What we wanted: Alpha Centauri 2

What we got: Civilisation in a $2 shop Halloween costume.

Transformers

MacGyver

Star Trek TNG

I just mix a buttload of chili powder into the pizza sauce when I make them

I didn’t care for Last Kiss, but I did like that they released it for charity and made $10 million for Kosovo refugees.

What have Google developed inhouse that’s good since Gmail?

Android and YouTube were both acquisitions.

Either that or you’ve got some malware.

You’d probably like Prodeus, it’s certainly scratched that itch for me.

I threw Ubuntu 24.04 in a VM it’s been a few years since I’ve used it.

I was unpleasantly surprised.

I tried Ubuntu again recently for the first time in years.

Between Snaps and having to create an account to get security updates, I quickly gave up on it.

The thing that I loved about Mass Effect was the characters.

Andromeda’s characters were straight up uninteresting or plain annoying.

ME3 was an amazing game up until the last ten minutes

It happily uses epub and not proprietary formats.

The only downside to my Kobo is Amazon’s walled garden exclusive books being unavailable.

900Mb down, 450Mb up. Unlimited data.

$55 USD per month here in New Zealand

A cancer diagnosis and complications from chemotherapy. It’s been rough on her but she’s an absolute trooper.

Since September my wife has had about ten CTs, three MRIs, two major surgeries (the last one 7 hours long), one emergency surgery, weeks of chemotherapy and radiation treatments and about 8 weeks hospitalised including some time in the ICU.

Total cost: $0

Unless you count the cost of parking when I visit her in hospital, in which case I’ve spent about $170 USD

This is in New Zealand with a publicly funded health system.

I bought 100 on AliExpress 8 years ago, for like $5. Will take a few years yet to use them all.

Science says no

Reddit. I blocked the domain when the blackout started and haven’t been back.