Programmers need to respect other people’s hardware. A 4TB HDD currently costs more than it did a decade ago.

My data is stored on a mirrored RAID, and backed up on two alternating offsite drives. For every TB of space I use, I buy 4. I do not consider this negotiable.

I don’t back up game installs, but by point remains valid. 90% of hardware advances gets pissed away by bloated shitcode. I see it every day.

This vibes like that scene in Dumb and Dumber where Harry is standing next to a fire complaining that his fingers are about to fall off, and Lloyd says “you should take these extra gloves. Mine are getting sweaty”.

This game currently consumes 30% of the hard drive on my main PC.

I’m impressed by the technical feat, but am also annoyed that they knew they were wasting this much space and simply did not care. I’m betting every 100GB game is like this.

I’m waiting for my Pixel 6a to spontaneously combust.

I have one in a drawer. My fave trick was sidearming it 50m and not breaking it. Nokia has nothing on this skimming stone.

It’s running CM9 but very, very slowly. I made a video of the speed regression.

https://youtu.be/W5t16-JF2aw

CM7 was way faster.

I was tempted by Arc. Intel drivers always “just worked”, but they are just slow. Arc didn’t address the problem like I’d hoped, and AMD really got their shit together in the last 5 years or so.

I can vouch for this. I run completely unrooted GrapheneOS and no app has ever failed a safetynet test. Banking apps and Pokemon Go work just fine.

I’ve never had issues with LineageOS either, but this is before the hardware attestation days.

My priorities:

1. Blocking ads and protecting privacy.

2. Being able to accomplish the task on my phone.

Literally every phone has its priorities out of whack and I have to fix it myself.

I’ve got a 6a and I ended up rolling my own DoT server so that it would adblock, but also resolve to servers in my own country.

I also moved to GrapheneOS. The only Google stuff that broke was Google Wallet’s tap payment thing. Reportedly even Android Auto is supported now.

Oh - my kid just got a Motorola G84. It was a very cheap handset for 12GB RAM and no ads so far. Very close to stock Android too.

That’s the vibe I got from it. It took longer to activate the app than it took to get a card out of my wallet. It had the potential to fail if my battery was flat. Google could track my shopping habits.

So, that’s a pass.

I’m running it. Bank apps and Safety net things (like Pokemon Go) all work. Aside from Android Auto, Google Pay refuses to work.

So, there’s no downsides.

Actually, Google Translate didn’t play ball when I tried it. I miss that one.

My second device is a bank card. Easy.

I threw a 1TB aftermarket SSD in my XBox One S and there was absolutely no attempt to stop me.

The loading speed in Fortnite tripled.

Nothing makes me cringe more than kids who buy an Apple device and pretend they own it.

Standard xbox controllers have sticks that are soldered on in about 10 places each side. They are a total pain to replace, and the PCB will fail after 2 or 3 replacements.

At least the switch uses ZIF connectors. They tiny and fiddly, but it’s way better than an hour wielding a soldering iron.