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Cake day: March 30th, 2026

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  • I’m having a hard time defining “best”, so I’ll put out a few categories:

    • Most used: my rooted Samsung Galaxy S23, which I use for listening to HiFi music (Tidal + Android USB Audio Player + AudioQuest DrangFly Cobalt DAC + Sennheiser IE 900).
    • Most fun tinkering with: used Lenovo ThinPad T480, on which I swapped out the storage, RAM and wireless network module {1TB, 32GB, WiFi 6e}. I also learned Arch Linux and some C programming on it.
    • Bringing it with me everywhere and is not my phone: my rooted Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ and my Deltaco WK90b keyboard, a form factor which they have stopped making, which is bonkers. I bring these two to local coffee shops and libraries and learn coding on Termux.
    • Having own the longest: my sound mixer Notepad 8fx by Soundcraft, 42 inch 4K Philips TV and Adam A5X studio monitors. The studio monitors, I have had for more than ten years. The mixer and TV, for about seven. This is my media setup for consuming video and audio. I play video on the above mentioned Lenovo laptop, streamed from my Linux ISO torrenting rig and audio I mostly play from my vinyl player. This also used to be me karaoke setup when I still had a Nintendo Switch and when I still was happy.






  • Exercise balls. After my boss bought a dozen for the workplace, I realized how much less my lower back was hurting. If I make an effort to also move my hip in various ways, it hurts even less. I decided to buy one myself to use when gaming on my PC. Works like a charm. Does my back still hurt? Yes. Has the exercise ball worked better and been more cost-effective than any other option thus far? Yes.

    My problem is some kind of hypertension after overdoing cycling about six years ago. At least that’s what they think. After having seen several specialists and doctors, they still don’t know.


  • Edit: who am I kidding, you’re right. My comment was spiteful. I do apologize.

    And I am not trying to besmirch any person or generation, but I do think that there is a correlation between the amount of literature the “older people” of today were exposed to during their youth compared to those that you refer to by saying “young people”. Since you didn’t specify a demographic, I am not touching on any socioeconomic circumstances and/or cultural factors that may or may not lead to young people not being able to distinguish between utopia and dystopia.




  • You mean like the breakdown I had yesterday and I thought that it’s time to end it once and for all because of how miserable and worthless I am? Nah, not been there, not done that. /j

    Somehow I’m still here, on the bus, on my way to work.

    After I finish the few hours of work that my doctor allows me to do, I guess I’m looking forward to sitting down at the local library to do some hobby programming. I’m also looking forward to see some of my colleagues. Not all of them.

    If you would have to say at least one thing that you could look forward to today/tomorrow, what would it be?