01 - I don't know why I keep procrastinating. I just keep putting things off. My brain tells me go ahead and do that thing I need to do but then my other brain (or part of it) tells me to put it off, I have plenty of time and maybe sometimes that's true but most of the time, I end up doing everything at the last minute. I don't know, there is no solution.
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03 - My blog's feed or whatever is called isn't working as usual. I subscribe to my blog through the Blogger dashboard so I can see how blog posts looks in the Reading list dashboard. Usually when I published a post, it would show up right away but now it seems to take awhile or sometimes a day to show up - what's up with that? I can see the post is posted because it's there on my blog but not the reading list. No idea why it suddenly become buggy.
The Affinity apps were created/owned by Serif but Canva brought them out in 2024. The Serif people claimed they won't change anything with the new ownership. Then came this October, they began offering their app (now a combination of the three apps into one) simply called Affinity or Affinity Studio (supposedly version 3) for free. I was all ready to upgrade but I didn't. To download and use the Affinity app, you have to sign up for a Canva account which I am not willing to do.
I paid for the apps but now I can't use the new version because I refuse to open a Canva account [insert all the cursing here.] I'm actually willing to pay NOT to be involved with Canva. It might be stupid to refuse to use an app for this reason but I just couldn't do it.
So signing up for a Canva account didn't mean you have to use Canva but that's exactly what it means, doesn't it? You become a customer of Canva the moment you sign up for an account and even if they don't force you to use Canva or make you pay to use the Affinity app, things will not be that way because no big company swallows up a smaller company and that let everything be. I won't speculate how things will change but companies don't give out things for free for nothing. Affinity is free but you pay for it by being involved with Canva.
Canva is meant for non-designers, offering pre-made templates and other tools like fonts and images. I'm not saying Canva is bad but I simply prefer to never use them.
In conclusion, there is no conclusion because one day, I'll probably sign up for Canva account just to use Affinity when I could no longer use the old apps (Serif people aren't going to update the old versions anymore) because technology kept being upgraded and sometimes you are forced to upgrade even when you are reluctant to do so. (Here's the link to Affinity if you want to check it out: https://www.affinity.studio/get-affinity)
05 - Why are so many reviews with hidden spoilers at Goodreads are cut off and sometimes in mid-sentence? Where are the rest of it? This is rather disappointing when I wanted to find out the ending. All these cut-off reviews keep appearing or maybe I keep finding them and they are seemed to be one-star reviews. Do they get cut off because they are spoilers, too long or because they are one-star, two-star reviews? There seems to be an option to blur spoiler text so this hidden spoiler box method is not even needed unless it's super long.
And also, those hidden because of spoilers didn't have spoilers - why? I don't use Goodreads anymore so I don't know how it's done but I guess people could accidentally mark their review as hidden but so many people did this it must be too easy to do it.
Goodreads still have no translations for reviews in foreign languages even though it's owned by amazon who had their foreign language reviews with the option to translate them. Goodreads have tons of foreign languages reviews so it didn't make sense not to have the translation option.
I used to read amazon reviews but then they changed it so all you can read are top reviews and if you want to read the other reviews such as the one-star reviews, you have to sign into your amazon account or create one. I don't get this change. Why do you have to sign in to see all the reviews?
06 - My iphone (an old model) kept giving out notifications to finish setting it up but the thing is I don't want to set up those stupid features that are useless to me. Why should I waste time setting up things that I'm not going to use? It used to be you get to choose but now they just bug you to death until you do things their way. Well, I'm going to keeping ignoring all the notifications until I feel like finish setting up which should be in about ten years or when the phone dies.
07 - I don't like subscriptions - streaming tv/movies, streaming music, apps by subscription, etc. So I don't have any subscription, at least for now. Recently, I found that you have to pay by subscription to read the BBC News articles which had been free to read with advertisements for years. (And during those times, it kept asking you to sign up for an account which I never did.) I think you are allowed to read two articles for free and when you tried to read a third article, a popup screen would show up and ask you to sign up for a subscription to read the rest.
As a freeloader (which I loath to admit but it's true) of most internet websites, this is extremely disappointing. I know they and almost everybody who runs such websites needs to make a living but I just thought online news should be free. There are other places for news that are free (with advertisements - they all have advertisements) but I'm a creature of habit, so it's hard to change. So now I just read headlines.
What's on your mind these days?
I don't know why Blogger slows down some blog posting times and not others. Who knows why bloody Blogger does anything?
ReplyDeleteSome people posts show up in a timely matter in my feed and some are a day later. I have no idea why. I'm not sure if you've checked into it, but libraries are a great resource for newspapers, magazines, etc.
ReplyDelete2. I like youer old, more colourful heade better, also I would not like being confined to a stamp ;)
ReplyDelete3. My feed is buggy too , not with all blogs, only some. Sometimes it takes days to update.
4. Stupid - from their side, not yours. But still better than what will happen to Publisher - my editing tool. Suddenly we're told that as of September 2026 Publisher will not be accesible any more. Not only "support is ending", but Microsoft simply deletes the program from their bundle, and it will disappear from my computer, never to be useable again - and any and all files I did not export will become forever inaccesible - Angry is not the word.
5. I don't like subscriptions either. NYT pissed me off by placing some of their word-games behind an account as well. I haven't visite since, even though I miss the daily Wordle.
Procrastinating is a thing -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I had to chuckle at your new piece of art - rain everywhere except under the little cloud. Your coffee (or strong tea?) is safe! 😉
ReplyDeleteOK, so...I actually KNOW why I keep procrastinating. Because at this point (due to previous instances of procrastinating and my husband's problems and whatnot), so many things I should have done eons ago have piled up, so now I don't know where to start anymore. And because I resent to be the only one who can do them...
Uh. My blog's feed seems to work as usual.
Goodreads is a mess lately. Not only it does truncate ALL the spoiler reviews, but there's this problem with the synopsis where every time a word is followed by the semicolon, they both vanish (after noticing synopses that didn't make sense, I compared some of them to the ones on Amazon, and I found out what the problem was). I wrote to the help center to let them know, and they replied that I was welcome to bring the problem to the librarians group...which is useless, since it's not like they can manually correct every synopsis that gets uploaded - this is a problem that only the coders behind the site can solve. Not to mention, if you join the librarians group you get bombarded by a ton of notifications, so thanks but no thanks.
"It used to be you get to choose but now they just bug you to death until you do things their way."
We have to opt out of everything these days, as opposed to opting in...and the worst thing is, sometimes we can't even do that. Also, yeah, the subscriptions...the internet used to be so peaceful a few years ago - now it's a battlefield. You always have to find a new way to do the same old things.
Looks like there are quite a few of those problems coming up for you. I have the #3 problem, as well, and I don't like that, either. But what's even worse, Google Chrome's tab bar disappeared and I can't get it back on. So useless. But Blogger works better with Google Chrome, so now I work both that and Firefox ... Ugh. Let's hope they soon will get their act together.
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