If using a ThinkPad on holiday has taught me one thing, it's that my next "main" laptop will have some form of a matte display. Whether it's some form of Linux laptop, or a MacBook with the new coating, being able to use a laptop with zero issues in the sun feels like a revelation after all the years using a Mac with a glossy screen.

Every single I see this advert, I'm amazed at how brilliant just a single bit of conversation is. It's probably my favourite bit of marketing ever.

Person 1: *spots Head and Shoulders*

Person 1: "I didn't know you had dandruff?"

Person 2: "I don't."

Is it weird that I find that absolutely brilliant? If you have dandruff (luckily I don't), then what better way could you have a product marketed to you?


Definitely looking forwarding to watching Gladiator II after watching the trailer. Although I must admit I didn't expect to hear a song like "No Church in the Wild" by Jay-Z and Kanye West. That threw me a bit.

If I ever switch away from using an iPhone, it would cause a massive cascading effect on nearly every part of my digital (and some physical) life.

Simply because, if I could ever bring myself to break out of Apple's walled garden, I would want to steer clear of anything similar. I wouldn't want to just replace everything Apple with everything Google, for example.

And yet, as much as I can imagine this would be hard work, I wouldn't say it's a major part in why I still use an iPhone. And if I'm honest, the list of reasons is slowly getting smaller and smaller.

Last year I decided to upgrade to the big iPhone 15 Pro Max, after two years of the iPhone 13 Pro. And while there are definitely benefits of a larger phone, (and I've definitely enjoyed having it at times) there have been quite a few times where I've been frustrated that it's not really usable with a single hand.

Not sure what that means for my next phone though. Because at times, I thought the 13 Pro was too small for me.

It's been just shy of 2 weeks since I started watching The Walking Dead[1], and I've just finished off the third season. Which puts me around 20% of the way through all 11 seasons (177 episodes).

I've definitely missed out having only just started the show recently, but at least I'm now able to binge it non-stop. I'm watching it at night, in my lunch break, on my commutes, I literally fill any free time with it right now.

One thing's for sure, the next time a show like this comes out, I'm not waiting over 13 years to give it a try.

  1. It's a bit funny that my last post was me getting excited about starting the fourth episode, and right now I'm about to start the fourth series. ↩︎

I've been following the progress of the upcoming version of System76's Pop!_OS ever since I heard about their idea to write their own desktop environment in Rust. It's going to be a pretty huge update by the looks of it, and it goes by Cosmic.

From what I've read on the blog, and also watched via the episode of Tech Over Tea with YouTuber (Host) Brodie Robertson and System76 founder Carl Richell, I'm 100% going to try it out when it's' available. And I really think there's a chance that if I like it, I could eventually persuade myself into buying a System76 computer in the future.

I just checked out The Iconfactory's Kickstarter for their Project Tapestry project, which in their words will be a "a universal, chronological timeline for iOS for any data that’s publicly available on the Internet".

It's a nice idea. And reminds me of BlackBerry Hub on my old BlackBerry, which used to combine things like Twitter and Facebook, along with your emails, BBM notifications, etc.

As for myself, I don't plan on backing the project. The only "feeds" that I currently use are Mastodon (via Ivory), RSS feeds for various blogs, and Twitter/X for football updates. And none of those really need to be combined together.

That's not to say it's not for you, so if you're interested, check out the Kickstarter.