I’m a human bean.

Rebecca Black’s Friday.

It’s not about immigration nor opioids.

He needs to show that he’s a businessman turning towards being profitable.

He can only do so much with reducing spending. He can’t raise taxes. So, tariffs are his beautiful invisible tax on consumer goods that will only hurt the common man.

That proves it!

I went over to purelymail, but it’s in .us

It’s not fancy encrypted like proton, but it’s very affordable and straight forward to set up for your own domains.

In my day you would start either in July or January. I wanted to go get it over with straight after secondary school in July They pushed my start date to January, because everyone wants to start in the summer between classes.

So I went to university for a year and got a six month exemption because studies. Then I did my conscription for one year and straight back to year 2 of uni. It worked out nicely time-wise, and I didn’t have to think about a summer job those two summers.

After two years of studies I was in a better place to get relevant work, anyway.

My wife avoids updating her devices for as long as possible, because “updates only break things”. I think I’ll keep this news to myself, because otherwise I’ll never hear the end of it.

I finally nudged her from a pixel 4a to an 8a for Christmas, so it is on its way to the retirement drawer.

Good.

It makes it easier to train new models if we tag the training data. Wouldn’t want to poison the models by taking on AI-generated slop.

They are offering a free battery swap if you are affected. Or $50. Or $100 off a new phone.

Sounds like they’re picking the cheap route out of a full recall on a pretty old phone.

+1 for purelymail.

I’ve had my personal domain on gmail and most recently proton. Proton got too pricy when I wanted to add another couple of domains. After some research I landed on purelymail, and it’s been smooth sailing to set up and use.

And don’t even get me started on urinals.

I used one of those Dyson airblades at the airport once. The damn thing started blowing air mid-stream and I got pee all over!

Use btrfs-convert to convert ext4 to btrfs.

NTFS is 31 years old and not modern by any standard. Avoid if you care about your data.

Why must I be a crustacean in love?

Well, sure. If you did it wrong the first time around. For everyone else, just run “btrfs scrub <device>”

Use a modern filesystem that manages file integrity for you.

I use btrfs.

Don’t forget to scrub and checksum your drive before making backups. You don’t want to copy over rotten bits.

Same goes for the backup. And the backup’s backup.

“USB-adapter” in this context used to be quite a shitshow.

I’ve seen at least the bastardisations of the USB-c spec where manufacturers just repurpose a couple of pins for analog audio. One for samsung, one for Xiaomi etc.

I hope most have gone over to being proper USB soundcards with a DAC today.

Maybe I can submit a proposal for risc-VI 🤣

No need! You can make your own custom extension! If the silicon doesn’t support it, then you can provide firmware to emulate it.

Bring your own domain.

You don’t want to be locked in to one mail provider for life. Just bring your domain when you leave.

I’ve had mine since 2010. First on Gmail, then proton and now purelymail. Gmail is evil. Proton is pricy, and more so if you have several domains. Purelymail is very affordable in comparison.

Sweet!

I’m always jealous of EN-ANSI keyboard users who get neat devices like these in their native keyboard layout.

I don’t think I’ve had one in my choice of keyboard layout since the Nokia e70… 20 years ago.