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Cake day: July 15th, 2024

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  • going into a tunnel with 4 lanes: 1 left and 1 middle and 1 right lane all going toward tunnel, the outside rightmost lane is to go around the bridge (not toward tunnel). I was in the middle lane.

    I had a gut feeling or something but the traffic was unusually slow. So i went ahead and drove to the rightmost lane and exited.

    After exiting, we are 2kms away but i saw ambulance entering from the opposite lanes. So the 4 lanes on our left should have vehicles moving away from the tunnel. But some serious stuff went down such that ambulance must drive in opposite direction.

    It turned out some electric cars malfunctioned and one of the car’s battery combusted due to hot weather.





  • i think the good alternative is to get a really fast drive and hibernate everytime you close the lid. Sure it’s slower to resume but with ssd that shouldnt be an issue. Or if Framework has 2 drives we can suspend the image to that 2nd drive then use the main drive to boot up off of it.

    I was loaned a Macbook at my previous workplace. Didnt really use it much because my work apps do not work on Mac. So it sat on the shelves until the day I left the company (too much toxicity). I only used it once or twice when doing presentations. Anyway, that thing suspened pretty much 10/10. The power save is better too: i closed the lid on Sunday night and next Sunday, when open up the lid the battery was at 95%.





  • Appreciate all the responses so far. I forgot to mention some background:

    • This isn’t a place with sensible driving. Yes, there are reckless drivers everywhere, but that’s another story.

    • Blinkers and right of way basically don’t exist here. Cars aren’t the only things on the road. It’s usually bumper to bumper all day long.

    • Traffic lights have a numeric countdown, which is fine. But the system somehow thinks 15 seconds is enough for 20+ cars, bumper to bumper, to complete a left turn and clear the intersection. So yeah, that’s why there’s a real risk of collisions.

    Back to the OP, I’ve noticed some drivers do the following:

    • Zero fucks given, just make the U-turn like they own the road (99% of the time).

    • On rare occasions, some roll down their window, honk, and point left. Others just honk.





  • i thought its overkill too, but i tried it out and it works surprisingly well. I use the Automation script like this, alao using Via because for some reasons Firefox/Brave keep playing audio even when you minimize. Everything from Unshort to Toast are the defaults, I only added the last 2:

    “Unshort bit.ly”: { “regex”: “https?:\/\/bit\.ly\/.", “action”: “unshort”, “enabled”: false }, “Send everything to webhook”: { “regex”: ".”, “action”: “webhook”, “enabled”: false }, “Toast example”: { “regex”: “TrianguloY”, “action”: “toast”, “args”: { “text”: “👋🙂” } }, “YouTube to Secondary Browser”: { “regex”: ".*(youtube\.comyoutu\.be).*", “action”: “open”, “args”: { “package”: “mark.via.gp, “enabled”: true, “stop”: true }, “Everything else to Vanadium”: { “regex”: “.*”, “action”: “open”, “args”: { “package”: “app.vanadium.browser” }, “enabled”: true, “stop”: true } }

    It works. If I tap a Youtube link, Via / Brave / Firefox opens. Otherwise, it is Vanadium.






  • Instead of completely moving to 1 service, I would try to compartmentalize the digital life better. For me I tried:

    • all banks and very sensitive stuff => Proton Mail

    • every other emails => Gmail.

    • Password Manager: yes Proton Pass is nice but i like things to work offline and access whenever i can => KeePass. I secure my database with a password and a keyfile. I transfer and uodate my database with Syncthing.

    • 2 FA stuff: i had Authy but it is a piece of shit app now. So I am moving to Keepass. Yes, you can add TOTP to anything in Keepass. The only thing i still need Authy for is Steam.