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Cake day: March 10th, 2026

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  • Cool project! Epaper is awesome and crazy microfluidic tech.

    The M5stack M5paperS3 is 60€ (56,70€ at Tinytronics in NL) and is auch more readable size, integrated battery, 4.7inches. More like an older smartphone screen and have very fast refreshing.

    Nicco loves Linux (KDE contributor and a sort of blogger) made a whole to-do app/system that runs on it so it is temporarily out of stock at Tinytronics, but I think the problem with the small screen is having to refresh >3x as much to read the same amount killing battery life on an already smaller battery.

    I think personally I would have trouble either with font size, or only being able to read a few sentences before scrolling.










  • Spinning up and down hard drives repeatedly drastically reduces their lifespan though. Once a day or so, fine, but if you set a 30 minute idle time or something and it spins them down a dozen times per day, you are putting acceleration forces on the drive many more times than intended.

    If you have to buy a new HDD twice as often because you spin it down, any financial or environmental savings is instantly negated and in the end it is much, much worse in both respects.


  • My girlfriend has an A52 and her dad had an A23 (or whatever 3rd gen low-tier but not the cheapest).

    Both of them regularly, from day 1 have lost cellular signal or 4G/5G signal, and my girlfriend even had to get a new sum card because the A52 simply refused to use it and she was “stuck” in the middle of nowhere with no GPS and no map and no cellular to call someone because of her Samsung phone.

    They both barely worked as a phone for a long time. My xperia 5ii had a problem of losing 4G every once in a while until I turned airplane mode on and off again.

    My point is that most phones, regardless of manufacturer, have shit signal or intermittent cellular problems, that vary from device to device. n=1 anecdotes are a pretty bad metric of saying whether a phone is good or not. Manufacturers should be required to publish standardized volume testing.

    Not to mention that all new Samsung’s come with forced Israeli spyware that you can’t uninstall.