Latest Posts by shooting-starlight - Page 9
Every update Google makes to their UI system makes me want to kick the lead designer in the teeth. He deserves it.
And so my Descent Into Madness begins.
you've been hit by
you've been struck by
a roman senator ₍ₓ₂₃₎
here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of
You can only reblog this today.
Seriously fuck apple hardware and their hinges that break monitor cables and their butterfly keys and their 24-step battery replacement process that involves *removing your goddamned speakers* to replace the battery.
Fuck. That.
Fuck their specialized Apple screwdrivers
And their bullshit expensive replacement parts.
Two weeks ago I added RAM to my new laptop and it took about four minutes.
I just now replaced the fan on my old laptop while I was on a call with a vendor.
Both of those things used the same phillips-head screwdriver that I got in a pack of three for a dollar fifty at daiso. And I didn't have to *use a hairdryer to soften the adhesive on my speakers* to access either of those parts, let alone a part as basic and as likely to fail as a fucking battery. Hell, I opened up my new laptop and found out that there's a spot for me to put in a second SSD with a similarly small amount of effort.
But while I'm here:
Fuck modern cars. Fuck the engine covers with breakable pins that make it a pain in the ass to do anything more than checking the oil. Fuck the use of tablets as an interface for dealing with the car. Fuck proprietary RFID key fobs and fuck tire monitoring systems that'll make you fail a smog check.
Fuck cheaply made clothing that won't last more than a couple dozen wears but is so thin and flimsy that it also can't handle being mended.
Fuck printers that require a subscription for ink every three months even if you aren't out of ink, because they'll say you're out of ink because they disable the cartridges after a certain time no matter how much or how little you've printed.
Fuck printers generally, they're such cheap and horrible pieces of garbage at the consumer level that it's usually less expensive to buy a new printer than it is to replace cartridges, and it's usually cheap to replace the rollers but the printer is such shit that your odds of snapping off some fiddly piece of plastic garbage are about 50/50 even if you do know what you're doing.
Fuck all of this shit. You should be able to fix what you own, and if you can't or don't want to learn how to, you should at least have the option to try without becoming a professional.
I keep seeing that post about wanting packaged delivered slower by happier, safer, better-paid workers and first of all: Fuck yes. But also: I want clunkier, heavier technology that is easier to fix.
If I needed a laptop that could fit into a manila envelope I would get a fucking tablet, what I need is a laptop that has some actual computing power and that I can swap the hard drive on in less than forty minutes.
The cellphone I had five years ago had a smaller screen and a thicker case, but I could replace the battery with my thumb as the only tool, and with some effort (less than it would require now) I could replace the whole screen. I don't need a seven inch screen and four cameras on the back and a thin, lightweight case, the phone that was the size of my palm and half an inch thick was fine and LOOK I know a lot of the components have become smaller; why did we move to slimmer cases instead of keeping the thicker ones that anyone could crack open to swap in a SIM or replace the battery? You could have BIGGER batteries, with longer lifespans if you still had thicker cases and smaller screens and then maybe this piece of shit phone would fit in any single pocket on my clothing instead of hanging halfway out and trying to make a dive onto the ground every time I stand up.
I don't like the attitude of "stuff in the old days used to just WORK" - in some ways it's true, in some ways it isn't. Cars in the old days certainly did NOT just used to work. But it used to be a fuck of a lot easier to get into an engine and *fix it* without having to get an entire collection of vehicle-specific tools and half a computer science degree. Printers have never, in the existence of printers, "just worked" but they didn't stop printing because of a programmed date on a chip in the fucking cartridge.
A lot of hardware from today is fine. SSDs are pretty great, and there are new manufactured hard drives that I know are going to last thirty years, just like the 40MB drive from 1987 that a customer brought into my shop a few years ago.
There are people out there who are making good stuff.
But it's so fucking frustrating the way that it feels like you have to fight to find something that isn't just the absolute shittiest piece of garbage. The amount of stuff out there that is flimsy, likely to fail, and only-user-serviceable-if-the-user-is-already-technically-proficient is really, really upsetting.
The Sun rises over Earth in a postcard illustrated by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, recalling the 1965 mission when he became the first human to walk in space.
My least favorite part of learning guitar is that I already know how to read sheet music but all of the song guides for guitar are written in tabs which makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
ways to respond to being asked "are you a man or a woman?"
i sure hope not
who's to say
that's between me and God
i'll tell you for $100
i don't think so, why?
probably, not sure though
Wrong answers only, how do you safely deal with the Fae folk?
I liquidised part of my spine at circus, which is something I cannot wait to deal with tomorrow when I have to train kids.
I've decided that the worst way to re-explore a house is by bad candle light.
To the guy who thought my croquet mallet was a sledgehammer and then a cricket bat, I love you, you're dumb, but I love you.
Have you tried The Floor
Ugh. It’s so hard trying to fit my McDonalds, text book, AND computer on my desk.
Singing Gimme Stitches by the Foo Fighters after having to go to the ER to get stitches is comedy gold and everyone who laughed when I did it agrees with me.
One of your cats got me impaled on a rosebush
I love my cats so much
I’ve come to a realization.
There’s this saying in english, “Gay as the day is long.” And that got me thinking…if you measure gayness by the length of the day, does that make the 21st of June, the longest day of the year, the gayest?
And, conversely, does that make the 22nd of December, the shortest day of the year, the least gay?
These are important questions that I believe we all need to ruminate long and hard on.
Happy weed day y’all
I had exactly one good experience with an ungodly amount of caffeine in my system and my brain instantly started thinking of a way to get an even more ungodly amount of caffeine into my body and so far I have come up with:
Make coffee with a Bang instead of water (it won't taste good but that's already a heart attack waiting to happen)
Make some of that high caf tea that I have but replace the water with the satanic coffee
Drink it and either fight God or just fuckin die I guess.
This shit would have about 600 ml of caffeine in it. It's not as bad as J Juice but that is for another day.
A short list of things that made me cackle on a shopping list I had to turn in to my Econ teacher:
Carrots | the whole bag
Egg? Dozen
(that one made me cry, I need to sleep)
My friend misread 5? as 57 and thought I was going to buy 57 potatoes.
RICE
hell yeah ramen
Bred
Beanz
NO IM LACTOSE INTOLERENT as a header for the dairy section, followed by almond milk
Stew meet
Frozen peaches | idk they're like 2 dollars
I was yelling at Stater Bros at 10 pm for not having farfalle and getting irrationally mad at the thought of smooth penne.
I need peas... and corn
That doc was a whole mess, I can't believe I turned it in.
If you all would like a reference for how chaotically dumb I am on occasion, I would just like to let you all know that I decided that wearing a sweater under a Jean jacket with black jeans and a fucking beanie was an ok outfit to wear outside.
I live I Southern California. It was 90°F outside. My friend was worried I was going to pass out from heatstroke. And there I was, dressed like it was a nice day in Canada.
I'm about as street smart as a radish.
I've decided to subject you all to this cursed thing I drew in art class.
I have decided to live my life and do things that would make my conservative grand uncle either fear me or be disappointed in me.
Highlights from last night's 1 AM jackbox game:
(in a comic about bird watchers) "how can you tell it's a __?" " The fear in its eyes."
"what's another use for a melon baller?" "Eyeballs."
"What's a way to react to being pulled over by a cop in a small town?" "DAD?!"
In Trivia Murder Party, I was the only one who knew where the 2010 Winter Olympics were held (it's Vancouver) and the only answer I gave when my friends wondered why I knew that was "I'm Canadian."
A t-shirt with the caption "It's one of those Kaiju lookin motherfuckers." paired with a poorly drawn face.
A gingerbread man labelled "Nepotism"
A buff Toad from Mario labelled "Dad"
I don't remember what the picture was but the caption was "Hubris"
It might have been a badly drawn squidward
Another one was labelled "Noot-Nooy"
"Deoe for president 2020"
Someone literally drew Nyan cat
"Hey Tod? What the fuck."
A poorly drawn gun labeled "Gun"
Why can't I just major in swordfighting.
Ah, maps from my homebrew campaign.
