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  • I think it has to do with whether or not the battery has a current going through it while hot. I imagine heat probably makes the lithium more soluable in the electrolyte liquid, then the disolved material migrates with the current flow. Heating it without a current flow might allow it to redissolve and at least distribute it more evenly so it doesn't make one long spike that shorts the battery.

  • For the keyboard I would try Florisboard on f-droid, it gives a lot more spacing and sizing options. I basically make the keys as wide as possible and then play with key height. The bottom offset let's you raise or lower the keyboard as a whole to suit your grip.

    I was a long time AnySoftkeyBoard user until a year or two ago when I finally decided Floris was just better. I've tried FUTO keyboard a little bit, it seemed fine but didn't offer enough customization options.

  • Not exactly the same situation but I've noticed that Chrome has moved from only being virtually unusable with my VPN running, to actually unusable. It just refuses to resolve URLs and won't search, previously it just gave tons of Captcha popups if I tried to do anything. Honestly at this point I've just accepted I have to make firefox based browsers work for everything from now on.

  • I think this is also a problem of old timers not being able to articulate their concerns well. There is probably a reason they do or don't do something a certain way, but if they can't explain why, then no one is going to listen. Blindly following someone for percieved wisdom doesn't teach you anything.

    I actually like it when someone can show me why I'm wrong, because it saves me time. But if you can't tell me WHY my idea won't work, I'm probably just gunna do it anyway to figure it out myself.

    I think this is as much a case of bad teachers as it is bad students.

  • Good ideas absolutely do die all the time even in open source. If the original dev doesn't want to play nice, it's actually pretty difficult to create a new fork that everyone will agree on. Hopefully these federated apps have enough inertia to prevent the userbase from splintering when the original devs move on.

  • The court documents do not make clear whether Maland was struck by one of Youngblut’s bullets or a shot fired by a fellow agent.

    Fuck... so the women who survived was the only one who shot at the agents, she got two shots off, and the agent who died may have been killed by friendly fire. The driver, who was killed, was a german national with an expired visa, he had a gun and may have reached for it but didn't actually fire any shots. What an absolute cluster fuck.

  • I've been using Tutanota and Mullvad for like a decade now without any issues.

    Tutanota in particular, feels like it's gotten a lot better in the last year or so. The inbox loads a lot faster and you can show sender info in the notification.

  • Because it's just kind of lazy, everyone has access to LLMs now. If they wanted an AI answer they'd just use Google and click "expand" on whatever summary it sticks at the top of the search results.

    People use social media to interact with other humans, and unless we explicitely ask, we don't want to read through a wall of AI text.

  • The IMEI number on the phone is essentially locked to the device, swapping sims won't change it. So a phone activated under your real name on one network could technically get traced back to you even when using a different SIM card.

    Also, carrying a phone with both SIMs active is completely unprotected from correlation attacks by anyone with access to the cell tower data. It'd be blatantly obvious that the location of one SIM is the same as the other all the time.

    All depends on the threat level you expect, but if you're worried about a VOIP account being compromised to get your real number, you are talking about pretty sophisticated actors.

  • I just had a purple line appear on my pixel 8, google offered me $490 on trade for a 9. The line is intermittent so I just rated my phone as good condition for the trade in. There is an extended warranty on the problem so if they try and give me any shit about it I'll just reference that. If you do trade it in, make sure to uncheck the box that says you'll accept less on the trade if they decide the condition isn't as described. I have no actual evidence, but given my fairly extensive history dealing with googles customer service I think they may try and screw you over on the trade.