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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

I spent $98 to improve my flying in Wardogs, but did it actually help?

A photo of a box of a Radiomaster Pocket drone radio controller.

Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Wardogs is the only online shooter I know where you can finish a match in top 10% on the leaderboard with 0 kills, 0 assists, 0 deaths, and 0 revives. I got my "reach $100000 net profit in a single life" achievement just casually flying supplies from base to F.O.B. and chatting with friends on […]

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

It's not any kind of branding or trademark either, it's just what people have been calling it for generations, and thus what manufacturers have been putting on the packaging.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

There's type of Russian hot mustard you can get that's literally officially labelled as "nuclear".

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

So thankful for those dreams in which all my friends are still alive.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Wardogs is a time machine. You see 10pm on the clock, think you can probably squeeze in another round, next thing you know it's 1am and you've got 4 hours left to get some sleep.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Wardogs feels like online gaming 20 years ago.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Got a Keychron scissor keyboard for office, and the thing feels like typing on Haribo gummies :drgn_flat_pleading: With that said, it _is_ a new feeling, and for the novelty factor alone, I'm kind of liking it.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Uninstalling Battlefield 6 felt like ending an abusive relationship.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Writing is turning out to be hard, but not for the reasons I expected. A finished passage is loved by everyone I share it with, but I myself fail to feel anything at all when I re-read it. There's supposed to be mystery, and suspense, and uncertainty, and existential dread from not knowing […]

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Looked at today's Connections and just said no.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

When the comic goes up, it's going to be posted on a fresh GoToSocial instance, and I've just realised I don't need a dedicated comic view, I can just do simple navigation using markdown links in the posts themselves. The only thing I need is a persistent 'latest post' link and a script that […]

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Amazon takes a while to charge the card and send a receipt when purchasing Kindle books, so sizeable was my surprise when I got this email out of nowhere.

A screenshot of an email header that reads "Amazon.co.uk order of Distress".

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I love FOSS weather apps and the ominous warnings they send to my watch.

A notification displayed on the screen of a smartwatch that just says:
Wind
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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I took a critical look at it and thought that it needed more whimsy, so, naturally, I Groovebox'd it.

A screenshot of a homescreen of a vertically scrolling launcher on Android. Top to bottom, it has a clock, current date, a block of app icons (four rows, five columns, no labels), a music widget and a tasks widget which is cut off at the bottom indicating there's more below if one were to scroll. The wallpaper is a diagonally tilted grid of various Tetris-like shapes, no fill, just thick outlines. Closer to the top, the shapes take on sightly muted, pastel-adjacent colours, while closer to the bottom they turn into a uniform brownish grey. The app icons are also taken from a custom pastel pack and are varied in shape and design philosophy, with only the pastel colours managing to make the whole grid look oddly coherent.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

So I've just learned that my launcher on Android will let me use any icon for any app, so I can now keep my PWA apps looking uniform next to the native ones on the homescreen.

A screenshot of an Android phone homescreen showing a vertically scrolling launcher with a clock, date, a block of app icons, and a couple widgets. Icons in the block all have a minimalistic, uniform theme. The bottom row stylistically looks the same as all the others, but each icon in it has a miniature icon next to it indicating that it's a progressive web app shortcut created by another app.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Apparently the haze in Singapore and Malaysia is the worst it's ever been, or near enough, so I must post this gem Singaporeans introduced me to a while back: youtu.be/RYTV9w1CdwQ

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Spent the whole day in the mountains with no cell service and it's lowkey the best.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Apparently there's a Vanadium fork called Titanium that supports Chrome extensions. I think my search for a somewhat good Android browser is finally complete. Before you suggest I use your favourite browser instead, a Somewhat Good Android Browser™ should be able to: 1. Not phone home (to […]

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Core Devices actually achieved a small miracle: the Pebble Time 2 really lasts the advertised 30 days if you use it as a smartwatch and not a fitness device. I set it to behave like a regular electronic watch - an always-on display, touchscreen off, no standby mode when I take it off my wrist […]

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Humans invented spoken languages with the express purpose of making it impossible to communicate anything.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

It's a "stay in bed and spend the whole day reading" kind of Saturday.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Having an idle realisation that I'm not having children until somebody normalises not letting children use the internet and smart devices again.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

The best tea temperature is when it's not hot enough to strip the skin off the roof of your mouth, but still plenty hot to firebomb your insides.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Now that it's been cold enough outside to sleep with just the windows open, I've arrived at a shocking revelation: I can't sleep without the aircon, it's too quiet x_x

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

This weather app is lowkey legendary.

A photo of a Pebble Time 2 smartwatch screen with a weather app open on it. The weather app is open on a "Touch & Go" page which says, "26 degrees & clear; Friendly sky above. Go be friendly right back."

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

I absolutely adore the fact that my kitchen scale just says 'bYE' for a second when I power it off.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Interesting that in just one update (to be fair, I haven't updated since May) Gboard took a sharp and very noticeable nosedive when it comes to the typing quality. The new version has problems with vocabulary where it would actively push words on me that I've never seen before and would never […]

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Damn, the Kindle is actually showing the signs of dying. Funny that the Kindle 3 is still alive and well after a battery replacement, but the 2021 Paperwhite is developing glitchy touch. Guess it's time to look at Kobo pricing.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Being genderfluid (or agender) online, male-presenting to strangers IRL, and fully native in both the languages I speak makes it dangerous having one of those two languages have gendered grammar. Spending much time every day on a MUCK as a female-presenting character, even if it's in English […]

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

The conflicting desires of wanting a dedicated audio player and yet wanting to control music playback through a wristwatch.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Two cans of Monster and a coffee before bed are not doing me any favours, are they.

A close-up shot of a smartwatch on a wrist in front of a window looking out into the street. The watch is showing 4:51am on a Saturday. The watchface it pushed up by a calendar event notification, 'Sunrise', which is, according to the watch, happening in six minutes.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Today is just one big series of unfortunate events. I sneeze, my boss notices, asks if I'm ill, I say that yes, I'm feeling a little feverish, so I get sent home. I have a cold. Three hours later half of Central Asia suffers mass electricity blackouts, some high voltage line somewhere went […]

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

So uh. VRChat has profile decorations now. The more updates come out, the less I want to return back to VRChat. So when is the next good social VR platform dropping? #vrchat #vr #socialvr

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Does anyone reading this still play Battlefield 6, if you ever played it to begin with?

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Picking up a Greg Egan book was an incredibly correct decision. #books #reading #scifi #scienceficiton #sff

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Sneak-peek of an upcoming #DIY project :)

A screenshot of a channel roster in a Zulip (a selfhosted collaboration or community space) instance. It shows a channel called "RL, hobbies & art", and the newest topic in that channel called "Laser & Coffee are building a one-wheeled death board".

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Needed Linux for jailbreaking my Kindle, so I booted into Arch, realised I haven't upgraded it for at least half a year, and so I upgraded it. Surprisingly, nothing has exploded.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

I keep relating to Sandra Hüller in Project Hail Mary needing both venti lattes.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

I've been doing more thinking, and Steam Frame is increasingly looking like a no-go. It's shaping up to be madly expensive, and with Gabe Cubes out there happily failing, I'm not about to get yet another piece of Valve hardware that hasn't been tested for resilience, and has no warranty or […]

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Definitely don't do any of the clearly explained activities in this video.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

On one hand, running an OS without fresh security updates on a critical system is, in a vacuum, considered as a bad practice, on the other hand if you were to upgrade to the latest system, that would make it incompatible with the whole IBM pipeline and maybe leave half the country without access […]

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

I never finished the VR-friendly replica of my old apartment before my headset crapped itself and then I had to move countries. It's all good, though: the new apartment is way cooler and a lot easier to model at the same time. Might even model the outdoors, for a more accurate skybox and light […]

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

The best incentive I found to push myself towards a better physical shape is that I can now afford all the cool electric self-balancing thingys I've been salivating over for so long, but I'm just a little too heavy to get a good riding experience out of most of them. Good thing I now work on […]

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

"Oh my god, this is both funny and scary" just about sums up cybersecurity as a job.

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Coffee @coffee.cafecreature.club.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

I'm looking for a non-US-centric tech news website that avoids reporting on generative AI, and rather focuses on actual useful or neat technology. Is anybody aware of anything of the sort existing out there or am I completely out of luck? #opensource #foss #freeopensourcesoftware

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