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Cake day: March 21st, 2024

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  • I’m still a little rocked by my fellow AuDHD friend that I yap too much (exactly like this meme - my yap is the stuff outside of the story) and that’s why she stopped calling with me.

    I became a lot more conscious of when I start to yap and started trying to get things back on track but it’s been an uphill battle.

    Then like 6 months later she clarified she pretty much doesn’t call with anyone else anymore and not just me, but in person she’s totally cool with me yapping…

    Like woman, yes I have started improving myself in that aspect but ouch












  • I’d definitely say the cameras on the Pixel 4a looked unique for their time, but the rest of the phone was very same-same otherwise. I did like the corner cut out for the front camera though.

    My current phone (Pixel 7a) has the camera visor, but even then the whole thing is very same-same again.

    I have a soft spot for the iPhone 4/4s as I saved two 4s devices from ewaste a couple years ago through work and I personally think it was peak iPhone. The thick premium sandwich of glass with aluminum frame, the weight and heft, it felt stocky and sturdy, it was one handed, the back glass was easily replaceable.

    The rest of my phones in history weren’t remarkable for their looks though in my opinion. So my answer is the iPhone 4s





  • Part of the reason why I take good care of my little 24" dumb TV. It’s on the lower end (poor viewing angles, absolutely no adjustment on the legs) but I still have a use for it, so I won’t be replacing it.

    The other concern I have with smart TVs is because manufacturers basically install a smartphone SoC, the TV’s lifecycle is now the same as a smartphone. Most people probably won’t connect a new smart TV box to their discontinued, laggy (thanks to bloated apps) smart TV, the completely functional unit just gets replaced.

    We need regulation to be able to unlock these devices and make available the firmware drivers so that after the manufacturer stops support, the community can continue it (and obviously for us hackers, we would strip the system of all telemetry)



  • Hang on, core memory unlocked.

    About three years before that, a neighbour set up a WiFi network but had open authentication on it.

    I remember seeing it on my little EEE PC and connecting to it. I remember completely not knowing what it was, if it was going to cost my parents data money, or if I’d otherwise get in trouble for using it.

    I had friends on the same street as me, so I showed them this WiFi network and they weren’t really sure if it would charge my parents or not either.

    I had been playing a game that came on a shareware disc called “Wild Wheels” (later learned that was the publisher’s name of the game, the actual name was BuzzingCars) and it referenced ceebot.com as a place to download more demos.

    Well, that was the first website I ever visited and I downloaded a 26MB setup for Colobot, an RTS first person space exploration game that had you literally program robots to complete missions. I was still so anxious that there’d be some massive bill in the mail (hence the setup size still being burned in my head) so that was all I downloaded.

    And oh boy did I play the shit out of that, and I attribute that game to why I still enjoy computing and programming today.