Currently caught between "wow cloud outages remind me I don't own anything" and "I listen to too much new music to move away from streaming"

Why is it usually so hard for me to beat my first blind run score on a Beat Saber map?

Installing today's new Android 16 beta release right now. I'm curious how the new desktop mode works.

The Apple redesign for the most part looked nice in the presentation, but the more real world screenshots I see the more I'm convinced so many parts of it are just fundamentally terrible ideas from a UX and readability perspective. Hopefully it's in a much better state by the time the stable […]

The Apple redesign generally looks pretty good but I think someone needs to remind them that notifications are meant to be *read*.

Apple resurrecting the Windows 7 design is a pleasant surprise.

Don't mind this post, just testing to see how Mastodon handles HDR emojis. :BlobCatExtremeJoyHDR: :my_eyes:

My main takeaway from the Ballerina John Wick movie is that grenades are versatile tools with lots of creative uses.

Found this neat #blog RSS aggregator recently. I just added my site and you should too! https://powrss.com/index.html

I've been playing Star Wars Battlefront 2 (the newer one) for the first time this week and it's actually a really good game? I don't know what happened to cause such a huge spike in the player count recently but I'm loving it.

The Half-Life community stalking Gabe Newell's yacht should tell you everything you need to know about their mental state leading up to SGF on Friday.

Help I can't stop listening to the new Holy Fawn song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67cvbnul52c

I've so far today been able to resist chucking my work phone out the car window, but the day is still young.

Three seasons. The perfect length for a TV show.

This is so cool! https://neal.fun/internet-roadtrip

Why is water so good? (This post is sponsored by my new water bottle.)

Looking forward to all the dumb Half-Life 3 hype during Summer Game Fest next week. Yeah there's a 99% chance nothing happens, but there's still something so nostalgic about the community hyping itself up again.

How is it 2025 and MacOS doesn't have a sane way to manage menu bar icons?

Back to work tomorrow. Pray I remember how to do my job.

The latest Android 16 beta with all the new design changes is feeling pretty slick! I got it installed today and so far my favorite part is the new wallpaper shape effects.

The cloud is just someone else's computer. Specifically, Bill's.

Some more White House photos. This was a super neat tour.

[US politics] This is a photo from my tour of the White House.

This comment thread is deranged lol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44056741

I don't have it yet but the new material design for Android is growing on me. I might give the beta a try next week if I don't hear of any major issues with it until then. The last time I ran a beta OS on my phone was for Android 12!

I visited my old university a few days ago. It was nice walking around and catching up with people, but it also got me thinking about how AI is being used in schools. https://moddedbear.com/i-visited-my-old-university/ #blog

If you're reading this then there's a good chance you'd enjoy Replicube. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3401490/Replicube/ It's a bit like shader programming in that you have to find a way to replicate the model you're shown by writing code that will be run once for every voxel. It's oddly […]

I was wondering why I was running low on Google storage space until I realized I accidentally uploaded the Minecraft Movie to Google Photos.

I've been giving this tiling window manager for Mac a try and it's a huge improvement for me. It has pretty sane defaults and doesn't require disabling SIP. https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace

I wrote some more about going for phone minimalism and what prompted me to try it in the first place. https://moddedbear.com/making-my-phone-minimal/ #blog

Growing up is when your old high school friend Discord server is mostly people posting baby announcements.

Testing out a very slightly more minimalist home screen since last night with Olauncher.

It's weird. I played GTA 5 last year. Really liked it. But I'm kind of indifferent on the GTA 6 hype? It looks really cool but I'll play it just whenever I get to it.

I'm trying to look at work more positively today. For example, our morning stand up, which I would normally say is stupidly long and pointless, is actually great because it's extra time to browse job listings and fill out applications.

The new Loathe song is already super good but gets exponentially better the louder you blast it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQt3MFzt8PE

The exact moment we started going wrong as a society is when software updates went from "I wonder what cool new features I'm getting" to "I wonder which agony inducing technological horrors await me this time".

Oh wow the new Loathe song is a *banger*. Whatever else they've got cooking will be something to pay attention to.

Turns out that when people talk about increased load when adding fediverse relays, they're not just talking about processing power. Media storage is already down by 15 GB since I disabled the relay this instance was connected to four days ago, and that'll still continue to drop the next few days.

Looking back it's a bit funny how my music taste basically did a 180 around the time of COVID.

I loved Skyrim back in the day but I don't think it's aged very well. I can't bring myself to care about yet another Elder Scrolls rerelease even if it's finally something other than Skyrim.

This video on the entire history of cat memes is the best thing you'll watch all week. https://youtu.be/PKdUvW8fMj0

Is anybody else's desktop Youtube comically huge now? I swear I can't see more than 5 videos at a time when browsing and it looks ridiculous on a 27 inch 1440p monitor.

If you've ever wanted to stalk my music listening then boy do I have the website update for you. https://moddedbear.com/

I'm in the stage of self-hosting where it's just trying to relearn everything you did in the setup.

Answering some questions about my favorite tech. https://moddedbear.com/blog-questions-challenge-technology-edition/ #blog

A new Andrew Prahlow (Outer Wilds composer) EP of Minecraft covers just released with zero fanfare but you know it's all I'll be listening to all morning. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lV95Q1OmA7HJVKNpCKSCNEB60wqJNwysE

I just successfully performed computer monitor surgery. And by "successfully" I mean I didn't break anything. But I also didn't fix the original problem. So for now I guess I'm going to have to put up with that column of purple pixels on the right side that's only there sometimes.

There's something very off-putting about getting LinkedIn ads on the Severance podcast.

New Valve hardware! (It's old prototype hardware) https://youtu.be/2eWlN_uiMIc