Oliver Haslam
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It finally happened. I found an honest to goodness use for Shortcuts that will make a real daily difference to our family and isn't just productivity porn. What a time to be alive 😂
I remain convinced that a ton of the problems people have with mesh Wi-Fi systems would be solved by a 10-gigabit wired backhaul connection. In fact, I think that'd solve most problems in general. 😍
It finally happened. I found a real, actual real world use for Siri AI that'll save everyone asking what's for dinner every day. Amazing. There must be a way to automate this, too.
Ah, right. So they do reset after the quarters but I'm guessing any suspension incurred IN the quarters wouldn't be wiped. In my defense it's 400 degrees in this room and I'm now a pool of my own juices. www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...
So the new #SWFC home shirt leans into the club's history like the new owners have been doing since they arrived. But I can't unsee the fact they didn't centre align the owl and Umbro logos and I don't see how it isn't triggering everyone that sees it. Season ruined. 😂
Think I'd settle for England not making the final just to make sure I don't have to endure whatever fresh hell that half time show is going to be.
Anyway. Now that's the U.S put firmly back in its box for another four years can we concentrate on the serious teams and an exciting run to the final?
Still fiddling with the living room layout of the new house and I think I've settled on the Switch 2/ Steam Deck either side of the TV. Pros: Looks good. Means I'll always know where they are/I won't pick one up and it be dead. Cons: The holes we drilled for the HomePod cables don't fit HDMI. 🤦🏻♂️
Yesterday was a good day. Came down to London for a live orchestral performance of music from Hades/Hades 2 and the Persona franchise. Even found an anime-themed Japanese restaurant for dinner. We even navigated the London Underground without any casualties!
Selling out of a game that is a code in a box that's identical to the digital version you'll download online anyway is nothing that happens now. As if preordering a game in 2026 wasn't insane enough.
I feel like this describes a lot of the ways people insist on using AI to do things.
Interesting (to me at least) that iOS 27 battery life has been fine all week. Then Siri AI was enabled last night and now….
I think it's important to know where Marathon's players are before we read too much into this. I was led to believe it wasn't Steam.
I should be doing something productive but instead I'm scrolling Twitter and despairing. Send help.
Yep, I'm calling it. "Escapism fantasy" is so extra I refuse to believe a real person could bring themselves to write it. It's like the plagiarism machine got a hold of the worst PR copy and tried to turn it into an insult 😂
Cop a load of this guy (It's a bot, right? Has to be) coming off the top rope with the tepid zinger. Sort, so strange.
"Stealth mode" otherwise known as "creepy as fuck what the hell is wrong with you" mode.
What they don't realise is that a game "getting backlash" from the usual suspects of knuckle-dragging, hard-of-thinking, morons is actually a thumbs up for normal people. I struggle to decide if these people mean what they say, or if they just cater to weirdos for the grift.