Recent content by mikedt

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

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...