It’s insane how much ring has devalued the alarm monitoring part of the ecosystem. Even if you just want ring alarm monitoring you now have to signup for at least a standard plan at 99$, and then play another 10-15$ a month on top of it to keep it. It’s just not worth it anymore.
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I have disabled cross posting to BlueSky. I don’t see any value in it anymore and the limited but fun interactions that I do have are all happening on Masto. I will keep my Bluesky account though.
I have been rethinking about the Apple One premier membership. At almost 40$ a month it’s expensive, and I can only see it become more expensive. We definitely use AppleTV+, Music and 2TB storage the most along with little of News. Is this package worth 40 bucks a month anymore I don’t know. At some point I am gonna think about just hosting a local NAS for storage and keeping only Apple Music family. I can subscribe/resubscribe as necessary to other services.
Dealing with an issue at work which shows AI/ML’s limitation. Something that was purpose built for assuming native English speaker is completely failing in non-native English speaking countries using the same thing. Someone wrote a deep dive doc and my first response to them was “How long have you been working with Indians?”.
Integrated lighting in the floor of the deck looks really cool! It was a wise decision to have them installed with the deck – it was not a part of original plan but glad we added it as a change order.
Microsoft teams sucks. That is all.
Taylor Swift announces a new album. Someone wrote leadership lessons they learnt from the album announcement on LinkedIn. No Kidding.
I have started looking into some lightweight cameras that I can carry around and rely less on my iPhone for photos during trips. It’s crazy how expensive cameras are now. Obviously I know a bit more about photography than an average Joe so I kinda know what I am looking for, but Jesus Christ even overrated cameras like XV100 are like 1600$??! WTF. I need a lightweight zoom camera, preferably with a full frame sensor (but apsc is fine!). I kinda like the Nikon Z5II and Sony a6700 , but put off by the price. Since I have shaky hands, IBIS is going to be important for me. Research continues. I probably should rent a couple of these in next 6-8 months and see which one fits me best.
And its rain and gloom again. I swear this region was never this bad. This year has been exceptionally rainy and bad. If this is the sign of things to come with climate change it’s gonna have big impact to the local area in coming future.
Omg the sun came out today lol. Feels like I hadn’t seen it since last week! What a surprise.