iPad pro 12.9 - is it worth the money

Oh wow, it's actually light outside.

That's daylight savings for you. The

clocks move back 1 hour. Mr. Meow Meow,

what you doing up so early? What are you

doing? You hungry? Yeah, the clocks went

back today. Daylight saving. I didn't

realize it would mean that I would have to

work an extra hour because I can't go home

at 5 AM. I need to stay until 6 AM, so we

had to work a 9-hour shift today. But we

got paid extra, so I'm not complaining.

Everyone was saying that everyone's so

lucky because they get to stay in bed for

an extra hour. Not me, I had to work for

an extra hour. And then I made this huge

mistake asking the other lady at work a

question. I asked her, well, because we

took out some milk from the expired

section and we put it in the trolley so we

can chuck it out the next day. I asked

her, do you think this milk's okay to

drink? And she just— she went on and on.

Like, all she had to say was, no, I don't

think it's safe, or, yeah, it should be

okay. But she went on for ages. It was

like she was just non-stop talking.

She was just explaining all this stuff

that you could explain using a fraction of

the words she used. Some people just like

that, aren't they? They can't help but

just use too many words to explain

something that could be explained so much

faster. It's like unnecessary.

So note to self, don't ask her any more

questions. She's just gonna— she talks far

too much. I like it when people do explain

things really simply with as few words as

possible. Great, the sun's setting

already. See, that's the problem with

daylight savings. Now it's going to get

darker an hour early, isn't it? But what

was the whole point in that? The whole

point in changing the clocks back was so

we get an extra hour of daylight, but I'm

losing an hour of daylight because I wake

up And it's darker than it should be.

Like right now it says it's half past 4,

but really it's half past 5, isn't it?

Usually when I wake up at half past 4,

it's, it's brighter. The sun isn't setting

at half past 4. They really didn't think

about— they didn't really consider my

situation when they came up with the whole

daylight saving idea, did they? How, how

inconsiderate of them. Look at it.

At least it gives my face like a nice

pinkish-orange glow. I slept

so much. I fell asleep at around 8 AM and

I woke up at half past 4. How long is

that? 4— 8

hours? That's not 8 hours. I'm really bad

at counting time. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 1,

2, 3, 4— 8 hours. Oh, I guess it wasn't

Anyway, it's freezing.

It's starting to get very cold.

I'm going to send back the HTC 10

tomorrow. Yeah, I decided to send it back

after all. I just, I didn't like the way

the video made me look. Even though the

stabilization is amazing, if the video

makes me look— if I don't feel comfortable

with how it's making me look, then I'm not

going to enjoy using it. And if I'm not

going to enjoy using it, then it's going

to make me not enjoy making videos. And I

want to enjoy making videos. I don't want

to feel like, oh, I don't want to make a

video because this camera makes me look

like shit. So I'm going to go back to

using my LG, my LG G5. Good old LG.

There's no stabilization on this, so it's

going to be a bit shaky. Hopefully you

don't mind. I'm pretty sure a lot of

people aren't actually watching the video

anyway, but a lot of people are just

listening to it, which is fine because

it's just me talking and I'm not really

doing anything interesting. I'm just

pacing up and down. So I don't really

think it's a big deal. It's a bit shaky,

yeah, but then I'm not making some kind of

amazing looking footage that needs

stabilization. It might be a bit

irritating if you're watching this on a

bigger screen, but what are you gonna do?

My only other option is to use the Sony

mirrorless camera, which I guess solves

all my problems. It has stabilization and

nice image quality. The only thing it

doesn't have is nice audio quality. So

last night we changed the clocks back an

hour because of daylight saving. I don't

know if you do this in your country, but

the whole idea is that everyone gets to

sleep an hour later so that when they wake

up it's not pitch black like it is at 6

AM. It's usually pitch black. You can see—

you can even see the stars. But now people

are waking up an hour later They're

actually waking up at 7 AM and there's

daylight and it's nice. It's nice for

them, but it's not nice for me because I

wake up in the afternoon and usually it's

quite bright at half past 4 or 4 o'clock.

But now I'm waking up an hour later thanks

to daylight savings and look how dark it

is. The sun is setting already.

I'm missing on— I'm missing out on the

sunlight. And the problem is if I wake up

too early, it means I'm going to be really

sleepy during work, and that's not good.

Ideally, I should be waking up in the

evening, like 6 PM, so I'm nice and fresh,

freshly slept. And then I should be coming

home at 6 AM and then staying up until

midday. It's kind of confusing. It's the

whole problem with doing night shift.

It's very— can be very disorientating.

And we had to do an extra hour at work

last night, and it was so boring.

Usually, even on a normal 8-hour shift,

sometimes there's not much to do. Like,

we can finish all our tasks, all the jobs

we need to do, and we just end up sitting

there doing nothing. Well, when you add in

an extra hour to the shift, it just gives

you an extra hour of doing nothing. I must

have sat behind the till doing nothing for

almost 2 hours. The Nepal guy, I don't

know what he was doing. He found himself

things to do to keep busy. He was like

walking up and down doing stuff, and then

he went outside to sweep, and he was

putting sand down onto spilled oil, I

guess. And he was doing this and doing

that, and it was kind of irritating. I

just wanted him to sit down and relax.

He's kind of like my dad. My dad's the

kind of person who Doesn't know how to

relax. He always has to have something to

do. Like, he always finds himself

something to do to keep himself busy, and

it just kind of gets irritating. It's

like, you're walking up and down, you look

so busy. What are you even doing? Just sit

down, for fuck's sake. And then he warned

me. He said, Daniel, you shouldn't sit

down for too long because the manager

might see you on the CCTV and she'll leave

you little love messages. That's what he

likes to say. Sometimes when I first

started, I used to make a lot of mistakes,

and the manager used to leave little

notes. She just— she used to leave little

notes around the place saying, Daniel, be

careful about this, don't do this, do

this. But I haven't seen a note like that

for a long time. But he said, try and find

yourself things to do, because if the

manager sees, you'll get in trouble. I

didn't know what to do. There was nothing

that I could think about doing.

Everything was done. Everything was tidy

in the shop, everything was clean, the

stock was checked, the cooking was done.

I had no idea what to do. And then the

poor guy, he looked so busy and I had no

idea what he was doing. And actually it

was a little bit irritating because it was

like he's making me feel bad. It was like

psychological warfare, but he was all busy

rushing around doing stuff that I don't

even know. It's like he was just Finding

random things to do to make himself look

busy, and I was just sitting there. I

wasn't even trying. I was just like

falling asleep. I was playing games on my

phone. I don't know if he was getting

irritated with that. I just I don't know

what I was supposed to be doing, and this

made me think maybe I should just do it

like him, like pretend that I'm doing

something so in case the manager sees on

the camera, it at least looks like I'm

busy. And not just sitting around. And

this brings me on to a different subject.

You know how Japanese salarymen like to

work overtime? They're famous for working

overtime because there's all this kind of—

there's like a— what is it—

a rule for their society where if your

superior hasn't gone home yet, then that

means you can't go home first until your

superior has gone home. If, if you leave

and go home before your boss or your

superior leaves, then that's considered

really rude in Japan, like a social taboo.

So if your superior is still at work,

then it means you have to stay at work as

well until he goes home. It's kind of

stupid, isn't it, right? So all these

Japanese salarymen are staying until

insane hours into the evening. Like, a lot

of salarymen in Japan, they work until 10

PM. Doing overtime. But I read this

article that a lot of Japanese salarymen,

they aren't actually doing any work.

They're making it look like they're doing

work. They're very good at making

themselves look like they're busy when

actually they're just pissing around on

their computers, checking email, reading

websites. They're not actually doing work.

They're making it look like they're doing

work. It just seems so stupid. You have

all these salarymen staying at work

because they can't go home because their

superior hasn't gone home, pretending to

do work when they should be going home.

They should be, they should be spending

time, spending time with their family.

They should be spending time with their

partners or their wives. But no, they're

sitting in their company, not, not being

able to go home because their superior

hasn't gone home and they can't go

home early. Or first because it makes them

look bad. It's just such a stupid way of

living, of working. You know

what I find really strange on YouTube is

when you come across a YouTube channel and

they have thousands of subscribers but

their videos only have hundreds of views,

and you go into About on the channel

information and it says they only have

like 100,000 views. And they have

thousands of subscribers, that, that looks

a bit fishy, doesn't it? I only have— I

don't even have— I'm nearing 400

subscribers and I have 70,000 views.

So when someone who has 2,500 subscribers

has only double— no, if there's

someone who has 2,500 subscribers and they

have around the same amount of channel

views as I do then doesn't that look a bit

strange? So how come you have, you have

like 10 times more subscribers than I do,

but we have the same amount of channel

views? Does that mean that only 10% of

your subscriber base are actually watching

your videos? A lot of people do that sub

for sub bullshit, don't they, where they

go into other people's channels, they

write sub for sub, and then loads of

people sub to them, but they don't

actually watch the videos. And then they

end up having a channel with thousands of

subscribers, but you look at the video

views and you can tell that none of them

are actually watching their videos.

There's only like 100 views or something.

And I just don't want to turn into one of

those channels where it looks like I have

thousands of subscribers, it looks like

I'm a pretty big channel, but in reality—

hold on, there's people walking behind me.

Keep on walking. Keep on walking.

What was I saying?

I can't remember what I was saying now.

Yeah, they have thousands of subscribers

but only a couple hundred views on every

video because no one's actually watching

the videos. They've just subscribed. Just

subscribing to a channel doesn't mean

anything. I could have a million

subscribers, but it wouldn't mean anything

if none of them were watching my videos.

Does it? Doesn't mean anything. I don't

want to become one of those channels

where— bloody hell,

more people coming. I can't even make a

bloody video. I was saying, I don't want

to become one of those channels that has

thousands of subscribers but only a couple

hundred views on every video. It makes it

look really fake. It looks like I've been

doing some— something suspicious, like

I've been buying subscribers or something.

And I just want to say, if you stop

watching my videos or you don't really

watch my videos anyway, could you just

unsubscribe? Because I'd rather have like

a true reflection of my— of the amount of

people who are watching me. I don't want

to say like I have 500 subscribers but

only 100 people watch me. That's really

depressing. Can you just unsubscribe?

It'll be great. The problem with this is

that if you're not watching my videos,

you're not going to be able to see this,

and you're not going to unsubscribe, are

you? That's the whole problem. I think

that YouTube should let the channel owner

unsubscribe people manually. So if I see

that you're subscribed to me but you

haven't watched my videos for a long time—

I don't know how I would be able to tell

if you've been watching my videos or not,

but it would be nice if I could just

unsubscribe a bunch of you who aren't

actually watching and get my subscriber

count back down to, um,

a true level that actually reflects the

amount of people that are watching my

videos. Does that make sense? I get the

feeling that the Nepal guy has a bit of

OCD going on— obsessive-compulsive

disorder. I was putting the newspapers

outside, and when there were too many

newspapers to fit outside, we put the rest

inside on the floor. And I put them on the

floor stacked up, and he was like, no,

you don't put them like that, you put them

like this. And all he did was turn them

around 90 degrees. I was like, what?

Why? What's the difference? You just

turned them around, who cares? He said the

manager wouldn't like it if you put it

like that. Maybe the manager has a bit

of OCD as well. Who— no one really gives a

shit how the newspapers are turned.

All these cars are distracting me. And

then he— then I bought a scratch card

during— nearing the end of my shift, and I

was about to scratch it out behind the

till. He said, no, don't scratch it out

here, you're not supposed to do scratch

cards when you're working. There's no one

here, how is anyone gonna know if I

scratched out a scratch card while

working? There were no customers, there

were no other people there. I just don't

understand him sometimes, like, just calm

down, relax. It would take me 10 seconds

to scratch out this scratch card, but he

was like, no, you have to go back into the

office to scratch it out. You know what

I'm gonna do tonight? I'm gonna buy a ton

of scratch cards and I'm gonna scratch

them out while working when he's on his

break. So fuck you, Nepal guy. Fuck you.

One does not simply tell me what to do and

then expect me to do it, because I'm gonna

do the exact opposite behind your back. I

know, I'm so mature, aren't I? I just

don't understand people sometimes. Why

can't I do a scratch card when I'm, when

I'm working? It's not like I was working

anyway. There were no customers. Maybe

there's some kind of law that says one

shall not gamble whilst working.

Who came up with that stupid rule? Who

cares if you're gambling while working?

It's not gonna cause the whole place to

catch on fire and burn down, is it? I just

don't understand people sometimes. Why do

they make these stupid little rules that

have no purpose, that make no sense? Why?

What? Just make life easy. Make life easy.

Why do you make life difficult on purpose

when it doesn't have to be difficult?

Why? Also, I need to talk about the iPad

Pro. You may have known, you may have

known, you may know You may know that I

bought an iPad Pro a few weeks ago. I kind

of stopped using it. I've just— I haven't

used it for almost a week now. I did stop

drawing. My last drawing was over 10 days

ago. I just don't feel interested in

drawing anymore. I feel burnt out already.

I did so much drawing, now I'm just sick

of it again. And without doing drawing,

it kind of makes having an iPad Pro kind

of pointless. Everything I can do on the

iPad, I can do on my phone, and the

phone's a lot smaller, so I don't have to

carry around this massive slab around my

house when I could just carry around a

tiny phone that does everything that I

want to do on the internet. So now I'm

kind of thinking, do I really want— do I

really need an iPad Pro? Should I sell it?

Am I stupid? I keep buying stuff. And then

using it for a month, and then I end up

selling it, and then I regret selling it,

and then I want it back again, and then I

buy it again, and then I regret buying it

again, and then I sell it again. You see,

the problem is when I start wanting to

draw again, when I get the drawing urges

again, I'm going to think to myself,

damn, I wish I had my iPad Pro again, and

then I'm gonna end up buying it again,

aren't I? So it's kind of pointless

selling it, isn't it? So I know I'm gonna

want to draw sometime in the future.

Right now I'm feeling a bit down. I don't

really have much motivation to do much

drawing, so I think I should just give,

give it a rest, leave it for a bit, have a

break from it. But it's just so much

money. I spent £700 on that

iPad Pro, and £700 worth of technology is

just sitting on my bedroom floor serving

no purpose. It just

feels like such a waste. Sometimes I get

sick of all these gadgets. I just want one

gadget that does everything that I want to

do really well. I hate having to use— I

hate having to use multiple gadgets. I'm a

one-gadget kind of guy. If I have all

these different smartphones and cameras

and tablets, I feel like— I feel like I'm

being unfaithful I feel like I'm cheating

on them. I just want to be loyal to one

instead of using all these different ones.

Do you understand what I mean? Is that

stupid? Is that weird? YouTube channel

that I saw that had thousands of

subscribers, they only had 100 views on

every video. What are you doing? How are

you getting so many subscribers and you

don't have the views to equal, to match

your subscriber ratio? And that guy, he

was just so irritating. He was like super

positive. He had like that presenter kind

of look to him. You know how you watch TV

and you see presenters and they talk

really well and they're really positive

and happy? It's just they look so fake,

like they're acting, like they're doing

the whole presenter act. They don't

actually talk like that in real life, do

they? And I just, I hate those people who

are really positive and happy all the

time. No one is really happy and positive

all the time. If you pretend to be, then

you must be faking it. You must be lying,

or at least you're lying to yourself.

It's just— I don't believe that there are—

that people can be 100% super positive and

happy all the time. It just comes across

as really insincere to me, like fake.

Not real. Anyway, I should

start wrapping this video up. It's getting

very dark and can't really see much.

From now on, since we're, since we're

sending the HTC 10 back, expect videos to

become very shaky. It's because I'm on the

LG G5, so you'll just have to put up with

that. There's not much I can do about it.

I'm just past the point of caring anymore.

I just don't care anymore. And then that

guy, that stupid guy from my last video

who gave that passive-aggressive comment,

he was like— he said in one of his videos

something like, well, if you don't invest

in good gear, it looks like you don't

really care about your channel. And if it

looks like you don't care about your

channel, then people aren't going to care

about you. So you should invest in good

camera gear. I don't believe in that.

What a load of bullshit. Just because I

don't care what my video looks like

doesn't mean I don't care about making

videos. It just means my standard of

quality isn't as high as yours.

Don't tell me how to run my YouTube

channel. Don't tell me what I need to

invest in. Who do you think you are? Just

because you have 100,000 subscribers, you

think you're like this big big shot

YouTuber, the only reason you have such

rapid growth and all those views and

subscribers is because you make the kind

of video that's the easiest kind of video

to get views and subscribers— tech videos.

If I just put iPad or iPhone in

every video title of all my videos, then

I'd probably get loads more views just

because people are searching for those

terms. It doesn't take skill. It's not

difficult. Tech channels are like the most

boring channels on YouTube anyway. The

only time people look at tech videos is

when they're about to buy something like a

new phone or a new camera. They go to a

tech channel, or maybe they're huge tech

geeks and they enjoy watching it. Maybe.

Did you consider that? Maybe some people

like watching a guy talk about

specifications of a camera or a phone

endlessly in a really boring way without

any personality, just reading it off like

a list, like some kind of robot. You know

which tech-related YouTube channel I used

to love? DigitalRevTV with Kai and Lok

and the Lambie in Hong Kong. They were

great. It was like the Top Gear of

cameras. They talked about the cameras,

but they didn't take it too seriously.

They, they had fun, they mucked around,

they made you laugh. I love those days.

It was like years ago now, that channel.

I used to watch it all the time. I used to

love the little challenges. It was just

like watching a camera version of Top

Gear, and they had such great chemistry,

the 3 of them. And I loved seeing them

mess around in Hong Kong and Doing street

photography. Now the channel's just shit.

Kai went back to the UK and Alambi

pissed off to Australia. Lok's still in

Hong Kong, and it's just not the same

anymore. It's so sad when people who have

such great chemistry together that can

make an entertaining show, they split up,

they go their separate ways, and they try

to keep the channel alive. They keep doing

videos, but It's just not the same.

Just go back to Hong Kong, get the gang

back together, do it back like how you

used to do it in the old days. Be great.

The good old days. You know, when you get

old, all you have is your memories. All

you think to yourself is, oh, back when,

back when I was younger, we used to do it

like this. It was better than how we do it

now. It probably isn't really better, but

it's nostalgic, so It feels like it's

better. Anyway, it's getting really dark.