Recent content by mikedt

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

I can't believe how expensive the UK has become, for like everything. I'm currently in Didcot, Oxfordshire, go back to China in July.

I still use the S20 Ultra, no Samsung AI. And I'd never use Windows 11 now, because of Copilot.

Never mind the zipper, but that bag looks quite knackered.

How many Americans can find Turkmenistan on a map? Because, guess where I am?

I ditched Microslop in 2008, after Vista. Been using Linux and MacOS ever since. My computers are: 2015 Macbook Air (Intel) running MX Linux. 2020 Macbook Pro (M1) running MacOS and Asahi Linux Fedora Remix (dual boot).

Sometimes I never know if it's morning, afternoon, evening or night at airports.

For my darling wife...

Back in the early days of the interwebs it was often sending an email to webmaster@<domain of interest> You could still try that, you never know. But otherwise see if there's any contact information on the website that concerns you. Sometimes websites are created and maintained by internet...

Maybe check GSM Arena? Enter in what you desire and see what comes up. Have China phones become quite expensive in America now because of Trump tariffs?

Yeah, I often see that stupid Cloudflare thing, and I also see others. I never use Windows. Mostly I'm on Linux, and sometimes MacOS. Usually with Mullvad VPN, unless I'm looking at websites in China. I gave up with Reddit a long time ago, can never view that site. Even this site and forum...