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Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • My wife’s pixel 3 just busted without any warning a few years ago. PLEASE be sure to have backups of your things and passwords. At the time they didn’t remember their password and was only logged in on their phone. We were able to recover through my email but it wasn’t a recovery address so it was really scary.

    The worst part is we already had a family password manager they weren’t using, so it was very difficult to not make it seem like an “I told you so” moment, but they’re on it now and have backups and stuff.

    But yeah. We took it to some phone repair guy and he tried a bunch of different stuff. The motherboard just failed or something. No way to extract anything. He said it happened a lot with that model (well, he’s only seeing the bad ones but still).












  • I used to get sucked in by cop videos on TikTok. I think it’s the curiosity. I hated it. I’d get shown so many. I didn’t enjoy watching them. I thought a lot about what’s happening and I really think it’s just the initial hook of “what’s happening here???” because there’s a cop. I had to actively scroll away as fast as possible every time I saw them to get that shit away. I finally did, but it was rough. It’s easy to fall into traps like that with social media algorithms. They aren’t meant to maximize your enjoyment, they’re meant to maximize your retention, engagement, and spending.