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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • In case you didn’t know, you can send a YouTube URL to Kodi by sharing it from your phone to the Kore app.

    So you can do your browsing on your phone/tablet and when you want to watch something on the big screen, you just share it with the Kore app and it will start playing.









  • That’s the thing I don’t like about Postgres either. The performance is significantly better than with MariaDB but Postgres is such a pain for non-enterprise use.

    Same with crash recovery, Postgres just can’t recover if the WAL is corrupted. MariaDB will happily fix itself but Postgres will just sit there and wait until somebody babysits it.

    So you better spin up a second Postgres container, run pg_resetwal, restart the database and terminate any open transactions manually with a 2 page query you hopefully wrote down. Might reindex all tables as well to be sure.

    I have a separate “postgres unfuck” script by now.



  • IPv6 is pretty much identical to IPv4 in terms of functionality.

    The biggest difference is that there is no more need for NAT with IPv6 because of the sheer amount of IPv6 addresses available. Every device in an IPv6 network gets their own public IP.

    For example: I get 1 public IPv4 address from my ISP but 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IPv6 addresses. That’s a number I can’t even pronounce and it’s just for me.

    There are a few advantages that this brings:

    • Any client in the network can get a fresh IP every day to reduce tracking
    • It is pretty much impossible to run a full network scan on this amount of IP addresses
    • Every device can expose their own service on their own IP (For example: You can run multiple web servers on the same port without a reverse proxy or multiple people can host their own game server on the same port)

    There are some more smaller changes that improve performance compared to IPv4, but it’s minimal.




  • I check youtube for replacement videos for battery and screen

    You already lost me there. My times of looking up video guides on how to repair my phone are over, I can replace the battery with my hands and the screen is mounted with 8 screws. OEM parts can be ordered directly from Fairphone and arrive within 2 days.

    all replacements done with chinese parts, ultra-cheap and locally available.

    It is incredibly difficult to get OEM parts for many phones, you never know if it is a good part until you actually have it in your hand. In some cases it doesn’t matter but I have never seen a cheap third party screen which comes close to the original.

    I figure I’m doing everyone a service by repurposing a discarded 5 year old phone.

    You are, the best phone for the environment is an old phone.


  • what’s your use case that you need that kind of a phone?

    I repair my phones when they break and the easy repair of a Fairphone is in no way comparable to the absolute pain it is to remove the display on a phone released in the last 5 years.

    Especially considering they provide a 5 year warranty, source fair materials, 8 years of security updates and many more years to come with full access to replacement parts.




  • Is that actually an UPS or just a backup battery? Can it passthrough the line power directly or does the inverter need to run 24/7?

    In the latter case you might want to check how much power the inverter eats just by itself. For example, my Bluetti with 2 kWh needs a whopping 50W in idle just to keep the AC ports powered. Of course your unit looks much smaller so it should be way less but still worth measuring.