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Cake day: February 17th, 2025

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  • Ghost of Tsushima:

    A Samurai and several of his battle-ready female companions try to reclaim their island after Mongol invasion.

    I remember thinking “did they really have female warriors and lords back then who called the shots and fought alongside the men? I like the message, but a bit of realism would be nice…”

    And then our brave stoic rugged Samurai literally prostrates himself in front of his lord/uncle at every opportunity constantly grovelling and professing how unworthy he is and how he seeks only to serve, and then I’m thinking “oh yeah… the stoic Samurai is a trope, they were either small militias or snivelling arms of the state.”

    So I’m okay with realism being bent if it means I’m not constantly questioning the values of my main character.











  • It’s a software implementation though, so if you have a rooted phone or use another Android OS, you have limited options in apps that implement eSim for you.

    OpenEUICC is a good one, but sometimes requires magisk modules to work.

    I remember it took me half a day of fiddling to get my eSim working under Lineage.

    People forget that your phone supporting “feature X” means that even though it has all the hardware to do X, it still needs to software, which might not be part of the devicetree.

    For example paying for items with your phone’s NFC does not happen because of NFC capability. There are no open source solutions to Google Pay. It’s an agreement brokered between Google and Banks that allow the bankcard to be “cloned” and used via NFC, not the NFC doing any cloning of your actual bankcard