A couple days ago, I saw an ad for Assassin’s Creed Mirage; e.g., This one’s been out in the wild more than 6 months now, but I’m glad that the iOS (and iPadOS) port will soon reach a far broader swarth of mobile-first (or mobile-only?) gamers. At launch, I really enjoyed navigating the streets of Baghdad and more on PS5; I’ll probably at least give it a quick spin come June.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I somehow managed to build a PC, followed by a minor refresh in 2021. Along the way, my GPU and motherboard died and had to be replaced at some point, hence the listing of 2 GPUs and motherboards below. Recently, I couldn’t turn it on anymore, and it wasn’t the power supply, so it might have been the motherboard again. I got fed up, sold most of my parts.

Xiaomi Miio is an integration for Home Assistant, an open-source home automation software. It is the link between Home Assistant itself, and your Xiaomi smart devices. Except I don’t want my network traffic routed to some server up in China or wherever when I’m at home, and the device itself is at home, as it makes for a meaningfully longer turnaround time, and is probably a privacy hole too. (The next step is cutting off “phone home” traffic from these devices, but story for another day.

Today I opened the MariBank app to discover this notification: That’s on their savings account product, and so an increase of 0.38% given the existing rate (2.5% per annum). Interest is credited daily; e.g., a 75K deposit earns ~$5.92 instead of ~$5.14 per day, and so a 15.2% increase. It’s unclear how long this will last, but hey, make your money work harder for you while it can. (This campaign should be brief, given that GXS Bank’s 3.

YouTube video: Link “Happy birthday” video. [That “thank you” song, real catchy.] Today is all about Apple Watch and iPhone. Recap about the new Macs (the Studio, the Pro, and the 15" MacBook Air). Much flexing about the 15, I feel like. Vision Pro, ships “early next year”. [I’d forgotten, got excited all over again!] Watch Series 9 “Most popular watch”. [How did you know?] Apple silicon (S9 SiP) in the Series 9.

Today I launched Apollo, a 3rd-party client for Reddit, and saw, to my dismay, an update from Apollo’s developer. The following is an excerpt from his post on the Apollo App subreddit: … 50 million requests costs $12,000, a figure far more than I ever could have imagined. Apollo made 7 billion requests last month, which would put it at about 1.7 million dollars per month, or 20 million US dollars per year.