Gadget Guru’s magic box

This month has not been the best for Guru. First came the death of his Samsung American-style fridge, which admittedly had spent the past eight years dribbling water over GaGu’s kitchen floor and not quite keeping its contents cold enough. Given that Guru’s kitchen is due to be ripped out, he skimped and opted for a Kenwood KSBSDB19 fridge (also sold as the Hisense RS741N4WB11) – and only now does he realise what he has been missing. Things are cold! Frozen things are not soft! It’s like living in the future.

Then came the mysterious smell coming from GaGu’s frontage. At first he thought it was the drains. The nice man from the rodding company, though, confirmed it was not; Guru’s suspicion is that his grounds are being used as some kind of possum latrine, so he attempted to the employ the services of the 18650-powered

Kami Wire-free Outdoor Camera to catch them in the act. Didn’t go so well: GaGu found its motion sensing to be highly sketchy, and unless you plunk down a whole heap of money on a subscription it’ll capture a maximum of six seconds’ footage before going on what seems like an hour-long hiatus.

And then. And then! WWDC happened, and Guru found himself even less affiliated with the Mac than ever before. He’d truly gone off Windows for a while, but Catalina basically broke his 2015 iMac, which pushed him back to the Microsoft camp. Putting the classic ‘Apple updates which make old hardware unusable’ conspiracy theories aside, macOS Big Sur’s overt and perplexing blending of the Mac and iPad worlds makes no sense to GaGu; certainly you may have a different opinion, and Guru won’t judge (for once), but it’s not for him.