Melbourne

@PeelerSheila@aussie.zone has provided me with A Game. Thank you @PeelerSheila@aussie.zone !

argh, the boxes I ordered are really tiny , I should have read the descriptions much more closely

oh well , I'll just get some more

I'm so cold in the office today. I dress for the temperature outside but the air-con in this place is ridiculously strong. Plus there's a draft exactly where I sit as well making it worse. It would have to be under 20 degrees in here. It's nice right when you come back from outside, but not so much once you've cooled down. Need to remember to pack an office jacket for hot days.

It looks like technology companies have just given up on smart home stuff. There are no more smart clocks, smart displays, not even speakers side from Sonos. Everyone got sick of using these things and the world has moved on.

This means I can chuck out my smart clock with the broken cable. I can actually get rid of it completely! It's the cable that's broken, not the unit, and it's such a weird voltage and connector it's not worth trying to replace.

It's a bit of a shame to contribute to more ewaste. I might drop it off at one of the ewaste points at a library or office works. But it's nice to know I can let go of something. No holding onto a cable 'just in case'. No need to try get an otherwise perfectly fine unit to work, because I didn't use it anyway. I can actually throw this thing out, and there's no equivalent on the market to replace it with.