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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Nobody should feel a strong need to upgrade after only two generations. Same deal with most tech like GPUs and CPUs.

    I use my phone a lot and my Pixel 7 is fine. The primary factors driving my last couple upgrades were battery degradation and software support. Neither should be a big problem with a Fairphone.

    I’m also trying to decide whether to stick with the Pixel/GrapheneOS ecosystem or go for Fairphone.

    How hard/expensive was it to replace your battery? I looked on iFixIt and it seemed a lot harder than my orevious phones.




  • 20 years ago I would have taken this as satire. Today, reality is far more absurd.

    They clearly don’t understand what pride is about, or why it’s needed in the first place. I don’t go around showing my “straight pride” because there is literally nobody out there trying to make me ashamed of being straight. Never in my entire life have I felt unsafe because I was straight. I never had to worry about my family rejecting me if they learned I was straight. Being straight has never affected my housing security. I have not been subjected to verbal and physical assault because I am straight. Nobody has ever, to the best of my knowledge, been sent a brainwashing camp for being straight. There is not a single country on earth where it is illegal to be straight, and there never has been.

    You cannot say any of those things about being gay. That’s why gay pride matters. These are not problems of the past. They are all problems today.













  • There are two potential show-stoppers.

    1. Field-specific apps that only run on windows. If you really need Adobe Creative Cloud or SolidWorks or something like that you might be out of luck. This is mostly true for apps that require GPU acceleration, which is difficult to rig up in a VM. You wouldn’t want to do that if it was a big part of your workload.

    2. Mandatory spyware and rootkit DRM to prevent cheating with remote tests. Hopefully if they do such a thing they provide loaner hardware too. I’ve seen a lot of bullshit in my time but my experience is outdated, so I don’t know what’s common nowadays.



  • I guess I’ll look into XFS and see if it’s suitable for my use cases (I know almost nothing about it), but this supports my opinion that BTRFS is an easy choice over EXT4 at least.

    Edit: No snapshot support in XFS, so I’ll stick with BTRFS. My performance requirements are not that high on desktop. If I set up a high-performance server that would be another matter.

    I was surprised to learn that F2FS has rather small maximum volume sizes. 16TB with 4K block sizes, 64TB with 16K block sizes. But your whole kernel needs to use 16K pages to use 16K F2FS blocks, which seems like more trouble than it’s worth. Either way, it’s so non-future-proof I’m not even going to think about it.