More secure legally. You generally can’t be compelled to disclose a password that incriminates you (unless it’s already apparent that you’re guilty of wrong-doing) but a thing (physical key, fingerprint, etc) isn’t protected in the same way and can be demanded by the court.

Whether biometric are secure or not is another question, they can be stolen like any other data or a motivated attacker could just take you or your fingers.

Is the 16gb partition the first partition? If so I’d just dd the 128gb drive at the 32gb drive then fix the partition table and remove the others.

If it’s not the first partition use gparted to copy it to the new drive.

Interesting that the one has such large capacitors in it. I imagine that is as last-ditch effort to keep the board powered long enough to finish flushing all of its caches in the event of a power failure.

That’s exactly the point of power loss protection (aka PLP.) As a side effect of not needing to wait for a flush after a write synchronous write workloads are dramatically faster on enterprise drives with PLP.

Edit: To add a bit of detail - you don’t need to wait for a flush after a synchronous write with PLP because the drive firmware can lie and immediately return from a flush call because there’s enough backup power to complete that flush if the power were cut.

They’ll also start paring features out of the device as soon as it’s convenient for them, like they did with the OnHub as soon as Google Home devices launched. I’m still salty about the OnHub, they flat out neutered a multifunction device down to a big WiFi AP because they just didn’t want people using any of the smart home or speaker functionality once they had other products to sell.

It’s mostly fine on my phone, just go landscape to see the broken bit

Yeah, that’s about what I expected unfortunately

Yeah, shizuku could work I’m just not aware of any shizuku enabled charge control software

Just wait for someone to exploit it, that’s pretty common with mediatek SoCs

Not the solution you’re asking for but I’ve used the ACC magisk module to do this on devices for years. If you’re willing to install magisk and then ignore it this is a very mature solution.

Otherwise, like others have said, run home assistant on your network somewhere and have tasker call to HA to switch the charger plug off when you hit your target charge level. That should be pretty straightforward.

Excellent, the battery life on my 9 pro is starting to suffer and this will drive the prices on used 11s and 12s down to impulse buy at 3am levels.

Reddit is new facebook at this point. A friend’s mom made a reddit account to upvote cat pictures a couple of weeks ago.

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So don’t buy one? You don’t need a new phone every 1-2y unless you’re a spectacularly well trained consumer.

I usually replace my phone every 3-4y when power efficiency and performance have significantly improved, or there’s a new radio standard that I need (5G, AX WiFi) or the camera makes me want an upgrade. If none of those things are true then use your phone until it dies 🤷‍♂️

Do you actually need a new phone? If you don’t need any new features just have your battery replaced and keep using it.

I wrote snapshot hooks for Arch that fire before installing or upgrading packages and I have a simple shell alias that I can use to fire off a manual snapshot any time I need one. If a package breaks in an inconvenient way and can’t just be dowgraded back to function or I have some other time pressure I can just point my root partition at a clone of my most recent snapshot and reboot to roll back. I don’t usually bother rebooting into a cloned snapshot to test changes as I can just perform the same steps to roll back and the automated rolling snapshots mean I don’t need to baby anything to have the same protection.

Like all of the bad parts of a very low dose of LSD without any of the fun.

The SF Bay area, there are a lot of people who are financially independent here

If it makes you feel better I haven’t met a grad student in the last 20y who wasn’t on some psychiatric medication. Basically everyone I knew in school was on antidepressants at the very least and the majority of undergrads were taking stimulants.

Are you depressed?

Yes.

Do you know anyone who’s not depressed?

The only happy people I know are wealthy and/or have wealthy parents (usually both, I’ll call wealthy a NAV >$10M) and have never needed to struggle.

Gimp 4.0 is on schedule for a 2040 release at this point