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worlds away

my art contribution to the mass effect big bang!

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old photo mode pics from ME1 (played in 2022) bc nostalgia

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Love, Pluto (ft. Charon) l NASA New Horizons

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Here’s to 2023, a year of as many little courageous kindnesses as possible. ♥️

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made in blender, based on a soviet era postcard. this is all rendered in eevee, with the windows and light details drawn with grease pencil. I animated the little people in the windows as well, but maybe I shouldn't have bothered.

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openin’ the door to the microwave one second early because you don’t need all the hootin’ and hollerin’

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Saturn by V. Petkov

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saw this tweet and all i could think was shepard being allowed social media

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Witchcraft, Wisdom, Death...

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do you ever start writing a comment on the internet and then think “oh what the fuck am i going on about” and delete it

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Art by Boris Groh

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To judge from my reblogs this morning, none of us like One Drive, do we?

For home machines, it's now one of the first things I uninstall; I do not trust it, and that's putting it lightly. It's kind of amazing how bad Windows and Windows applications have got. And this is just how things are on my home machines, where I still have some control and can tame the worst excesses of Microsoft et al.

Probably, I suspect, for most "generic" users out there, the desktop experience is probably closer to the daily hell that is interacting with my work laptop. (This one is completely locked down and I have no administrator privileges at all.)

The other day, on my work box, I needed to open a locally-saved document in Word, and just trying to even find the directory-browser took some serious digging. And this was a thing that worked reliably in the literal 1990s, for goodness sake!

I've seen some discussion here and there about how today's youth are apparently surprisingly not-computer-literate (things like university CS depts having to put stuff like file formats back on the curriculum as it's no longer just "assumed knowledge", etc). A point I don't think I've seen made is just how bad the user experience has got even for desktop computing, and how this might be feeding into the lack of IT literacy. If it's basically impossible to interact with a system beyond a very-curated and very-nipped-and-tucked surface-level (bad) experience, how can you learn?

Even as recently as six months ago, I could still relatively-easily get to the file menus on my work box. As of yesterday? Nope, it took work, and I was only able to find it because I knew it was there, somewhere.

For most "generic" users, this is probably what the "normal" computing experience is like. Given that, is it any wonder there's a basic computer literacy crisis? They've become near-impossible to interact with in any useful way, and they're getting visibly-worse. How can you be computer-literate when the computer hides everything from you and does its best to stop you interacting with it in the way you want to? You can't learn from a book if the librarian's hidden it in a locked cellar on another continent.

Even in just half a year, I feel like my user-experience with Windows has got noticeably-worse. (And the experience was already bad circa June 2024, and worse than it felt in, say, June 2019. And I wouldn't have called the experience "good" back in 2019.)

I don't really know where I'm going with this rambling, but I do find myself wondering how any of this is sustainable.

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Happy N7 Day

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Mauro C. Martinez (American, 1986) - Trust (2022)

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Dashing through the snow In a Mako M35  Up the hill we go I swear that pyjack’s still alive

Geth under the wheels Garrus just might cry Oh what fun it is to ride and climb Planet side tonight

                   - Christmas on the SSV Normandy SR-1 (2183)