I already share links every time I do week notes, but I still read quite a bit of things on my FreshRSS instance and thought I’d share some more thoughts on articles and things I found interesting today—maybe yesterday.
Just some musings here for you guys to enjoy, check out the original posts as well, of course.
From 1Password to Apple Passwords
I find amusing how Apple has managed to win over so many tech enthusiasts over the years, such a curious phenomena, to have many people embracing its services despite all the caveats they have.
Of course, practicality is not to be dismissed, but I’m still baffled.
No single company actually cares that much about you, and the moment they see the opportunity, your data can be a bargain chip to keep you locked down, which is okay sometimes, until it isn’t anymore.
Think about how Google initially promised infinite storage for Google Photos and now it’s only 15GB shared with Google Drive unless you pay a subscription fee. Or about Apple itself making their current operating system inaccessible and impossible to understand to plenty of people who just don’t get their new glassy UI design.
In any case though, I guess that KeepassXC which I use today could do an oopsie too, and potentially lead to data loss of my password database…
So, yeah, backups are what matters, and I’m glad they’re being done here.
Steam Next Fest - February 2026
I wanted to write a similar post to this one myself, but I don’t think I am enough of a PC gamer for it—I also got extremely lazy. This event from Steam is quite insane, with lots of demos available to try out.
And what did I do instead? Play Peak, and watch videos about what demos are worth trying, without actually giving them a go.
Oh I’m also very happy that Alabaster Dawn shows up in here, that game looks like a masterpiece already and I’m dying to give it a go one day, it’s from the same people who made CrossCode so, it ought to be great.
Vampire Crawlers looks like absolute danger too, I am extremely thankful that it’s not available on mobile phones yet, because it really seems like the only thing that could rival Slice & Dice for me…
Liar, Liar Time on Fire
This is a post from a new blog I just started to follow and I already find it very very relatable. Aleem looks at screen usage, sees it is too high, and well, now he’s very worried about it and shall do a lot of things to try and fight back.
I am not one of those people that can say “I use my phone for a lot of productive things”, I kinda just read Manga, play Sliced & Dice, chat on Signal or Discord, and scroll Reddit or the Fediverse, maybe Podcasts too (AntennaPod for the win).
My screen time today as I write this is 6 hours, but I could easily reach 9 or 10 hours in days where I don’t read or write as much as I’ve done this time.
I vibe with this quote:
I want to make more deliberate choices about how I use my time. That seems much smarter than the phone claims to be. And perhaps in the silence the phone was trying to drown out, I’ll discover more human opportunities for wonder and joy.
iPod vs Smartphone - which lasts longer?
Andreas is back with some very whacky tech shenanigans. He replaced the battery of his iPod and decided it would be a fun idea to compare how it would fare against a modern smartphone.
I seriously can’t understand how is it that he thoughts a 650 mAh battery would be able to beat a modern smartphone with about 4000 mAh.
Like, this was clearly going to go one way as soon as Airplane Mode got enabled…
But hey, the experiment was really fun to read and I enjoyed the journey even if the destination would be clear as day.
I can only wonder why not do some sort of battery mod for the iPod while being at it? If the PSP can have battery mods I’m sure the iPod community has done plenty as well. It would be fun to try I think.
(The related Mastodon thread is very fun, btw)
A Ham Radio T-Shirt Design Contest
I have zero idea about ham radio, I know nothing about it. But the idea of designing a T-Shirt and the theme of the contest itself is actually very very interesting to me, the prompt is: “Signal from the Static.”
Father ominous, I must say.
I’m kinda inspired to try my hand at something, using Inkscape and messing around for a bit…
We’ll see how it goes! And hey, maybe some of you want to participate too?
Final thoughts
Here I am being grumpy about Apple devices taking over tech enthusiasts while at the same time I read and share two articles talking about Apple products, bleh.
This was fun! I just get to banter and talk whatever I want and maybe some of it clicks with you and maybe some of it is rather useless, but I was feeling like making a random stream of thoughts kind of post, and here it is! Enjoy.
This is day 26 of #100DaysToOffllad
