Starfield looks like a game I’m going to sink a ridiculous amount of time into. September 6th can’t come soon enough!
A notification popped up on my iPad saying that it was no longer being backed up, so I did a bit of investigation into my iCloud storage. Turns out that Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail are backing up their entire contents to iCloud, which seems pretty unnecessary. That’s 60+GB between my iPhone and iPad! iOS offers a toggle for backups on a per-app basis, at least.
On a related note, it sure would be nice if we had a few more options for iCloud storage. There’s a pretty big gap between $2.99/200GB and $9.99/2TB. I would love to see a 500GB or 1TB option.
New Apple things I’m most excited for:
- Interactive widgets. Should have been there from the start.
- StandBy. Time to buy a bunch of charging stands to place around the home!
- Journal app. I’ve been looking for a solution to replace Day One, looks like this will fill that gap perfectly for me.
Apple Vision Pro looks incredible and I’d love to give it a try, but the $3500 price tag is just too much. Here’s hoping we’ll see a non-Pro “Apple Vision” a few years down the road at a much lower cost.
I finally got around to finishing and hanging The Great Wave set. It’s a work of art! (pun intended) I really love the clever parts usage in the details of the wave and the people in the boats. I’m not even an art or history buff, but I’m super happy with this set.
It weighs a bit more than I’d like for the nails I have, so I’ll probably need a more permanent mounting solution pretty soon.
Wyrmwood x Dispel elemental dice arrived today! 🤩 I opted for the iridescent space dice and a cherry dice vault. They’re every bit as pretty as I hoped.
A couple friends and I have been playing Across the Obelisk online together lately. Think Slay the Spire, but multiplayer co-op. A bit overwhelming if you try to play all four characters by yourself, but we’ve been having a blast working together. There are lots of characters to unlock and a good variety of cards and build options. Two thumbs up recommendation from me if you like roguelike deckbuilders!
Well, I caved. I thought having Japanese symbols on my keyboard was a novel idea, and it fit with the KAT Explosion theme well. Turns out it’s not great in practicality. It works fine for gaming, and okay for typing (and I’m not an expert touch typist, so that doesn’t help), but I ran into problems with anything that requires symbols such as coding or typing passwords. It’s time to swap out for some “normal” keycaps. I’m going to try switching just the numbers and symbol keys first, and leave the alphas in Japanese. We’ll see how that works and go from there.
So, Japanese symbols on an English keyboard: 4/10, do not recommend.
Great to see Starship and Super Heavy booster make it off the pad today! That launch had some major Kerbal Space Program vibes complete with a cartwheeling, then exploding rocket.
Tailscale has been a lifesaver for me since my ISP stopped offering a dedicated IPv4 address, and they’ve just announced new usage tiers and pricing for both personal and enterprise plans. Most notably, the free tier has been expanded to 100 devices. My use case still fit within the old plan, but it’s nice to have a lot more headroom in case I want to expand in the future.
My little write-only Twitter app that posts a few times a week to a mostly-private account was suspended from API access today. Indeed the end of an era. On to Micro.blog and Mastodon!
Just finished watching the first episode (movie?) of Oshi no Ko.
Oh. My. Goodness.
I don’t know what I was expecting from this show, but surely not what that prologue gave us. Do yourself a favor. Don’t read the synopsis or anything, just go into this one completely blind. It’s worth it.
