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Cake day: November 27th, 2023

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  • Age-old case of everyone else on the internet wanting you to be specific, but I’m open to the idea that you don’t exactly know what it is either and just need a starting point. I don’t know a thing about remedies for the psyche, but have you been taking good care of your bodily health?

    Get some good sleep every night. That doesn’t mean the 05:00 grindset, but just something you can stick to every day, even if that’s getting up 90 minutes before your job or obligation if that’s what it takes to be consistent. Go outside for a stroll, however aimless, get your blood flowing and maybe bundle that with getting the mail or whatever. And perhaps eat well by cooking something you like, even something home-made that seems slightly indulgent won’t be as bad as the processed junk out there. Just things that will be good for you and will help you feel in charge of yourself.



  • It’s there to protect you from crimes of opportunity. Like if your car is locked, a thief could decide to pick the lock, smash the windows in, or find another victim, but they would have no second thoughts if your car were already unlocked. The password deters a casual hacker and buys you some time to notice and deal with anyone seriously trying to break in.

    In an ideal case of disk encryption and a well-designed lock screen, the password forces a would-be intruder to either spend lots of time guessing it or shut down the computer, thereby discarding the encryption key from memory and thwarting the attack.


  • Two problems:

    1. Locked bootloaders: if you’re not given the option to unlock it, you can’t boot anything other than the stock ROM
    2. Proprietary drivers: even if you can boot a custom OS, many Android phones have very unique and obscure hardware and the drivers for them are only distributed through their stock ROM.

    The closest thing is LineageOS. If your phone doesn’t support it, there’s Generic System Images (GSI), but there’s no guarantee of getting cellular service after installing a GSI due to proprietary drivers.

    If you want something that just works, GrapheneOS is great, but you’ll need an unlocked Google Pixel.






  • I daily drive Debian now, but several years ago when a couple of my computers were still very new, I used Arch since it has bleeding-edge support for new hardware while being still thoroughly documented in the Arch Wiki.

    The sheer volume of packages on the official repo and the AUR made it great for discovering which desktop environment I wanted to use and for software-hopping in general too. You can have as much or as little on your system as you want and nothing is forced on you.







  • English is my second-ish language, but perhaps I have an unfair advantage for this question since I spent nearly all of my childhood in the US and started learning English at age 5.

    It wouldn’t be outwardly noticeable, but the remaining non-native element for me would be the alphabet. I learned the English alphabet well before learning English itself, so the sounds of the individual letters are in my mind still part of my first language. In other words, whenever I recite the alphabet or spell words out loud letter-by-letter, it feels as though I am switching back to my first language.