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Passing thought: in a more perfect world, Apple’s AirDrop and Microsoft’s Nearby Sharing would probably have some kind of interoperability. ‘Cuz at this point: why not?

For most of the rest of us used to heterogeneous more than homogeneous environments, these were never going to be our solutions to the problem anyway. But I find it kinda funny how that works, which is usually incompatibile solutions to the same problem and hardly a standard between them.

Despite how typical solutions work out, I’m also kinda glad for the flexibility. My first choice for solving this for a very, very, very long time now has generally been network file shares, be it between peers or my own file server. With the passing of time the options have only grown, and the amount of devices that call for cables or cursing the lack of Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Direct have shrunk.

It’s probably funny that I consider e-mailing myself the lowest, most insulting way to move a file around but I’ll actually Bluetooth a file without a quip. I’m strange.

Think that I’ve finally decided on a host name for the new iPad Pro. Not sure what is probably worse, that most names up for consideration were anime references or that the swimsuit cinched it.

An extract from my notebook:

Subaru and Starbuck are pretty cool.
Nerine is refined and powerful.
Mayumi is playful and not complicated.
Also Nerine looks best in a swimsuit ^_^

There’s at least three different TV related references involved there, and you probably should feel bad if more than one or two ring a bell. And thus Nerine it is.

Plus or minus, this time it isn’t a Marvel reference….hehe

If you’ve ever wondered how effective a trident would be as a weapon, all you need to do is get a finger caught between a dish and a fork while loading the dishwasher. Enough to go owey and break a layer of two of skin is all it’ll take to convince you.

No, you should not make like Roman gladiators while doing this.

omgubuntu.co.uk: PineTime is a $25 Linux Smartwatch, Coming Next Year.

While I’d say it sounds more like a hack your pen than a consumer product, I have to admit it solves my number one beef with smart watches: cost.

You see, unless I can leave my smart phone at home there’s not much you can offer me that’s worth several hundred bucks. I don’t live an active enough life to need the cool fitness features and it’s unlikely you’re going to replace my instant messaging any better than Google’s failed to do so. Thus in the end, I still need a phone.

Most of my life between ten and twenty, I typically wore a watch. I also grew up in an era where a calculator and stop watch function was about as smart as most watches got. Then I got a smart phone around age 22, and shortly there after I just stopped wearing a watch.

I kind of believe that form follows function, and a traditional watch doesn’t have enough function to me that it’d be worth spending for a really nice one. My smart phone is more than I really want to carry but is far more functional than a dumb watch. It’s also got more features than a watch cool enough to sync to an atomic clock. In short, I’m not the kinda person you can market smart watches to, I’m the one in the back rolling his eyes. For some use cases smart watches are really nifty. They just don’t fit into my life. A smart phone is more practical for my life than what current smart watches offer.

On the flipside, I find the PineTime kind of interesting. Because it’s cheap and it’ll probably be the easiest to roll your own software for. But multiply the price by ten, and not even that would be attractive for a mook like me. Most really good watches, and most smart ones, cost more than that.

That my friend’s jumbo sized iPad Pro casually outruns my desktop, is a little perturbing from the perspective that my Core i5 is getting pretty damned old. But at least, it still does its real job pretty well and that job kind of demands a massive GTX card.

That old reviews of the Air 2 suggest similar browser performance to my Snapdragon 820 on the other hand, is both comforting and annoying.

Trying to make some comparative analysis from old data is also tricker. People’s choices in benchmarks have changed over the years, and in the case of iPads usually moot as you traditionally had no real choices, hahaha; meanwhile those of us in Android land, long had a lot more products to choose from.

Passing thought: it feels like just yesterday, all the things required their own separate chargy things.

Today, I pretty much have two special purpose chargers in my daily life. The classic barrel based laptop charger for my Latitude E series and the 3.5 mm -> USB-A cable that charges my I don’t think I wanna look up how old headphones. Which is really one because my laptop is never fair from a charger, and those headphones get charged every so many months.

To be fair my Xbox controller, Bluetooth keyboard, and my other headphones could also be counted as special in my little terrarium. But that’s because of they’re the last things I have running off USB Micro B for their charging needs, and none require frequent rechargings. But I look at these like the Mini B of old, pretty darned universal: just dying out over time.

Passing thought: I’m not sure what’s worse, that you can still get a really pocket protectors or that I was tempted to buy tw^H^Hone.

We all agree that lazing out on the couch is a good plan, especially with a nap. Where the dogs and I disagree is on how cookies are people food, lol.

Much glares have been made in my direction over the course of eating to cookies. Enough that bribery with treats may have been a prerequisite for my continued survival….

The easiest way to tell I use my stylus a lot: the number of cringes between sitting down and getting up to go fetch my S-Pen from the next room.