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The Verge: A portable Bluetooth cassette tape player brings retro audio into 2019.

Not sure what’s worse: that someone actually thought of this or that I like the idea.

For better or worse I pretty much made the conversion from compact cassette tapes to audio files on a computer; largely bypassing CDs and the once common MP3 player. Thus prior to two thousand something, any music I have is either on tape or you’re counting my parents record collection 🤣.

And there’s just not that much stuff laying around that supports cassette anymore, lol.

Last time I moved, I had found a tape off some of my dad’s taste in music. Shortly debated if I wanted to break out my mother’s boombox (don’t ask) or not. In the end I decided to take a ride as the car I had at the time was a simple radio + cassette unit. Well let’s just say that the car option isn’t so there anymore 😜.

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Watching Astra Lost in Space made my trip to Hulu well worth it.

The series kick off interests me enough that I may need to check into the availability of the manga. Surprisingly good stuff.

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Watching Demon Lord, Retry! in Hulu reminds me that not all simulcast goodness it’s limited to Crunchyroll territory.

Also when being summoned to another world: always end up the demon lord and leave a note about erasing your hard drives.

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BGR: Bill Gates explains why he couldn’t duplicate Steve Jobs’ magic ‘spells’.

“I was like a minor wizard because he would be casting spells, and I would see people mesmerized, but because I’m a minor wizard, the spells don’t work on me,” 

Gates said, according to advance news of his remarks reported by B/oomberg. 

While the minor wizard bit might seem modest but I’ve got to admit: it strikes me as an excellent way of putting it. In a way it also makes me wonder how many table top RPGs Bill Gates may have played over the years, lol

To archive or not to archive: that is the question!

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In a way I wonder what is kind of more sad.

That for all these years that I have had my e-mail archives well organized. E.g. different labels for different types of messages being archived. It’s a very clean system.

Or that it’s probably taken more than a decade for my laziness to tell me “Meh, why don’t you just use one archive directory.”

Because when I actually do hunt for old messages there’s this thing called “Search” that tends to work well enough that I don’t need to refine by ‘where’ I archived. And the amount of taps to move messages to xyz archive consumes more time per year than smacking archive or how often I pull up old messages per decade.

Yes. I have a feeling lazy may win out.

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Forbes: The New Pinebook Pro Will Challenge Google Chromebooks For $199.

Can’t say that I’ve ever cared a lot about Rockchip’s SoCs but that actually sounds pretty damned tempting. The chipset should deliver a really nice bang for the buck. Very tempting indeed!

At least as far as 14″ laptops with anything weaker than a Core i7 and 32 GB of RAM can go, and for those you would have to shift the price tag over a decimal place. Let’s just say for $200: you have no right to complain about the horse power that a Cortex A72/A53 like that can deliver.

Intel’s chipsets targeting that $200 price point tend to struggle just playing my music and opening tabs without stuttering. In fact getting tired of that is the number one reason my Chromebook will likely get retirement this year or next year.

Hmm, I wonder for the hell of it how bad the Graphics driver is for the RK3399’s GPU. Last time I tried a Mali it was on an Exynos 5 and I was most unimpressed by the desktop graphics performance. But that was quite a few generations ago.

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Engadget: Engadget readers love the iPad Pro 12.9.

I find it curious that as things has marched in there is really two kinds of people. Those who think that tablets are garbage and those that love their tablets.

In both cases people trying to push the software tend to miss PC’isms that they take for granted or just learn to achieve the same things in different ways.