Prasenjeet Dutta @pd@curmudgeon.cafe

Barack Obama’s list of favourite books of the year: https://twitter.com/barackobama/status/1211033245812441091?s=21 I’m currently reading through The Anarchy and it’s an amazing read so far.

Christmas Dinner 🍽

Watchmen on HBO is astonishingly good, as a “sequel” of sorts I expected very little from it, and it delivered in spades.

Thanks to violent video games, gangs of geese are now roaming the countryside.

Lawlessness in geese is spreading and I blame video games.

iOS 13 haptic touch menus appear to activate way too quickly for me. I’ve set Touch Duration to “Slow” in Accessibility > Touch > 3D and Haptic Touch, let’s see if that helps.

The perfect watch for Dark Mode fans. Swatch’s Sistem Dark.

Happy 4th of July! 🍗 🎆

I recently had to reinstall Windows 10 on a PC (grub dual-boot snafu). This is what a fresh Windows 10 install looks like (although the wallpaper is from my synced online Windows profile). Candy Crush, really? If they want to compete with macOS they have to do much, much better.

This caught my eye in the paper yesterday. User error or software flaw, either way it’s a tragedy. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mother-bitten-by-stray-cat-died-from-sepsis-after-wrong-diagnosis-at-ae-a4164311.html

Someone on the OneDrive team clearly had a lot of fun writing these release notes. Not even mad — as iOS release notes go it’s not bad at all.

Jeez, even Chinese flagship phones start at €799/999 now? Or is Huawei an outlier here?

The lighting in the new Frozen 2 trailer looks great. And check out the fur on the reindeer Kristoff is riding.

Perhaps — and this is just a thought — you have the wrong fibers in your being? https://curmudgeon.cafe/media/E9jaE3SnrCqyCgpTR24

Ever had a guest at a party who would. just. not. leave. Even after it was clear to all they had overstayed their welcome? https://curmudgeon.cafe/media/E22-XfbvK2Lh7m2WVdo

“Blameless Retrospective” by Raja Ravi Varma, oil on canvas, 1906 #progpaintings https://curmudgeon.cafe/media/8-NFbCpbpdnVTPpMQbs

This toot brought to you by the Dutta Residence and Candy Distribution Centre. 4 tubs so far and it’s not even 8pm. https://curmudgeon.cafe/media/kgHKF56Bew54l4bO-Cc https://curmudgeon.cafe/media/C_yxwy-jgFSk53r5Zxo

And it works on Chromebooks 😳 https://curmudgeon.cafe/media/E_UOD5TeKSQ095Dxgls

This line (see screenshot) from David Marcus’s defence of Facebook (https://bit.ly/2Q8W3aM) re Whatsapp stuck out. Facebook is about people like Soylent Green was about people. See this tweet for more Facebook scumbaggery: https://bit.ly/2N5laJD

My local library 😀 #ParanormalComputing