Been playing Elden Ring for a second time for the past few weeks (want to reach the DLC entrance with a new char). This is without a doubt the most amazing and mind blowing and beautiful video game world ever created. This game hits different on a second run. It is just as engaging and addicting as the first time, minus all the frustration - I beat most bosses within three tries. But the "wow" effect when taking in all the vistas in the open world and the incredible designs of all the castles and towers and whatnot is still there. Hell, even the story and all the cryptic NPC dialogues kinda makes sense now. Best game ever created.

This spike was ChiCha Oolong Tea with cream, zero sugar, no toppings. WTF?! Shouldn't "cream" be a dairy product? It should not cause a spike like this. This is what almost all Singaporeans are addicted to. And most don't select the "zero sugar" option, and almost everyone adds "toppings", which definitely are full of sugar. This nation will soon collapse in a diabetes epidemic...

Wow. After playing First Berserker Khazan, Elden Ring now feels extremely clunky and the control seem utterly weird to me 😵‍💫

Very good read:

Brownstone Institute

USAID and the Architecture of Perception ⋆ Brownstone Institute

The ultimate battle isn't just for truth. In the end, their greatest fear isn't that we'll reject their manufactured world.

I've been using Ente for half a year now and it allowed me to cut ties to iCloud (in terms of photos, I still use a tiny amount of disk space on iCloud for a few apps like Notes and Reminders and Calendar to sync trivial amounts of data between Apple devices, downgraded to the free tier).

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Ente Photos v1

After 40,000+ commits and 5 years of work, Ente Photos v1 is here - end-to-end encrypted, on-device AI search, memories, family plan, links, and more.

Is there still no way to edit posts on Nostr? Incredibly annoying to hit submit and then find some typos in the post 🤬

Even Plato already knew that everyone at Wall Street are useless humans 😂 #books #greatbooksofwesternciviisation

Done with Aristophanes. Of all the early Greek plays, his comedies are definitely my favourite. Especially The Frogs, where he roasts Awschylus and Euripides is hilarious. Now I can finally get to the serious stuff... #books #greatbooksofwesterncivilisation

"DIONYSUS. “Don’t come trespassing on my mind; you have a brain of your own to keep thoughts in.”" Now that's an awesome way to say "Shut your mouth" 😂

It took a week to sync, but all my 30k photos and videos are now synced and fully E2E encrypted via ente.io Finally gonna delete everything from iCloud. This was the last straw (software wise) that kept me trapped in Apple's ecosystem. The real last straw is of course the hardware. Being able to run lassive LLMs locally on those M-chips with maxed out RAM is hard to beat.

Started playing AstroBot. Damn this game is high energy good mood and childish happiness. Gonna 100% that, the addition of that helper bird to find secrets is such a nice touch.