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Cake day: August 23rd, 2023

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  • Well, I kind of know what happened in that scenario… because it did. Until Pay, there was Wallet. The original Wallet, not the current one. Wallet had a physical and virtual prepaid debit card, that you would load up and manage in the app. I used it a few times (new tech woo), and distinctively remember ordering at a McDonald’s, the clerk announced the cost, I held my Nexus 7 to the new nfc pad, they started to say ‘uhh no you have to-’ and then a success beep, and their jaw dropped. They thought it was nuts, I told them in a few years ‘this will be everywhere’.

    So before Pay, there was Wallet, and it’s own little sandbox of testing if anyone would use this. A couple years later the Wallet card discontinued, and Pay took its place.






  • Briefly:

    My ThinkPad and it’s snapdragon 5G modem. *ubuntu is the only distro where it works, and it only works because I am using the fcc unlock scripts that are no longer functioning automatically/by default. The docs for this are abysmal and atrocious.

    On my desktop, my creative sound blaster cards (two of them, AE-5 and Z) when set to surround/5.1 - FL and FR are correct, no other channel is. After days of research and tinkering, I achieved no progress and it has been a known issue for like 8+ years, according to forum posts. Stereo/2.0 is fine.

    My desktop is thus stuck on W10 (there are additional hurdles but that is a blocker), while the TP is for niche use cases. I do more server stuff than desktop/workstation.