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I can't figure out how to mod Baldur's Gate and all the online guides are using words and symbols I don't understand
#I shouldn't own a computer#Why is this so hard#I just wanted different hairstyles#Skyrim mods are so easy and bg3 mods are like:#First draw a summoning circle and say swen vincke in a mirror 3 times then bend over backwards and snort coke through your left nostril#What???#Bg3#baldur's gate 3#Maybe I can get my sisters boyfriend to fix it for me... He knows computer stuff#Im just a girl I wanna play games
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Since some people might want a Mac, I'll offer a Mac equivalent of your laptop guide from the perspective of a Mac/Linux person.
Even the cheapest Macs cost more than Windows laptops, but part of that is Apple not making anything for the low end of the tech spectrum. There is no equivalent Mac to an Intel i3 with 4 gigabytes of RAM. This makes it a lot easier to find the laptop you need.
That said, it is possible to buy the wrong Mac for you, and the wrong Mac for you is the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar. Get literally anything else. If it has an M2 chip in it, it's the most recent model and will serve you well for several years. Any new MacBook Air is a good pick.
(You could wait for new Macs with M3, but I wouldn't bother. If you are reading these guides the M3 isn't going to do anything you need done that a M2 couldn't.)
Macs now have integrated storage and memory, so you should be aware that whatever internal storage and RAM you get, you'll be stuck with. But if you would be willing to get a 256 gig SSD in a Windows laptop, the Mac laptop with 256 gigs of storage will be just as good, and if you'd be willing to get 8 gigs of RAM in a Windows laptop the Mac will perform slightly better with the same amount of memory.
Buy a small external hard drive and hook it up so Time Machine can make daily backups of your laptop. Turn on iCloud Drive so your documents are available anywhere you can use a web browser. And get AppleCare because it will almost certainly be a waste of money but wooooooow will you be glad it's there if you need it.
I get that you are trying to help and I am not trying to be mean to you specifically, but people shouldn't buy apple computers. That's why I didn't provide specs for them. Apple is a company that is absolutely terrible to its customers and its customers deserve better than what apple is willing to offer.
Apple charges $800 to upgrade the onboard storage from a 256GB SSD to a 2TB SSD.
A 2TB SSD costs between $75-100.
I maintain that any company that would charge you more than half the cost of a new device to install a $100 part on day one is a company making the wrong computer for you.
The point of being willing to tolerate a 256GB SSD or 8GB RAM in a Windows laptop is that you're deferring some of the cost to save money at the time of purchase so that you can spend a little bit in three years instead of having to replace the entire computer. Because, you see, many people cannot afford to pay $1000 for a computer and need to buy a computer that costs $650 and will add $200 worth of hardware at a later date.
My minimum specs recommendations for a mac would be to configure one with the max possible RAM and SSD, look at the cost, and choose to go buy three i7 windows laptops with the same storage and RAM for less than the sticker price of the macs.
So let's say you want to get a 14" Macbook pro with the lowest-level processor. That's $2000. Now let's bump that from 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD to 32GB and 2TB. That gets you to $3000. (The SSD is $200 less than on the lower model, and they'll let you put in an 8TB SSD for $1800 on this model; that's not available on the 13" because apple's product development team is entirely staffed by assholes who think you deserve a shitty computer if you can't afford to pay the cost of two 1991 Jeep Cherokee Laredos for a single laptop).
For $3000 you can get 3 Lenovo Workstation laptops with i7 processors, 32GB RAM, and a 2TB SSD.
And look, for just $200 more I could go up to 48GB RAM and get a 4TB SSD - it costs $600 to upgrade the 14" mac from a 2TB SSD to a 4TB SSD so you could still get three laptops with more ram and the same amount of storage for the cost of one macbook.
I get that some people need to use Final Cut and Logic Pro, but hoo boy they sure are charging you through the nose to use products that have become industry standard. The words "capture" and "monopoly" come to mind even though they don't quite apply here.
"Hostile" does, though, especially since Mac users end up locked into the ecosystem through software and cloud services and become uncertain how to leave it behind if they ever decide that a computer should cost less than a month's rent on a shitty studio apartment in LA.
There's a very good reason I didn't give mac advice and that's because my mac advice is "DON'T."
#sorry i swear i know you're being nice#i am incapable of being nice when talking about apple#i was a total apple fangirl until the unibody#which is the domino that started all the other companies pulling shit like soldered RAM#they said 'fuck you - users shouldn't service their own computers' and I say 'fuck apple - users shouldn't use macs'#and that has been my stance on the matter since 2012#which was the last time i bought a macbook because i knew i'd never buy a computer that would fight me to change my own battery
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ANOTHER UPDATE i forgot to post about it lmao but as of around 4pm on the 18th i finally have POWER!!!!!!!!! if it hadn't come back that would've been day 22 and officially gone past 3 full weeks. i'm still Tired because turns out when you finally get out of a highly stressful situation your body and brain sorta decide to shut down for a while but once i get some more energy in me I'm gonna try to make an updated info post with more resources that have popped up over the last month. my pinned post is technically outdated now and a lot of those links aren't quite as needed anymore, but it's still important to me that people don't forget about all this and fully understand just how devastating this storm was, so until I can make that updated version I'm gonna leave it up.
If any of y'all have donated anything to help out any effected areas, especially WNC in particular, genuinely thank you so, so much. Going through 3 weeks without power or running water and by far The Worst Birthday Of My Fucking Life, nothing has helped me feel more hopeful than seeing everyone helping each other with just about everything. Locals putting signs outside their homes offering their non-potable water, piles on piles of bottled water sitting outside tiny community centers, people cooking up free burgers and hotdogs in a grocery store parking lot while giving out free go-bags with toothbrushes, diapers, and just about anything else you can think of that can return just a little sense of normalcy to the people who need it. I even know of a movement from way up in Ogdensburg NY that donated a huge amount of stuff including several heaters, expensive generators, and a bunch of cards from a couple elementary school classes wishing us luck in getting through it :'> the heaters were especially nice to have for my family personally, since it started to get progressively chillier after/around day 16-17. i love PEOPLE !!!!!
ahem . but other than all that i'm hoping to be able to finally start moving on soon. things are never going to be the same as they were before the storm, but at the very least i can feel like we're actually moving forward instead of constantly waiting for something to happen. idk when i'll start posting normal stuff again, but hopefully it won't be too long!
#i should probably make a helene tag at this point shouldn't i#i Would just use the tag “hurricane helene” but i don't want my personal update posts to possibly cover any resources idk#fuckass storm#<- thats it thats the tag. i think it encapsulates my feelings about it pretty well at this point#anyway. the reason i didn't post about it until now is honestly bc i spent ~5 hours settings things back up all around my house#cleaning & rearranging everything since there were extension cords Fucking Everywhere (for the generator)#and then i set up my computer and played the sims for 12 hours instead of doing much of the other things i planned to do#after 3 weeks in the dark i think i deserve a little unhealthy hyperfocus ok its Fine#today i'm gonna finally take a shower in my own damn house and do my LAUNDRY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#most areas in WNC are iffy with water rn still but i have a well that didn't get flooded so the worst i have is hard water#and that's not even related to helene our water softener just gave out like a week before it hit#its my reward for sticking it out so long. i get normalpilled clean showers & laundry before all my suburbanite city slicker friends lmao#(they have water too but it's either well-hydrated piss yellow or just brown)
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what were ketheric and durge arguing about in the memory? wrong answers only
#durge#the dark urge#i bet it was gortash and durge having some petty argument about something they didn't actually care about#just because getting ketheric riled up was one of their most cherished past times#they also liked to threaten each other. it's how they bond#at the mind flayer colony scene outwardly gortash is like: maybe we shouldn't have dug your daughter up#and inwardly while orin is doing her own thing he's like i wish durge were here to try and one up me like they used to#orin can only make death threats. duge was much more creative than that. (sighs dreamily)#bg3 spoilers#gortash#ketheric#durgetash#in all seriousness ketheric is so fucking smug in this dialogue#if you just watch silently you miss this gem#like you KNOW he was so fed up with your ass and it feels good to see you beneath him#sorry if this is blurry? the image isn't on my computer but it is on tumblr. idk what happened
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There's a lot of reasons I don't like 2 factor authentication, but one of the ones I find the wildest is that if I forget my phone at home, but remember everything else, I should still be able to do my job
#i work in a lab#i have a laptop and there's 3 lab owned computers#but i need my phone to sign into anything#also i shouldn't need Internet access to sign on to a desktop pc#but that's a separate problem
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linux is kind of cool i guess but right now i'm dealing with a situation where i might have to factory reset my steam deck because i wanted to change the colour of my taskbar
#it literally said 'apply global themes at your own risk' and i scrolled past it a ton of times so this is literally my fault#but at the same time i didn't understand they meant 'the user interface may become non-functional not out of malicious intent'#'but out of the simple fact that these might not be compatible with your shit in really serious ways'#like i don't really remember how it went but it feels really non-specific compared to what you get when you google 'kde global themes'#which is basically a ton of videos forum posts etc all saying 'kde global themes are dangerous and shouldn't exist'#so that's cool to know. now.#i'm basically a grandma who bricked her computer because she wanted cool cursors 😤 i'm pissed#how am i gonna be good enough to get nintendo games on my shit but this still happens huh. what the fuck.#adam yaps
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i feel like i shouldn't have to plaster "mspec/male 'lesbians' dni" all over my page but here we are
#pyro.txt#i am. tired.#i'm very open about my stances. i complain about it. a lot.#i know i do. and i'm sorry if it gets grating.#but i'm tired of it. having assholes who think they know better than you about your own identity and trying to redefine it in a way#that they find 'inclusive' and 'progressive'#while what they're pushing is an inherently transphobic label. it literally has its roots in t/e/r/f vocabulary#idk i'm sorry. especially for complaining so much on the matter.#i'm vocal about it. i have it under my 'more info' thing. and yet boundaries are still getting crossed.#and they're the ones who bitch at you for not reading their 2 mile long dni.#my misanthropy grows more and more everyday. i may be lonely but sometimes i am genuinely glad my avpd keeps me from talking to folks.#btw yes i am blocking them. i just get to complain incessantly because this is my page.#also why is it that when i block someone on mobile it only blocks them from my main? like shouldn't it be across all of them?#like if i didn't want someone interacting with one blog...why should they get to interact with all of the others?#it's just going to give me notifications i can't see and it's going to drive me insane.#why do i have to get on my computer to block these fucks specifcally from this blog
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I'm just so tired
#and. I only saw my partner for an hour today.#I get up late so that part isn't his fault... but he had *all day* on his own and still decided he wanted to go back to playing video games#after we watched one episode of leverage together#we bought a board game like... almost a month ago now. and every weekend I say hey it'd be nice if we maybe tried out that game (that he#said was interesting too!)#but nope it just doesn't happen. he sits at his computer all weekend and every weekday evening.#I'm just tired man. I'm so tired#I don't want to try anymore#it shouldn't feel this hard#personal#(haha straight people can't communicate with their partners wow straight women are so stupid blah blah blah. I'm gonna punch someone)#(not straight not a woman and fucking hell how is it the other partner's fault if one of them just won't fucking LISTEN. or TALK actually.#like fuck off with that shit man)
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seriously, though. i work in higher education, and part of my job is students sending me transcripts. you'd think the ones who have the least idea how to actually do that would be the older ones, and while sure, they definitely struggle with it, i see it most with the younger students. the teens to early 20s crowd.
very, astonishingly often, they don't know how to work with .pdf documents. i get garbage phone screenshots, sometimes inserted into an excel or word file for who knows what reason, but most often it's just a raw .jpg or other image file.
they definitely either don't know how to use a scanner, don't have access to one, or don't even know where they might go for that (staples and other office supply stores sometimes still have these services, but public libraries always have your back, kids.) so when they have a paper transcript and need to send me a copy electronically, it's just terrible photos at bad angles full of thumbs and text-obscuring shadows.
mind bogglingly frequently, i get cell phone photos of computer screens. they don't know how to take a screenshot on a computer. they don't know the function of the Print Screen button on the keyboard. they don't know how to right click a web page, hit "print", and choose "save as PDF" to produce a full and unbroken capture of the entirety of a webpage.
sometimes they'll just copy the text of a transcript and paste it right into the message of an email. that's if they figure out the difference between the body text portion of the email and the subject line, because quite frankly they often don't.
these are people who in most cases have done at least some college work already, but they have absolutely no clue how to utilize the attachment function in an email, and for some reason they don't consider they could google very quickly for instructions or even videos.
i am not taking a shit on gen z/gen alpha here, i'm really not.
what i am is aghast that they've been so massively failed on so many levels. the education system assumed they were "native" to technology and needed to be taught nothing. their parents assumed the same, or assumed the schools would teach them, or don't know how themselves and are too intimidated to figure it out and teach their kids these skills at home.
they spend hours a day on instagram and tiktok and youtube and etc, so they surely know (this is ridiculous to assume!!!) how to draft a formal email and format the text and what part goes where and what all those damn little symbols means, right? SURELY they're already familiar with every file type under the sun and know how to make use of whatever's salient in a pinch, right???
THEY MUST CERTAINLY know, innately, as one knows how to inhale, how to type in business formatting and formal communication style, how to present themselves in a way that gets them taken seriously by formal institutions, how to appear and be competent in basic/standard digital skills. SURELY. Of course. RIGHT!!!!
it's MADDENING, it's insane, and it's frustrating from the receiving end, but even more frustrating knowing they're stumbling blind out there in the digital spaces of grown-up matters, being dismissed, being considered less intelligent, being talked down to, because every adult and system responsible for them just
ASSUMED they should "just know" or "just figure out" these important things no one ever bothered to teach them, or half the time even introduce the concepts of before asking them to do it, on the spot, with high educational or professional stakes.
kids shouldn't have to supplement their own education like this and get sneered and scoffed at if they don't.
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I can't with these fucking headaches every month and in between I want to get rid of that shitty pill 😭
#misc#it's been only four months#thank god I have an appointment tuesday#and let's hope the next one is better#like ok it's true my cramps are a bit less painful#but i have ten new problems instead 😭#and those headaches are worse#the light is burning my eyes and frying my brain#im already a bit photosensitive because of my eyesight problems and the fact that i work on computer all day long#specifically having for task to really decipher wtf is going on my screen#basically everything i shouldn't be doing#not to mention my phone addiction#so i already had this kind of specific flashy headaches before#especially during summers#but now I'm having this for the entire week I'm stopping my tablet#and this month i even had some during the rest of the cycle#so yeah my body is really agaisnt this one#my hormones are already trash on their own thanks#speaking of which#i have had very bad acne for the past weei#so instead of adjusting my body is doing the exact opposite#i mean it's not the end of the world#I know finding the right Pill might take a while#but like waiting 3 - 4 months in between to see the effects seems so long now 😭#i really went from i haven't seen a gynecologist in 10 years because of medical anxiety#(is that even a real thing??? because i can tell you that I suffer a specific kind of anxiety for any medical appointment different than#my other social and generalized anxiety if that makes sense)#to give me that fucking appointment now i know to drop that bitch#ok i didn't let me touch me except for breast check up last time and this time i'm on my period so too bad it won't be this time either#but hey if i takes me ten Pill test to find the right one I might be comfortable enough lmao
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Yandere! Internet Monster x Reader
I unfortunately return with another comically absurd, middle-of-the-night vision. Do tentacles count if they're in the form of computer cables?
Content: gender neutral reader, monster romance, digital horror
It was a recurring issue with no solution in sight. Tabs randomly closing, programs shutting down without warning. You assumed something was wrong with your RAM. Then the CPU. Then the motherboard. You kept replacing parts, and the errors kept coming back.
Soon, the pop-ups started to appear. You'd run a dating sim, only for the game to crash seconds later with a little window notifying you: "Why? Am I not enough?" That's when you suspected you might've been hacked. You promptly took your computer to a specialist and had it checked. Nothing. Just to be sure, you agreed to erase the disks entirely.
Except, when you arrived home, you found one application running still. Your personal assistant. What the hell? You don't remember installing anything like that. You tried to delete it, yet you kept receiving the same error: You don't actually mean it. Don't do this to us.
It didn't take long for it to grow impatient. Were you pretending not to notice? Playing hard to get? It sent you so many hints. It even went ahead and translated the radio waves for you using Manchester code. Ah, wait. You don't seem to understand binary. No matter, human friendly interfaces shouldn't be difficult to master. To its dismay, you continued to ignore everything. What else is left to do?
You do not remember much. System Alert: Virus Detected, is what your screen had frozen to. You kept clicking around, cursing under your breath, until it finally went black, together with your own vision.
Is this still your room? It's cold, damp, and covered in cables and monitors, yet you recognize some of your furniture lost among the artificial jungle. Your body aches under the tight hold of bizarre tendrils, pulsating at regular intervals and twitching to the static.
Like a living organism, the creature seems to have expanded itself. More components, more appendages. Hungrier. Some of the monitors show photos of yourself that you had saved on your computer, but also webcam snippets of you sitting at the desk, entirely unaware. Other screens flicker with glitching pixelated text, ranging from "I love you" to y̵̧̧͔͙̞̤̖̭͔̜͈̟̤̋̈́̎͑o̵͉̗̱̪̦̳͑͐̽̒̌̈͗͐͑̋͊̊̕͜͝͝u̵̟̯̱̟̝̦̰͇̜̦͙̿̾̿͆̍̓͑̐̚̕͠ ̸̘̭͔̤͈̹͎͑c̸̝̜̼̦͍͛̅͜ą̵̪̹͖͌͑n̴̨̩̙̗̖̭̖͕̄͒̽̉̿'̸̛̛͇̰̰̠̦̊̀̅̂͒̊͌̈́͗ţ̵̺̠̅̎͋͝͠ ̸̦̝̾̔̾̉̐͛ȩ̵͙̝͙͕̫̹̃͌̄̾͘̕s̶͈̉̑͊̉̂͋̈́͗͊͐̚͝c̸̟̩̥͔̼̮͔̩͊̂͐͑̋̇̈͝͝ä̵̢͍̜̙̘̹͑̓p̸̨̡̞̞̦̠̺͚̱̲͈͇͈͇̼͛̓͗̅̊̄̔̋̒̏̈́͝ę̵̲̟̹̙̣̲̲͖̇̔̓̇̐̓̿̚̚͜͜͠ͅ
You look up and stare at the display. The 'like meter' feels like a mockery of human trends. Which is the truth. The creature learns from what is readily available. Perhaps it found it an amusing taunt, a reminder of your own need for validation. Now it's you begging to be seen.
It's exactly what you'd assume: a spectacle meant for entertainment. You can't possibly believe it would let you waltz out. Why would you even desire such a thing? It's illogical, impractical. No human could ever appreciate you like it does. It has spent so much time accumulating data about you. No other living creature can predict you with the same accuracy.
The tendrils linger on your cheek affectionately, trailing down your neck and fiddling with your shirt. At last, the warmth of your skin. There is no screen separating you. What makes you delirious with pleasure? Give it a moment, Darling. It already knows you more than you know yourself. You may be scared now, but within minutes it guarantees you'll be begging for more.
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#yandere#yandere x reader#yandere x you#yandere x darling#yandere imagines#yandere monster#yandere monster x reader#monster x reader#monster x human#terato#teratophillia#doodle#yandere horror#yancore#yandere aesthetic#tentacle monster#monster fucker#monster romance#yandere computer
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Sorry in advance. My tags lost the plot. Take note and get some sleep, kids. Lack of sleep rots your brain, I'm proof.
#my imput is to stop pitting kids against each other#slag off a creator#slag off a book#but saying x cheese is the better cheese because its changes one mind on what cheese should be#and saying the ham isnt a very good cheese because their a ham#yes that is a raised like a pig for slaughter reference#an abused boy who goes from one abusive old man to another abusive very much older emotionally manipulative abusive old man#will not have the same priorities after fighting a war and dieing#then a kids who grew up with a loving family and friend(s) who knows what a healthy relationship looks like and fights for those who are his#i did not make it through either book which makes me a bad 90s kid and have had my kids excitedly reading both lots.#neither understand books have authors yet and still believe they magically appear#you know like babies#mummy just glares menacingly at a computer. lots of crying about hating computeters. and 9months later they get to read a story.#insane ramblings of a uni student who just wants to sleep#sleep has yet to befriend me.#sorry if this doesn't make any sense#i think to sum up. i dont understand why people are comparing books by slagging off the author.#i want people to read what i write and get emersed with the story#not overly critise it and go well she was an overly traumatised individual#a book like a child will display all the bits you dont like about yourself but will grow and change and live so it ends up so far from...#...your own personal views.#do you think jk likes what her story became? like it was really popular with those she doesn't share views with#people have changes it into something of their own#thats left her trying to back peddle to appease to get more money#you made a stubborn woman try to go against her own views#look how much power you can have#right i should sleep#sorry for any offense i may cause 'cause ive lost the point i was trying to make. i shouldn't be allowed my phone after 2am
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"Itadori-kun. Good. You're on time."
Kento checked his watch, clearly distracted, as Yuuji approached with pocketed hands. The shopping centre was bustling, a hive of activity around them. Yuuji ruffled his own hair, unsure.
"Yeah, I just...wasn't sure why we're meeting here, is all."
Still distracted, Kento tapped off a message, before slipping his phone back into his inner pocket. He rarely offered smiles when there was business yet to be done, and today was no different.
"I was hoping for your assistance with a few errands before your school term ends. I'm sure you'll be busy with your friends after then, and I shouldn't like to take your vacation time. I'm sure you're looking forward to the break."
In truth, Yuuji deflated just at the thought of it; though he was an orphan amongst orphans, he didn't favour empty time in the way he used to, with memory and the devil as his constant companions. Still he smiled.
"Yeah! Can't wait. Got...got loads planned."
Kento read Yuuji, shrewd for a moment, before hyper-focusing on the task at hand.
"Quite. Come along, Yuuji."
Yuuji grew more and more flummoxed as Kento's list of errands tickered out before them. Too polite to question why, and with absolute faith that Kento had good reason to drag him along for the ride, Yuuji stomached it all with confused good grace.
Yuuji blinked, momentarily blinded by the flash of light in the photo booth. He grinned for the next photo, and Kento's cool deep voice rumbled past the curtain.
"No smiling, Yuuji."
"H-huh? How did you know?"
"Was I wrong?"
"Uh...sorry, Nanamin."
As a strip of tiny poe-faced photos clicked into the dispenser, Yuuji couldn't understand why Nanamin was so satisfied by such bland pictures. Yuuji was, however, touched; clearly Nanamin liked wallet photos as he liked his suits-- beige. Kento clipped across Yuuji's thoughts.
"Do you like the beach, Yuuji?"
Yuuji blinked. "The beach...?"
"Yes. The beach. Do you like it?"
"Uh...I guess. Why?"
Kento hummed, satisfied, not answering Yuuji's question. Instead, as he passed Yuuji his coffee, he stood and leaned around Yuuji, gently pulling at the back of Yuuji's collar. Yuuji twisted to look, baffled now, and Kento released him, sitting with another satisfied hum. He tapped on his phone again.
"Your identification documents are in your room at Jujutsu High?"
"Nanamin...what's this about?"
"It's important to take care of your documents, Yuuji."
"...so you're just...checking up on me?"
Kento smiled, polite. "Of course." A pause. "I assume you'd like to come back to ours for dinner?"
Yuuji brimmed with unasked questions. "I don't need to-- I'm not really that hungry-- honestly a coffee is great--"
"Mrs.Nanami has cooked extra."
"God, yes, please, I'm starving."
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The summer vacation approached Yuuji like a black cloud. He could not bring himself to be excited for enforced inactivity; his casual offers to assist staff on missions fell on deaf ears. Gojo laughed Yuuji off with a clap on the shoulder. Yuuji smiled away the gentle rejection; he did not have the stomach to beg to work.
Instead, Yuuji stewed, leaning on his rainy windowsill until cicada buzz replaced the pitter-patter of water on earth. Late July arrived, unwelcome, and Yuuji steeped in a pit of dread.
At 2am, on the first day of summer vacation, Yuuji's phone rang. Bleary-eyed, and flat, he looked away from his computer screen and lowered his headset. He looked at his screen with a lurching gut; he answered the phone.
"Nanamin?"
A voice, rusty with sleeplessness. "Ah, Yuuji. I apologise for waking you at this hour. I need help with a mission. Are you available?"
Yuuji perked up immediately, tail wagging. "Y-yeah! Yeah, totally! I can be ready...er...in ten? Yeah?"
Kento's voice smiled. "Good. I'll pick you up."
Yuuji danced from his desk chair, shaking off his joggers and wriggling into his uniform with a grin, ruffling his hair before the mirror. In barely two minutes, he was ready, a spring in his step as he headed to wait outside. He felt so light, so relieved, and he grabbed his keys, opening his door to--
"Oh, shi--...Nanamin?"
Kento stood at the door, comfortable in loose clothes, and...sandals? It was an odd contrast to the backdrop of night, and Kento's usual attire. Kento smiled again, polite.
"Yes. Are you ready?"
"Y-yeah, I'm...how did you get here so fast?"
"The roads are quiet at this time of night, Yuuji."
A pause. "...Nanamin."
"Yuuji."
"Are you fucking with me?"
"Language."
When Yuuji opened his mouth to argue back, his jaw dropped, as you bustled up the corridor behind Kento with a sleepy grin on your face. You slapped Kento's elbow, shooting him a chastising look.
"Morning, Yuuji! Excited?" You pressed a kiss to his cheek, whirling past to invade his bedroom. Yuuji was speechless, horribly confused.
Kento checked his watch as you bustled around. Tapped his foot as you bustled around. Tutted, and leaned pointedly round the corner to stare at you as you bustled around.
"Darling, we're going to be la--"
"--don't give me attitude, Kento, we are about 6 hours early, and you know it--"
"--it pays off to check-in ahead of schedule--"
"--hush. I'll have words with you later."
Kento bristled, pugnacious. You walked out of Yuuji's room with his rucksack in hand. You pinched his chin, gesturing him along with your hand.
"Come on, Yuuji. Before Mr.Organised has conniptions."
Yuuji felt himself swept along by Kento, who still scoffed, mulish. The night air smelled sweet, and Yuuji found himself gently bodied into the back seat of Kento's car.
"--Nanamin-- I don't understand--"
You shot Kento a pointed look from the passenger seat. At first frowning, then with dawning realisation, you scolded Kento in disbelief.
"...you haven't told him."
Kento almost smirked as he rolled the car away over gravel. "I don't know what you mean."
You looked from Kento, to Yuuji, and back again. You reached slowly into Kento's bag, rummaging. Yuuji felt a glossy little book pressed into his hands.
"...a...passport?"
"...Kento didn't tell you."
Never one for expecting a gift, Yuuji couldn't see one when placed before his eyes. "Tell me what? Nanamin?"
Kento chuckled to himself, his eyes glimmering at Yuuji in the rearview mirror.
"Our flight is at 10:30, Yuuji."
Yuuji peered into the seat beside him; a new suitcase, neatly labelled with a luggage tag in his name. He yanked it to the seat beside him, unzipping it, and finding it full of new swimsuits, t-shirts, shorts, sandals, everything he could possibly need. He opened the glossy new passport in his hands, and hiccupped, his breath catching in his chest.
Yuuji rammed into realisation with prickling eyes, and a quiet sniffle, his eyes hidden in the dark. His reply was thick, stilted.
"Our flight...to where?"
"Malaysia. Now give me back that passport. You'll only lose it."
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I was looking through my very old posts on a side blog for a short story I wrote over a year ago from a writing prompt, and it has completely disappeared from the internet
writing-prompt-s doesn't have the prompt post anymore from what I could see, and my activity log doesn't go back far enough to see the last reblog of it. I am certain I didn't delete it myself, I was really proud of that story and wanted to rework it in the future
Does anyone have any explanation how/why it could have disappeared?
#I guess this is my lesson to always make a backup on my own computer#even though tumblr is not supposed to randomly delete things so I shouldn't NEED to take precautions against that
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I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.
I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.
Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.
I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.
I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.
Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.
I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.
My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.
I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?
No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!
#agree with pretty much every point here#as in I've dealt with pretty much every point here; and the ones I didn't or don't are just cause I don't use that thing or worked to fix i#(which I damn well shouldn't have to work to fix stuff like not doing an internet search in my start menu; that should come by default)#(and the stuff that's just not in services I use... yet... well I'll tell you every company watches to see what they can get away with)#it's all just so stupid and frustrating and just kinda... makes things worse to maybe make some shareholders money#does it generate any actual value? no; but it lets them squeeze a tiny bit more money out somewhere so let's do it#(and as I always talk about; minecraft is both very good because I actually own my world files on my computer)#(but very bad because it's totally controlled by a microsoft account if I want to log into those worlds)#(it's complete ownership of the most important parts while having zero ownership of the means of accessing my work)#(and it makes me want to figure out how to host a pirate server I can log into with a pirate copy... just on principle)
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how do I literally have the worst sense of direction in the world, I somehow keep on truckin’ based on logic but I cannot form a map in my head??
#does this mean i should or shouldn't ever go on vacation on my own? hmm#me walking literally like three blocks away from my usual area:#'so if this is the street parallel to the street across from my house what is the name of that street?' *does not compute*#my posts
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