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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I hope you get better soon. Is there any sort of cheap yet good insurance you would qualify for, based on e.g your location, disabilities, income, or anything?

    I must admit I don’t know a whole lot about the whole system (though a fair bit more than your average European), but I do know there are cases where you can get good health insurance for cheap. Though I’m sure you’ve already looked into what your options are.


















  • Fuck it, I love playing devil’s advocate.

    1. Seamless integration between their products (at the cost of having to be in their walled garden)

    2. Best, smoothest mobile UX out there (and I’ve used many Androids, including custom ROMs)

    3. Moving their computers from from x86 to ARM (much better power consumption to performance ratio). This will likely improve Linux ARM support too, as people use Asahi on Apple Silicon Macs and more packages are then created for ARM.

    4. Taking active part in creating industry standards (such as USB-C, which they admittedly should’ve adopted on their phones long ago, but they DID promise not to change plugs for 10 years when moving to Lightning).

    5. Macbooks don’t bend like a lot of plastic non-Apple laptops do. Their batteries also seem to last longer - might be anecdotal, but I’ve fixed thousands of laptops, easily over a thousand Macbooks produced in the 2010-2017 era (I quit that job in 2019).



  • I suppose that’s what they mean by “six-lobe”.

    And I would personally much prefer for everything to be torx rather than Phillips head. Phillips head is designed to let the screw get damaged instead of the screwdriver, whereas torx is designed to reduce the chance of cam-out (and therefore damage to the screw). I’d much rather replace a screwdriver than invent a new way to get out a screw that’s been rounded out by repeated cam-outs. Again.