Sorry I haven't commented on one of these in a while. Life's been a bit of a mess. I don't know how to feel anymore. Stressed? Terrified? Anxious? Does any of this actually matter?

Have to make a 9 hour drive up north to Georgia for an appointment early October, didn't expect to have to do that. Apparently starting new care was recently banned here, so that's...it sucks. Just trying to keep my sanity till then at this point.

Turns out some family members I have to see regularly are very transphobic, so... yeah. That's been oh so fantastic for my mental health too.

Venting aside (I'm sorry) the best news is definitely getting a new car. Traded in my aging SUV for a much newer Subaru, and absolutely love it. Finally something that wasn't a hand-me-down, that's mine and my own. Also managed turned that now required drive to Georgia into timing perfectly with a camping trip with some friends up there, so that's something worth looking forwards to.

Sorry if any of this was saying too much. I've been stressed way out.

Well, in that case, I'd like better odds. What am I supposed to do with a million dollars?

I guess I'd press it anyways. 1% is better than nothing.

There's a 50/50 chance I just got myself fired for standing up for myself at work, I'll find out on Tuesday when I go back in, I guess; it really doesn't matter to me anymore, I wasn't happy there, just stressed. If I'm not, then that's cool.

This is definitely the most euphoric I've felt in years, I think I'm going to celebrate with a trip to the beach and maybe look for some spots to skate. I think I'll start self advocating for myself more, too. I like this feeling.

Had a mental breakdown over the weekend. Ended up spending a day on self care, and I think I'm going to start working towards making some changes in my life, cause this isn't working for me.

I think that's from mastodon users, and how mastodon works when replying. I haven't personally used mastodon though, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

If it's important, they'll leave a message.

Have we met before, Mr. Tongue?

I don't know a lot about biology or things like that, and this is probably a bit of a mess of a thought, but a lab grown brain in a jar could have some really interesting implications if given, say, a computer, as it's sensory inputs and ways of interacting with the world.

Would it know what it was? How might it socialize? What would it do on the internet? Would it understand the difference between real human controlled characters and AI characters in a video game? How effective might it be at learning our languages, and communicating with us in them? What might be the most effective way/medium for it to learn a language?

I think it would be really interesting to study, and I don't imagine there would be many ethical issues?

Brown, with blue a close second.

The non-pokemon ones I played the most were:

DMG: Kirby's Dreamland 2

GBC: Shante

GBA: Drilldozer

Platformers to me always felt like the best suited games to handheld games, and I love the bright colorful art styles. Drilldozer is definitely my all time favorite. If you can find a copy, I'd highly recommend it! The rumble pack cartridge is so cool.

Oh wow, I went and looked up the MacBook Air, it looks like you could snap it being so thin. I'll have to keep an eye out for one of those at the junk stores, I've not disassembled a laptop nearly that thin yet. Personally, I'd probably just end up taping a battery to the bottom of that if it came to it. Most of the laptops I've got are at least an inch thick, so it's generally not a problem finding some space in them.

I recently picked up a T430, which turns out is an absolutely awful crapshoot with third party batteries that may just not charge thanks to Lenovo, or that just might stop holding any charge after a few cycles, or at worst manage to catch fire. Lenovo no longer sells new OEM batteries for these older machines, and as they get even older, finding new third party batteries will only become more difficult.

I think I might have left my thoughts a bit unfinished in my original comment. I think where I was trying to go with my issue with laptops being included in here is that requiring the batteries to be easily detachable won't stop manufacturers from trying to lock you into something evil, something along the lines of a battery subscription like it's printer ink. If anything it may encourage them to, and that's a scary thought. What happens when they stop producing batteries for your locked down hardware? Can't use "non-genuine" batteries, they won't be allowed to charge. The average user is likely just going to toss it and buy another one, creating more e-waste.

What I feel should be regulated is the interchangeability of parts like batteries, similarly to how USB-C has been enforced. Innovation is great, but proprietary major components that are destined to fail prematurely to the rest of the device from normal wear and tear don't benefit repairability, even if they are easily replaceable. Eventually that part will no longer be manufactured, and a consumable part that no-one else is allowed to sell to your users encourages you as the OEM to design that part to have a mean time to failure that's as short as possible.

Sorry if this reads a bit disheveled, I wrote it kind of sporadically.

Wow that looks beautiful. Do you need to manage the humidity at all with that many plants indoors?