#tech recommendations

[galaxythedragonshifter]

Anyone have suggestions for laptops for art college? I have two options I'm thinking of but I'd like a few more to choose between

Minimum specs: 32 GB ram, 1920 x 1080 res, 100 GB of hard disk space (preferably more)

[oddlittlestories]

Techies of tumblr, I ask for your wisdom

I need a new laptop and I am struggling. Specs are one thing, but I need it to be reasonably portable and actually good.

To be clear, and because y’all love a good story, I own two Mac computers. A desktop from 2013 that still works reasonably well for being ancient af and a laptop from 2014 whose battery swelled and currently lives in a drawer. Due to repairability, I want to get a PC. I want to own my next computer as long as I can. To be clear, I was using the laptop for video editing in 2022, and as my primary text editor and web surfer this year. When I say, “as long as I can,” I mean it.

The last laptop I tried to buy technically met my specs. I returned it the next day. It was already glitching and the battery lasted less than three hours.

Three. Hours.

All I was doing was scrolling the web.

It needs to be able to do image editing / digital art, audio editing, text editing. Video editing a plus.

intel core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 CPU.

1 or 2 TB storage. (I do use external disk drives. Do not tell me not to use external disk drives. In the immortal words of Ron Swanson, I know what I’m about, son.)

16 GB of ram.

A nice graphics card would help me with all that art.

Preferably not massive.

Thanks in advance for your wisdom.

[cutekittenlady]

Google sucks for this now, and I'm not sure if I trust youtube reviews so I figure, whatever, I'll ask Tumblr for its opinion.

I'm wanting to get a nice new set of bluetooth headphones. Preferably a pair that still comes with a cord that you can use to plug into tech when necessary but can still be charged with a usb-c and be used wireless. I'd really love it if it could come with fun colors or designs, but its not a necessity.

So, do you guys have any recommendations?

[virtue1nvain]

Does anyone know a good standard pc or laptop of any kind that can handle a decent amount? Mostly need it for college cause im doing digital media (illustration, vfx, 3d animation and modelling, game design) and I need something that can handle that but ALSO i might want it to play minecraft,,, and other games,,

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

Okay, all, as promised: here's a compiled list of the Tech Lives fics I've read so far! I haven't read nearly as many yet as I would like, so if your work isn't mentioned here please feel free to add your work to this list! I'm still looking for more recommendations (let's be real, I'm ALWAYS looking for recommendations 😅) and I'm excited to read some more!

(Also, can I take a moment to offer my highest compliments to all you authors?? You all are FANTASTIC writers and motivate me to up my game too! 😍)

Happy reading and Tech Lives!!!

***Works by other writers:

TBB Season 2 Finale Fix-Its, by Niobium - a collection of stories with various means by which Tech survives (I've only read through the first two so far, but they are very fun reads. One involves Phee having a Jedi background, another involves Hondo... and it goes on!) @niobiumao3

Familiar, by AurumAstra - Tech's experience post-fall plus Omega finding Tech post-epilogue, told from Omega's and Tech's POVs (a work in progress) @gonky-kong

Awake, by PaulSimonBarCarloson - an alternate to the series finale, with many very interesting twists including Tech as CX2 - and with a happy ending

Stolen Time, by KyberCrystals94 - Omega finds Tech post-epilogue and Tech reunites with the family on Pabu @kybercrystals94

Alive, by Lif61 - Echo tries reaching Tech via comms, even though he knows Tech couldn't have survived... (I found it to be a heartwrenching read but the ending is great!) @lifblogs

Works by archivewriter1 - I'm linking the post where the author lists the stories with descriptions. The stories are fantastic and many involve an adorable OC named Darik! @archivewriter1ont

***My works:

Lost and Found - Tech is found and reunited with his family post-epilogue, told from Tech's, Crosshair's, and Phee's POVs

The Lost One - related to the above; more details from Echo's and Omega's POVs, as they find Tech post-epilogue

The Start of Something New - TechPhee including after Tech's return, from Hunter's POV

Protector - Hunter's POV as he learns to adjust post-Tantiss, culminating in Tech's return

[emotiandon]

reccomend me some better shit for drawing other then an ipad, also i will not splurging on 10000 bucks on a fucking shitty thing

crying rn wtf why did my reading list on my ipad just delete itself after shutting down

[genericnam]

Yo yo, does anybody have any recommendtions for good western cartoons?

I watch some Anime, but it's generally not my preference, so please stick to cartoons.

I've already watched: Amphibia, Adventure Time (Fionna & Cake included), The Owl House, Gravity Falls, Over The Garden Wall, Avatar: The Last Airbender (and Korra), Wander Over Wonder, The Midnight Gospel, Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Hilda, Murder Drones, Centaurworld, The Amazing World of Gumball, The Ghost and Molly McGee, Ben 10, Phineas and Ferb, Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts, Glitch Techs, The Amazing Digital Circus, We Bare Bears, Disenchantment, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Edits: Shows I forgot to list/have already started

Milo Murphy's Law, The Hollow, Invader Zim, The Last Kids on Earth, Miraculous Ladybug, Regular Show, Bee and Puppycat, Dead End: Paranormal Park, The Cuphead Show

[haveihitanerve]

Tim has moments of trauma flashbacks where he reverts back into Joker Junior. 

Just starts laughing uncontrollably, eyes glassy, dissociating and in a constant state of smiling creepily, flinching at every loud noise, and cheering when bad things happen. 

The only thing that calms him in times like these is being hugged/cradled/soothed by Bruce or Babs. Others have tried, but their touch doesn't work. 

He just sits in their lap as they work, rubbing his back and whispering words of comfort, until his laughing turns into sobs and he just fully collapses against them as they just hold him, rocking back and forth and whispering that he’s safe now, that they’ve got him. 

When the tears run out and he’s wrung dry, he’ll slip away, head to his room and try to forget. They don’t follow. They want to, but they don't. 

They don't talk about it, but maybe a new gadget or piece of tech, or improved device or nuclear codes will be waiting for them on their desk the next day, 

Or maybe Tim will brew one of his special, extra strong cups of coffee for them after a particularly long patrol.

[wardensantoineandevka]

I should say it more often, but no joke, I think people who looking into doing narrative writing or narrative design and game design should become invested in one major sport, or at least loosely follow one, because the interaction of the game mechanics against how audiences and commentary interacts with them to find and create patterns and then stories out of numbers is fascinating. The endless way we reframe gameplay statistics to create what is literally called The Narrative of a team history or a player career or the gameplay season is good to be familiar with. I always recommend baseball in particular, not just because I love baseball but because baseball has really simple basic rules but the major leagues have some really interesting hijinks.

[faislittlewhiteraven]

Been having some ISaT tech level and timeline (as in 'when backstory things happened') thoughts and want to ramble a bit:

Tech

ISaT's setting is based on your classic sword and sorcery fantasy JRPG so its easy to assume that tech wise everything is 'fantasy medieval' and call it a day but consider:

Body Craft is at bare minimum is magic sex changing surgery (earliest known equivent in our world dating to 1930) that any old person can learn to do safely on themselves in only a few months, and more likely has many many broader applications like regular old surgery, the 'combat healing' Mira and Sif use, etc.

Cameras and photos are rare enough that Odile comments on it (namely she's happy the group get a photo in the House due to them being 'so rare') yet are also common enough that everyone in the party knows about them and doesn't question the existence of a camera beyond being surprised that the mirror was one. (In our world cameras date back to the 19th century, with the earliest manufacturing of them being in 1839). 

Printing presses and ways to make plenty of paper to feed those presses given absolutely everyone in this game can read, expects everyone else to know how to, and both mass produced book series and newspapers are a thing. (Note: Printing presses have existed since waaaay back but it's the mass paper manufacturing that makes newspapers and The Cursing of Chateu Castle possible that really has my eyebrows raised here, especially since neither Siffrin or Odile find either odd in any way, indicating such things are common everywhere, and while newspapers have been around since 1604 in our world, mass produced fantasy books didn't really take off until the start of the 20th century).

Food production and storage: despite being in the middle of a national disaster that almost certainly cut off trade networks and access to most suppliers for literal months now, Bonnie, a small child, is able to easily get their hands on fresh Pineapple, curry ingredients (for samosa), potatoes, plantains etc with no issues or anyone commenting on this being unusual or lucky. Oh and the only character who even brings up the concept of potential starvation is the Fishing One, and only in a sort of 'we're not at risk now but sooner or later...' kinda way due to noticing that the fish they fish up for fun are disappearing and likely being frozen. So yeah, that heavily implies Vaugarde has very good food storage tech/Craft (possibly better than ours), and likely also good food production and harvesting tech/skills also.

The Island's incredible knowledge of the stars: while the oldest known orrery in our world is dated from around 205 to 87 BC (ancient Greek, earth centric model), the fact Sif -who would've learnt this as a child/teen- is so very certain that stars are big balls of fire made up of gas is interesting as that's something our world couldn't prove the theory of until around the 1900s (note: it'd been theorized a LONG time but Sif talks like its complete facts to them . Additionally the earliest existing record of a telescope in our world dates to a 1608 patent and we see one of those in game.

Post posting EDIT: A wonderful user qds-place pointed out that Mirabelle has anti-anxiety medication in her room. This is in both ISaT and SAaP and though we're not sure what form the medication takes (pills? Valium? Megitech esc Craft boosters???) the fact they specifically have 'anti anxiety' medication at all (as opposed to idk dragging Mira off and drugging her through the gills) is kind of impressive and if it IS modern anti anxiety pills those could be as recent in creation as the 1950s! So um. Some high levels of tech implied in chemistry there <3

So... yeah. All this, plus the fact that the highest tech implied area, The Island, literally specialised in the study/Craft of turning wishes into reality (for a long enough time period that Wish Craft is culturally so ingrained in the King and Sif that they do it without thinking and it seems intertwined with their nation's religion) has been completely erased from memory to the point anything heavily associated with them has been forgotten, and also we only ever see Dormont aka a little village well away from the cities, it's not hard to conclude that you can basically justify giving the ISaT world any level of tech you want, so long as you lock any of the truly 'setting breaking' stuff like planes and rockets behind The Island's forgetting curse (I would've said trains too but thinking about it trains were invented in 1802 so it's honestly easy to imagine that they totally exist in the ISaT setting/Vaugarde but aren't ever on screen because rail is way too dangerous to consider using while the Curse is active and potentially time freezing things on the tracks).

Side note: We know absolutely nothing about Vaugarde's transport system but as a fan of fantasy RPGs it is honestly a travesty I have yet to see a fic that has flying dragons/wyverns or other fantasy mounts in setting. Like, ok yes, the party would probably have wanted to use those but maybe they don't like the Curse and fled? Maybe the King's Curse targeted them first? Maybe all their handlers dropped the heroes off in Dormont and said 'Well Saviors it's been fun, but well me and Scales here are off to Poteria until things wrap up so best of luck to you' before buggering off?

This isn't really a serious complaint just. Me reminding myself/potentially other fanwork writers out there that there's a lot about the setting we just don't know about and limiting all travel to walking, horse drawn carriage and boat is not actually required. (Also please mix up travelling to the Island. Boats are a wonderful classic and have great thematic vibes for Sif's original leaving of the Island but like. Imagine the sheer in-universe wtf of the memories of The Island suddenly coming back and people on the north coast suddenly realising there's a massive bridge, subway or underwater tunnel leading there that everyone just forgot about - potentially filled with all kinds of Sadnesses that need taking down. Or Warp Panels in a House of Change, idk XD).

Timeline

Canon notes first:

Bonnie is a preteen (8 to 12), Mira and Isa are in their early to mid 20s (with Isa slightly older), Sif is late 20s to 30, and Odile is 40+ Nille is stated to be around 18 to 20.

Siffrin ran away from home when they were a teenager (13 to 17? 18?) and this is heavily implied to be when the Island was Forgotten.

Bonnie (in ISaT specifically*) says that Nille told them that when it happened all the adults were talking about it, hence why they think The Island is close to their village. *In Start Again a Prologue, Bonnie says that they themself remember the adults talking about the Island disappearing, which er. Is a bit impossible given they likely weren't even born yet when that happened but that can be explained away by AU differences, InsertDisc5 still finalising details between SAaP and ISaT, and/or OG Siffrin having been in the loops so long they weren't actually listening when Bonnie was talking and just 'scripted' in their head something 'close enough' to what Bonnie was saying to get the idea (note: mentioned that idea before in my post here on the differences between the House and King in Start Again vs In Stars and Time for anyone curious so er please feel free to give that a read if you haven't already).

Odile mentions remembering 'when it happened' as well and has been 'travelling for years'.

The King 'appeared out of nowhere' sometime in his adulthood, and lived in the city of Corbeaux for a few years before he became the King.

The King became the King as was freezing people in time long enough before his attack on the House of Dormont that everyone inside knew he was coming, there were a wall's worth of newspaper articles about him, and everyone was expecting Euphrasie to defeat him.

Mirabelle's quest began 'almost a year ago' and Sif lost their eye 'recently'.

Thoughts on the above:

Calculating when The Island was forgotten:

Sif being mid 20s to 30 and having run away from home as a teen means that The Island has to have been forgotten somewhere between 9 to 17 years ago with nine only possible if he ran away at age 17 and is only age 26 now, and seventeen being the far opposite if he ran at age 13 and is currently 30.

To narrow down the timeline: Given Sif ran away from home because he 'didn't want to eat his veggies' and 'just wanted to scare [his] parents a little bit' it's probably safe to assume Siffrin was likely on the younger end of the teen spectrum (teens run off all the time sure but with loving parents and over veggies? That screams 'kid who has not yet learned that freaking out the parents will get their ass grounded and/or yelled at a LOT and is therefore best saved for doing fun forbidden stuff that ideally the parents will never find out about' XD) Additionally given Siffrin can't remember his age/birthday etc but Isabeau outright says near the beginning of the game "But you're older than most of the people here?" meaning Sif must be visibly older than Isa or Mira, so he's probably closer to 30 than not.

Those alone would imply the Island likely disappeared closer to the '17 years ago' side of things BUT Nille (tops 20 years old) told Bonnie that "[the Island's disappearance] was all the adults would talk about for ages" and kids usually can't remember anything prior to 4 years of age so with that in mind...

I'd say The Island most likely disappeared between 13 to 16 years ago.

Nille stuff:

This is more a general mention but. Nille is tops 20 years old. Bonnie is between 8 and 12 and doesn't remember their parents at all.

This means Nille ran away with Bonnie and gained emancipation and custody of Bonnie (if Vaugarde has formalised that kind of legal stuff) while she was at most 12 years old herself and could have in theory been as young as 6..!

Regardless, it's very likely the original home situation was that bad, Nille deserves a ton of credit for raising Bonnie as well as she has and I'd say it's very VERY likely she had a lot of help from villagers in Bambosche and/or the local House of Change in doing so. ...But also Bonnie is very adamantly 'my sister and village' and not 'my sister and [specific names who live with us]' so there's clearly by the time Bonnie was 4 or so they were living in their own place so... Yeah. Lotta drive for independence there too it seems (so the party might have more trouble adopting Nille into their group post ISaT than Bonnie might expect).

King stuff:

Already an adult 13 to 16 years ago so at bare minimum 33. Given his vibe probably much older though.

Newspapers get printed pretty quick though for there to be so much speculation and research done into his background so quick, either Vaugarde has some form of fast messaging system (something like a Chappe telegraph on top of the Houses of Change? Odile I think does mention that they'll have a message sent to let Nille know they'll be returning Bonnie...) or the King was freezing stuff for IDK around a month or two before reaching Dormont? Alas can't find out how long it takes to walk across all of France out very easily (I'm sure the numbers are out there but my brain is pudding rn) but if we had those numbers we could probably make some guesstimates based off the rough sketched map of Vaugarde InsertDisk5 did... Which I would link but apparently the tumblr post I had it linked on has been deleted???? 'wails at this very unhappy development'

Mira's journey and Sif's eye:

We really don't know a lot but almost a year ago gives us somewhere around 9 to 11 months to spread the journey out along and after eye removal surgery the patient can out and about as soon as 2 to 6 weeks after, maybe sooner with magic healing (though full recovery/growing used to the changed spacial awareness -which Sif clearly does not have- probably can't be sped up and takes around 3 to 6 months) so um. I'd guestimate Sif's eye injury is really recent; like two months ago tops recent. ...Which sorta explains a lot of why Bonnie is not dealing with it right now and also why the others might be trying to avoid bringing it up (since Sif clearly loves avoiding the issue but they haven't yet realised that maybe they really should bring it up even if it annoys them anyway?)

Odile with some Ka Bue speculation:

When it comes to The Island, how did Odile, presumably living in Ka Bue at the time, remember 'when it happened'? Was the Island well known enough even on the other side of the world that it's disappearance made waves? Or was Odile herself or someone she's close to paying attention to the region? (Like maybe her dad or a friend is/was into politics or trade, keeping up with overseas news and got concerned it could happen to Ka Bue? I'd say 'I remember when it happened' line implies it was more immediate knowledge than being informed by a messenger much later though...)

As for Odile's 'years of travel' I have to wonder, what's left behind for her in Ka Bue? She brings up going back there quite a bit, might just miss home and possibly her father if he's still alive, but given it took her years to get here for something so personal rather than idk 'materially rewarding' I think Odile might have some kinda family estate or something back in Ka Bue... Something she wasn't worried about potentially losing while far away, but solid enough to want to return to, beyond her father who she'd definitely want to see again if he's still around. (...But given how open she is to chilling about Vaugarde a few more months with the others, I really don't think he is alive, since well, given their respective ages and travel between Vaugarde and Ka Bue apparently taking years, there'd definitely an uncomfortably high chance of him passing away while she's gone and that seems like the thing that'd stress Odile out so... Yeah. Probably got an estate in Ka Bue she'd like to take the Family to visit/possibly sell off if she decides she'd like to live with them in Vaugarde so... Just my off the cuff headcanoning here and hoping that gives others ideas or something).

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Anyway that's all the ramble I've got in me so... yeah! Hope this was interesting and useful for those needing a bit of a 'possible tech'/timeline calcs breakdown for the Island + a few more vague things and um. Probably will post a long winding ramble about my attempt at a ISaT Selkie AU fic I've been working on next <3 (Not to be confused with looped-140-and-counting's already existing and quite wonderful Selkie Siffrin AU which already has a completed oneshot fic, a snippet of sequel, two snippets of prequel/Sif flashbacking and I believe a comic too, all of which I highly recommend <3)

[hyperfixated-fan]

Summary: Crosshair blinked, the situation finally clicking in his mind. "You're telling me that while I was being tortured, the two most awkward members of our squad got themselves girls?"

Bewildered, flabbergasted, and bamboozled didn't even begin to cover his thoughts on this. Well then... now he's got to test and see if these women are truly deserving of his brothers' affections.

[pluggedintosaverockandroll]

favorite video essays pt 2

"learned helplessness" & the tech literacy crisis | Internet Analysis

The Long Queer History of Punk

How Nostalgia Controls Us

Sympathy for the Machine

The Beautiful Horror of Deep Space

the perpetual infantilisation of millennial women

I Want More Quiet Horror

Boeing: How Capitalism Crashes Planes

How Greed Ruined Gaming

shop 'til you drop: horror's condemnation of overconsumption

part 1 | part 3

[lizzy06]

Aone Takanobu x Reader Fic Recs!!(Tumblr/AO3/Wattpad)

Haikyuu! Fic Rec Masterlist

Date-Tech Fic Rec Masterlist

Nosebleed ✨✨✨💖by WritingTheInserts(oneshot, fluff, humor) All the important moments of your life started with a nosebleed. [COMPLETED]

The Lightest Touch✨✨ by @seokiloquy (oneshot, soulmate au, fluff) you have a birthmark/tattoo of the place where your soulmate first touches you and it slowly fades over 24 hours until it’s gone.[COMPLETED]

Perfect ✨by @volleyboys-n-girls (oneshot, soulmate au, fluff) The words first spoken by your soulmate are tattooed on your skin. For you, you were lucky right there. [COMPLETED]

soulmate au ✨by @pies-writes-and-more (oneshot, soulmate au, fluff) The words first spoken by your soulmate are tattooed on your skin. [COMPLETED]

gentle by @teamatsumu (oneshot, fluff)he’s not the same with you as he is with everyone else.[COMPLETED]

High Priestess✨ by theunluckycanuck (orphan_account) (oneshot, arranged marriage, smut) You were the priestess of the east and he was a monk of the west, in order to bring good fortune you had to meet and become a union. What brought forth was more than just marriage.[COMPLETED]

The Scarf by starryiedd (oneshot, fluff)she finds the scarf in her locker, she didn't expect any of the events that followed.[COMPLETED]

A Gentle Silence✨ by Amoralyn (crushes, love letters, fluff, oneshot)How does he really feel about me? Does he want to be my friend, or more? And how long can I pretend that I’m happy with just being friends?[COMPLETED]

Eighth Wonder by abswrites (oneshot, fluff)Aone knows he looks scary. Hell, he sees his own face in the mirror every morning. But here you are, chattering away next to him without a care.[COMPLETED]

Sound of Silence by @dira333/Fogfire (oneshot)What happens if you, with your sharp tongue and sweet features, meet Aone, the grim looking sweetheart everyone seems to be afraid of?[COMPLETED]

A Good Man ✨by @dira333/Fogfire (oneshot, fluff)You'd known he'd be a good father, a good husband, a good man. You'd known all along.[COMPLETED]

The Class Rep and the Wall by Teapots_and_Teacups (oneshot, fluff)Aone takes a moment to help out an underclassman.You aren't scared by the gentle giant.[COMPLETED]

Soft, sweet, and light✨ by @write-haikyuu (oneshot, fluff) Aone Takanobu loves dessert. But he loves you more.[COMPLETED]

what he's looking for by flying_siphonophore (oneshot, smut, fluff)...he wonders if you’re wearing shorts under that…. if you’re wearing those cute underwear you bought the other day…. or if he ran his hand underneath he’d find nothing separating his hand from you.[COMPLETED]

Train Ride | Aone Takanobu/Reader ✨✨by @thisnoodlewritesao3 (oneshot, fluff)Aone had never been more thankful of the people who avoided him on the trains, especially when they gave him something as amazing as you.[COMPLETED]

Trepidation Overlooked by introher (masturbation, friend to lovers)aone masturbates to the thought of you, alone and in his room are where his fantasies run wild.[COMPLETED]

Lover's play by @dira333/ Fogfire(friends to lovers, oneshot)[COMPLETED]

[whatislifebesidesrehearsal]

Heyyyy so is it normal for, if the stage manager calls a cue wrong, for the light/sound operator not to just do it correctly anyways? Isn’t that why they learn the show?

So professionally (and otherwise with good practices) when the SM calls the cue is when the op should play it, even if that's not the expected place from the script/tech. There's a couple reasons for this, the big one being that the SM is responsible for making sure that all the parts of the show go smoothly and anything that is off isn't noticed by the audience. For example, the SM might decide to call a sound cue late because the costume crew told them the actor that enters with the cue isn't ready in time. Or a light cue might be early because they need that side of the stage to go dark for deck crew to go out and grab something that's fallen.

Sometimes they do just call the cue at the wrong time (they're only human lol), in which case the op should still play the cue when they say, and ask them about it at the end of the night/during notes (politely and one-on-one if possible). The reason for this is that the timing of the show's cues is the SM's responsibility, and that includes getting them wrong, whereas if the Op plays a cue when it isn't called then the mistake is on them.

This is often an unintuitive practice for people new to tech and can be a hard reflex to pick up. (I should know, I learned to board op at a theater that had no SM calling at all and then spent several shows unlearning bad habits once I left lol*.) In general, disagreeing with the SM during a show is bad form and can distract both of you from the show.

Ops learn the show because, while it is the SM's job to know the entire show and all its moving pieces, the Ops know their area really well. So Ops can note that a cue happened at a different time than the day before and discuss it with the SM later on. It also helps so that Ops can anticipate when their SM is about to call a cue and up their attention.

TLDR: Nope! Familiarity with the show is useful, but an Op's job is to follow the cues as given by the SM. Changes to timing may be a mistake (but the SM's mistake) or they might be based off of information that the SM has and the Op does not. If Ops have concerns about timing, they should discuss it with the SM before/after the show. :)

[thisischeri]

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[emailwormvbskakworm]

Paper chase fans/John congleton fans pls recommend me some songs you like from him... I've listened to the entirety of now you are one of us, and the machines are winning, half of someday tjis will all be yours and ctrl alt del ypu but I need more songs to listen to grr...