While the more influential brands abandoned small phones long ago, a few smaller chinese brands seem to be making a lot of smaller phones lately. We already had the soyes phones in the market, but they're very niche and not capable of all tasks, but since last year, with the launch of the bluefox nx1, we started getting many more. Just this year, according to gsmarena, we got:

• Oukitel C17 mini
• Ulefone Note 22
• Oukitel C26 mini
• Blackview Wave 2C
• Oscal flat 3C mini

And aiphor is planning to launch a new bluefox model

So far, most of them are still quirky phones, but it was long ago since we had such a diversity in small phones, and there are a few models coming with reasonable performance. This may be the opening in the market many of us have been rooting for long ago. Let's see if this segment survives and becomes stable enough for small phones to become viable for anyone that wants them again.

Oh, and I forgot about the Samsung Galaxy S26, which can be considered small by some people, and is definitely smaller than what most larger brands have been making.

I got a pc that suffers from severe heating problems because of its poorly designed passive cooling case. I tried several strategies to put temperature under control, did a lot of tests with thermald, but ended up hacking a fan into the case. However, I still have problems with ssd temperatures.

Right now, as I write this, the nvme ssd is at 67ºC and easily goes beyond 80 or 90 during data transfers. I already lost 2 ssds before realizing this was the problem, because I was controlling just the cpu temperature.

There's no physical way to force airflow where the ssd is, so I was wondering if there's some way to throttle data transfer of something to prevent the ssd temperatures from reaching a threshold. All I could find was a vibecoded github repository. I don't care if data transfer gets ridiculously slow, as long as the ssd remain safe, and I can't consider getting any new hardware right now.

I'm currently running fedora 44 on that machine

Edit: I thought there was an easier software mitigation to that, but apparently, solutions will tend to the hardware side, so here are the hardware details:

• It's an unbranded chinese cheap mini pc with a heat dissipation case that doesn't dissipate well
• The ssd is mounted on the back of the motherboard. The model is a sandisk M.2 1TB 2280
  Here's a photo of the case, for the reference (don't judge me lol):

Are there any maps showing which instances federate which others? Like those maps with nodes and connections

It's for no particular reason, I'm just curious >.<

It's like what reactOS is to windows, but for macOS. Very cool

Archived version:

https://archive.is/20260726101450/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/26/lula-says-trumps-brazil-tariffs-are-strategic-mistake/

More specifically, I want to automate booting in performance mode and switching to energy save after a couple of minutes, just to have stuff load faster, but I found no way to do that.

According to wikipedia, we have around 86 billion neurons in the brain.

Although not having the global management, with research, engineering and stuff was a great loss, the combat felt more tactical and the game felt like XCOM, but without all the grinding bullshit like moving for 3 turns just to find where the enemies are, or moving everyone for a few turns to find the last hidden enemy, or trying to catch an ufo and just hoping for it to randomly appear before having to make one more generic abduction mission. The game felt faster and leaner, but without being rushed. The were some balancing issues, with some characters being terrible while others being killing machines, but that could be easily fixable in a sequel. I also enjoyed the history a bit more, but that's subjective.