[ramblings]

stuff that doesn't need a full blog post

[202600505] new phone who dis

I bought a new phone. My current one, a OnePlus Nord N30, has lasted me for a few years now and held up pretty well. But I severely damaged the charging port a few months after getting it, and I couldn't buy a replacement port from OnePlus to fix it, and the repair cost for getting the port replaced would've cost almost as much as the phone itself, so I just... dealt with it. But I'm tired of having to wedge the charger into the port to get it to charge, and I've got the funds to replace it with something else, so why not? I ended up going with the Murena Fairphone (Gen 6), which touts itself as a repairable device that's built to last, and is paired with Murena's de-Google'd Android fork, /e/OS. I did a fair bit of research and review-reading before making the purchase, and there are a few things I'm watching out for, but I'm hopeful that this will be a solid purchase and I can just fix up whatever things I inevitably break on the device.

Also I had french toast for the first time in ages yesterday and holy fuck it was good. I want more.

[20260429] target="_blank"

Oh look it's my first ramblings and the whole reason I decided to make this page!

So, for almost all of my external links, I've been using target="_blank". This is because I personally dislike leaving my current page when I'm not done browsing. Of course, I could just right-click and open in a new tab (or middle-click, or whatever), but I often times forget to. So, I slapped in the target attribute and called it a day. But after reading quite a few discussions on the use of the attribute, and when it's actually appropriate to do so, I've come to the conclusion that I shouldn't actually use it for my site. It's an unexpected behavior that the viewer didn't request, and it disrupts the normal browser flow. So, I'm removing them from my site.