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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I have a bunch of issues(some way smaller and borderline nitpicks) with windows, but I guess there’s some big ones:

    1. Linux runs smoothly on older computers, even with KDE which everyone talks about as if it was heavy. Windows is a slug in comparison.

    2. Linux is free, truly free. Microsoft can’t beat that.

    3. Shit just works (unless you are on Nvidia…), don’t need to install drivers and shit like that.

    4. most of the software you don’t get from a random website and they all update at once, rather than having each one update itself and only itself



  • Btrfs is really cool, just a warning: I had a surprise when I found out the subvolumes make a device more of a hassle to mount externally, you can’t just put it on an external HDD enclosure and expect it to work as painlessly as it is with more “traditional” file systems, I had to mount each subvolume manually as GUI file managers only mounted the root.

    It’s not complicated, but more than I’d hoped for.


  • I don’t really understand that argument, and I want someone to correct me:

    If you were keeping your battery at the ideal charge (i.e. 20% to 80%) that means you are really only using 60% of your battery during its lifetime. I’ve been using my phone since July of 2021, always changing it to 100%, preferably only charging when it gets close to 0%. Using AccuBattery I get the battery stats and after 2 years and a half, the battery capacity is at 85%.

    I still have 85% of usable battery, this is more than the 60% I’d get if I was using the battery ideally. So I don’t really get this argument about taking care of the battery cause it appears it would take a while before the battery is degraded enough to hold less charge than the recommended rate.


  • Yesn’t?

    Like, the whole point of a public traded company is that anyone can come in and give money to the company and, in turn, they get money when the company is doing well, so the money you’ve paid is, hopefully, not lost.

    I don’t know about you, but on paper, that sounds like bonds and basically every type of debt in existence.

    The difference is the perpetual ownership of the company by shareholders. Consider someone who lent a company 20k, they now have an asset that grew immensely in value, it gives them money quarterly/yearly/whatever, AND they have decision power on the company, despite the fact that they have earned 100x what they lent.

    Just changing the idea of stock to be something with an expiration date would remove most of the weirdness of the system, but at that point it isn’t really a public-traded company, is it?