#tech babbling

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 101

 The Fentons have created a machine! A wonderful machine that will reveal a ghost’s true form! So that everyone will see their trickery! They’ll see that the monsters they really are! 

 Now, to know what all went wrong, one would have to know some things about the ghost zone, and more specifically the area the Fentons had managed to punch through to. 

 For one, ghosts do not age like humans. Oh they might take a form similar to that of their death, which may appear as an adult or teen or something similar, but with how they can only die by the complete destruction of their core, theoretically a ghost could live forever once formed. 

 In fact, the equivalent of eighteen years for a ghost was one-hundred realms-years dead. And those years don’t always sync up with the years of the living world that one might open a door into. Thankfully, the Fenton’s world, being one of those synced closer to the Realms, only had a time dilation of a few seconds. 

 That being said, the area their portal had ripped into was incredibly rich in ectoplasm. And areas like that, were where newborn ghosts were formed and arrived. A ghost daycare of sorts, almost akin to a toddler area of the zone. 

 Which meant that when they shoot the Phantom-menace and other pesky ghosts to revert them into their true form, it isn’t exactly monsters that appear. Instead, there are now several ghost toddlers- or in the phantom-trio’s case literal babies- flying around. Very unhappy ghost toddlers. 

 What a horrible time for the Justice League to arrive. Though perhaps some would say it was actually perfect timing. 

[alibonbonn]

Calypso, for a few years there

[swugflower]

We all know and love the “Clark just talking for hours while Bruce sits next to him, barely listening while working”-dynamic and I think we don’t talk about the equally enjoyable “Bruce being absolutely fascinated of/hyper fixated on some alien technology and explaining it in agonizing detail to Clark, who has no idea what’s going in but always willing to listen”- dynamic.

[gwekkuu]

Day 2 prompt for @donro-week :> (Conflict)

Donro in the PKNA timeline = a rough long distance relationship, let me tell ya bois

[damienthepious]

i need to start making mix cds again like it's the early aughts. i need to start making mixtape cassettes like uhhhhhhh before i was conscious.

[y-rhywbeth2]

Considering the submarine is powered by oil, apparently Toril's would-be Industrial Revolution has skipped coal as engine fuel.

Gortash just went 'nah' and skipped a century or two of engineering evolution in his schematics. Was he inspired by stuff from more advanced Planes he saw parts of in Avernus? Or is he just Like This?

...furthermore, where are we mining the oil from?

[beetroot-merchant]

uugh can you please think about your knee-jerk hatred of just all ai inherently pleaase pleas

[beannary]

In tlp au, is Donnie any good at fighting? I know in the show he’s shown as being REALLY good, like almost takes out draxum in the first episode all by himself before the mystic stuff happens, so what about in your au?

so at this point TLP donnie has not had any fighting training or experience so he is not very good

that being said! he is very crafty which i think given the opportunity, he would be able to land a few good hits on his opponent just by using his environment and random objects around him in ways that aren't obvious. sort of like in miraculous ladybug how marinette uses her lucky charm, she has an object and she finds a creative way to use it to her advantage. though even though Donnie can do this, because he doesn't have any training, it is still fairly easy to beat him.

eventually when Donnie leaves Big Mama and starts living with the Hamatos he will get some proper martial arts training. I have like a lot of things planned out for Donnie's first few months living with the Hamatos where he's going to go through a lot of wack emotional states as he grieves leaving his mom and realizing that she wasn't good to him and one of them will be anger and during that time he's pretty much going to go all out in training and use that as an emotional outlet and during that time he's going to get fairly good at fighting.

[littletism]

stimboard for my partner/cg, vivi!

with stims that make me think of her! no clear aesthetic here, that was on purpose! i looovoveeve yeuouo viviiiiiiiiiii

💜🤝🎶|💻🥰🌄|💗🦔👢

[tigirl-and-co]

one thing about me is that i am constantly thinking about how saiyans are ambush predators, as opposed to the persistence predators we humans are, and how much of the cultural gap that explains.

[roseverdict]

hey who wants to look at the innards of the laptop i've been tasked with repairing and help me figure out whether i can safely unplug a ribbon cable that's blocking the connection i actually need to switch out for a new one

it's an acer aspire vx5-591g if that helps. or vx 15. idk why there's multiple model numbers. the hard drive replacement was simple enough but i've been connectionblocked here wksjaizhajzhaha

also here's the replacement i wanna put in there. ik it's not completely identical but it looks like it'll fit in the same spot without issue and it's not quite as high wattage so it wouldn't burn anything out so. yeehaw

[teenagefeeling]

this is such a specific pet peeve but the error message "slow charging, please use the cable provided with this device" drives me insaneeee like hello you are the device. give me numbers. tell me how many amps you want so i can buy whatever damn cable i would like to buy stop trying to force me to use your proprietary accessories by making it inconvenient to find information about the electronic devices that i myself purchased and now own

[australet789]

i dont know what happened but my computer kinda died? i managed to install the gpu again though, so i have it back!

But im curious if the animated video i did with photoshop might have been the problem? Do you guys know if that's a thing? Exporting videos kicking the gpu away or it was just a coincidence?

[twistedappletree]

americans: “livable wages and free healthcare, bestie? 🥺👉👈”

government: “banm timktonk”

[sonicenvy]

Ok so for all my windows using friends. We all know that new windows photos is dreadful and extra slow and bloaty on slower computers. There is a better solution for photo viewing on your PC, and as an added bonus this comes with a photo managing app that does many of the same things as adobe bridge. Oh and it's free.

What is this stunning software you ask?

Great question! Back in 2002, Google created a nifty piece of software known as Picasa Photos. They eventually killed this software in 2016 to focus on the infinitely more spying Google Photos (I'm not kidding about Google photos having privacy issues. They literally got sued over this in my home state of IL for violating our biometric privacy laws. I got paid $500 from Google for this btw). Moving on, Picasa slapped and that's why they killed it. Fortunately I am not the only Picasa Photo Viewer 3 enthusiast on the internet and there are others who saved the installation exe files. That said, I have helpfully found one that works which you can now download from my google drive here. Note that you cannot use the Google Photos/Google Account related options in the software anymore as Google has discontinued support for it.

Picasa has it all for the person who needs a good photo organizer:

finds ALL photos in your documents, downloads, and pictures folders for you.

ability to open and edit camera raw files

ability to add tags to photos, sort into folders, locate in the system etc.

basic photo editing tools with a good histogram. one of the best editing tools they have, which I would argue is almost on par with a tool from the adobe camera raw editor is the "neutral color picker" tool, where you can select an area in the picture to set a custom white balance in the image (easiest, best color correction). Also contains a primitive healing brush tool.

very good at red eye removal. I used that feature a lot back in 2005.

good printing options (easy to print multiple copies of the same photo on the same page in a variety of standard sizes.

ability to create a photo collage with multiple photos or a photo slideshow video

sort by person tool

lots of fun filters to apply to images if that's your thing.

add custom geotags to photos using another dated google product, google earth.

create a gift cd of photos or create poster sized versions of your photos that print over multiple sheets somewhat like the rastrabator.

the image viewer part is slick, lightweight and fast unlike windows photos. It allows you to quickly arrow key through your photos in a very nice way.

Allow me to show you some screenshots of this glorious piece of abandonware.

anyways, tldr; this piece of abandonware is the best, most glorious free photo viewer for windows, and as a person who's been using it for the last 18 years I highly recommend it to everyone who does not have adobe PS & Bridge and also anyone with windows who wants a quick way to preview photos in their folders.

[annies-scrapbook]

i’ve been reading a lot about odd vintage tech lately, and i think it’s started to spill over into my subconscious, because last night i had a dream about a fascinating device. it was technically a synthesizer, but it looked nothing like any real-world synthesizer i’ve ever seen. it was a rectangular metal box with three small screens on the front, each with two knobs under it, and you controlled it by using the knobs to draw waveforms on the screens like an etch-a-sketch. it would play whatever was on the screens, and there was also an option to have it loop the current waveform and clear the screens, so you could draw another waveform to play over the existing one. it was the most utterly impractical way to design a synthesizer, and yet i kind of love it and lowkey want to build one now.