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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • The number of times I’ve basically seen this exact same thing happen in history is crazy. It’ll be something like “Well ole Bill Jesterbong discovered the Gilded Anusbangle in August of 1827 on the island of Nebraska. Naturally, he built a hide in a tall fir tree and camped in it for 3 weeks straight shooting and killing all 1382 Gilded Anusbangles to see if their hide could be useful or if they were tasty. Turns out they were not. The Gilded Anusbangle is now extinct.”





  • Do you honestly think, in the history of humankind, there’s never been someone brilliant with super low confidence? Hell, even competent with uncertainty counts as imposter syndrome.

    I know countless people that are amazing at something but are super unsure of themselves or don’t believe the product of their work is that good.

    I, on the other hand, am actually a dumbass.






  • It’s like catching a little kid in a lie and they just keep on making up more and more hilarious crap to cover the initial lie. Each lie builds on itself requiring a bigger, more ridiculous lie to cover it up and before you know it, you went from who ate the missing yogurt to now the sky is a glass dome, the sun is a giant flashlight that the government turns on and off and the moon only glows because of magical glow worms that live on its surface


  • This is such a bummer to hear. That makes sense because I have definitely not been working on high end phones. I’ve only worked on one where I needed to remove the back glass (which was a bitch until I figured it out!) but once I popped it open it wasn’t too bad. Sounds like things are getting worse and maybe won’t get better for a bit…

    I’m curious, do you ever see any type of DRM or software locks if you replace any components? I’m just a weekend warrior so I don’t work on a ton but I’ve tried to help out a friend or two by replacing components and there’s been a few times it seems like everything is in place but the phone just won’t allow the replaced components. I just assumed I messed something up but I’ve heard of some fishy business where phones won’t allow aftermarket components on some parts of the phone (I’ve mainly only had this issue dealing with switching out camera components)


  • I mean they’re still this “easy” for the most part. Obviously some are harder than others but I’ve changed plenty of post 2020 phones and they’re very similar to this. I would strongly argue that it should absolutely be waaaaay easier to do tho. I’ve only changed so many because it’s too difficult for most people and they know I can.

    It’s ridiculous how hard they’ve made these damn things to repair and it pisses me off that it’s even legal. We’re slooooowly making headway in the right to repair department but it’s really just kind of clawing back to where we were than actual progress.





  • I’ve had the ”if you had infinite money" discussion with tons of people and am absolutely floored at the number of people that say they would get a job just to have something to do or to keep from getting bored. I’m like dude I have .003% of the time I want to do all the dumb shit I want to do. I could never in a million years imagine myself being like “yooo I am soooo bored having unlimited free time and money. I’m gonna go apply at the gas station”