Flinzou

Breaking down viral investing ideas. What works, what's hype, what it risks.

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

https://t.co/vPkkzj2s5q

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

@BercusNA The scary part isn’t the cache, it’s the permissions. A flashlight app asking for storage access is a red flag. How many of the 27 apps actually needed it?

[Bercus @BercusNA]

ChatGPT found 98,473 photos and videos I permanently deleted from my Android.

Three years of deleted photos and videos still sitting in a hidden cache. Any app with storage access can read them.

After the iPhone post I plugged my Pixel into the MacBook and told ChatGPT to look for leftover deleted files. It pointed straight at a folder I had never opened.

DCIM/.thumbnails. Almost 100,000 files. Photos, videos, screenshots. Every one of them was something I had deleted. ChatGPT noted that most were missing from the gallery trash and from MediaStore.

Photos from 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ones I deleted right after taking them. The ones I cleared from Trash. The ones I deleted three separate times to make sure they were gone. All still there.

Passport photo I took for a visa application in 2024. Screenshots of my bank app with full account numbers visible. Private photos I sent someone and deleted right after a breakup. Screenshot of my crypto seed phrase I took temporarily in 2023. Photo of my ID and credit card I took to remember the numbers and deleted seconds later. Screenshots of my ex’s private stories I saved and permanently deleted in 2024.

Most were compressed previews. A few dozen were close to full size. All sorted by date going back to 2021.

When you delete a photo on Android, the gallery takes it out of your camera roll and Trash keeps it for 30 days. A compressed copy stays in the thumbnail cache and MediaStore so the phone can show previews when you search or scroll. The system almost never cleans this folder. Files from 2022 were still sitting there.

They told you it was permanently deleted. It wasn’t.

I checked which apps on my phone had storage access. 27 apps. Weather apps. QR code scanners. PDF readers. A flashlight app I downloaded in 2021 that I had forgotten about. A calculator. Two of them still asked for full file access every time I opened them. Any of them could have been reading every photo I ever deleted.

Went from 27 apps to 5 in about two minutes.

On iPhone the cache was harder to reach. On Android any app with storage permission can open this folder directly.

Full step by step below. Takes 2 minutes. Save it so you don’t lose it and send it to anyone with an Android phone.

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

@Llinkoy The perfect moment only looks obvious in hindsight. Meanwhile every month of waiting is a month of compounding you never get back.

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

Most people start saving too late. Here’s what that costs

Bonus: compound interest. $1,000 at 8% a year for 30 years grows to about $10,000. Time works for you if you start earlier.

Save this

[Lima @limalemonnn]

https://t.co/4IXjj22pjU

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

@Llinkoy That’s the real divide. One person uses the card for convenience and pays it off, the other uses it to bridge the gap. Same card, same rate, completely different outcome.

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

@ESC__AI The cruelest part is that those first ten years feel like nothing is happening. The curve only gets steep late, and by then the people who waited can’t catch up.

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

@kyzoroX Exactly. Nobody times it consistently, but everybody can start early and stay consistent. That’s the whole edge

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

@BercusNA Fair point, real returns matter more than nominal ones. But that’s exactly why starting early wins: even ~5% real return compounds for you, while cash just loses to inflation.

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

Most people start saving too late. Here’s what that costs

Bonus: compound interest. $1,000 at 8% a year for 30 years grows to about $10,000. Time works for you if you start earlier.

Save this

[Linko @Llinkoy]

Arnold Schwarzenegger was a real estate millionaire before he turned 28.
Almost a decade later, he became the Terminator.

He came to America in 1968 as a bodybuilder. The money from bodybuilding went into buildings.

In the video below, he explains the math of the '70s. Inflation was high and prices kept climbing.

"You buy a building for a million dollars, the next year it's 1.3 million, the next year it's 1.6 million. You put $200,000 down, and you can double your money in no time."

Here's the part most people skip.

Hollywood kept offering him villains, Nazi officers and bouncers.

Most new actors take those roles to pay the rent. Arnold was the one collecting rent.

"I didn't have to take stupid roles just to pay the rent."

He wanted to be a leading man. So he waited.

Conan came in 1982. The Terminator in 1984.

And the role that made him a legend was a villain anyway. The difference is he picked it.

My takeaway: savings don't just buy things. They buy the right to say no. I'm still saving up for my first no.

What would you say no to first if rent wasn't a problem?

[KyzoroX @kyzoroX]

STOP F*CKING USING ONE AGENT...

1 prompt → 1 agent → 1 shot → it breaks → you start over

orca (100.6K ★) runs claude code, codex, opencode and pi side by side

→ every agent gets its own git worktree, so they never touch each other's files

→ send 1 prompt to all of them at once

→ compare the diffs and the tests, merge the best one

→ the rest get deleted, main stays clean

it runs on the subscriptions you already pay for. no extra API keys

and when you leave your desk, the mobile app shows every agent and lets you send follow-ups from your phone

how many agents do you run at once?

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

@kyzoroX The idea of separate worktrees and merging the best result is spot on. How do you pick the winner: by tests, or do you still review the diffs by hand?

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

@BercusNA A single html file, no models at all? I'm curious how much of it Opus got right on the first try, and how much took tweaking so the water pockets move up exactly one flight per turn.

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

@maximus__m Fair point, 5% is an example, not a forecast. At 3% your $1,000 becomes ~$744 in 10 years, at 2% ~$820. Even at the Fed’s 2% target, cash quietly loses almost a fifth of its buying power in a decade.

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

Money sitting on your card loses value every year. Here’s how much

Inflation at 5% a year: in 10 years, your $1,000 buys only what $614 buys today. That’s why cash that just sits there loses.

Save this

[Lima @limalemonnn]

https://t.co/4IXjj22pjU

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

@Tosh1baReal Fair, indices are a common answer. Just remember stocks can lag inflation for a decade (the S&P 500 had a negative decade in 2000–2009). Cash for emergencies, indices for the long game.

[Linko @Llinkoy]

Mark Cuban sold Broadcast to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999.
Within a few years, Yahoo had shut most of it down.

Broadcast was streaming radio and live shows back when most people were still on dial-up.

In the video below, Cuban puts it in three words: "We were YouTube."

They had user uploads, live comedy shows, hundreds of radio stations, police scanners from different cities and Christmas music all year long.

Matchbox Twenty's first big hit broke on their CD jukebox.

Yahoo promised to put its traffic on top of it. Millions of users would become hundreds of millions.

Then the internet stock market crashed.

Cuban says it wasn't even the CEO. "Their board just went nuts and closed everything."

Yahoo paid billions for the future of video and cut it to save money.

Seven years after the deal, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion.

Cuban was fine. He had protected his Yahoo shares before the crash. "It worked out in the end, and I'm not complaining at all."

My takeaway: once you sell, the buyer's plans stop being your problem. Your price doesn't. I'd still be checking Yahoo's stock every morning.

Would you rather take $5.7 billion or watch your company become YouTube?

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

Money sitting on your card loses value every year. Here’s how much

Inflation at 5% a year: in 10 years, your $1,000 buys only what $614 buys today. That’s why cash that just sits there loses.

Save this

[Flinzou @Flinzou]

Where does your paycheck disappear to every month? There’s a rule that fixes it

The 50/30/20 rule: 50% of your income for needs, 30% for wants, 20% for savings. Earning $1,000? Set aside $200 right away.

Save this