Jae's Blog

Here in Finland, it’s the Good Friday, meaning we get this Friday and next Monday off work.

That’s plenty of time for me to re-play some of my favourite games, and on the menu this time: Yakuza Kiwami 2.

I’ve finished this one months ago, but remains the one with the best music in my opinion.

If you’re interested, you can grab it DRM-free on GOG, or just grab the (almost) whole series DRM-free.

I wish the more recent games such as Gaiden, Ishin, Infinite Wealth and Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii would be released on there, but hopefully this will happen soon enough.

If I manage to do what I wanted, I’ll go ahead and re-play Yakuza 6 as well, but we’ll see.

I’ll write a larger review of the series at some point in the future. In fact, it’s been in the works for a while, but I haven’t finished it due to the sheer amount of content in those games.

If you live in Finland, you have without a doubt interacted with Posti. Recently, they announced large changes in their user data processing policies, taking into effect on May 20th 2025.

Bottom of the line is:

• New targeted advertising (directly sending your data to Facebook, Google, Adform and many others)
• Profiling of your data

To avoid getting caught in this, visit the account settings page (on my.account.posti.fi), then on the left, select “settings”.

In there you will need to uncheck two options:

• “Use of customer data for targeted advertising (effective from 20 May)”
• “Profiling (effective from 20 May)”

Also feel free to clean up any options you might have forgotten to disable before.

As a friendly reminder: do not forget to press “save changes” on the bottom of the page when done with the unchecking part.

With this, you should be pretty safe to proceed, tho just in case, I’d still watch this page just in case Posti has a magical bug that would re-enable everything for everyone.

Personally, I find this whole thing kinda scummy given Posti is an essential public service. Forcing that kind of analytics on people can only go badly on the long term.

I recently got myself a bread maker. While I used to make the bread myself, the bread maker makes it even easier given I can just throw the ingredients in and forget about it. Since I got it, that poor thing has been running at least once a day (yes, I eat a lot of bread).

My go-to recipe is generally:

1. Add 236mL of water in the pot
2. Add 1.5 teaspoons of salt
3. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar
4. Add 2 tablespoons of oil
5. Add 405g of flour
6. Add 2 teaspoons of yeast
7. Set the program on “sandwich bread” (should be a 3h one)
8. There ya go

Pretty easy, right? The machine will knead, let it raise, then bake the bread all by itself, just don’t forget to let it cool for around an hour after it’s finished.

Right now, I got a Point POBM400GS bread machine, but I wonder if I could modify it to add a small webcam and some simple thing that would just return how much time is left before the bread is ready.

Hell, bread machines seem so simple that we could probably even make an Open-Source one.

Watch out for the bread Grafana dashboard.