We won!

Hello from my home in Matinkylä! This is NordLetter #14, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Previous editions can be found here.

India won the World Cup yesterday. For some reason, I was not that much into this edition. I started watching matches from the semi-final onward. For Saturday, in preparation for the match we made some samosa and samosa chat. Thankfully, India won so we could savour it as well.

/techStuff

EU's competition chief is not happy with Apple's decision to skip Apple Intelligence features in EU. I wrote a bit about it the last time around. It was expected. But well, what can you do.

The reviews for the new arm powered Surface laptop came out. It seems they are great machines which is good news for everyone. Let's get more games on Arm!

/reading

I started this week reading about the manager’s unbearable lack of endorphins. This is something that I feel too, with my transition to managing a team. Managing people seldom gives any satisfaction. Nothing close to feeling like I’ve accomplished something. The joy that I get out of fixing a bug, finding root cause or writing a script. The feeling of a day spent well.

Next up, something about Local, first, forever. Oh how I would love it if all apps were like that. If I owned the data. I could take it wherever I wanted. Obsidian works like that. That’s why even with improvements to Apple Notes, I continue to do most of my writing in Obsidian.

David Pierce wrote about the Boox Palma. Which I am very tempted to get. I love the idea of having different devices for different things. Of knowing what you were doing based on what device you picked. No social on phones, for example. Anyway, I read a few negative reviews about the Palma. Mostly related to the screen not working. Maybe if someone else created this device, a Kindle mini or a Nook pocket or something. Craig Mod wrote about this back in Roden #90 as well.

Inside Netflix’s bet on advanced video encoding and a fun read on the history of markdown.

Finally, the case for not sanitising fairytales. Old fairy tales were truer to life. Good and bad things happened to people. But ultimately good winning over bad. That has changed now. And not for the better.

Until next week.