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wizisbored · 2 years ago

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Rtc/bj 👀

ough yeah i have been thinking so hard about this au that is definately not primarily an excuse to make my blorbos buddies its ramble time

i have realised that theres no reason to move the settings closer when we have the power of demon bullshit. lydia bikes to canada overnight with beetlejuice sitting on the pannier rack telling her all the 'shortcuts'. this is also how they get jane back home, beetlejuice has to hold onto her because they didnt really plan ahead. like, at all.

jane is a bit taller than lydia, and they theorise a couple-ish years older, but of course they dont know for sure

inspired by the fuckin incredible ballad of jane doe choreo/staging, as jane starts playing around with ghost powers - specifically floating - she discovers she likes to just. rotate. like, floating a few feet from the ceiling, loosely curled up, slowly going head over heels. gals stimming. lydia calls it 'going washing machine mode'

you know how jane always seems to want to be around constance, or follows ocean like she wants a hug after she says 'but i love her'? thats how she is with lydia, except lydia actually likes her

the maitlands have gained a new accidentally adopted weird kid daughter. they dont really know exactly how to interact with jane but theyre trying

lydia starts writing down things jane likes or that she or other people notice her so that when shes getting sad/existential about not knowing who she is she has like, a concrete list of things about herself. not the same as knowing exactly who she was, but its something

the rest of the chior is stuck in the netherworld waiting room (which i will be mostly basing off the film as theres more to work with). they got a handbook - just one between them, like with the maitlands - and drew a door, but got stuck in processing because the system says there's supposed to be six of them but not who it is. they have the vague memory of someone sitting next to ricky on the coaster, but not much more. so now they're all crammed onto one ratty sofa in the waiting room

the choir pretty much always stand in the formation they were in on the coaster. its not a conscious thing, just how they are

ricky has learnt to float and throw his voice

karnak is the arbiter of cross-plane communication, managing the astral switchboard of the netherworld. he uses this power to inhabit novelty fortune-telling machines in his spare time.

the choir have to learn to operate a ouija board from a phone booth in the netherworld. arguments over the planchette ensue.

#bj/rtc au #once again i will tag this in an attempt to reach people who know what im going on about #ride the cyclone #beetlejuice

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zerohour1974 · 7 years ago

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Hackintosh Joy?

The world of Hackintosh is strange world full of pitfalls and traps and is not recommended for one to run blindly into. However it is one I decided to take upon recently.

Well I say blindly that is not true I did Hackintosh a machine several years ago with Snow Leopard, and before that I had attempted to run OS X 10.2 and using Pear PC from Prasys which was more like a Bochs kind of emulator rather than a Hackintosh.

So for those not in the know what a Hackintosh is… It is the process of getting a PC to run the Mac OS X operating systems. Rather than an actual Apple Mac machine. Is it illegal, yes as you are violating the terms of the licensing agreement of the MacOS which quite categorically states that the OS must be installed on Apple hardware.

So while I await for the letters of cease and desist from Apple and they send the lawyers after me (don’t think they will really). I will explain my fun and games I had to get things running.

First I need to inform you the PC I set this up on is a Dell Optiplex 780 (so definitely not an Apple). Which has an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 Ghz E6600 processor, A Nvidia GeForce GT710 1GB Graphics card, 8 GB DDR3 Ram, A USB Wi-Fi card, USB Bluetooth Adapter and onboard sound. The software was being installed on an external 1TB Toshiba hard drive connected via USB.

Ok so I had read that the best way to create a boot USB stick was to setup a Snow Leopard installation and then using that as base to then write the Mac OS X Sierra (which I chose to use as High Sierra was still in beta at the time) because it would support my Nvidia graphics card and others probably wouldn’t.

First make sure BIOS is set to use ACPI which it wasn’t. So sorted that and saved.

So I downloaded a boot.iso and burned it to CD. Dug out my Show Leopard DVD (Yes I have an actual DVD) and installed it to the PC. Normally you have to reformat your drive to set it to GPT but I for some reason had done that previously to the drive so I just had to clear the existing partitions and create a Mac HFS+ Journaled one. Luckily the SL installer disc had the Disc Utility app for this reason. After installation it reboots.

After install I had to keep the boot CD in as there was no readable boot loader for the PC yet on the external drive. So load boot CD, select new Mac drive and wait for it to load.

First you have to install the FakeSMC and NullCPUPowerManagement ones which make the OSX think it’s a genuine Mac and stops the CPU from being recognised. I had downloaded few tools such as Kext Helper and others on a USB stick separate from the one I wanted to write the Mac OS on.

Next you have to setup the sound so I used a kext called VoodooHDA which is probably the most used sound driver in the Hackintosh world. Now I had to install a bootloader that the PC would see. In this case I used Chameleon only because I had used it last time I setup my SL rig and it worked.

Ok time to rebuild all the extension caches etc so it will see the drivers. Reboot all magical and working. This is all going very well. Found a disc I had with the Wifi driver (I remember it took me ages to find the right one and had to download about five different versions until I found the one that worked) so I saved time trawling around the net again.

Installed it using Kext Helper etc…Reboot, setup Wifi and it works a treat…

So far, so darned good then huh? Magic, well as I said I had installed Snow Leopard on a previous machine so doing this one was pretty straightforward.

However for all it can see the Nvidia card it can’t use it as there is no driver for it. So limited to what SL can do and no games will run as it’s using a VESA driver. Most games need Quartz Extreme which allows the usage of Open GL.

So I attempt to get OS X Sierra but for some reason although I have upgraded the system to 10.6.8 and the App Store app is installed by Software Update. Which was fun as after the Combo update you have to reinstall half of the kexts as it has updated several which you don’t want it to.

I could sit and list step by step how you do it but to be honest unless you are doing this, why bother also there are loads of guides which tell you how to do this if you do a minor Google search. Lets just say I did it and the App Store would not connect and I could not sign in using my Apple account ID for some unknown reason so I could not download OS X Sierra direct from the App Store as all the guides instructed.

Hmmm… things are going a bit wonky…

Ok off to the Internet… Various distributions exist although most of the OSX86 websites will admit it, try to get people to avoid them. You can get ones made for a price and ones that are free. I was genuinely going to try and get it from the Apple App Store but it wouldn’t let me in.

So after a scout about I download the Sierra Hackintosh Zone distro from Niresh (I will not include links but it’s not exactly hard to find). There are others out there but this is the one I went for.

Apparently you put it in a directory on the Hackintosh and run the Restore Sierra app that you also have to download from them. Try this and sod all happens.

Other way is to go back to Windows and use a program called TransMac which is what I did. Transmac is not freeware but you can trial it 15 days so all good. To buy it’s about $60. I’m in the UK so probably about £45 for a tool I may never use again we shall see.

So I managed to write the Sierra Setup USB drive without using the Snow Leopard setup, so installing it and setting up drivers for it was a complete waste of time. Fun, nostalgic but ultimately useless.

Now as it’s a distro most of the kexts are built into the setup installer and all you have to do is customise it to use the ones it has. You can update them later yourself.

So I set it off installing after erasing the now redundant SL from the partition. I set it to boot using the Clover Bootloader as I heard it makes upgrading to things such as High Sierra much easier.

Installs fine and boot is set by the installer so all good. Now the fun begins. I have got to install a few drivers such as Wifi and Graphics. Sound drivers (later version of VoodooHDA) were in the distro setup so that’s ok, don’t have set them up.

Right first I attempt to install the graphics driver. I have it on the flash drive used earlier. Insert it and first problem arises. It does not come up on the desktop. SL it had come up fine not in Sierra. I check the System Information and yes it can see it, but is not mounting it.

Right not a great start. Especially as both drivers are on that flash drive.

Back to Windows… Transmac the drivers across to the Sierra drive. This program is proving more useful than I thought. Right restart into Sierra and install drivers.

Graphics Driver installs fine its a PKG (Mac equivalent of an MSI file)file so after asking for my password it installer using the standard Apple Installer app.

However the Wifi driver is a kext (also its from Mavericks so not sure it will even work) so luckily this distro has already installed a tool called Kext Wizard (the Sierra equivalent of Kext Helper used with SL). Install kext and reinstall caches etc. time to reboot to see if this works.

System starts but when it gets to the part where you login it now just turns off the monitor to you can’t go any further. Oh not good.

Now if Snow Leopard had an issue like that I could use the boot CD to get back in with this one I can’t it seems.

Ok rerun setup, erase hard drive, reinstall OS and start again. Back to where I was before I installed the two previous drivers. Thinking it was the Nvidia driver after it was the screen. I thought fine I will install the Wifi driver then I can see if I can find an updated Nvidia driver online once the setup is done. So install kext etc… Reboot

Once again it locks up at screen to login by disabling video. Oh ok then must be the Wifi kext thats the issue well it is supposed to be for Mavericks so obviously it is throwing things although it is rumoured to work. Time to reinstall again.

This time I retried the Nvidia driver which worked but when ever I restarted it defaulted back to not using it. Ok Clover Configurator you turn it on using a switch. Just mount the EFI and change a few settings in the plist file.

Well Configurator won’t mount the EFI no matter how much you try. So it won’t set the switch. Also every time I reboot my PC it is destroying the BIOS setup and I have to reset it which is becoming annoying.

Ok so not working well. I discover the BIOS issue is because the Real Time clock or RTC as better known is throwing out the bios settings.

Drop to Windows, download RTC fix for 10.12, Transmac to Sierra drive and restart. Turns out its a kext. Install kext, rebuild caches etc… Reboot, locked out of video driver again. Why? this was supposed to be for this version.

Turns out that MacOS Sierra has a system to prevent tampering with system files called SIP (System Integrity Protection) stopping me from installing kexts. I can turn it off using Clover (remember the configurator tool does not work, so no I can’t). Getting frustrated at this point and close down for the night. Feeling annoyed and beaten by the Hackintosh.

Ok reinstall for what feels like the millionth time but this time I check to see if there is a Chameleon option rather than Clover. Yes there is known as the Chameleon Enoch bootloader.

Start up so install Nvidia driver. Set up switch using Chameleon Wizard and sure enough it works first time. Ok so now I try RTC kext using Kext Wizard, you know the drill by now… restart but this time it works it lets me back in and the driver has installed. Install prefpane(basically a control panel setting screen) and setup Wifi… it works.

Ok Install RTC driver, upgrade VoodooHDA to latest version. Try to get software App Store, sign in won’t work. Test signing in with iTunes works fine. Time to go internet reading.

Find out this is common. Apparently you need to remove the drivers under network and its configuration plist and Reboot, then next time it should reset the Ethernet driver to En0 and all should work. Handy as I need to reboot for the kexts to be loaded.

RTC patch works as I don’t have reset my BIOS. Thanks for that small mercy. Sound is working still after update. Right try App Store still no joy. I decide to forgo the App Store and just download apps the normal way which seems to work.

Now the sound has this buzzing going on every time it loads. It works just has this constant buzz. I discover I have missed installing the prefpane. Ok so I do now I discover it is using a setting called Speaker which is never used as far as I have ascertained. By muting it the buzzing stops, however sound in the rest of OS is fine. However when I restart the setting does not save and the buzzing is back.

My own fault as a few pages on in the thread where I got the prefpane, it supplies you an app to put in startup which keeps the settings. Which once installed and set to load automatically has done it’s job like a trooper.

So now install a few things such as Steam and test games such as Terraria, Starbound and Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY edition to challenge the driver. All work perfectly fine.

Installed MacJournal and Writeroom which I own from Macheist Nanobundles and I upgraded Writeroom 2 to 3 and bought the new license when I had a G5 a while ago. In fact this whole report has been written using WriteRoom 3 on the Hackintosh.

So that brings to today. I still have not solved the App Store issue but for now it is functional enough to do stuff on. Sod it… Eventually I might need the App Store but as of yet. Most stuff is downloadable from outside it still.

One day I might figure what is wrong… It might need something upgrading or resetting to access the App Store but I am damned if I know what it is.

Installed Audacity and connected my Blue Snowball mic via USB. It found it and it works. also now the USB drives will detect and display. It seems Chameleon does not cause the issues that Clover did.

I am sure people will complain that Clover is the superior product, and in many ways it probably is, but if it does not work very well then I will kick it to the kerb. Faster than anything for a thing I know and have proved to work.

Maybe the latest version of Clover has fixed many of these issues but I don’t care. In time I may consider trying to move to High Sierra and once again the claim is it’s easier with Clover. Well that will have to wait and see.

As for TransMac it seems a useful tool would I invest in it. If I was going to use a Hackintosh regularly then why not it seems quite useful.

Someone who has done the Clover setup which works are probably wanting to beat me up for being stupid. Well you are probably right but I don’t care. They can also sort out the App store issue too. Good for you have a Gold star.

For now it works ok, while not perfect so I leave it at that… Nanoo Nanoo!

#hackintosh #waffle #retro #macos #nightmares

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my-life-as-single-braver-mom · 5 years ago

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JUST START.. 🚦

I gave birth to a beautiful tiny human being I named her Audrielle Francheska. Totoo pala kung ano yung hilingin mo kay Papa God ibibigay nya... Sobrang Thankful ako Lord, kasi ligtas kami pareho kahit sobrang hirap ng pinag daanan ko.

So, akala ko mag kakaroon ako kung buo pamilya, dahil buong akala ko paninindigan kami ng partner ko.. Just like any other stories that end up being a single mom..

Lumala at malala.. Mama's boy ang partner ko. Grateful sya sa magulang nya, minsan mas inaayunan nya ang magulang nya at sabi sabi ng mga kapatid nya. Same as our decisions for each other. Alam mo yun, pakiramdam ko tao-taohan lang akong asawa nya. That whenever I hold my ground and convictions (maybe not in soft way of expressing it) we wont meet it half way. E, bakit ba naman kasi mula noong nag buntis ako. Galit na ako sa mundo. (Hindi ko alam) its hormonal changes, or i was shock that my life changed to man i just meet 6 months ago. Mabilis pero seryoso kami.. Minsan ganoon yun, its not the time. Pero akala ko his really a Man pf his words.

The big trouble started, May 2019. To make the story short, i was turning two months after giving birth then.. the issue isnt new. Gusto ko mag bukod kami agad the moment na lumipat kami ni Audi sa lugar nila. Its a constant fight. I remember last Month april he promised not to changed our plans. Ewan ba kung sinong anak ni satanas ang panay ang bulong sa knayang sa kanila kami mag stay. Ayaw ko nga--I want peace of mind. I want privacy. I want you. me. audi together. Without your monther's eyes, nguso and mangot everyday. I went freaky, mura dito mura doon.. fuck that post partum depression- its evil. Indeed! If a women who just gave birth reading this she might understand. Hanggang sa akala ko ang pag uusap na yun ay amin lamang yun pala "SINEND NYA SA NANAY NYA ANG SCREENSHOTS .." I was like triggered off and more does the evilish thing. Like: potangina nila hanggang sa kanunuan nila and you go back to your mother' s womb. You Extreme Mamas boy.

At that point, i knew i was wrong. But i cannot control my emotions, siguro kasi nga i just gave birth. I 'm indeed stressed out as a first time mom. Bec i need to know every single thing for months of three bec as planned we re going to settle down on our own. And all i believe this man, would understand that im going through a difficult transistions; an uneasy way to go. All i knew, was wrong. Bec his not sticky with me through. Ayun, kinandong ng ina nya at sumuot sa tumbong ng tatay nya.

Fast forward, then now at this moment. My lil family broke early. I whisper audi everyday. Im very sorry i cannot give you a whole family that maybe you want in the future. Neither, this will be fine or early blessing for us two but atleast you 're on my side. And i will fight. I filed case against him and now being process in rtc.

He left us, he demanded. And his arrogance is always on point. Like, me and my daughter has to go under ultimatum. "Ipakita ko elsewhere si audi for him to g8ve support.." and in my own perspective thats not proper, right nor just. Me as his wife, was like a crap once gold in a snap. He treat me like, im the most stupid. unrespectable, and not worthy. Just a mistake. 💔

I never mind my feelings that i again was left broken. Yung na ngingibabaw "Si Audi.." siguro ganun pag nanay kana. Palaging anak mo, tatapang ka para sa anak mo.

But i cried, whenever i remember my parents also separated for a reason then I was young then (6,7 or 8yrsold). Bakit si papa he went all the way just to fix the family, w/0 the fear of rejections from mamas fam. Why him? Bakit di nya kaya. Maybe because, Hindi nya kami truly Mahal. And thats drastically fact. Kasi nga lalaki sya, in all means he is the one fixing his family whether he's wrong or not. Haligi nga diba.

Those family mother and family man that I have asked opionions iisa lang ang sinasabe. "SYA, Dapat , lalaki.." (alam mo na siguro un..). Instead of longing for his coming nor messages i focus on audi. Kasi wheneveri recieved stupid command msgs from him.. nasisisra na araw ko. Like, ikaw naman ang may problema. Ikaw, ikaw at ikaw lang.. ako lang ba?

I got audi from a little that i have and my parents do help me in all cause. Nakakahiya man kaso inaalat pa ako sa karera e. Which also adds on my depresisve times.

I always talk to God, everytime /day. Why? But i know this is for the better. Kaya ko ginawa ang blog na ito, kasi napapansin ko i cannot control my thoughts this past few days. Its like im turning into having mental issues. Im planning to visit a psychiatrist for early medications and counseling. Bec i dont want to hurt anybody lalo na ang anak ko, this time all i want is to write my thoughts.

So help me God, 🙏 alam ko.my rason. Alam ko my sagot sa lahat ng tanong ko balang araw..

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