g33ker – A day in the rants

4 month check in: how’s the switch back to Android?

Thought I’d check back at my Samsung switch now after what, 4 months?

In summary: it’s going good (enough.)

In more detail: Continue reading 4 month check in: how’s the switch back to Android?

Pixelfed now supports importing your Insta archive, so I did just that.

Looks like the last time I posted about Pixelfed (the federated photo-microblogging platform) was (*checks notes) in 2020 – time moves quickly when flies have fun!
Since then, Pixelfed gained some more ground, some apps, plenty of finesse, a lot of users, and, for the purpose of this entry, an Instagram import feature. Continue reading Pixelfed now supports importing your Insta archive, so I did just that.

I bought an Android tablet.

It’s nothing fancy, although in fact it actually looks better than my daughter’s iPad: it’s a Lenovo Tab M10 gen3, if I got the branding order right, and I bought a Lenovo because haha, it’s a Lenovo and all our laptops at home are Lenovo. But it’s certainly not a high end tablet. My use case is going through my RSS feeds while having coffee and with my cat in my lap (according to the Law of the Cat if he’s in my lap, I can’t prioritise having a laptop there instead), and then maybe some light Reddit browsing. For this, I could justify a 200-something euro 10″ Android tablet; I could not have justified an iPad.

So I bought an Android tablet. Continue reading I bought an Android tablet.