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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Thanks this is very detailed! Don’t feel compelled to answer any follow-up questions (but you are welcome to!). Just wanna discuss with whoever has opinions and knowledge about it.

    One question about lockdown mode on Android though. This means you can’t unlock using biometrics, so you can’t be forced to unlock? On iOS it means it won’t render a lot of scripts and images with tracking on websites, emails, SMS, apps etc. as to make it much harder to exploit anything remotely. I’m wondering if such a feature exists on Android too. I don’t care that lots of websites look janky, I just feel safer knowing most exploits won’t work.

    I used LineageOS before my last phone crapped out on me. Ironically I needed to root my phone and use Magisk to hide root in order to make banking apps work. Because the bootloader had been unlocked it failed some google checks or something. Original software support was a pitiful 18 months, so kind of had to go custom rom too.



  • Agree with everyone here saying to bank it. Biggest risk to smaller communities likes this is shutting down due to running out of funds. Have experienced that with Mastodon instances before and it’s a shame.

    With this money set aside you can all but guarantee to keep the site up for the next 1.5 years given hosting price increases and user growth. Probably won’t mean that donations stop, but at least it won’t be a race against bankruptcy and shutdown every month.

    Also excellent work, everyone on the team! I don’t like social media but always enjoy coming to read articles and discuss with the fine people here.


  • Not in the market to change phones now, but always considering options in case I urgently need to replace it due to catastrophic failure (and fear of making an uninformed choice due to urgency).

    With that said, I have an iphone 11 right now with lockdown, stolen device protection, cloud encryption, and FIDO keys enrolled and it feels very secure whilst still letting me use banking apps normally etc. How does /e/OS compare to something like that and how vulnerable is it to being plugged in and downloaded or wormed by malicious actors, zero-click SMS attacks etc?










  • For real. It’s not hard to understand at all and he’s clearly misunderstanding on purpose.

    With DRM being so prevalent these days I’m worried we’ll just have decades worth of games we can’t play one day because publishers want us buying their new games and re-releases of old games.

    I make a point of buying physical copies for console where possible and from GOG otherwise. Especially when I am likely to want to replay the game a few years later.




  • I wish people would boycott but most people don’t know or think about right to repair, game preservation etc.

    Nintendo is selling record numbers of Switch2 and they can just keep phoning it in because they have proven that people are willing to pay a subscription to rent emulated copies of their childhood games whilst replacing drifting joy cons every month.

    Doubt this will be the end of Nintendo even though I would be happy to see some consequences for companies that clearly hate their paying customers.


  • This is super relatable but I did get a job in a highly specialized field outside what I took my degree in. Mostly luck due to having friends vouch for me and an excellent mentor teaching me on the job early on. Now I couldn’t dream of making that kind of money doing so-called unskilled labor.

    Sometimes I do think about career changes to something that would let me switch off and think less about work after-hours. Usually comes down to having to start at the bottom of the career ladder again and for some silly reason worrying my colleagues would think less of me for switching fields.

    Sorry I’m rambling but your comment resonated with me.


  • There are very affordable g-shocks with multi band, using radio signals to accurately set the time every night with an atomic clock as the source. I mean if accuracy is an issue.

    The solar models also charge using sunlight and fluorescent lights but will still last about 1-2 years in darkness. Regular wear will always keep it charged.

    Not to say an Apple Watch isn’t right for you. Just stating that non-smart watch options exist for those who just want to tell time, date, weekday, accurately with added stuff like alarms and stopwatch etc.