Final week of my sabbatical and, as I write this, the final day – day 90.
What have I been doing to round up my time?
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Random thoughts on life
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Inoreader > Feedly
For the past week, the web interface of Feedly has been broken – read feeds continue to display until you refresh the page, which, depending on how you receive your feed, can be an awful experience. Feedly are aware but seem to be slow at fixing it.
So, I took the time to check out the competition.
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Ring ring: The search for the best bicycle bell
For the last few months I’ve taken up cycling daily – a little on the road but mostly through a local park. My exploits have been mentioned before, mainly due to the idiotic meanderings of people in the cycle lane. It’s even lead to an accident.
One thing that’s become important, is making sure people can actually hear me approaching – even if somebody is in the cycle lane, I do need to make sure I’m approaching, if only for my own safety.
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Sabbatical: Weeks Ten & Eleven
Surprise! You thought I’d forgotten last week, right?
No, I was on holiday, so wasn’t able to post.
So, how did it go and what else have I been up to?
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This is why you probably shouldn’t buy a Chromebook
Certainly not a premium one.
I bought a Chromebook back in 2014 (so, 8 years ago). As I bought in early, by the time Google added the ability to run Android apps to the OS, my hardware was too old and they wouldn’t support it. But, then, they stopped updating the OS.
I’m actually writing this post on it and it works just fine… most of the time. It’s a little sluggish, but usable. Except, when it isn’t. And that’s because when Google stop providing updates, they really do. And that includes the Chrome browser.
Chrome is currently on v104, but my Chromebook is very much stuck on v76. As a result, I regularly get issues with websites that, for good reason, don’t support older browser versions.
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