Meeting notes from the 29th July 2026

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On the 29th July, seven freelancers got together in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar pub to talk self employment, tech and science fiction.

Here’s some of what we talked about:

  • AYN Odin 3 gaming console (and more!)
  • Hearing aid tech
  • Gaming PC costs are insane (thanks LLMs!)
  • Sky on the front page of the Argus
  • Moving tools around
  • Formula 1
  • Selling your old stuff is fine but be realistic about whether it is worth it
  • “You’ve got a face for radio”
  • SF: Isaac Asimov, Adrian Tchaikovsky, There is no Anti-Memetics Division, The Backrooms
  • Advanced AI usage
  • How has comedy aged – Monty Python, Ade Edmundson and Rik Mayall, Men Behaving Badly

Here’s the console in question:

An AYN Odin 3 portable games console sitting on the wooden slats of a picnic table. The highly reflective screen makes it hard to see the logo and icons being shown



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