Author: Jack Slater

  • The YMDK Wings

    Mechanical Keyboards have really taken off in the past few years, and I’ve reviewed a few and in the last two years I’ve gone from buying off-the-shelf boards to building my own. They’re highly customizable and can fulfill a specific need or just look nice and supply you with a chance to test out your…

  • HITMAN (2016) 3 (2021) Notes

    Continuing Agent 47’s story from the 2016 reboot-ish HITMAN, HITMAN (2016) 3 (2021), the all-caps sequel to HITMAN (2016) 2 (2018) from io interactive, is out. It’s still just as endearingly ridiculous as HITMAN (2016), but supposedly puts a cap on this trilogy. There is a terrific game in HITMAN (2016) 3 (2021), some of…

  • Good Time (2017)

    Watching their movies out of order, Good Time was the previous Safdie Brothers film, another criminal thrill feature released years before Uncut Gems. Good Time features two brothers, Connie (Robert Pattinson) and Nick (Benny Safdie). Nick’s brain is non-typical and his brother Connie manipulates him into a bank heist that leaves Nick locked up for…

  • Apple’s Headphone Lineup as 2021 Begins

    Connectivity Issues with AirPods and the Mac Jason Snell writing for Macworld: But… connecting and disconnecting AirPods on the Mac is so much more frustrating than on iOS. While iOS 14 brought more intelligent connection and disconnection of AirPods, Big Sur can’t get with the program. It can take a long time to connect the…

  • Amazon Is Forcing Its Warehouse Workers Into Brutal ‘Megacycle’ Shifts

    Lauren Kaori Gurley writing for Vice’s Motherboard tech subsite about a new change for Amazon workers: On January 25, hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Chicago were presented with a baffling choice: sign up for a ten-and-a-half-hour graveyard shift, or lose your job. Management informed workers that their warehouse, known as DCH1, would…