ok y'all

SJ, 33, any pronouns 🏳️‍🌈. constantly tired. sports, books, and nerdy things.

[remnantglow]

[str-ngeloop]

"i can't believe i have to deal with this brain for my whole life" wrong! neuroplasticity

[kabaks]

When I find myself in times of trouble mary oliver comes to me. Speaking words of wisdom. Wild geese

[kedreeva]

I don't like others telling me what to do (in fact it's one of the fastest ways to get my claws out). In fact, when I set alarms, I record my own voice telling me what the alarm is for and telling me to get to it. There's no good reason to get up to some infernal device beeping unless it's to destroy the device (ask me why my partner wants to invest in smoke detectors whose batteries last a lifetime), but Past Me has done enough for me over my lifetime to earn my respect and trust such that when she reaches across time and tells me "time to get up and switch the laundry," you can bet I will be getting up to switch the laundry for her. I will still grumble though. Definitely not doing this without complaint.

[ilajue]

smoking that shit that makes you cry about the horrors of car-centric infrastructure

[ilajue]

hey yeah i get it but youre harshing the vibe rn nobody wants to hear about the irreversible damage that cars have done to North America and the whole world by proxy

[ilajue]

showing your girl pictures of nasty ugly parking garages at the function

[ilajue]

i misspelled hindrance real bad, guys

[ilajue]

this is not a joke or exaggeration but a cry for help btw I've been watching 3 hour youtube videos about concrete like I'm somebody's autistic dad

[ilajue]

pov i turn to you in between sets

[ilajue]

yeah no sorry I can't go out tonight I have to read the rest of the 2023 Ford corporate sustainability report no not for a class I'm just nosey

[ilajue]

no babe I thought it was hot that you got into and won a debate with my dad about the viability of high speed rail in north america

[ilajue]

listen I'm sorry that your dad went home, researched highspeed rail, and started the argument with you again when I wasn't there umm no I'm not going to apologize no I actually umm yeah I've been brushing up on my talking points sorry but bob doesn't stand a fucking chance he can meet me in the market place of ideas

[ilajue]

pov you are my captive audience

[isopost-headquarters]

how is this not astronomically popular

[werewolfetone]

Speaking of books it's been a while since I've seen one of these posts going around & I'm curious so everyone could you tell me what you are reading rn in the tags please

[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.

[sadhoc]

the pistachio food trend is soooo interesting because it's like. i've been following the californian pistachio water politics for years, as a californian with personal connections to agricultural workers but! basically there's been a big push in california agriculture over the last decade to pressure farmers to produce pistachios, because iran has dominated the global market in pistachios for decades, and the US government has been trying to weaken iran economically, so they want to make california pistachios a competitor. which is ridiculous, because california's agricultural infrastructure is suffering under a drought, and pistachios take insane amounts of water. so a ton of water is being redirected from the people in order to engage in a trade war with iran over fucking. pistachios.

anyway now that the US (i.e. california) is producing more pistachios than iran, the next step is to drive consumption of pistachios, so that the farmers who are producing these pistachios can continue to make money on them. ergo all the fancy pistachio coffees at starbucks and similar shit like suddenly being able to find pistachio butter in grocery stores when five years ago it was exclusively available at specialty stores and online, and the huge boom in pistachios foods in instagram and tiktok recipe content. like i watch a lot of instagram foodie reels (cooking/baking is one of my hobbies) and these get thrown onto everyone's feeds, to promote the purchasing of pistachios, so that the US can stick it to iran. it's. kind of incredible to watch this happen in real time, because it sounds like deranged conspiracy thought, but like. i've been watching this trend for the past decade and it's fucking real.

anyway one of the vegan recipe accounts i follow just posted like five pistachio-based recipes in a row and it makes me feel some kind of fucking way

[sadhoc]

it is extremely relevant that pistachios are so easy to acquire here, but acorns, which are an indigenous California food staple crop, are impossible to find even in the best stocked grocery stores, and knowing how to prepare them for consumption is a rarer skill than sourdough starter

[moniquill]

too good to stay in the tags @ookaookaooka:

#ive reblogged this before but YES THIS#acorns are dropping right now this time of year!!#not every oak tree drops every year but the ones that do drop thousands#last year there was literally one that was dropping one every few minutes it was nuts#ive been going around gathering acorns every chance i get#they take a while to process but it's not too hard#unfortunately we suspect my partner is allergic so i may have to just give them away but that's okay#i'm also experimenting with keeping them long term without spoilage (or squirrel theivery)#i'm not sure if it's the nut itself he's allergic to or if it's the powder on the shells#or if some of the ones i was handling were moldy (he's allergic to mold too)#also! if you want to make your own acorn flour (or just eat them in general)#do yourself a favor and do the cold leaching process#it takes longer but it's WAAAAY less work. it's 2 minutes a day for a week to change the water#gather the nuts crack em open pick out the bad ones#chop up the good ones (or throw em in a blender) and stick em in a jar of water#drain and replace the water once a day till it's no longer cloudy (will likely still be tinted reddish brown but thats okay)#spread em on a baking sheet and pop em in the oven on the very lowest setting till they're all dry#then grind em up and you've got acorn flour!#it won't be stretchy like wheat flour (no gluten) but it's delicious#you can combine it with wheat flour for cooking or just use it on its own#it's yummy and full of fats and protein

[escuerzoresucitado]

[oysters-aint-for-me]

do me a favor and plz reblog with your five most recently used non-face, non-hand, non-heart emojis

[tylostoma]

sometimes water tastes so good and you drink it in such a ferociously passionate way that you frighten yourself

[recreationaldivorce]

After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

If you want full access to Notepad, Microsoft now requires users to pay, with the new changes to 40-year-old software adopting the 'freemium

[waynekiller]

here's libreoffice, its similar enough to the microsoft suite to be useful to me.

its a free open source software. i downloaded this as soon as the AI shit rolled around and i stopped using MS suite & google docs because i was fucking tired of everything being online, but now if MS is gonna start charging for shit that should be free, only the more reason to use other programs. i know microsoft can be a little hard to escape but this is at least a start

[e-bommel]

notepad ++ it's free, it's slim, it has tabs, notepad but better in literally every way, you can customize it with tons of plugins, it's pretty much the standard in any IT company I've ever been at

[nhaneh]

absolutely going to add a thumbs up for Notepad++ - it does everything the old regular notepad does and far more, including tabs, while still being significantly more lightweight than the "updated" notepad that Microsoft put into Windows 11.

seriously the W11 notepad uses like 40-something megabytes of memory while running idle for some reason???

[vrumblr]

They added a paywall to notepad because people use it instead of word. 100%

[iwilleatyourenglish]

so this might be the funniest text i've ever gotten about my partner

[iwilleatyourenglish]

[herssian]

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

[allykatsart]

[barbiecarlo]

The gold standard in center.

[cornmaize]

You’re married to your phone background/lockscreen how fucked are you

[katadesmoi]

how is a Greek chorus like a lawyer / they're both in the business of searching for a precedent / finding an analogy / locating a prior example / so as to be able to say / this terrible thing we're witnessing now is / not unique you know it happened before / or something much like it / we're not a loss how to think about this / we're not without guidance / there is a pattern / we can find an historically parallel case / and file it away under / ANTIGONE BURIED ALIVE FRIDAY AFTERNOON / COMPARE CASE HISTORIES 7, 17 AND 49

Antigonick, Anne Carson p 33