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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • You still get their obnoxious “screwdriver, lttstore, waterbottle” reminders in every single video. Their 10sec in-video ads aren’t that bad, but other channels have 2min ads within 8min videos. Which mean’s paying users still get more ads than someone with browser extensions/modified apps.

    The whole thing is a race to the bottom. People use adblock because there are just too many Youtube ads. Creators get less money from Youtube, so they resort to more and more in-video ads, and eventually SponsorBlock gets more appealing.


  • My Fold 2 held up 2.5 years but the screen is starting to develop cracks at the hinge.
    Still works, but I can see the cracks growing weekly, only a matter of time until they’re too visible.
    Replacing the screen is just too expensive, together with a new battery I’d look at the price of a new decent normal phone.

    The huge screen is nice every once in a while, but I don’t do enough with my phone to justify the price.
    Was a neat experience of the “future”, but the next phone is going to be a normal smartphone. Better battery life, will do the job just fine, lasts longer and cheaper.

    No hard feeling towards foldables either, I knew they were expensive.
    Also no surprise that folding something 10.000 times (conservative 10x a day for 1000 days) isn’t going to last forever.
    Maybe they’ll find some magical solution for that, but I don’t think they will anytime soon.



  • I think the main difficulty with Linux desktops is this “all or nothing” approach to the OS.

    Recently got a Steam Deck and most of the games really just work, but that’s a handheld where I play solo. On desktop I mostly play online with friends.
    I really don’t want to constantly switch OS depending on the anticheat situation when we play something else.
    And then there is software (fusion360, simhub) & hardware (3d mouse, joysticks, ffb wheel, maybe VR?) that just works on Windows.

    So instead of maintaining Windows & Linux on dualboot I just stick with Windows on the desktop.
    And I used Linux for a long time on my laptop (and can’t wait to ditch MacOS), still use it on servers, but the desktop is just a whole different beast.



  • Radar ist meiner Meinung nach die beste Lösung, zumindest im ländlichem.

    Zum einem wird man nicht mehr überrascht wenn jemand überholt, man weiß 100m vorher schon das jemand kommt.
    Zum anderem halten die meisten Autofahrer bei mir in der Ecke immer großzügig Abstand wenn man Handzeichen gibt, egal ob man signalisiert “warte, Gegenverkehr” oder “überhol mich”.

    Vielleicht ist letzteres auch nur Placebo, aber ich hatte gestern wesentlich mehr Respekt vor den ganzen Motorrädern die mich überholt haben während wir in der gleichen Spur waren.