Just Another Blog is all... ꙮwꙮ

No theme in particular, just things I find interesting, that's all. :) I also journal alot lmao (but i DO try to keep the bulk of it under a read more section..) DnD, video games, life in general. -20s

[roughentumble]

my friend just told me that there's a secret second dashboard that solely contains posts from people you've turned on post notifications for, and when i click the link in the messages it opens it within the tumblr app, so the tumblr app also has a secret second dashboard for post notification blogs, and the only way to access it is to open the link for it within the app.

i literally love tumblr

[littleredasianhood]

random shenanigans

Me, scrolling through my phone, leaning forward with elbows on the the bed, but im like, sitting on my knees? Kneeling but leaning forward I guess

Sigfig: -enters room- -turtles me- (similar to how a kid would wrap their arms around you in a back hug when they want a piggyback ride except obviously this is just them being playfully annoying, not wanting a piggyback lol)

Sigfig looking at my phone: what are we lookin at in here

Me:

Me: 🤔 is your entire weight on me right now?

Sigfig: no

Me: do it, go deadweight on me lmao

Sigfig: -lifts feet off ground- 👀?

Me: 🙂

Me: 🙂

Me: Interesting. I can feel my knees becoming one with the floor. 🙂

Sigfig, getting back up: lmao

[littleredasianhood]

Work fun

> sends email to the person who is like, pretty much the leader's primary point person to help handle operational things as well as filter through whatever comes their way

> email pretty much says, hi! can u help us identify a few (max 5) teams under this leader that would benefit from xyz? No guarantees that they will be a part of xyz (especially right now) - we just wanted to take a quick pulse check on who would be a good fit/interested if the opportunity came up. thanks!

> person replies back saying, sure i would be glad to assist and will bring it up at the leader's upcoming staff meeting 👍

me, reading that and being like... oh man, i hope those staff meetings are the small ones (as this leader has a alot-alot of teams underneath haha. And we're looking for 1-5 recommendations, and not, like... 10-50 LOL)

They're a great person, I've worked with them before, so I know they read my email in full and trust that this wont end up being a long list of recs haha especially bc i am reaching out to several other point people for recs in their own groups, and we have limited availability for this thing so if we end up with a long rec list for one group, thats.... not going to be ideal lol

[littleredasianhood]

Work related silliness

man i wish I had the audacity to submit a request for something that would cost like, half a bajillion, with THE most minimal amount of information about it as they possibly could provide!!!!!!! like!!!!! - *noises of incredulity*

[important-cat-pics]

[hateusandseeifwemind]

[pinene]

Can anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speaker

[tadeadshihamurder]

someone on reddit explained 😭

[no-one-offical]

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[desmolbean404]

That is one of the most astronomical fuck up translations I have ever seen.

[littleredasianhood]

Email chain goes smth like this, over the course of a week:

>hello! We need to set up a new communication channel for an event being held for xxx people from specific x teams

>okay sounds good. We need an list that contains their names to include into the request ticket that we need to submit in order to instate this channel

>of course. Will we also be including people from y group?

>not sure. Previously we have not included those people because of xyz reason (legalities, nuances, logistics, etc). Because of this, i think it best to continue with the same audience as in the past. Anyone disagree?

>> here is the sheet, but also hey guys i noticed there are xx users that are categorized in such a way where I'm not certain whether they belong to x group or y group. Can anyone confirm?

>> yes, let me bring this person into the conversation. They can help bring up supporting material to help deduce and clean up the list of names to use in the request.

Day goes by. Deadline to get this set up is in 2 business days. Historically I know these channels more than just a few days to set up (i think its not because its overly crazy to set up, its just how long the ticket queue is). We do have an emergency "break glass" contact to help expedite if we really need to (which we will most likely need to, at this point) but ofc i would like to not throw this upon them on the hour of the deadline if we can help it ykwim? Best case scenario is we have the list, I submit the ticket today, and then we can go from there. Im just trying to avoid us going to the "break glass" coworker like, "hi, i just submitted this 5 minutes ago can u pls drop everything else and look at this now, ty" ://////)

I reach out to tagged person on a private dm asking if they have a list as id like to submit that ticket asap/before the weekend. They reply to the ongoing email chain, to the previous email where the name list was first shared asking everyone confirming if the list has been finalized yet....

Im over here like.... ??? ... you were the one they tagged to help pull up the supporting material to figure out the outstanding xx ppl so that the list could be finalized lol... oof what is going on 😭😭🫠

[littleredasianhood]

Been trying to have a system process fixed for nearly 2 weeks now. Its impacting, like, new user creation type of stuff, but thankfully its only impacting one person's request, so its not like a terrible system wide issue but... still, a very bad issue to be having

The team i usually work with couldnt figure it out, so it was escalated this morning to the team lead (who is always super busy with all the projects theyre supporting! so, we really try not to bother them unless we really need to), and just now the team lead reached out and revealed the issue

Man, 2 weeks all bc a field form was blank. Im so embarrassed lmao

(but also im like????? I swear everything was filled out before submission?? Like, I double check that stuff bc im so paranoid of breaking the backend processes lmao. It feels so fragile like, just look at it the wrong way and its going to throw an error 😅😭. Seperately, I've seen other random issues/hiccups occur where sometimes shit just ~disappears~ on a field after submitting. But the version history exists, so its a simple fix to bring back any 'missing' data (i think its a display issue). so I kinda wonder if the request process just happened to hate me on that particular day, but i digress.)

Anyway we got it sorted, i thanked and apologized for raising such a silly mess/goose chase over this simple error

The lead was super chill about it. we're pretty familiar with each other at this point bc of other shared projects in the past so i feel i have a pretty good read of them at this point wven tho this was all thru text chat

But lol, to me, it sounded like they were kinda exasperated at their team bc after i had thanked and apologized, the lead's reply was like "nah no worries, we shouldve caught it with little problem,,,, the 404 message on our end/devmode was pretty straightforward" 😅😭

Im sorry, my friend 🫠🫠

[littleredasianhood]

Current work emotion rn:

[thegenderal]

as a denizen of this busted ass website for half my life now i do know how staff works and i’m going to lay out what they think will happen as someone who has witnessed this exact thing play out

People get very mad for a few days and then roll over and accept the change to the enclosure. This is what they are betting on. They have had meetings about this.

Getting around it: set an alarm. Get mad not just now, but in a few days, a week, two weeks. They are expecting people to sigh and get over this very odd edit to the site in a few days. Keep flooding them for more than just tonight. Be mad for the week, for the month. Leave a message every day.

[thegenderal]

like . I cant even blame them for being like “we’ll monitor for the week”. Remember when they changed the blue back in like 2015? This website acted like staff had gone into their house and shot their dog. We’re here because we’re allergic to change and therefore it’s hard to parse if people hate the change because it’s bad or because we go into thermonuclear meltdown over what color blue the background of the website is. Just continue to bug them beyond today and beyond this week.

[drfunkbeat]

Another "for later" step I'd recommend is, once the changes are out in the mobile app (NOT YET), leave a one star review on the app store and mention why. If the rating goes down significantly, that provides quantitative evidence that people do not want this change and it's a bad idea.

[nadianova]

now that we are all forcibly assigned teen by discord age regression style and everyone has cancelled their nitro. everyone whose been using a solo discord server as your paste bin and project planning folder to hold stuff you can get from your phone and pc both its about time you start saving shit and hop on obsidian. with syncthing you can get it realtime synced between your mobile and pc and any devices for free too. don't pay for monthly fees.

[nadianova]

no you dont. thats what using obsidian with syncthing is for. theres many other ways to set up free multi device syncing with obsidian. syncthing is just what i use

[mr-elementle]

syncthing can be used for fucking anything, im serious if you have a home computer/laptop/steamdeck/phone any kind of multidevice infrastructure, fucking set up synththing, i use it to keep my emulator saves synced between my phone, steamdeck, and pc. when I add books to my calibre library they auto download to my ereader and tablet (You have to have android ones like onyxboox for this), my music collection can be accessed and edited from any of my devices anywhere using a simple home server and syncthing to keep the files up to date between my phone, laptop and server, I can add songs from my phone or computer and they'll auto fill the server. Syncthing can unironically replace so many payed services it's crazy, want to sync your writing without google drive or any paid service? just use libreoffice and syncthing, want to be able to keep drawing between your pc wacom and your tablet? pick a program that supports both and syncthing the project files, Want cloud saves between a steamdeck and pc for non steam games? you'll never guess what syncthing can do.

[ruffboi-mags]

To be clear, because it took me like five reads to realize this: the above posters are not saying "syncing can replace so many paid services" or "syncing can real-time sync info between your devices".

They are saying SyncThing, an open souce piece of software, can replace a number of paid services.

Just in case someone was confused and thought "syncthing" was a typo or didn't even notice the 'th' like I did. XD

[rohirric-hunter]

I LOVE SYNCTHING !!!!!!

Let me ramble about Syncthing it's so good. When I jumped ship on Google docs years ago, there was no replacement for a live-hosted service that would allow me to access and edit my writing from any device. Ellipsus didn't exist yet, and while there were paid services that were all right, but I didn't have a stable source of income at the time and wasn't able to justify the expense.

I got Lite Writer on my phone, which is an excellent text editor and the only one I will ever use on my phone again. After using it for free for a few months, during which time I transfered .txt files from my phone to my computer by sending them to myself via Discord, which, yes, was exactly as awful as it sounds, I forked up a one-time payment of $20 to unlock the ability to use Lite Writer to easily set up a WebDav server on my phone which I could connect to on my computer. (Spoiler: I don't use this feature anymore, but I have no regrets for this purchase. $20 is a small price to pay to support the lone dev who made the only text editor I will ever use on my phone again.) This worked all right for a while, but there are some technical aspects of WebDav servers I don't quite understand and in order to access the server I had to have my phone and computer connected to the same wifi network, which was often a pain.

Enter Syncthing. Syncthing privately syncs the folders you select to the devices you select over any internet connection. These files are never stored on any computer except the ones you select, so you don't have to worry about Google or anyone else having regular access to your files. It works by sending a signal to each computer a folder is synced to whenever you change something in the folder, updating the equivalent folder on each device. It syncs almost instantly. I've been using it for months and had no problems. You can download it from the link above for your computer: on my phone I use Syncthing-Fork, which is maintained by different people but which works flawlessly. Listen this is so plug'n'play. Setting up folders to share between my phone and computers is a matter of scanning a QR code. It is so easy. Syncthing-Fork has all sorts of options that let me control how it works: I have some folders that are just text and I let them sync over mobile data but folders with bigger files can only sync over wifi to save data. It's so good. Each folder is managed separately so I can share them with whatever devices I want. I haven't tried, but I bet it has great applications for co-authoring or sharing your work with friends.

I also use it to transfer files between my phone and computer if I can't or don't want to physically plug my phone into my computer. I just copy the file into a synced folder on one device, and pull it out on the other side. It is so easy and convenient and listen. Listen. It is so easy and plug'n'play. Try it. Try it now. You want to try Syncthing

[littleredasianhood]

Its hilarious to think that my friend might need to use a note for an assignment at work that says, "this ticket on hold until further notice. Reason: ongoing Middle Eastern crisis preventing completion of ticket."

Not because war and death is smth to joke about, but because like. I apologize that this ticket is overdue but what do you want us to do, stop a war?????

[littleredasianhood]

My cat is so flipping smart

I bought her a motorized chasing toy. It comes with four "anchors" and a 5 meter long thin bungee cord/string that's tied in a loop. Theres a small fuzzy cat toy tied to the string. Each anchor is circular. You put down the anchors and make sure the loop is hugging around each anchor. One of the anchors is the motor, and when you turn it on, the motorized anchor spins and pulls the string along, pulling the cat toy around and around and around. Its also super easy to set up - just place down your anchors, slip the coord around them all, and turn it on.

Over the past month, my cat has figured out that the string moves, and somehow this makes the toy work. She'll make a small inquisitive "mrrow?" when the toy stops moving, and I've had to tell her to get off the string bc she's got her paws on the string, preventing it/the toy from zooming and so the motor just spins uselessly until she lets go of it lol.

The motorized anchor also has a built-in timer, and it autopauses every 15 mins or so (to give cats a break, but i always override that break by turning it off/on again, bc otherwise my cat is staring at the thing meowing, and batting it wondering why it isnt moving anymore lol)

Just a few minutes ago, the toy went on its auto-pause mode. And I hear a scratchy sound. I look up and see my cat pulling the string along its path with her teeth, like "it stopped working!" And she's trying to get it to move again by giving it a little nudge LOL

[witchdisk]

please god it would be so funny

[tryingtobecoollikeyou]

UNETHICAL????????????

[bunjywunjy]

so they said that it turns out that if you centrifuge ricotta cheese at something like 20,000 RPM for a few minutes, you end up with a solid substance that's delicious but so rich that it feels like it solidifies your arteries instantly. they were working on incorporating it into pastry fillings

[transbian-uprising]

my thoughts exactly

[littleredasianhood]

so it looks like im fighting a VP sometime next week lmao

(Im not actually but the way they titled our weekly check-in meeting for next week was "[name and name]: 1v1" lmaooooo)

[littleredasianhood]

so it looks like im fighting a VP sometime next week lmao

(Im not actually but the way they titled our weekly check-in meeting for next week was "[name and name]: 1v1" lmaooooo)

[littleredasianhood]

oh my god im useful, thank god