Stream of consciousness and other personal thoughts garnered throughout the week and which will be added to as the week rolls on. These thoughts are unrefined, unquantified, unverified, and raw. Any of these may be either be edited, deleted or otherwise spawn out into its own separate post particularly if new information comes to light…

• Busted Tech 1: On my huawei P30 pro, the Microsoft onedrive app keeps saying “Camera backup – backup complete” (with Green tick) when it is not. Workaround is to go into settings and disable camera backup, confirm warning prompt and then re-enable and the photos starting sync’ing again.

• Busted Tech 2: Google search seems to be failing in a big way recently. Even their Gemini AI at the top of their SERP is often flatly wrong. Have resorted to throwing queries instead into the likes of DeepSeek and ChatGPT which allows me to get answers sooner for most queries. Been finding I’m bothering less and less with Google now. This also means that the web as many of us knew it is slowly dying (predicting traffic to even my personal pages such as this one, will fall off a cliff as more and more people give up on traditional search engines)

• Busted Tech 3: My Lenovo P11 TB-J606F’s touch screen is missing taps (not registering touches) when typing on the onscreen keyboard. Going to look at replacing it as it’s now infuriating to use. Suspect the CPU just isn’t up to it (i.e too slow causing it to miss taps especially if typing quickly) or the digitizer is on its way out.

 

Older Stream of Consciousness thoughts can be found here.