Thomil's Random Ramblings

When you’re as much of a digital native as I am, you’ll likely have accumulated a dizzying amount of files that you need to store somewhere. From photos, to scans of important documents like house rental contracts, to files for your latest and greatest project, video or blog article, to all of the Luther accoutrements that come with living in the digital age, you’ll likely have gigabytes of stuff lying around either on your computer’s drives or in a cloud storage service somewhere. I know that’s the situation that I found myself being confronted with a while ago and between this splintering and the fact that prices were beginning to rise even for said cloud services, I decided to finally consolidate all these files on a single external drive that I could take with me wherever I needed it. But which drive to use? I had several external HDDs lying around at home, but these were rather large and not really mobile enough for my purpose. I’d looked at SSDs before, but in the past, the relat...

So, the other day, I was watching Apple’s 2022 WWDC Keynote, something that’s been a bit of a tradition for me since my days at the Cupertino giant. I may no longer work for the Church of St. Jobs, but something about the presentation of the keynotes is just polished to a degree other companies can’t seem to match. Besides, it’s not as if I have to support that stuff anymore! It was the presentation of the company’s new MacBook Air that I noticed something off. The colours on offer were all far more muted than previous leaks had suggested. The “Midnight” option was the most intense colour option available. Anything else was just a variation of grey, and that includes the vaunted “Starlight” that so many people have been gushing about. Don’t get me wrong, I still want one and I’m checking the asking prices for kidneys on the black market as I’m writing this. Even Midnight Blue, the most intense tone available for the new MacBook Air, isn't really all that vibrant. However, it got me...