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Cake day: August 29th, 2026

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  • OP is asking if the intensity of the smell or taste can inherently destroy your sense of it.

    You could activate every single taste bud on the tongue or every single olfactory neuron in your nose to max feels and suffer no lasting damage. Your taste buds and smell neurons get replaced regularly. Your eyes and ear hairs don’t. You don’t need to drink bleach to know how it tastes. You can make a safe equivalent made with non-dangerous chemicals that activate all the same spots. You can’t do the same for light or sound.



  • Is she willing to buy a new phone and wipe it with LineageOS of GrapheneOS? If not, start off with FOSS alternatives to apps she already uses. Going with a full system replacement might be a make or break situation, depending on if she relies on NFC payment, or a certain banking app that doesn’t work.

    If you can convince her to:

    • Use Signal for messaging friends (and if she can convince her friends to do the same)
    • Purchase a domain so she’s not locked down on her email address when changing email providers (I recommend Tuta)
    • Avoid algorithmic control by only following subscriptions with the help of frontends like Newpipe for Youtube
    • Avoid Spotify by 🏴‍☠️ or purchasing the music from Bandcamp
    • Browse Droidify for any generic app she wants (music player, notes app, etc.)

    This should help settle her in more. She could buy a used Pixel 8 and install GrapheneOS. Motorola also plans on releasing a GrapheneOS phone, so could be something to look forward to.