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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023
  • CannedYeet@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•When/how frequently do you replace your phone with a new one?
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    19 days ago

    Lately every two years. I also have a Pixel. When a new Pixel comes out Google offers a good trade in deal where you get a $100 of store credit on top of what AFAICT is a good trade in value. Get on the Google Store mailing list to be alerted of it. The resale value on Android phones seems to drop off really sharply after 2 years. So when I calculate the long term annual cost of owning a phone I think it comes out pretty good.

    I’m not shooting for the absolute cheapest. Phones are so integral to our lives, I don’t think it’s rational to cheap out on any part of the phone that matters. IMO what doesn’t matter is the difference between the Pixel a-series and a flagship phone. Battery life definitely matters so having a pretty new battery is worth some of the premium of upgrading so often.

    Warning, the store credit applies to your next purchase. But I’m pretty loyal to Google and Pixels.

  • CannedYeet@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your most important tool?
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    1 month ago

    IntelliJ IDEA

    It’s an IDE, a highly featureful code editor.

    A lot of programmers like to use more basic text editors and pile on plugins. I feel bad for them when they share some new plugin they’re excited about and it’s a feature that’s been in IntelliJ forever and they had to put extra work in to get it. And so many other users of that editor don’t even know what’s possible.

  • CannedYeet@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    1 month ago

    I ran pi-hole on my NAS. Then I pointed my router at it to make it the DNS for my whole network. The only problem was it would create issues when I had a power outage. If things didn’t start up with the right timing they would get wonky and certain devices would report as not having Internet.

    That’s why I bought an OpenWRT One so I could install an equivalent to pi-hole on in directly. Though I hit a snag with that and don’t currently have that running.

    I haven’t noticed much of a difference without the pi-hole running (my NAS is dead right now). I think some of my devices had their own DNS settings so they weren’t using the config from the router.