Holy moly, 15% on a platform that gets free and easy OS updates is pretty rough.

Fun fact: if you tell Gemini a bit about your software setup and ask it for advice on de-Googling, it will happily (and pretty accurately) assist you.

I've had a TrimUI Brick for some time but haven't used it very much. I decided to swap my Retroid Pocket Classic for the Brick in my small tech bag just because it's smaller and lighter. And so I started looking into the latest firmware updates for the device and all of that, which brought me to a Reddit thread about the latest release. As it turns out, not only did someone find SSH credentials to root into the Brick, but they also discovered that it runs Tina Linux, which (as far as I can see) is based on OpenWRT. The TrimUI brick is basically a router that plays Game Boy games. Technically gaming on Linux. #Linux #Gaming

So, this is interesting. I just received another one of those "your cloud is expiring" spam emails. These are the only spam messages that I receive now, and I have no idea where they come from. They're being sent to my old Gmail address. But look at the date! This just came in ~5 minutes ago, but my mail clients (in this case Proton Mail on the web) see it as dated April 6, 2010. I don't think I've ever seen that before.

I might go ahead and delete my Discord account over the weekend. Things are looking pretty bad for it. I never enjoyed using it to the extent that I loved its predecessors, like AIM, but I do think that it was fairly fun while it lasted. To be clear, while I understand why it might be easy for some people to do this, as with tools like Facebook and Twitter, these platforms were originally created to encourage human connection and interaction. It's very difficult to sacrifice that when not everyone that you know will be willing to do the same. And just saying "well, then those people aren't worth it" devalues the human experience of connection and interaction that was had.