Thomil's Random Ramblings

We live in a golden age of technology as far as I’m concerned. Never before have had so many people had access to truly powerful technology and devices. Even mid-range smartphones nowadays pack the type of computing power that was not too long ago reserved for laptop or even desktop computers, while also packing cameras that equal or even surpass some DSLRs or mirrorless cameras. I mean, I’m writing this on a tablet with a CPU that used to be reserved for MacBooks and yet is more compact and lightweight than said MacBooks, even with its heavy keyboard case. And yet, there seems to be a growing trend away from this amazing technology, and towards either retro or pure analogue. I don’t really remember when I first noticed the trend, it must have been around 2016 or 2017, when I first started to take YouTube seriously as an entertainment service, rather than it just being a random collection of weird clips. At the time, a couple of creators I’d been following suddenly started adding some ...

First things first, if you came here looking for an apology for that pun in the headline, you’re going to have to keep looking, because you certainly won’t get it from me! In all seriousness, my migration from iOS to Android back in October 2023 had a number of unplanned consequences. The big one was that the AirPods Pro I’d gotten as a gift from my employer were no longer really fit for purpose. At the beginning, there was nothing clearly wrong with them, it’s just that they didn’t really mesh well with any non-Apple device. All of the killer features that make the AirPods into such excellent earbuds were missing on Android. Also, as time went on, either a speaker grille or a membrane began to shake itself loose in one of my AirPods, so there was suddenly a certain sense of urgency behind my quest for a replacement. This urgency, combined with a good price on Amazon and, to be blunt, a mistake on my part, led to me ending up with the Jabra Elite 4 Wireless. This was probably one of my...