentralized state of profiles in the fediverse. People auto-delete posts, migrate instances, or just close their accounts and everything goes poof. Only ghosts remain in some cached posts and the like. Dane is a bit melancholic about it.
🌿 Moss - This is a pretty interesting short story, I didn’t expect it to be what it was, but go ahead and check it out! Just relax and give it a read.
🤖 You Deserve Better than Mobile Games - This is from a new blogger I found, and I really enjoyed it. They have only made a couple other posts, but I want to read more like this!
🌐 Embracing Open Source Part 1: Ideology and Background - TK is part of the TWG Discord, he started his website relatively recently, I quite enjoy his posts about FOSS! He started doing weeknotes too.
🕊️ Removing noise from my web browsing - Neil is isolating himself from everyone, how dare he??? I am kidding, getting rid of the clutter is not bad at all, I should try some of that myself.
📝 Month notes & numbers №14 - Rach Smith is back! Finally a new blog post explaining what’s up, she got addicted to a mobile game, can relate.

Videos

🕹 Exploring the Top 25 Games in the Analog Pocket - This was a pretty decent video with a self-explanatory title, I liked this guy’s list, it was weird and yet familiar. If you want some nice recommendations, check it out!
🎨 Why you need a mini creative project - Both inspiring and wholesome, I think I wanna make something because of this video, daily origami? daily doodles?
🕷 What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color - An extremely interesting video about color, jumping spiders and how they see the world! Besides, they are so cute!

This is day 65 of #100DaysToOffload