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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Devices that you already own (PCs, smartphones, tablets, Fire TV devices, and smart TVs) can become your gaming devices, and Luna also supports peripherals that you already own, such as Xbox One and PlayStation 4 controllers, and mouse + keyboard.

    This is the part that interests me the most. I’ve got a handful of controllers that I’ve tried using with my phone in the past with not much luck. If they work with Luna, I’ve instantly got a decent library of games to play anywhere :)













  • Before you spend a lot of money on a pair of medical glasses, try your local hardware store and see if they sell the same coloured glasses as safety glasses. I got a pair of yellow safety glasses, with yellow supposedly being good for astigmatism and car headlights, but only paid about £3 for them. ‘Medical’ glasses, which were the same colour but in nicer frames, were a lot more expensive.

    I’ve also recently bought a pair of red glasses for about £5. They’re not the prettiest glasses I’ve ever seen, but they work to let me know whether red glasses work for me or not :)


  • There are card providers like Curve who let you add multiple bank, credit, and store cards to one card, and select which one you want to use through an app. I don’t know whether you can use them through your phone separately though, as I only ever tried it through the Google Pay system.

    Curve changed their terms a few years ago so that you can only have one payment card without paying a monthly fee though, so I haven’t used them for a while. On top of that, changing the selected card through the app was too slow for when I was in a queue and wanted to use a store card and then a payment card.


  • My boring choices would be Chinese takeaway and fresh KFC. The Chinese takeaway near me is delicious, and does great portions, but you’re looking at at least £10 to £15 per person if you’re not sharing. It’s not a massive amount of money, but if you want to try a few dishes, it quickly racks up the cost.

    The KFC is bog standard, but it’s just far enough away that the food cools down by the time it gets to my house. This is more of a more money equals more time situation, so I’d have more time to go to the restaurant and eat it right there while it’s hot.

    A few people mentioned beef jerky. I’d like to try some of the different types and flavours. I’ve only really seen the one brand here, and they sell Teriyaki and spicy. Spicy just means that they’ve dumped enough spice on it to mask any other taste. I’d like to see what the other options are like.

    Same with some of the other suggestions here, like swordfish. I’d love to try some of the more unusual foods, without going down the gimmicky route and eating things like rotten fish, or live octopus.




  • Strongly disagree. I’m using SwiftKey, and the prediction has been awful for the last year or so. It constantly tries to force sentences on me and gives me multiple repeated words.

    As an example, typing that last sentence, every time I started a word with ‘m’, it suggested ‘more’ and ‘more than’. If I long press and tell it not to suggest ‘more than’, then select ‘more’, the next suggested word is ‘than’.

    I find that it often repeats the selected word too. Earlier I typed something like ‘I did it last year’ and the next suggestions were ‘year’ and ‘year ago’.

    Microsoft have shoehorned a predictive AI into SwiftKey, and it doesn’t work properly.