Category: Life

Now this is my own opinion, but Amazon seem to make their hardware to an absolute price point. For the sake of keeping costs low, they will produce something which is absolutely fine for the here-and-now. The result of that is that, a couple of years down the line, their devices are slow and laggy. I found this with FireTV and the Kindle is no different.

On top of that recent change to their UI, which also saw a shift in the programming framework being used, has led to more bugs which Amazon seem reluctant to spend too much time on fixing (software updates don’t come out very often).

So, unless you’re rocking the very latest and greatest Kindle, there’s a chance you’ll experience some lagging and, worst still, complete lock-ups. I’ve put together a number of things to check and do that will help reduce this, based on feedback and general advice from Kindle users.

There are plenty of Magsafe compatible holders for the iPhone, where you snap something onto the back of the phone to hold a few of your credit and debit cards. However, ESR have decided to take the opportunity to differentiate their product on the market by adding in extra features.

In this case, they’ve added 4 extras – RFID protection for the cards, a stand, a holder and built-in Find My.

If you didn’t know already, I work in customer service and have done for over 30 years. So, it’s important to me and I understand when something is badly wrong.

So, to wrap up 2025 I’m going to mention the companies that I’ve had the pleasure or displeasure of dealing with in my personal life (and nothing to do with work).

With the release of WordPress 6.9, I’m finally returning to the contributing to core. The last time was WordPress 6.5 (I’m genuinely not sure what I did for that one – it certainly wasn’t code related!) and, previous to that, 5.8, which was over 4 years ago.

And this contribution has been quite the journey.