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Cake day: 2025年9月11日

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  • No it doesn’t. tl;dr - (as of 2025) $19k/individual/year is tax free (so one couple could give another couple up to $76k/yr)

    Any gifts above that limit needs to be reported but is still tax free, it just whittles away at your lifetime exclusion (which is the same bucket of money as your estate tax exemption - currently $15M).

    The gift giver pays the tax only once they exceed the lifetime exemption. There is no tax for receiving gifts.

    For 99.99% of Americans, there is no gift tax.





  • Given its rocky path to get here, I have 100% confidence early access will be a buggy mess.

    What remains to be seen is 1) if they can clean it up fast enough to stay relevant, and 2) if it will be a compelling enough upgrade to draw people away from Minecraft.

    I suspect 2) is going to be incredibly difficult to get right. Sure the gameplay might be better, but Minecraft is one of the most overly documented and heavily modded games ever. If they want to convince people to give up years of work optimizing every aspect of that game to come play in their sandbox they’re gonna have to get clever.

















  • I think almost all of my phones failed due to the charging port giving out over time (microUSB was the worst). Last phone had USB-C and wireless charging, so the port was no longer the weak link. It lasted about 4 years before it fell out of my pocket at an unrecoverable height.

    I suspect my current phone (Pixel 7) will last me several more years. At this point I think a drop or GrapheneOS EOL are the only things that’ll get me to buy a new phone again.

    If your phone is feeling sluggish, factory reset, then as you install new apps, remove their background usage permission unless real-time updates are critical. Delete anything with a functioning mobile website.


  • Reminds me of a poem I heard once…

    Take my love, take my land
    Take me where I cannot stand
    I don’t care, I’m still free

    You can’t take the sky from me

    Take me out to the black
    Tell them I ain’t comin’ back
    Burn the land and boil the sea

    You can’t take the sky from me

    There’s no place I can be
    Since I found Serenity

    But you can’t take the sky from me…