Some time ago my “dear friends” talked me into buying a console, a.k.a. PlayStation 4. The main argument in favor was the release of Borderlands 3, which my existing hardware couldn’t handle at all. Weighing the pros and cons — namely, $800 for a gaming PC versus $100 for a gaming console (used) — I chose the latter, drove a good hundred kilometers to pick it up, and got the console itself, a couple of controllers (originally one), a charging station for the controllers, and a Mortal Kombat XL disc!!

April 2019.

My wife gets a Pixel 2 — at that point a two-year-old model, and as Wikipedia tells us, discontinued April 1, 2019.

Re-reading my own blog and going through the sparse comments, I noticed that one of my friends’ domains — tsybulko.org — has gone dark. A shame.

About 4-5 years ago I bought this wonderful little apron on AliExpress for gentlemen who prefer to take care of their beard themselves:

Who will take a guess: together with this newly arrived box, what is the total number of MacBooks in a household of two adults?

Having waited for warm weather and even having missed a few (quite a lot of) warm days, the 2020 season is open!

For some reason I thought I started later last year, but nope — I was in the saddle on March 24.

So, the TV problem (and the set-top box audio along with it) was solved at the cost of blood and nerves in a battle against greed successfully. It seemed everything was great, but the infection had already taken deep root in the organism — you step into the kitchen and can’t hear the TV, and lying in the bath under a stream of your favourite podcast would be nice too, and besides, I noticed IKEA also sells wireless remote controls for sound…

After the music in our home started sounding in a whole new way — it became very obvious just how terrible the sound from a flat TV is. Sure, there’s nowhere for good sound to come from in that thing, but at least before there was nothing to compare it to.

Recently my home network (which I might write about in more detail separately someday) has gained a few more residents — three or six, I still haven’t figured it out myself.

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