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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 05:02:16 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   My posting levels will be down for a bit, as my phone has died, possibly permanently.

   It has all the symptoms of Fairphone "sudden death" (https://forum.fairphone.com/search?context=topic&context_id=94207&q=FP3+sudden+death&skip_context=true
   ) usually caused by a damaged solder joint on the core module (which I might be able to reflow) or a faulty Qualcomm power management chip.

   The phone had its ~100th knock to the ground a few hours earlier, so there's a solid chance that it's the solder, so I might at least be able to get it up and running for long enough to keep using for 2FA and the Way of Posting while I work out what to do about a replacement phone.

   It sounds like solder fixes won't stand up to any further damage, so my friend will have to be relegated to backup phone. Sadly, my current backup phone is actually too old for most of the 2FA services I need.

   I'm increasingly seeing the argument for putting those in a password manager, all your eggs in one basket be damned.

   I'd really love to me able to buy a replacement core module and just fit all my other components to it, but it's the one bit you can't just have them send you.