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New comment by retatop in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

retatop — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:29:59 +0000

My phone (A Furiphone FLX1, which is kindof a variant of a Gigaset GX6) has a removable back with a gasket and is IP68. One of their promotional videos had them change the battery on video then boot the phone and and unlock it underwater

New comment by retatop in "Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network"

retatop — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:48:36 +0000

This is exactly what I do. Almost everything has a nice DHCPv6 address so that I can actually remember the ULA + the suffix, but then for the two devices on my network that don't do DHCPv6 they get a SLAAC. One oddity though is that it means most devices on my network have both a SLAAC and a DHCP-provided one, since I wasn't able to be able to get it to prioritize a DHCP. Combine that with them having both ULA addresses and public addresses and some stuff on my network have way more addresses than you'd expect

New comment by retatop in "PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf]"

retatop — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:01:29 +0000

I do a lot of soldering at my day job to bodge boards, tune networks, etc. I burn myself on the time because when I'm working through the microscope I seemingly forget I have hands or lose track of them and bump the iron into them when pulling it away from the work. Not sure why, but it's really easy for me to get into this mode where the view through the scope is the only thing in the world

New comment by retatop in "Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin"

retatop — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:29:25 +0000

I haven't used Nix yet, but I have done exactly this a number of times with Guix now. I assume Nix has the same capabilities. In Guix you can specify a home configuration that includes packages, configuration files, and running services all in one manifest.scm file. If you want to make sure that it's isolated from whatever else is set up on the system you can launch that manifest in a container with a single extra flag

New comment by retatop in "The Journey Before main()"

retatop — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:28:29 +0000

Guix (and I assume Nix as well, but I only know Guix) can create a package that is completely self contained including glibc. You can even have it be an AppImage https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...