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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I feel like some sort of duplication is the best way to go. Like, have a full stack at home, and have a small mini PC full of NVME that mirrors just the storage you want, and keep the local jellyfin stack up to date otherwise with like docker and watchtower. Then you can unplug and take it with you when you leave, no muss no fuss.








  • And here we have the reason why online psychological diagnosis is considered malpractice, especially over text in a single session

    I’m a highly empathetic person, to the point it causes me difficulties in life, especially in male relationships. I did this specific prank because I knew he personally would love it and he was already highly stressed and needed a break. It worked out great, both for our friendship and his college career.

    But thanks for the completely useless, unfounded, and insulting armchair diagnosis. Perhaps in the future your time might be better spent figuring out your compulsive need to prove yourself right and the best understander of a situation despite having almost no requisite knowledge


  • Or maybe I know my friends better than you do after reading a quick story.

    Idk man, maybe if this was the first time we did anything in this realm I could see that, but it’s an established part of our relationship. We trust each other. And maybe some levity with no real stakes actually helped lighten his stress during a difficult time, and that was the whole point? He was spiraling a bit and wouldn’t take a break, so just a bit of fun helped him chill and refocus, IMHO.

    He graduated cum laude so I think it all worked out pretty well. I think you need to chill a bit and not assume you know everything about everyone after like 3 lines of text



  • Maybe if afterwards I showed him the knife was made of painted wood, blunted completely, and I snuck a throat protector in his turtleneck.

    I did more things like checking a windows install on my laptop first, and cloning his drive off before I pulled it.

    We would regularly pull pranks on each other, the rule was it couldn’t cause lasting harm. This fit well within that, and he got me at least as good multiple times. One of my best friends, ever




  • So that meme reminds me of a prank.

    There was once I had the same exact laptop as a buddy, but wasn’t using it anymore. He was finishing his degree and just about to turn in like 8 papers/assignments and had a ton of work saved on it. So I wiped my laptop and installed fresh Kubuntu, and then swapped the drives when he wasn’t looking. Then I pretended to have done him a favor since he had been having intermittent windows problems.

    He was livid but was trying so hard to be kind, loool. Made it better when I could swap it right back and everything was there






  • Most of this is right, but needs some things corrected.

    LOS is kept up by individual maintainers of the devices, and so it can cover more of them. But that also means you expand your attack surface to lineage, maintainer, microg, etc. And that’s just on supported devices. Unofficial devices are even more wild-west, having much delayed releases, OS updates, security updates, everything.

    Not only that, but Lineage requires that you unlock your bootloader and often have your phone rooted to be able to do everything. This introduces special points of insecurity and possible issues in the future.

    GOS is from a single source, for a single line of phones, and uses a designed method to load cryptographically signed ROMs onto the device, and then validate updates using the same method. The Play Services are sandboxed and disabled by default, so you can just never use them if you want. Overall, this makes for a more cohesive device. One that is more private and more secure. Especially so, when you can buy a new Pixel device and have guaranteed updates for as long as Google will do so for the same device.