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One away :( Estimate Me: 2025-07-17 (Sour patch kids tower) Rank #35 of 150 🟨🟩🟩 🔗 https://estimate-me.aukspot.com/archive/2025-07-17

Wait, your name isn’t actually Ricky Rigatoni??

First one didn’t work on thunder, this one does. Good work!

I’m not strictly against using LLMs for coding. However, every time I try, it makes me waste my time. I’ve tried auto complete, and it will often almost get it right, but not quite. So instead of getting to write the code, I go to write the code, stop to check if the auto complete is doing what I was thinking, see that it isn’t, and then have to type it out anyway. I’ve tried using a chatbot for coding questions, but often times it will claim there isn’t a way to use a given SDK to do what I want, but I will check the docs and there will be a way, so it just lies. I’ve tried having it generate code from a design, but having to write a strict design, and review all the code it produces, only to have to make pretty drastic changes tends not to save me any time, and means I have to spend the most time doing the parts of coding I hate the most: writing designs and code review.

So far, the AI coding tools make my life worse and don’t save time, at least when writing code. It’s pretty good at writing git messages and making my operational summaries sound nice, so I primarily use it for that

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These are great, do you take these pictures once a day, or do you do a bunch at a time?

I haven’t tried copperhead due to the small list of officially supported devices, but I did try calyx. Calyx is honestly pretty close in terms of overall experience, and continues to get better. However, being newer, it lacks the overall polish/stability of Graphene. Also, at the time I tried it, it was lacking the web installer which makes moving to a new OS much simpler, but it has it now. As mentioned before, Graphene has their own web browser, which simplifies startup. Most of my other preferences are pretty nitpicky. Honestly, if I hadn’t already had a pixel phone it probably wouldn’t make too much of a difference, but having the pixel means it’s kind of silly to turn down the extra base-level security Graphene provides. Honestly, given that I won’t need a new phone for at least 5 years, there’s a real chance of me getting the latest fairphone and calyx next, hoping that over that time they tighten things up.

I totally understand your sentiment, and your best bet is probably the fairphone 5 when calyx is released for it, especially since they are committing to 8 years of security updates compared to pixel’s 7.

Not who you were talking to, but I use GrapheneOS on a Pixel 9. I don’t know if there’s a “lockdown” mode, but I have my phone set up where I can’t use biometrics to unlock the phone, but can use biometrics to log into my apps. As for the website/email based attacks, these are mostly rendered useless with the GrapheneOS subproject Vanadium, which is their security-hardened web browser, that I use by default. (https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing)

I have a bunch of banking apps (chase, discover, american express, citi bank, ally, and my local bank) and while I did need to turn off some of the more extreme safety features for some of those apps (GrapheneOS has a toggle for them on a per-app basis), all of them work without Google Play Services, something I don’t have installed. Some of my other bills apps don’t work even with that setting turned on (student loans, local utilities, home loan, etc.) But I just add a link to their website to my home screen and it doesn’t really change my experience much. Also all my work apps (Slack, proprietary apps) have worked without Google Play Services. However, a bunch of apps do require google play services, and for my use cases most can be replaced with the website link, some can’t. Google Maps is the biggest one, and while I have devised a way to get the great search from Google Maps anonymously through TOR and import the coordinates into CoMaps (FOSS alternative map app), that’s the last part of my phone use that is still a pretty significant inconvenience.

Any app that needs the stricter security turned off gets put in a separate user on my phone, that can’t run in the background, to prevent any shenanigans there as well.

For all my security needs, I haven’t found a mobile OS that does everything I wanted as low-hassle as GrapheneOS, and I’ve tried a bunch.

I’m a software engineer, and am pretty privvy to self-hosting in docker, and hosting a matrix server + element has easily been the hardest service I’ve ever deployed. Most of my experience is in personal cloud/media streaming, so maybe I’m just doing the easy ones, but the matrix docker deployment is really unrefined compared to other services

Yeah, Nat 1 is miraculous failure, Nat 20 is miraculous success in all games I’ve played

I own the bottom one, it is even more ridiculous in person

Not sure if you are aware, but foundations give you a grid system to use. A lot of players will build foundations up high, and build on a large, floating platform. I came from Factorio, and I actually really liked the factory size/shape constraints in Satisfactory, as it doesn’t let me use the same design solution for every resource node. Some places trains can easily get to, others require trucks to get the resources to where the train can pick them up, and others still require drones. I felt like in factorio, I could use the systems I came up with early throughout the entire game, and the only thing I needed to change was how to pump resources into my factory and scaling up my defense system.

lol read this as milf surgery at first, realized that it works both ways

Ah, my mistake was in assuming the acronym had to do with being gay, not just a general fetish

Me, not gay but desperately trying to figure out what this post is saying: SPH: Small Penis Haver BPH: Big Penis Haver

I really thought I was understanding the post until I read your comment, now I have no idea what those acronyms mean

That could definitely play a part, but when it was going around I saw it on a bunch of android phones, iphones, and on my computer, and I could never see white and gold. Also, I could see the blue and black on the same device as a friend who saw white and gold

Interesting. I have never once seen the white/gold in the original photo, only blue/black.

I only ask because both that illusion and this one work only if people misinterpret the lighting. I’m curious to see if other people here have the same correlation

They all look right side up to me, I’m pretty sure the shadows make it so it can’t look upside down, I can’t get it even to appear that way at all. I’m curious OP, with the famous dress, did you see black and blue or white and gold?

Top Gun was what I came here to say

I’ve really liked Ncuti as the doctor, I’ve liked the companions as well. I’ve liked a good bit of the overarching mysteries of the last season and this one. But as someone who grew up watching starting from Eccleston, and then went back to watch the original series, the only part of the new season I really dislike is the front and center focus of “Magic” villains. I understand that this was done a bit in the original series as well, but I disliked it there too. It really cheapens the entire narrative when the doctor can somehow overcome what are essentially gods with an almost unsurmountable level of power that doesn’t have to be rooted in some sort of scifi explanation.

Obviously this is a personal opinion, and it does seem that the target audience has shifted a bit more mainstream (not that it was super niche before, it’s just that stories now feel very surface-level), it just saddens me that a show I liked has taken a turn for the worse, narratively speaking. I’m still mostly enjoying these seasons, and their more grounded stories feel pretty similar to the 2005 series.