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     <h3>Mouse &mdash; Logitech G602</h3>
     <p>This is my forever mouse. Excellent build quality, more than good enough performance for my casual gamer ass, and it takes AAs. I recently took it apart to replace the first component to start failing, the switch for the left mouse button. I intend to keep using this mouse until I can't get replacement parts for it, or I get carpal tunnel and have to upgrade to something with better ergonomics.</p>
     <p>I generally prefer wired peripherals where possible, but the RF dongle this mouse uses has been rock-solid for me, as long as I don't keep it behind a bunch of EMI-blocking metal panels. My only real issue with this mouse is that the software for it doesn't work on Linux, but I only need that to configure the side buttons.</p>
-    <h3>Keyboard &mdash; Keychron V3 and Q0</h3>
-    <p>I would have just gotten a 100% keyboard, but they didn't have it in the chassis colour I wanted so I ended up with a TKL and separate numpad instead. I'm a huge fan of both, what with the open-source firmware and hot-swappable switches and all. I especially like the extra included keycaps for use with a Mac, not because I intend to use it with a mac, but because it lets me finally get rid of the fucking Windows logo on my keyboard.</p>
-    <p>Unless I lose them in a house fire or something, I think these units probably constitute my "endgame", as keyboard enthusiasts say. They have every feature I care about and every upgrade or change I can see myself caring to make is maximally easy. This is one of those things that I shelled out for with the intent of never, ever replacing it.</p>
+    <h3>Keyboard &mdash; Keychron V6 Max</h3>
+    <p>The original plan was to just quietly update this part and purge all mention of my previous keyboard(s) because I was embarrassed that I bought this to replace an extremely similar keyboard (which I will be selling, I'm not completely stupid), but this new one is actually different enough that I want to talk about it.</p>
+    <p>See, I used to have the tenkeyless Keychron V3 paired with a Q0 numpad to make up for the V3's lack of one, a combination that I settled on as a workaround for the 100% V6 that I wanted only being available in Keychron's stupid bluish-grey colourway. I had no problems with those keyboards, but I still bought this because I wanted to consolidate them into the same USB connection to free up a port on the 4-port USB switch I use to share these peripherals with my school laptop.</p>
+    <p>This new keyboard is nicer to an extent I wasn't expecting. I was <em>expecting</em> something totally identical to my old V3 but for the extra keys off to the right, but Keychron seems to have upped their build quality over the past two and half years, because this one both feels and sounds markedly... nicer. Thockier? Is that the word keyboard people use? At any rate, it feels more premium and I like it. It does flex a lot more if you push down on it hard, but that doesn't really affect normal use.</p>
+    <p>I like Keychrons, especially the V-series, for their hot-swappable switches, highly configurable open-source firmware, and the inclusion of spare keycaps for use with MacOS, which is great because it lets me replace the Windows key with Command or Option or some shit and get that idiotic branding off of my generic USB peripheral in use with exclusively non-Windows machines. It also helps that you can actually buy this, and for somewhat reasonable prices to boot, neither of which are givens in the world of enthusiast keyboards.</p>
+    <p>Admittedly, I also got this specific model for the USB dongle-based wireless connectivity. I've gone on record as saying that wireless keyboards as part of a desktop setup are the stupidest thing ever, but I think my principles can survive this one mostly intact because it's at least not fucking <em>bluetooth</em> &mdash; it's still a plug-and-play USB peripheral &mdash; and it can act as a wired keyboard if I decide the wireless sucks. I just wanted one less wire to deal with on my desk because, as of writing, I've had to tear down and move this setup like twice in the past three months.</p>
+    <p>I got this with the Gateron Jupiter Brown switches because, of the Cherry Reds, Keychron K Pro Browns, and Gateron G Pro Blues I've tried on previous mechanical keyboards, I liked the Keychron Browns the best, and these are pretty similar. They seem to take more force than the Keychron Browns, which I'm not sure if I like, but maybe that'll change as these get broken in. Luckily, they're hot-swappable, so if I hate them I can easily change them out! I also got some <em>sick</em> aftermarket keycaps for this one.</p>
+    <picture>
+      <source srcset="images/keeb.jxl" type="image/jxl">
+      <img src="images/keeb.jpg" alt="A Keychron V6 Max, a 100% mechanical keyboard with three extra macro keys and a knob. The keycaps are a combination of, from the center out, yellow-on-black, yellow-on-gray, and black-on-white, with a couple black-on-yellow accent keys. The macro keys have novelty automotive-themed designs instead of normal legends. The keyboard has yellow backlighting.">
+    </picture>
+    <p>Word of warning to potential Keychron customers: If you buy from their site using a VPN, they may well flag your order as "suspicious" and hold your shit hostage until you send them a photo of your ID to prove you're a real person, like they did to me the first time around. They did accept a photo where I'd censored all the information I hadn't already given them as part of checkout, so that was nice I guess. Just something to keep in mind.</p>
     <h3>Gamepad &mdash; Xbox One wireless controller</h3>
     <p>I bought this several years ago when I was still running Windows because I wanted maximum compatibility for minimum effort. It still works now that I'm on Linux, using bluetooth and with xpadneo installed. It's decent, no complaints, I'm sure it could be better but I don't use it enough to justify caring.</p>
     <h3>Monitors &mdash; MSI MAG274QRFW 27" 1440p 180Hz (2x)</h3>
     <p>Another "endgame" purchase. Very good monitors, if I replace them it'll be because they broke. (Speak of the devil, one of them has been replaced under warranty since I originally wrote this section.) I truly don't care for OLEDs &mdash; they get burn-in, for god's sake, I thought we moved on from that in the early 2000's when LCDs became commonplace.</p>
-    <p>These are mounted on a cheap, AmazonBasics-tier VESA monitor stand that came with a huge metal foot that kind of defeated the purpose, but that I have since replaced with a much more compact combination of 3D-printed brackets and wood screws.</p>
+    <p>These are mounted on a pair of cheap Amazon special gas spring wall-mount VESA arms because I fucking hate monitor feet on my desk.</p>
     <h3>Headphones &mdash; Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro (Modified)</h3>
-    <p>After a lifetime of losing headphones to frayed cables and the inevitable failure of poor quality materials, my top priority when getting my next nice pair of cans was durability, and Beyerdynamic's products fit the bill nicely. As a bonus, they also have excellent sound quality and are supremely comfortable.</p>
+    <p>After a lifetime of losing headphones to frayed cables and the inevitable failure of poor quality materials, my top priority when getting my next nice pair of cans was durability, and Beyerdynamic's products fit the bill nicely. I can officially say I've <em>sat on these</em> without damaging them, which for me is saying something. As a bonus, they also have excellent sound quality and are supremely comfortable.</p>
     <p>The only issue with these headphones is the non-removable cable, which is an automatic deal-breaker for me. I purchased mine through a modding company that replaced that cable with a 4-pin mini XLR jack, which has proven to be a bit of a double-edged sword as finding sanely priced replacement cables for it is nigh impossible.</p>
     <p>I'm also rocking aftermarket cat ears. I just don't trust the quality on the cheap novelty headphones that come with them built in.</p>
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   <h2>Computers</h2>
   <a href="compier/" id="compier">comp<em title="Is that a Homestar Runner reference?">ier</em></a>
   <p>My main PC, a mid-tower desktop "designed" and built by me, boasting a Ryzen 5700G, 32 gigs of DDR4, something like 6 terabytes of storage, a comically overbuilt PSU, and a graphics card. It runs <a href="#eos">arch, btw</a>.</p>
+  <h3>Lappé (M1 Pro Macbook Pro 16")</h3>
+  <p>Everyone in my family reacted with shock when they learned I was getting a Macbook, and to be fair, I am a card-carrying Apple hater. I got this because I needed a beefy new laptop that could run Adobe products for college, and the only worse fate than having to daily a Mac in my mind was having to use Windows in its current state, especially if I was gonna do any kind of development work (it's a web design course, so I am).</p>
+  <details>
+    <summary>More info</summary>
+    <p>Regardless, the fact of the matter is that Apple's ARM-based M-series chips allow the Macbook Pro to be the only good high-power laptop on the market right now &mdash; the only one without chronic overheating and battery issues, as well as the only ARM (or RISC in general, really) laptop with software that isn't hot garbage. If you want a beefy laptop for school, it's this or suffer.</p>
+    <p>My experience with MacOS so far has been pretty okay for the most part. I daily drive GNOME on my personal machine, so I already feel pretty at home with the layout. There's a roughly equal smattering of features that seem so obviously good that I'm mad we don't have them on Linux, like the Finder column view, and bizarre UX friction that seems to only exist to make you want to use iCloud. It's an interesting strategy compared to Microsoft's approach of forcing their cloud shit on you as aggressively as possible and making it impossible to permanently turn off, and then having the OS suck shit just because their designers are incompetent and have the collective attention span of a goldfish with ADHD and dementia who's currently having a seizure.</p>
+    <p>The hardware is interesting. The choice to go all USB-C is a bold one, and I respect it, but time has scarcely reduced the need for dongles, of which I had a couple on order before this machine even arrived. People also rave about the trackpad on these things, and there is rather quite a lot of it, but I just find it inconsistent and annoying to do anything on. Then again, I am very out of practice with trackpads in general, so it could be me. The keyboard sucks. Magsafe is awesome. Repairability is a fucking joke, which is why I hate this company.</p>
+    <p>This one is the 2021 16" M1 Pro Macbook Pro (truly inspired naming convention, guys), bought refurbished, with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. I chose these specs because it seemed like a good amount of leeway over my course's listed minimum of half as much RAM and storage and the base M1 chip, and it was a pretty good deal. Apple will send hired goons after me for saying this, but it seems to have held up really well and still works great 4 years on. cpubenchmark.net claims it still gets better performance than the base M4. It has some cool stickers on it:</p>
+    <figure class="media">
+      <div>
+        <div class="gallery">
+          <img src="images/macback.webp" alt='Lid of a 2021 16" MacBook Pro covered in many fun stickers, such as "ThonkPad", "V1 Plushie", "Blåhaj with Booze", and several isopods'>
+          <img src="images/macfront.webp" alt='Next to the trackpad of my new-to-me macbook I have placed a "Queer Inside" sticker, new old stock Pentium D and Designed For Windows XP/2000 badges, and a tiny isopod sticker'>
+        </div>
+        <figcaption style="margin-top: 0;">I don't know how these survived the refurbishing process. They're not mine. I really like 'em, though. &lt;/joke&gt;</figcaption>
+      </div>
+    </figure>
+    <p>I've got this plumbed into my desk setup with a thunderbolt dock and a switchable USB hub, both from Ugreen. Both work fine, except that the dock won't output two different pictures from its two HDMI ports, which Ugreen is adamant is a limitation of the Mac. Luckily I can get a second display out from the built-in HDMI. Also, the USB hub takes male-to-male type A cables. Blasphemous.</p>
+  </details>
   <a href="servy586/" id="servy586">Servy 586</a>
   <p>A home-built TrueNAS box assembled from used gaming parts that could pass for a high-end, if a little dated, gaming rig if not for the preponderance of hard drives I put in it in place of a competent GPU. Much more stable than the <a href="/blog/posts/building_a_normal_server/">old one</a>.</p>
   <p>Read about its conception and construction <a href="/blog/posts/building_a_sensible_server">here</a>.</p>
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   <p><a href="/blog/posts/renting_an_unremarkable_server">I wrote a blog post about it!</a></p>
   <h3 id="phone">Google Pixel 8a</h3>
   <p>This counts as a personal computer.</p>
-  <p>Chosen solely because it was the most recent Pixel at a sane price, I was pushed to upgrade to this from my old 4a by the impending end of software support for 5th generation and older Pixels. Turns out, buying a used Android is a good way to not get security updates for most of the device's useful life, and if I'm gonna bother with <a href="#graphene">GrapheneOS</a> it would behoove me to make sure I'm up to date on those.</p>
-  <p>Seeing for myself the difference that four years of iteration has made to the a-series Pixels has only solidified my perception that smartphones are as good as they'll ever need to be and have been for quite some time. The faster processor, nicer screen, and better camera in this year's model don't make a difference for the things I do with my phone, and the lack of a headphone jack has already proven inconvenient.</p>
-  <p>That said, the loss of the headphone jack did not come without its benefits in exchange. The 8a is broadly a nicer and more premium-feeling device than the 4a, and I specifically appreciate the wireless charging and faster cellular data connection more than I was expecting to. Bizarrely, even my 4G LTE speeds in areas without 5G service seem to be drastically improved.</p>
-  <p>I also like some of the new features in newer versions of Android that never released for the 4a, chief among them the "Charging Optimization" switch that limits the battery to 80% charge to preserve its health long-term, which I'll be needing since I plan to keep this sucker for the entire <em>seven years</em> that it's slated to keep getting security updates. Extraordinarily rare Google W.</p>
+    <p>Chosen solely because it was the most recent Pixel at a sane price, I was pushed to upgrade to this from my old 4a by the impending end of software support for 5th generation and older Pixels. Turns out, buying a used Android is a good way to not get security updates for most of the device's useful life, and if I'm gonna bother with <a href="#graphene">GrapheneOS</a> it would behoove me to make sure I'm up to date on those.</p>
+  <details>
+    <summary>More info</summary>
+    <p>Seeing for myself the difference that four years of iteration has made to the a-series Pixels has only solidified my perception that smartphones are as good as they'll ever need to be and have been for quite some time. The faster processor, nicer screen, and better camera in this year's model don't make a difference for the things I do with my phone, and the lack of a headphone jack has already proven inconvenient.</p>
+    <p>That said, the loss of the headphone jack did not come without its benefits in exchange. The 8a is broadly a nicer and more premium-feeling device than the 4a, and I specifically appreciate the wireless charging and faster cellular data connection more than I was expecting to. Bizarrely, even my 4G LTE speeds in areas without 5G service seem to be drastically improved.</p>
+    <p>I also like some of the new features in newer versions of Android that never released for the 4a, chief among them the "Charging Optimization" switch that limits the battery to 80% charge to preserve its health long-term, which I'll be needing since I plan to keep this sucker for the entire <em>seven years</em> that it's slated to keep getting security updates. Extraordinarily rare Google W.</p>
+  </details>
   <h2>Consoles</h2>
   <h3>New 2DS XL (Hacked)</h3>
   <p>Did you know it's surprisingly easy to hack your 3DS? <a href="https://3ds.hacks.guide/">Do it now!</a></p>
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   <h2>Other Hardware</h2>
   <h3>Prusa MINI+</h3>
   <p>I bought a Prusa because their printers have a reputation for quality, which this unit has certainly lived up to. It's been quite reliable, and when it fails, it's usually my fault in a really obvious way. It automates a lot of features that I suspect would have been pain points on a cheaper printer, up to and including uploading gcode to it directly over the network. This thing's easier to use than a regular 2D printer!</p>
-  <p>My one major issue is that the cantilevered gantry results in a slight inaccuracy in the Z axis, meaning the first layer is too high on one side of the bed and too low on the other. I suspect that this is why they didn't make it bigger, although it could also just be my fault for going and ordering the un-assembled kit version to save money on assembly.</p>
-  <p>I run mine with Prusa's satin textured bed plate for easier removal of PETG parts (I managed to damage the included smooth plate printing big stuff in PETG) and a 0.6mm Diamondback nozzle for printing with filaments with abrasive additives. It's expensive for a nozzle, but I think for the last nozzle I'll ever need to buy on an already 700 Canadian Victory Point printer it makes sense. I used to run an E3D Nozzle X, but I think I wrecked the coating trying to clean it with a brass wire brush.</p>
+  <details>
+    <summary>More info</summary>
+    <p>My one major issue is that the cantilevered gantry results in a slight inaccuracy in the Z axis, meaning the first layer is too high on one side of the bed and too low on the other. I suspect that this is why they didn't make it bigger, although it could also just be my fault for going and ordering the un-assembled kit version to save money on assembly.</p>
+    <p>I run mine with Prusa's satin textured bed plate for easier removal of PETG parts (I managed to damage the included smooth plate printing big stuff in PETG) and a 0.6mm Diamondback nozzle for printing with filaments with abrasive additives. It's expensive for a nozzle, but I think for the last nozzle I'll ever need to buy on an already 700 Canadian Victory Point printer it makes sense. I used to run an E3D Nozzle X, but I think I wrecked the coating trying to clean it with a brass wire brush.</p>
+  </details>
   <h3>CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD</h3>
   <p>A UPS that powers my computer, server, and related paraphernalia. I got it for all the normal reasons you get a UPS (power outage protection and such-like) and it has thus far performed as advertised. I wouldn't try to game off of the thing, but it's proven more than sufficient to keep my machines on long enough for a graceful shutdown in the event of a power outage. Highly recommend getting one.</p>
   <h3>Netgear GS308</h3>
   <p>It's a gigabit network switch. It has 8 ports. It performs as advertised. What else is there to say?</p>
   <h3>CMF Watch Pro 2</h3>
   <p>I used to be the kind of unconditional tech enthusiast who thought smartwatches as a premise were really cool, but that was when I was like 13, and the novelty of my Moto 360 and its adorable little WearOS videogames honestly wore off pretty quick. I'm not so Tiktok-brained that grabbing my phone out of my pocket to check the time or my notifications or whatever registers as an inconvenience, let alone to the extent that I would want to buy a smartwatch about it.</p>
-  <p>So why'd I buy this then? For me, it's about the biometric sensors. Primarily I just wanted some hard data to assuage some anxiety I was having about the state of my heart, and a device that costs as much as a dedicated heart monitor while doing all the other smartwatch stuff <em>and</em> not making me feel like a paranoid weirdo for owning it seemed like a pretty damn good deal to me.</p>
-  <p>The smartwatch itself is fine. The custom OS it runs is a little more basic than even circa-2016 WearOS in terms of software features, but I honestly don't care about any of that stuff anyway, and it's actually really nice for the hundred Canadian Zero-Calorie Sugar-Free Diet Dollars and free shipping that they're charging, although I wish the app reported more detailed biometric data, said the undisputed queen of run-on sentences.</p>
-  <p>The one problem I'm having so far is that after like a month the included pleather wristband is starting to discolor and flake off and generally do Pleather Things&trade;, but frankly this is a very cheap smartwatch and I'd rather them cut costs on the one part I can easily replace than on, like, the battery or the CPU or some shit. Hopefully this isn't indicative of the long-term endurance of the actual device.</p>
+  <details>
+    <summary>More info</summary>
+    <p>So why'd I buy this then? For me, it's about the biometric sensors. Primarily I just wanted some hard data to assuage some anxiety I was having about the state of my heart, and a device that costs as much as a dedicated heart monitor while doing all the other smartwatch stuff <em>and</em> not making me feel like a paranoid weirdo for owning it seemed like a pretty damn good deal to me.</p>
+    <p>The smartwatch itself is fine. The custom OS it runs is a little more basic than even circa-2016 WearOS in terms of software features, but I honestly don't care about any of that stuff anyway, and it's actually really nice for the hundred Canadian Zero-Calorie Sugar-Free Diet Dollars and free shipping that they're charging, although I wish the app reported more detailed biometric data, said the undisputed queen of run-on sentences.</p>
+    <p>The one problem I'm having so far is that after like a month the included pleather wristband is starting to discolor and flake off and generally do Pleather Things&trade;, but frankly this is a very cheap smartwatch and I'd rather them cut costs on the one part I can easily replace than on, like, the battery or the CPU or some shit. Hopefully this isn't indicative of the long-term endurance of the actual device.</p>
+  </details>
   <h2>Software</h2>
   <h3 id="eos"><a href="compier">Desktop</a> Operating System - <a href="https://endeavouros.com/" target="_blank">EndeavourOS</a> (Linux)</h3>
   <p>My <a href="#compier">main computer</a> runs EndeavourOS with the GNOME desktop environment. I chose it mostly to get the AUR, which has occasionally proved useful, but at this point I'm kind of stuck here because all the config files for my programs are in standard locations, god forbid, and everyone else is on flatpaks now, which fuck that all up for no good reason. I once <a href="https://isopod.cool/blog/posts/my_terrible_distro_hop/">failed to switch to Fedora</a> because of this.</p>
-  <p>I have a long history with Linux, dating back to 2015 with the first computer I ever owned: a <a href="../blog/posts/toshiba_chromebook/">Chromebook</a> that I put Linux on to play Minecraft, which ChromeOS couldn't do in any meaningful capacity at the time. It took me all of nine months to blow it up doing that because it was passively cooled with a plastic shell and not designed to ever go above ~30% usage on the dinky little Celeron that was its excuse for a CPU. After that I got a real PC running Windows, which solved the Minecraft problem so I mostly stuck to that for the next six years, although I did make intermittent attempts to switch to Linux again.</p>
-  <p>I pulled it off for real in 2021, when I took a combination of upsetting news about the upcoming Windows 11 and an SSD upgrade to my laptop as an opportunity to swap out my operating system as well. It went pretty well, all told; I wasn't using much Windows-exclusive software other than Paint.NET and some games, the latter of which now run great on Linux anyway thanks to Valve's efforts with Proton. Shame I can't play all my Epic Games Store freebies anymore, though.</p>
-  <p>My current desktop environment of choice, as previously mentioned, is GNOME. I used to run XFCE, and KDE before that, but I got sick of all my stuff occasionally breaking on me and wanted to see if GNOME would be sufficiently UX-designed that it would Just Work&trade; and Not Get In My Way&trade; and all that. So far so mostly good. I was worried about how well Wayland would work, but it's basically fine, with the exception of Discord not playing nice with regards to screensharing.</p>
+  <details>
+    <summary>More info</summary>
+    <p>I have a long history with Linux, dating back to 2015 with the first computer I ever owned: a <a href="../blog/posts/toshiba_chromebook/">Chromebook</a> that I put Linux on to play Minecraft, which ChromeOS couldn't do in any meaningful capacity at the time. It took me all of nine months to blow it up doing that because it was passively cooled with a plastic shell and not designed to ever go above ~30% usage on the dinky little Celeron that was its excuse for a CPU. After that I got a real PC running Windows, which solved the Minecraft problem so I mostly stuck to that for the next six years, although I did make intermittent attempts to switch to Linux again.</p>
+    <p>I pulled it off for real in 2021, when I took a combination of upsetting news about the upcoming Windows 11 and an SSD upgrade to my laptop as an opportunity to swap out my operating system as well. It went pretty well, all told; I wasn't using much Windows-exclusive software other than Paint.NET and some games, the latter of which now run great on Linux anyway thanks to Valve's efforts with Proton. Shame I can't play all my Epic Games Store freebies anymore, though.</p>
+    <p>My current desktop environment of choice, as previously mentioned, is GNOME. I used to run XFCE, and KDE before that, but I got sick of all my stuff occasionally breaking on me and wanted to see if GNOME would be sufficiently UX-designed that it would Just Work&trade; and Not Get In My Way&trade; and all that. So far so mostly good. I was worried about how well Wayland would work, but it's basically fine, with the exception of Discord not playing nice with regards to screensharing.</p>
+  </details>
   <h3 id="graphene">Mobile Operating System - <a href="https://grapheneos.org/">Graphene OS</a> (Android)</h3>
   <p>On top of the bordering on iPhone-grade support lifetime, this here is the other reason I'm so brand-loyal to Google's first-party <a href="#phone">hardware</a>.</p>
-  <p>GrapheneOS is a fork of Android that's been security-hardened and de-googled, two of my favourite things for an operating system to be. It's dedicated to privacy and security above all else, almost to a fault. I'm told it's only available on the Pixel line because those phones have security hardware in them no other OEM on the planet can be bothered with.</p>
-  <p>GrapheneOS provides a few user-facing  privacy features that I quite like, such as the ability to deny network and sensor access to apps in the permission settings, and a bunch of under-the-hood security improvements I'm woefully underqualified to explain short of just pasting stuff wholesale from their website.</p>
-  <p>Do I need this level of security? Probably not. Would I enjoy some of the features GrapheneOS strips out in the name of security? Possibly. But I like the peace of mind knowing that if cops ever get a hold of my phone they'll at least be kind of frustrated trying to access it.</p>
+  <details>
+    <summary>More info</summary>
+    <p>GrapheneOS is a fork of Android that's been security-hardened and de-googled, two of my favourite things for an operating system to be. It's dedicated to privacy and security above all else, almost to a fault. I'm told it's only available on the Pixel line because those phones have security hardware in them no other OEM on the planet can be bothered with.</p>
+    <p>GrapheneOS provides a few user-facing  privacy features that I quite like, such as the ability to deny network and sensor access to apps in the permission settings, and a bunch of under-the-hood security improvements I'm woefully underqualified to explain short of just pasting stuff wholesale from their website.</p>
+    <p>Do I need this level of security? Probably not. Would I enjoy some of the features GrapheneOS strips out in the name of security? Possibly. But I like the peace of mind knowing that if cops ever get a hold of my phone they'll at least be kind of frustrated trying to access it.</p>
+  </details>
   <h3>Web Browser - <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/" target="_blank">Firefox</a></h3>
   <p>I quite like Firefox. It's extremely customizable (especially if you know where to look), the devtools are better, and there's a wealth of privacy tools available that just kind of don't exist in Chrome (including <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-starts-deprecating-older-more-capable-chrome-extensions-next-week/">adblockers</a> as of late). It can also edit PDFs now!</p>
-  <p>On top of being generally superior, I also use Firefox on principle. It's currently the only major browser outside of the Apple-exclusive Safari that isn't built atop Google's <a href="https://chrome.bathynomus.xyz">Chromium</a>, and I don't like the idea of Google having total monopolistic control over all web browsers.</p>
-  <p>Firefox is one of the only pieces of software I'll actively advocate switching to, so go do it. Do it now. It, like essentially all other browsers, can <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google-chrome">import your data</a> from its competition, and I'd also recommend using this <a href="https://ffprofile.com/">profile generator</a> to fortify it for maximum privacy while you're at it.</p>
-  <p>All that said, Mozilla is under questionable management at the moment and kind of in Google's pocket anyway, so maybe we shouldn't be relying completely on them to champion the free web. Maybe throw some money in the general direction of the <a href="https://servo.org/">Servo</a> project.</p>
-  <p>I use the <a href="https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/">Fennec</a> fork of Firefox on mobile, and <a href="https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium">Ungoogled Chromium</a> for the occasional poorly-built website (usually streaming services, work stuff, or banks) that doesn't want to run in my weird paranoid Firefox config.</p>
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+    <p>On top of being generally superior, I also use Firefox on principle. It's currently the only major browser outside of the Apple-exclusive Safari that isn't built atop Google's <a href="https://chrome.bathynomus.xyz">Chromium</a>, and I don't like the idea of Google having total monopolistic control over all web browsers.</p>
+    <p>Firefox is one of the only pieces of software I'll actively advocate switching to, so go do it. Do it now. It, like essentially all other browsers, can <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google-chrome">import your data</a> from its competition, and I'd also recommend using this <a href="https://ffprofile.com/">profile generator</a> to fortify it for maximum privacy while you're at it.</p>
+    <p>All that said, Mozilla is under questionable management at the moment and kind of in Google's pocket anyway, so maybe we shouldn't be relying completely on them to champion the free web. Maybe throw some money in the general direction of the <a href="https://servo.org/">Servo</a> project.</p>
+    <p>I use the <a href="https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/">Fennec</a> fork of Firefox on mobile, and <a href="https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium">Ungoogled Chromium</a> for the occasional poorly-built website (usually streaming services, work stuff, or banks) that doesn't want to run in my weird paranoid Firefox config.</p>
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   <h3>IDE - <a href="https://vscodium.com/">VSCodium</a></h3>
   <p>Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is, loathe though I may be to admit it, my favourite IDE I've ever used, which is why I use VSCodium, an open-source build of VSCode with all the telemetry and shit stripped out.</p>
   <h3>3D Graphics - <a href="https://www.blender.org/">Blender</a></h3>
-  <p>Lucky that the only 3D graphics program available on Linux just so happens to also be the best one. I use this sucker for just about everything it can theoretically do, from CAD to video editing, and even some things that it's actually good at!</p>
+  <p>Lucky that the only 3D graphics program available on Linux just so happens to also be the best one available anywhere. I use this sucker for just about everything it can theoretically do, from CAD to video editing, and even some things that it's actually good at!</p>
   <h3>Photo Editor - <a href="https://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a></h3>
   <p>Honestly, what were you expecting? If you want to edit raster graphics on Linux, GIMP is more or less the be-all-end-all, unless you want to do everything in the terminal with ImageMagick. I'd prefer to use Paint.NET or even my Legally Obtained DRM-free copy of Photoshop CS6, but somehow photo editors are one of the only things that are consistently incompatible with WINE. I've been meaning to give <a href="https://www.photopea.com/">Photopea</a> a shot.</p>
   <h3>DAW - <a href="https://www.reaper.fm/">REAPER</a></h3>