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Cake day: November 19th, 2023

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  • I hate my Samsung S25.

    The hardware is lightning fast, but this OneUi garbage fucks up multiple apps, even Voyager that I am using to type this right now.

    They especially seem to fuck over the Fossify open source apps.

    The redundant Samsung apps (Phone, Messenger, Calendar, Photos, App Store, et al) are garbage clones of the vanilla Google Android apps.

    I never had this many problems with my Motorola, which did use vanilla Google Apps





  • Consumer Reports (CR) is frustratingly short on full ratings for EVs.

    It’s like EV buyers aren’t CR subscribers or something.

    CR is really down on reliability for most EV models, assigning most of them straight-in-the-middle average for predicted reliability. And quite often lower.

    The one exception seems to be the 2025 BMW i4, which earns the best ratings for both predicted reliability and owner satisfaction.

    Suspiciously so.

    Sometimes when CR’s data patterns appear like that, it’s a mirage due to some other factor. Particularly when the manufacturer’s other models don’t join them.

    For example, the 2025 BMW i5 has a more typical bang average predicted reliability rating.

    In terms of incomplete ratings, they seem to like the 2025 Toyota Mirai, and 2026 Lexus ES, but those are likely to come back down to average as the results come in.

    p.s. CR is in the US, and for US consumers, so they don’t get to rate Chinese EVs like BYD, etc.







  • Depriving everyone else of physical cash would just hasten the spread of electronic transactions into the corners of the global economy where it doesn’t already reach: Drug cartels, rural villages in 3rd world countries, etc.

    And with that, lack of privacy from prying eyes in governments, banking, and corporate databases.

    The infrastructure to accept and process cash would quickly deteriorate faster than you, the one sole cash owner, could spend it, and therefore distribute cash back around the world for it to become useful again.

    By the time the physical cash could get sorted, spent, and make its way from your one location, to most places around the world, essentially cash would have become almost worthless, because alternative payment methods would be made, and nobody would be used to using cash anymore.






























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