reviews – azstronav

What happened to MP3 Players?

I think MP3 players are a good investment, you can add whatever songs and podcasts you want for free, you can play them with the screen off for free, they don’t drain your phone battery or storage and you can pick them up for $17.

10 years ago everyone had an MP3 player, they were everywhere, and some of my most fun memories was pirating the latest song heh, a one time purchase, one thing you didn’t have though was the music recommendations, and the convience of being able to listen to any song at any time without having to hook it up to a computer and transferring files.

The high end MP3 players today run android, very thick and run off subscription services, I do wonder what’s the point in them, just use your phone. The cheap MP3 players are low quality and aren’t great. If we could have something like the ipod nano 5 with open source firmware and a replaceable battery, yeah! that woud be the perfect mp3 player in my opinion, small, slim, quality.

Iphone 16

I purchased an iphone 16, what went wrong? just after the return policy, the UK demanded that apple inserts a backdoor into icloud, apple refused and has stopped encrypted our backups, that’s another thing, IOS is so locked down, when i’m in europe I can download apps and work the phone without an icloud account, but in the UK I cannot.

I also found that a 60hz display on a $899 smartphone is unacceptable and the camera is just bad, no other words to really describe it, I get a lot better photos from my Motorola and Pixel 3a. To be fair to apple though I did like the camera zoom slider and the battery life was great! but considering my country is starting to become like the country they criticize for lack of free speech, censorship and surveillance they sure do want to be like them.

So I have got rid of the iphone and went back to my pixel 3a, which still runs well and can download apps and use it thoroughly without making an account.

Barry (2018)

Barry is a TV series about an ex military soilder turned hitman who needs a purpose in life, and when he finds acting he want’s to give up killing people, it’s comedic until the last few episodes where it really makes you think about what we do in this world for money, and for me it does make me think if I was to die right now, would God forgive me for my sins? all the stuff i’ve done in the past? would I be in heaven or burning in hell forever… of because the choices I made in this temporary life for temporary pleasure.

He became somewhat happy, a religious man, raising his child on good ethics and moral standpoint even if it was extreme and unfair with a slightly unstable wife, and they threw it all away for desire.

I never really used to care about peoples deaths, I cared a lot more about animals then humans, but then I think if my child was murdered all the memories, all the hardship, all the challenges, and years wasted and for what? nothing?, how many times does this happen every single day, peoples deaths over drugs, war and crime.

Good TV series but shame about the ending lol