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Cake day: January 8th, 2024

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  • This is good. I am specifically thinking about getting a Fairphone 6 as my next device, simply because of the fact that I can run post-market OS on it, and they seem to be doing a very good job getting it supported properly.

    I think it’s only a matter of time until we are going to need to ditch Android entirely because of them pulling stupid shit. When that day comes, we will need an alternative, and it’s looking more and more like post-market OS is the answer.










  • I’ve been doing some looking into sodium ion batteries for the last couple of months and it sounds like it’s going to drastically reduce the price of batteries and sodium ion is more thermally stable and can handle cold temperatures of negative 40 and can handle hot temperatures.

    I’m also hearing charge cycle counts around 10,000, which would be something like 20 years worth of battery usage.

    The current downside is power density and even that is not terrible as it’s pretty close to what LFP does now and They think they can improve it more in the future.

    Sodium ion is already being used in some mass market cars that don’t need an incredible range, but need to be economical.









  • There’s this science fiction book, and I’m blanking on the name of it right off hand, but there’s a harvester that attached itself to Ceres, the asteroid, and made octagonal solar shades to freeze the Earth.

    The reason I bring it up is because if they detected radio signals too close to them they would fold in on themselves and direct a high energy beam of sunlight towards the target and vaporize them and so the ships would communicate with patches that were basically QR codes on the outside of their hull and the other ship would take pictures and be able to transfer data that way.

    I want to say they were using the equivalent of high refresh rate E-Ink screens.