Once again, the difference between equals() and == in .Net vs Java has tripped me up. 🤣

I was listening to the latest @atpfm podcast, about the dust up between Apple / Creators / Patreon and I’m in agreement with the hosts: it’s just yuck. I love their hardware but with the focus on squeezing more revenue out small devs / creators, it’s getting harder to justify giving Apple money.

Our old one kicked the bucket, so yesterday I bought a new lawnmower…and today, when I opened it up, the mower came out but one of the wheels didn’t. 😮‍💨 I’m sure I could have filled out a bunch of paperwork to get a new wheel and attachment but honestly, I was so pissed, I just took it back. 🫠

Finished reading: Order of Architects: Book 2 by Oleg Sapphire & Yuri Vinokuroff 📚
★★★☆☆

The second book of the series, is a great follow-up…and now I have to wait for the third book. 🤣 😭

Forcing me to give you my phone number to buy something online when you already have my email address means I will not be buying from you. 😱😤🤬

I’ve been setting up my new Raspberry Pi to be an always-on, lightweight server but I was running into the oddest issue when trying to get memory data out of Docker. As it turns out, adding “cgroup_memory=1 cgroup_enable=memory” to my “/boot/cmdline.txt” file fixed the issue. 🎉 Link

Insomnia sucks 😵‍💫

My father just bought a Mac with no input from me and set it up without my help…and now can’t remember the password; trying to remotely help him was painfully frustrating. 😮‍💨 Oh the joys of being tech support. 🤣

Irony: he has a computer science degree and used to write SQL for a living. 🤣

The weather was so lovely over lunch, I went for a walk. 🚶🏼‍♂️

Whilst walking, I stumbled across the cutest flowers. 😊 🌿 📷

Does anyone out there know how to scrub your number from all of the political texting lists? …asking for a friend… 😮‍💨

🔗 Blocking AI bots from Microsoft, others has been “pain in the a**": Reddit CEO | Ars Technica // Scharon Harding // arstechnica.com

The irony of a company that both profits off the (free) labor of other’s work, and who shut down all 3rd party API integration because of the “high costs” associated with supporting it complaining about other companies taking their “work” for free and costing them money by scraping their site (and by-passing their APIs).

Love the comment section at Ars…and 100% agree with that comment. 😆

Finished reading: The Healer: Book 1 by Roman Romanovich 📚
★★☆☆☆

Another one of those “I died and was reborn in another world” books, it was interesting but a little hard to read at times.

Someone once said “hell is other people." I would like to modify that: hell is Costco on a Saturday afternoon.

Met up with some friends tonight for dinner at our favorite Thai restaurant. Nine times out of ten, I get the same dish…why mess with perfection. 😋 📷

Finished reading: Renegade (Underdog: Book 8) by Alexey Osadchuk 📚
★★★☆☆