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They've been on an every-other-year-in-September-ish release cadence since the 3 came out in 2019, so it's been expected for a while that 2025/09 would be the release of the Fairphone 6. Glad to hear they're on track for that since I've been holding off on replacing my phone in anticipation of the 6.

For a while I had Willem Dafoe's "Haaaark! Hark, Triton" speech from The Lighthouse as my wake-up alarm. After a couple glorious weeks of startling awake to the curses of a crazed lighthouse keeper, my partner used the marital veto and I changed it back to the default gentle jingle. Haven't messed with it since.

That's Dyson Sphere Program. You can fly to different star systems and collect various resources to grow your factories, build a solar collector swarm, and eventually Dyson spheres to harvest energy from stars. If you're into factory games, I highly recommend it.

You're sort of right. It's a condition associated with the rapid-growth breeds raised in commercial farms, and has become more prevalent over time. It's called woody breast.

It's me, I do it. But only when I need something to do to stay awake in hour five of today's meetings to address the "quick turnaround" patch that I finished coding three weeks ago, but now they want a label to change and no one on the six teams that have somehow become involved seems to know who owns the package that the field the label represents belongs to, but they're absolutely certain we need to programmatically retrieve the text in case the package owner changes it at some point, and someone remembers that the original developer wrote code to get the label text 16 years ago, but it was removed from the program two years before the project started using source control, and they have an old installer around here somewhere that we can decompile or trace with Wireshark to get the right RPC name (sharing their screen while they have a rummage for it, natch), and someone else volunteers that they might know how to get a version of the server application from around that time since the client and server versions have to match, but it's technically the intellectual property of a different subcontractor who was just a guy in Alaska who passed away five years ago, but they're sure they can convince his estate to burn it to a disk and mail it to me if they can just find the contact information...

I nixed the Zojirushi because of the PTFE coating, but I love having a non-stick rice cooker. Ended up getting a GreenPan induction rice cooker with an insert that has a ceramic coating to make it nonstick, and I love it.

It's hex numbers that map to ASCII characters: 72 r 75 u 6c l 65 e

Or, in the modern nomenclature, "systemd and friends"

I did this exact thing when contemplating getting a mini pc. I got an external drive and turned my Deck into a Kodi box. It's been great, though it had trouble pushing 4K60, so I have it set up to output 1080. If you're setting up something like Kodi it's worth mentioning that the Deck uses KDE, so you can set window rules to always open the application fullscreen.

Looks like Patricia Tallman, maybe? Lyta from Babylon 5.

Alright, you've convinced me that you're either a disingenuous troll or a genuine fool. Either way, I think this conversation isn't going to be productive. Have a good one.