Ad Astra Per Aspera

Mickie | 30 | Michigan | married | scratched after missing team breakfast | see the stars, they’re shining bright, everything’s alright tonight | side blogs: fairlyaesthetics and theladyandthesword

[polkadotmotmot]

Timothy McCool - Something For Us To Imagine, 2025 - Acrylic on panel

[bruzum]

[sonpat-rides-again]

It's not getting isekaied that's the problem.

It's getting back.

[sonpat-rides-again]

That trucks gaining speed!

Aye!

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[gargoylegf]

When I was at Monticello the tour guide told us that TJ frequently ate Mac and cheese, French fries, and vanilla ice cream. The fatal American need to have everything off the kids menu at a restaurant

[ilovecats4ever]

[ofchaosgoddess]

help I’m having ideas beyond my available free time

[nothereforthedrama]

help I'm having ideas beyond my available energy levels

[biitumen]

Couple of nice ones from Ottawa

[kitty]

i dont care what you’re doing take 1 minute out of your day to watch this you wont regret it YOU NEED SOUND

[organicmatter]

favorite music decade?

50's or earlier

60's

70's

80's

90's

2000's

2010's

2020's

Remaining time: 6 hours 10 minutes

[toadbreath]

👀

[eddieintheocean]

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

[apolladay]

Okay we’ve all argued about what color math/English/other subjects are. What about work? (Meaning employment, profession, or whatever else you consider a job. Feel free to answer regardless of whether you work or not!)

I put my work on my calendar in a specific color but I’m curious to see if there’s any consistency.

- red

- orange

- yellow

- green

- blue

- purple

- black

- white

- gray

- something metallic

- another color

- work has no color to me

Okay we’ve all argued about what color math/English/other subjects are. What about work? (Meaning employment, profession, or whatever else you consider a job. Feel free to answer regardless of whether you work or not!)

red

orange

yellow

green

blue

purple

black

white

gray

something metallic

another color

work has no color to me

Remaining time: 6 days 6 hours

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

[dopeluminarydreamer-blog]

Reblog if you:

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

No one will know which is it

[weaselle]

This guy inspired me to repair my own macbook. First of all, you should know that I am not… like, I have to look up HOW to look up what my computer specifications are. Tech, that ware either soft or hard, is not a subject in which I experience comfort or competence. But my puppy peed on my keyboard, and I asked the apple store, or the fucking mac cafe, or the godsdamn Computer House Chill Zone or whatever cute ass name they have for their bullshit store, and they said it would be TWELVE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO REPLACE MY KEYBOARD. I’m not even exaggerating.

So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.

So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.

These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.

anyway, this guy is also fueled by spite, and doing holy work, and I have mad respect

[dragonfox-in-a-teacup]

This is awesome. Man is doing good ass deeds 24/7 because he’s giving people control.

[dantes-infernal-chili]

How dare you not leave a link to his channel, this guy is the savior of the modern world.

[the-original-b]

vittoria alla ribellione

[nonamehorse]

Fuck Apple, Fuck every big tech company

[theinfamousdoctorf]

iFixit: The Free Repair Manual

iFixit is a global community of people helping each other repair things. Let's fix the world, one device at a time. Troubleshoot with expert

And if you need the ‘proprietary’ tools; go here!

[twinanimatronics]

I Fixit is actually how I repaired my dad’s old iphone 12 and then claimed it as my own!

[lizardlicks]

ifixit also makes kits and instruction for nearly every part for consoles, computers, phones, tablets, just about anything. We’ve replaced multiple parts on our old 3Dses at this point. It’s not nearly as hard as you might assume and very worth it to learn how to repair your own electronics.

[proseuctorwalton]

Getting in on the Fuck Apple train

[awakefor48hours]

Every once in a while, I wish the friendship meter from the Sims was real so that way when people tell me "I used Chat-GPT" they can visually see just how much respect I just lost for them in that moment.

[berkelbites]

One time an acquaintance told me she entered Snape's star chart into chatgpt and I could physically feel that meter dropping three separate times over the course of her sentence

[mr-viwick]

Go my phage

[sobcat]

the pressure to have a fulfilling weekend hangs heavy in the friday evening air

[o-lanterns]

when I was in the hospital I had the tv on in my room to sleep to and christmas movies were on and they played Elf twice in a row so for a good half of the night I was drifting in and out of consciousness like this