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If you donā€™t have enough frustration in your life and need to swear more, I highly recommend connecting a Roku Streambar to a 16-year-old Samsung TV that already has a nine-year-old TiVo Bolt attached.

I struggled to get audio to work when using the TiVo and finally had to resort to unplugging the Roku, like a caveman.

All CMSes are bad, except the one youā€™re currently using, which is worse.

ā€“ Jason Snell, in a throwaway comment in a blog post about Markdown. I LOLed. I’ve been living that reality for 30 years.

I lost interest in the new iPad mini after reading this review, by David Pierce at the Verge and Marques Brownlee’s similar review on YouTube,.

For $1,200, I want a 120 Hz display. I don’t even know if I’d notice the difference, but I don’t want to compromise for that kind of money. Instead, I’ll just stick with my 6th gen iPad mini, even though it only has 64 GB memory and that means I can’t get my photos on it.

64 GB? What on Earth was I thinking when I bought that?

Finished reading: The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake šŸ“š I didnā€™t love it it but I liked it. I will probably try another sometime.

Nobody should talk to me today because I do not share in the general jubilation over election results. Weā€™ve been here before. Obama 2008. Biden 2020. This is a big step, but itā€™s just the first step. Will the Democrats have the backbone to make the structural change that America requires?

In response to my earlier post, I’m now seeing comments from people who actually liked Gilligan’s Island. Nobody’s speaking up to defend the Brady Bunch though.

The media blackout of the new rape allegation against Trump

Judd Legum at Popular Information:: In the latest accusation, Beatrice Keul, a Swiss model, “said Trump grabbed her from behind ‘and forcibly raped herā€¦ tearing her dress and causing bleeding and bruising on multiple parts of her body.’"ā€ An Oct.26 report by Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee includes detailed accounts of sexual assault involving 11 women. Five accused Trump of rape and sexual assault, including two who were minors at the time.

In 2023, Trump was found liable by a jury for the sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll in 1996. “In 2005, Trump was also recorded bragging about sexually assaulting women. ‘I donā€™t even wait. And when youā€™re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything,’ Trump told Access Hollywoodā€™s Billy Bush. ‘Grab ā€˜em by the pussy. You can do anything.’”

Most of the media is downplaying or ignoring the report and its new allegations.

People need to be reminded that Trump has raped children and women numerous times.

“When I moved in with my partner, I got into the habit of reporting all the little chores I’d done so she knew I was doing my fair share of the housework. Now realised that she is rarely interested so I just make things up. I’ve just recalibrated the TV aerial transistor.” ā€” @fesshole@mastodon.social

The youngs do not appreciate that often we watched TV shows because there was nothing else on. We didnā€™t like The Brady Bunch or Gilliganā€™s Island, not really.

Do you answer phone calls from unknown numbers? Also, how do you manage junk texts? Do you block or screen texts from unknown numbers?

"Appleā€™s $2,000 folding phone is a surprisingly good stand-in for a $20 notebook."

The Apple Pencil turned the Duo into my new favorite notebook, by Allison Johnson at The Verge:

Ignore the pile of previous favorite notebooks; this is the one thatā€™s gonna change it all for me.

I share Johnson’s ambition to become a Notebook Person, but in reality I don’t write anything by hand anymore. Julie gave me a good little notebook that I carry with me and don’t use, and I’m currently intrigued by the Fineliner handwriting app on my iPad mini.