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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I don’t know enough about the details of dynamic ranges of the sensors etc to dispute the point that they should all be able to do that. You could be right for all I know.

    I agree that the software seems to play a big part. And it looks to me like Google is still offering the best camera software on Android, so I ended up buying a used Pixel 6 in the end. With the additional hope of it being open and popular enough that I’ll enjoy many years of Lineage OS or similar once official support stops.







  • I have:

    • a 1 TB system SSD (the fast M.2 Samsung SSD 970 EVO) where Windows and Fedora are installed
    • a 2 TB games SSD (the slow M.2 Intel SSD 660p)
    • a 120G games SSD (the very old, slow SATA Crucial M500) that only still exists because it would be a shame to throw out.

    All the spinning rust has been banished to the NAS, Minecraft server, friend’s sister’s PC etc. The NAS now holds two 16 TB drives (SEAGATE Exos X16) in a raid 1, of that volume 5 TB are still free.




  • No, it’s a normal multiplication by 3, and it makes sense.

    3 times the sum expands to: 3 * 1/4 + 3 * 1/16 + 3 * 1/64 + 3 * 1/256 + …

    Which is essentially what the picture shows: The main meme is three quarters filled with whole pictures, the fourth quarter being the inset of the sub meme, which is made up of three sixteenths of whole pictures and the fourth sixteenth is made up of the next layer of inset meme etc.



  • Maybe 2 minutes normally. Hard to tell really. If I don’t I have two strategies:

    If I’m staying awake because of some captivating train of thought (stressfull or exciting or whatever) I mentally put it aside with the thought “I can’t change that right now anyway I can deal with it tomorrow” and start trying to freely associate without focusing on any thought starting from some nice landscapes.

    Otherwise if there isn’t something obvious keeping me from sleep, I just start focusing on relaxing bodyparts and breathing deeply and slowly to stimulate my parasympathetic nervous system. That normally puts me out quickly.


  • I’m a bit of a fan of Okular. It just does a good job displaying PDFs and is not annoying. The table of content works well if the document has one. There is text select and block select for when you need to get content out of the PDF. You can tell Okular to ignore DRM with a simple checkbox in the settings, for files that “don’t allow” selecting and copying text or “don’t allow” printing.