Recent content by mikedt

Not sure if serious.

I cleared the screen without loosing any lives on Atari VCS 2600 Space Invaders.

Okay, I've never seen that.

Did you try Amazon? They seem to have a few venus flytrap costumes. No idea what "Audrey II" is.

Siri was turned off on my iPhone first set it up and synced it to my Apple ID. I was never impressed with Siri on the Macbook, so I turned it off, so it can stay OFF on the iPhone. I think I can use my devices and live my life without AI and LLMs. BTW I don't miss the Samsung S-Pen, which was...

"liquid glass texture" so they're copying Apple. And I do not like the sound of "let the AI".

With me a British expat living in China, and now seeing the current state of Android phones here, Including Samsung, it now seems the iPhone is the best and easiest device to use here now. I was able to sign into my UK Apple ID straight away on it, and installed all the Western and Chinese apps...

Something took me a little while to get used to with the iPhone. When making purchases with Wechat Pay,, I was instinctively going for a fingerprint sensor that's not there. The iPhone uses face recognition, which so far seems to be reliable. All the apps I used regularly on the Samsung, I've...

After 16 years of using Android phones. I bought a new iPhone 17. My Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra is starting to show signs of old age, the back fell off, the middle camera seems to have developed myopia, and the battery no longer holds as much charge as it used to. But it is the longest lasting...

Using TOR gives you anonymous browsing, where they can't determine what country, city, and ISP you're on (see screen-shot below). And some websites that use security services like CloudFlare might determine that anonymity could be a malicious bot, maybe doing a DDOS, or spamming, that why you...

An ATM that plays The Sound Of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel when you make a cash withdrawal. I don't suppose they receive any royalties for this.

I can't see that happening where I am, China. Where Android devices are very popular, but Google ("goo") has very little involvement and control. Maybe elsewhere that may happen?

I've never heard of this particular music app, and have no idea what that error might be? But were the music files on the SD card or your device's internal storage. If the former, could be the SD card has become corrupt and unreadable?

Jason Bourne movies This is Spinal Tap The Blues Brothers The Kentucky Fried Movie Chungking Express The Way of the Dragon Game of Death Enter the Dragon Wandering Earth & Wandering Earth 2 The East is Red