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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Really depends on the person. I have never managed to fill up a 128 gigabyte phone, but that is because I am blind, so I am not taking pictures in 4K videos. The biggest thing on my phone is my music collection, which only takes about 5 gigs or so. This phone that I have now is a 64 gigabyte phone and while it’s mostly full, it’s still not there yet. According to the Android settings, I still have about 23 gigabytes left on this 64 gig phone. It says I have used about 64% and if this were a 128 gig phone, that would be about 32% or so.



  • Fair enough. LineageOS or GrapheneOS with no GApps is the only way I have used Android for the past ~5 years and it works really well. I will not buy a device at all until I can put either Lineage or Graphene on it and I only boot into stock android long enough to enable USB debugging and OEM unlocking which are needed for flashing. After that I flash the device and then set it up fully.




  • I did not say there weren’t downturns. We never had a great depression until we had the Federal Reserve. So, they have caused them to be worse. Before, when a business acted irresponsible, they went bankrupt and closed their doors, and the people who invested in that business lost money. However, now, in general, businesses are not allowed to fail, and zombie companies are continuing to exist and not being culled. Eventually, they do fail, but when they do, it’s way worse because now instead of a couple failing, there’s tens of thousands at once.



  • If you don’t prepare for it, absolutely. If you are prepared for it, recessions are actually a really great thing. Just like rain, you know it’s going to rain, so you bring an umbrella to work with you so you don’t get wet.

    Edit: To be fair, if we did not have central banks and we’re using a gold standard, then we would not have to worry about depressions and booms and busts, because we would have inflation of roughly 1% per year, depending on how much gold we could physically mine. Fiat currency and central banks cause booms and busts and transfer money from the poor to the wealthy.