Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:31:00 UTC
the other day i had to do emergency surgery on my phone and remove the battery. it had gone from not swollen at all to severely swollen over the course of what i assume to have been about 12 hours. this is obviously concerning. after removing the battery i plugged the phone in and tried to boot it up but it only confirmed my assumption: the pixel 7a will not boot without a battery installed. i debated pulling the BMS off the old battery and seeing if it would boot with just that but ultimately decided against it. ive gone without a phone before, its just a mild inconvenience to me. ive deliberately structured my digital life to not require me to carry a phone. yes, im not able to look things up while im standing in a store, check what time somewhere closes before going there, or quickly reply to messages, but those all go in the mild inconvenience pile. i dont need a computing and communication device on me at all times.
yet when i told people about this, they offered to help me cope and even brought me a spare phone without asking if i needed it. theres no coping to do though. i have many spare phones - far too many, but that situation is unrelated. i could easily just switch to one of those and go about my day. but i dont care enough. i dont need to carry a phone. i actually kind of despise carrying a phone but i havent gotten around to strategizing a long term solution for that yet. i dont get why everyone immediately assumed something happening to my phone was such a big deal. yes, phones are a lot of peoples primary or only computing and communication device, but there shouldnt be an assumption that i cant communicate when i sent messages to people informing them that the emergency surgery was a success.
idk, the whole thing just bothers me. my personal perspective on technology tends to be very skewed because of the way i choose to interact with it. i always operate on the assumption that others have a much different perspective but it still catches me off guard when i see it in action. the contrast is just... its all so foreign to me. in the past ive been there with them following trends and always wanting the shiny new things with big number specs. its only been a few years but ive already completely forgotten that mindset. for the record im not saying its a bad perspective, its just different. people can have shiny new laptop, good for them. but i am more than happy with my 2006 thinkpad.
that actually reminds me of a conversation i was having earlier. the person i was talking to said something about "cad-ready computers" and i was very confused for a moment. ive been using freecad on this laptop recently. what could a computer possibly need to be considered "cad-ready" that this thinkpad doesnt have? but then i thought back to when i used to run fusion 360. oh how unoptimized that thing is. i dont doubt they *tried* to optimize it but i cant imagine they did much more than making sure it would run well on the systems they were developing it on. i tried to run it on a system with a celeron n2820 once. do not recommend. the main system i used it on was running a core i7-860. it would lag doing simple things like revolving a sketch, taking several seconds to compute. but freecad? on my core 2 duo t7600? it just works. it has no issues with the fact that its running on a cpu from 2007. i despise modern commercial software. its ridiculously unoptimized. windows is another example. i wont bore you with that though. lol one time i did install windows 10 on a netbook running some intel atom though. it had 15 gigs of emmc stoage. no, not 16, just 15. no clue why, it just is. netbooks are wild i love them.
next time on "clover fucking despises modern technology": chromebooks and how theyre basically manufactured ewaste