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.

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.

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!

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.

I’m not talking about substances, but things just don’t give the same highs as they used to.

Getting a new Nintendo game as a kid and you’re giddy all the way home, reading the back of the box.

Last time I bought a game I had been looking forward to for years it was lying in a drawer for a month before I even installed it.

I had my first kid this year, and it’s probably the best thing to have happened to me in the last few years. But I don’t think the joy I felt compares to that new NES game as a kid. I wish I still would get that kind of highs.

I’m pretty sure the last good day was sometime in 1996.

Three years ago, I bought my wife a laptop with Windows 10 to replace her 10yo windows 7 machine.

It had hardware issues out of the box, and went in on two repairs. It works fine now, AFAIK.

But, she still doesn’t trust it, and she doesn’t think that she can move her Adobe CS6 license over to it…

I even bought her the affinity suite.

I’m starting to think she’ll never move on from Windows 7.

I think the major browsers stopped supporting it sometime during the last year, so my best hope is that some included certificates will eventually make her favourite websites stop working. That has to force her over to something more recent… right?

I use arch, btw.