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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • It is actually really cool. I thought I was being a bit extra getting a phone with a thermal camera and endoscope, but it’s been immensely helpful in restoring an old motorbike, finding heat leaks in my house, and putting together a custom passive heatsink for my raspberry pi.

    It also supports reverse charging, so being able to use my phone to charge my wireless earbuds, headphones, and even someone else’s phone has been super helpful when travelling and hiking, because I don’t need to bring a spare battery bank.

    It’s infrared blaster also allows me to control my TV, air conditioner, and other people’s RC devices (like the digital displays in shopping centres 🫢) from a single app.

    It’s a real shame that it seems so insistent on cutting me off from my friends and family though. I have family that only use SMS, cousins that only use insta, friends in groups that only use WhatsApp, and other friends that only use signal, so to stay in touch with everyone I have to use all these.

    It’s also not much good as a hiking companion if I can’t reliably record my track when walking.

    Most phones, I wouldn’t have even bothered to spend this much time to get it working the way I like it.