Am I the only one who thought this was Tom Scott for a moment?

I loved that phone… As soon as I put Cyanogen on it. I voided my warranty on the second week in a rage induced by the home screen taking 30 seconds to load. Samsung always has sucked at software.

I had the opposite, I hated coding and never wanted to do it as a job… But here I am, 9-5 coding. 😅

I did realise at some point that it was actually Java that I hated, not programming. I do, however now work with Kotlin.

One company I worked for decided it was a good idea to name a bunch of firings due to performance “Project Panda” 🤦

Fuck mint, I spend months trying to get rid of it from my last place

Victorinox MiniChamp swiss army knife, I’ve had it for… 13-14 years now, and it comes in useful so often. About £30/$40.

It looks like it’s wearing a massive bow tie 🥺

Just a Canon EOS 2000D, it’s my first DSLR, so I have a fair bit to learn.

They are the softest things I’ve ever touched.

What’s the Seal instance? 🤔

Here Wego is the worst maps service I’ve ever had the displeasure of using. Amazon used to use it for deliveries (maybe they still do), and it took almost a year to get it to recognise that my house was not 8 miles away on a completely different road. It messed up the Amazon routes as the route it picked was all in that same area, except my house, that was 8 miles away.

The satnav keeps telling me to take the third reich…

A few things:

• I disagree that LCD is good enough, especially for living room gaming. It is the best and most significant upgrade I’ve ever done, by a long way.
• In terms of Steam Survey, again no arguments from me, oled monitors are rare, I was arguing that TVs are not.
• There isn’t such thing as content that works well with OLED, everything looks significantly better, especially with HDR, which almost everything supports and has done for a significant period of time.
• As someone that has been using an OLED TV for 5+ years, burn-in really isn’t an issue, there’s not a trace of burn-in on either of my TVs, or any of my portable devices with OLEDs. The only time I’ve ever experienced burn-in on an OLED was a Nexus 5, which is so long ago, that it’s almost irrelevant. In the case of the Nexus 5, the only reason it ended up with burn-in is because I enabled the developer option to keep the screen on at all times, resulting in the status bar burning into the screen. All modern OLED displays take burn-in into account and run screen cleaning occasionally, which isn’t noticeable as the screen just appears a black. So unless someone is running a news channel with a static logo 24/7 on the screen, they’re not going to have issues with burn-in. It’s worth noting I have an OLED TV on my desk too (that one was indeed on sale, for ~400 IIRC), and that has static content such as an Apple logo (work laptop 😞), on it for hours each day, with no burn-in.

I’m not sure sub-£550 ($700) with reasonable sizes (42"), really counts at expensive AF anymore (not cheap but not expensive AF). But each to their own.

Monitors no, TVs very much so.

100%, sounds interesting! I’m going to spend some time tomorrow looking at a bug in the jellyfin android TV app related to DTS audio over HDMI.

Definitely true, I dread to think about how much tech debt these companies have. 😬

Unfortunately my bank, government, national health, surgery, local shops, food delivery services, etc. don’t open source their code. It’d be nice if they did however.

As a software engineer, annoying bugs that should be so simple to fix are so frustrating! I wish I could just have a crack and fixing it myself!