Hey! I’m Indrid. I’m a bisexual transmasc non binary person. I use he/they pronouns and I live in the Great Plains region of the U.S. I’m a leftist of the “eat the rich” variety.
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This is a JKR hate blog. I was a Harry Potter kid growing up. But JKR is a bigot and there are other fandoms to enjoy.
i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.
so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.
hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.
Ok I know we joke about this but I just went to the settings and first clicked "adjust for best performance" and then re-checked only 1 box:
"Smooth edges of screen fonts"
My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.
Y'all.
I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.
Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:
Then you'll see this:
TURN IT ALL OFF.
I turned "Show window contents while dragging" and then turned that off again. It's up to you.
The second best thing you can do for a Win10 computer is turn off whatever unnecessary services it's decided it needs to run in the background always. Some services it does need, but others are useless. Here's an article that goes into step by steps.
10AppsManager lets you uninstall bloatware. Winaero Tweaker lets you disable crap like Cortana/Copilot, ads, telemetry, internet search results when you search from the taskbar, and all kinds of other stuff, plus it gives you lots of other little options that are just nice to have (like, it can restore the old MS Paint program in place of Paint 3D). Both are totally free.
Oh, and check your startup programs in the Task Manager tab to make sure your computer isn't automatically starting eight million programs every time it boots. But I think people mostly know about that. (Unless this is me going "they only know one or two feldspars... and quartz of course.")
The first best thing you can do for a Windows computer is install Linux Mint. But some of us do need a few pesky Windows-specific programs. Bleh. Still, if you're up for a project, you can have both (and it's awesome). Here's an article about setting up a dual boot Windows/Mint system.
no you guys don’t understand, not only is this the first harlem shake out there… these guys aren’t normal military. This is “Telemarkbataljonen”. They’re pretty much the Norwegian equivalent of the fucking black ops. My brother knows a guy in this battalion, and when asked what they do there, he looked my brother dead in the eye and said “That is strictly confidential”. These guys are hard as shit, which makes this even more hilarious
if tumblr was an online game i’d run my character up to your character and spam the jump button and do backflips and frontflips over your character’s head to show you i’m excited to see you on the dash
In my household we talk about "pathways in the brain" being like deer trails in the woods -- the more the deer walk along one route, the more their hooves wear down the grass until it's just a strip of bare dirt.
But if the deer start traveling a different way, the grass grows back.
Did a big brave thing over the weekend and entered the daytime Afrovictorian ensemble in the Masquerade at Arisia
Guess what?
I won a Best in Show for both Workmanship and Presentation!
Hopefully they'll upload the professional photos soon but now I have to go plot for next year. I'm considering a riff on the Baddest Boss Babe in Bridgerton, Lady Danbury.
Description: A can of la croix is sitting on a desk, a cockatiel stands up from behind the can, showing its head, and say "Peekaboo!" the person holding the camera laughs and the bird hides behind the can again, then pops up and says "Peekaboo!" the person continues laughing and says "Peekaboo!" too as the bird continues ducking up and down - when the bird pops up near the end of the video it makes an ascending whistle (like a slide whistle) when rising up, then a descending whistle when it ducks down, and an ascending whistle again while the person laughs harder.
...that all the prices on our Ebooks Direct ebook bundles are still holding at Black Friday levels (pretty much 50% off, and in some cases more...), because frankly I think everybody can use a little bit of a break around now.
I invite you to pause the doomscrolling (assuming that's what's been going on), take a few deep breaths, and visit another universe. Or two.
The complete* Young Wizards bundle is here:
This bundle contains all the Young Wizards material in the Ebooks Direct inventory. That's nineteen ebooks, containing:
The nine New Mille
Or maybe you want just the feline wizards? Their bundle's here.
This bundle contains the three novels of Diane Duane's Feline Wizards trilogy—The Book of Night with Moon, To Visit the Queen, and The Big M
And the LGBTQ-centered Middle Kingdoms bundle is here:
This bundle contains all the Middle Kingdoms material in the Ebooks Direct inventory. That's ten ebooks, including:
The three main-sequenc
And if you're feeling like going utterly ham, here's the Whole Store bundle. At a truly silly price. (Possibly we need our heads felt, but that's an internal issue.**)
This ebook bundle (not available in the UK: details below) contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works. All our ebooks are DRM
As usual: all these bundles are DRM-free and come with our lifetime free replacement guarantee. (Because as non-billionaires, we somehow don't feel any urgent need to make you pay for lost or mislaid ebooks twice.) Lose a loaded device, have a drive crash, or suffer some other local difficulty that results in ebook loss? Mail us with your order number and we'll send you new download links.
That's it! That's the post. Support your local non-AI-using authors!
And thanks, everybody. :)
(I keep forgetting to add this, probably because i hate it: UK friends, please note that we can't sell directly to you any more, because of Brexit. Dammit. But still: sorry.) :/
*Except for Games Wizards Play, which we can't offer due to not holding rights for it.
**As one of us used to be a professional head-feeler, so we can handle such requirements in-house.
like they cook the burgers SO hot and fresh and then wrap them up SO tight it's ridiculous. I'm sitting here picking apart layer after layer of compacted foil while my burger slowly becomes a bog mummy. like I can understand why in some parts of the world these things are called steamed hams, you're practically fucking pressure cooking the damn thing. serving burgers like someone turned fort knox into a sauna. I'm left shaking and sobbing knowing every second spent not opening the solid foil prison around my burger is another minute for the steam to dissolve the bun like acid.
they hand you a coffin buried in a mountain of french fries like "go on then, dig" and you just reply "yes sir" knowing you'd have to be a fucking archeologist or bomb technician to get to your food while it's still solid. why the fuck do we live like this.
okay I do want to clarify I'm not opposed to wrapping burgers in foil I'm specifically opposed to the way five guys hermetically seals them immediately after cooking to the degree that the steam and meat create a goddamn ecosystem so powerful it could probably terraform a small moon
Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.
If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.
Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.
Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.
I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.
