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I donât think a heck of a lot of people follow here anyway, but Iâm going to start just posting reblogs to @magpies-gold instead putting them on this oft-neglected sideblog. Iâm not sure what Iâll actually do with this particular blog, but something, someday! Iâm keeping it, regardless. This username is one Iâm fond of.
Go forth to the main blog. It now has everything (or will).
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I made an Etsy! I know it isn't the best place to sell but I wanted somewhere to share my work other than my squarestore that hasn't gotten any traffic. You can get my artwork or a commission on the Etsy!
I know iPads are becoming a super popular drawing medium as of late, so I just wanted to put this out there: be wary of getting your device fixed at apple.
I had a barely 2 year old iPad that just up and quit working, I brought it to apple and they said it was a software issue with no fix. My apple insurance had JUST expired, so they told me Iâd have to trade it in and spend $600 on a new one. I couldnât afford that so I took it and left.
I ended up sending it to a mutual connection who fixes apple stuff on the DL. He figured out that the âsoftware issueâ was actually just a bad battery - a $100 fix. There was NO WAY that apple wasnât going to pocket the $600 and then turn around and resell it for a profit.
This advice could go to all apple products: if they canât fix it in the store for free take it somewhere else! Theyâve made it impossible to fix at home but there are individuals out there with the tools and knowledge to fix it for less cost to you. Apple is corrupt. Donât let them scam you like they almost did with me.
This guy is active in the âright to repairâ movement, very often involving apple. Has a bunch of repair videos up.
And alas, as Louis hints at in the video above, itâs definitely not just Apple. As someone who works in IT and deals on the regular with, for example, Microsoft Surface devices, itâs the exact same deal with their tablets. Under warranty, any hardware issue results in them literally replacing the whole device. Thatâs the warranty process. Run through troubleshooting steps with Microsoft and if the device is determined to have a hardware issue of any type, you get a whole new entire Surface and ship the other one back. Thatâs the only option offered. Thereâs no repair. Thereâs never a repair. They just swap it. Dead battery? New device. Dead hard drive? New device. Out of warranty and literally anything is wrong with the hardware, including the battery? You need a new device entirely and now itâs going to cost hundreds. A lot of tablet computers also tend to be built in such a way that itâs extremely difficult if not impossible to open them without destroying them. Every other manufacturer weâve dealt with is dealing in similar tricks to make electronics disposable these days. Apple may have started it, but the entire industry smells the money to be made by designing devices to be difficult or impossible to repair, or creating ways and means of locking people out of being able to repair their own devices or even to have them be repairable at a facility of their choice rather than strictly with the manufacturer and only the manufacturer (who would love you to buy new rather than keep the old one running). Parts can be proprietary and not available easily. Buying parts off of eBay, Amazon, AliExpress, etc can be dodgy; itâs very easy to buy a part and find itâs DOA, that it has a problem thatâll short out other components when itâs installed, or that itâs at the end of itâs usable life and just doesnât last. There are software and firmware lockouts that can be programmed in to brick your device if you try to swap parts without manufacturer permission. Itâs an issue thatâs growing through the whole industry. The fight is much bigger than with just one company. Yes, do check out Louis Rossmann. He talks in depth about this growing issue in the tech industry and the fights going on to reverse it.
we seriously need to bring back the concept of âdespite its flaws i still enjoy itâ instead of âcancellingâ every fuckin thing in sightÂ
#we need to trust that just because someone loves a thing it doesnât mean they donât know itâs flawed
We also need to stop insisting that everyone enjoying flawed things must put 25 cents in the Problematic Jar and recite all its failings from memory.
If I just may add: we really need to stop pretending that âIâm a Good person, ergo the thing I like is PERFECT and if you criticize it youâre an ENEMYâ. You can enjoy stuff AND keep your sense of critical thinking.
Enough already
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Hey all! While Iâve been working on Shadecursed, Iâve had this little side project going. I wrote a romance novel! Itâs got action, adventure, science, glowing mushrooms, space dragons, and my bearded dragon, Cricket, modeled for the cover!
You can preorder the book on Amazon for Kindle right now! If thereâs enough interest, paperbacks will follow. <3 It will release on 3/1/22!
Click here, then click on the link to pre-order REALITY BREAKER!
Fun fact for my tumblr followers: The pseudonym comes from Dannyâs Gyaru character, Daniella, and the A is my first name. XD
i almost forgot this blessed video exists
Wait thereâs another one of these
If memory serves, what happened was that someone took a video of a Ukrainian military band playing some other song and dubbed a realistic-sounding version of A Cruel Angelâs Thesis over it. This proceeded to be everywhere on the internet, enough so that the band that put on the original performance caught wind of it, and decided to capitalize on its popularity by actually performing the song. This video is the latter version.
happy new year. have some tigers i did for a client
IM LAUGHINGGGG THIS US SO FUCKING FUNNY
Some people around me keep live black widows in jars. I feel it's a bad idea. Am I wrong?
Well⌠Itâs not a good idea per se. Their venom is potent enough to hurt adults and kill children. But the same goes for horses, and those are common animals to keep around.
Black widows are very docile. People have been known to handle them without any issue (which I have to stress I donât recommend you do, because a bite can send you to the hospital, but it does illustrate how docile they are). Theyâre also very slow, like other orb weavers, so they canât suddenly bolt.
As long as you keep it in an escape-proof enclosure, there isnât really anything wrong with it.
EDIT: Horses are not venomous! Theyâre capable of hurting and killing people, but not because they have venom!!
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âEDIT: Horses are not venomous!â is the funniest thing iâve seen all day
my friends keep trying to look in the mirror but i dont have mirrors in my car so i fixed it
this is surreal to me
What's your favourite ridiculous piece of 90s technology?
Thank you so much for the excellent question!! I've been meaning to answer this one for a while, so here goes.
My favourite ridiculous piece of 90s technology is PocketMail! It wasn't that ridiculous at the time, but it's definitely something that could have only existed in the late 1990s / early 2000s. I actually have a PocketMail device, an Oregon Scientific PM-32 that I found on the side of the road in a box full of broken landline telephones!
PocketMail devices were essentially very basic Personal Digital Assistants that allowed you to access your emails without having to use a computer with an internet connection! Here you can see the basic screen and buttons for composing, sending and receiving emails.
But remember, this thing doesn't have Wi-Fi - so how exactly can it access your emails? If you flip the device over, you'll see a strange little speaker thing that flips out...
That's an acoustic coupler! You had to hold the device up to the handset of a landline telephone! So if you had a PocketMail account (with a special email address ending in @pocketmail.com) and were away from your computer/office, you could simply dial the phone number for the PocketMail service on the nearest landline telephone, then hold the device up to the handset so that it can send and receive email data with the email server in the form of audio - and presto! You have just sent an angry last-minute email to your intern for neglecting to look after your Tamagotchi while you were on a business trip to sell Y2K survival kits.
But... what did it sound like? The phone service has long since been shut down after the rise of more capable and portable internet-connected devices, but if you press the little 'Mail' button on the top of the device, you can still hear the sounds of this poor, obsolete little thing trying to reach out and communicate in the only way it knows how to:
AUDIO WARNING: LOUD
Kind of creepy, isn't it?
