I've definitely had a kinda emotional week (in a good way). My dad that I thought would never speak to me again sat down and wanted to just ask questions and talk with me, which was weird since all he's ever done was yell at me and put me down since I was a kid, but this felt like an actual, normal conversation, for once. Basically I'm pretty sure he's just finally accepted me, and that feels pretty nice.

I also finally finished setting up the replacement PC for the one that died a month ago; Gotta say I'm surprised with how easy it is to just run games on Linux now. Things just work.

And I learned over the last weekend that a whole bunch of people on my mom's side of the family are super supportive, which I really wasn't expecting!

(Also thanks for reminding me I need to take more time to just sit down, relax and read)

This week has been pretty good so far. Paid off my car, so now I don't need to think about that anymore :). I also found out just how amazing some of my friends are too!

I had a few good cries, happy and sad, and am really starting to feel like me, and haven't felt like I'm trapped playing pretend in a little while now. All in all, it's been a fantastic week to be me! ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

My best friend from when we were kids reached out to me, and we re-connected! I'm so happy I might actually cry!

Also, so I suddenly get motion sick super easy now, which is kinda funny since I had zero issues with VR headsets for hours at a time before, and now a flat screen can be too much. Also apparently I'm squeamish now too? Had to deal with dead bugs at work and it made me feel so sick. Weird.

Anyways my week has been fantastic so far and I'm actually starting to enjoy life, even things like folding laundry or standing in a line to vote.

Just got back from camping with friends last week; that was a ton of fun, I kinda wish it didn't have to end, living in the woods with friends cooking strange meat on a fire just kinda felt like the way life's supposed to be. Also I started hrt on Monday, and everything's just going amazing right now.

I think I'm actually happy, I like this.

Sorry I haven't commented on one of these in a while. Life's been a bit of a mess. I don't know how to feel anymore. Stressed? Terrified? Anxious? Does any of this actually matter?

Have to make a 9 hour drive up north to Georgia for an appointment early October, didn't expect to have to do that. Apparently starting new care was recently banned here, so that's...it sucks. Just trying to keep my sanity till then at this point.

Turns out some family members I have to see regularly are very transphobic, so... yeah. That's been oh so fantastic for my mental health too.

Venting aside (I'm sorry) the best news is definitely getting a new car. Traded in my aging SUV for a much newer Subaru, and absolutely love it. Finally something that wasn't a hand-me-down, that's mine and my own. Also managed turned that now required drive to Georgia into timing perfectly with a camping trip with some friends up there, so that's something worth looking forwards to.

Sorry if any of this was saying too much. I've been stressed way out.

Well, in that case, I'd like better odds. What am I supposed to do with a million dollars?

I guess I'd press it anyways. 1% is better than nothing.

There's a 50/50 chance I just got myself fired for standing up for myself at work, I'll find out on Tuesday when I go back in, I guess; it really doesn't matter to me anymore, I wasn't happy there, just stressed. If I'm not, then that's cool.

This is definitely the most euphoric I've felt in years, I think I'm going to celebrate with a trip to the beach and maybe look for some spots to skate. I think I'll start self advocating for myself more, too. I like this feeling.

Had a mental breakdown over the weekend. Ended up spending a day on self care, and I think I'm going to start working towards making some changes in my life, cause this isn't working for me.

And now I've just gone and impulsively bought some of those on the internet.

Oooh this means I don't have to commit to a long sleeve shirt in the summer or maybe as heavy a coat in the winter! Thanks internet stranger! 😊

I think that's from mastodon users, and how mastodon works when replying. I haven't personally used mastodon though, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

If it's important, they'll leave a message.

I'm sorry I can't really answer your question itself; I'm really not qualified to, but could you wear a long sleeve shirt/light jacket, then tie it around your waist when you're done with it? Or would that still be in the way?

Thank you for reminding me to purge boxes again; It's probably time._ I will admit I do like to keep the ones with fancy artwork_.

The little plastic trays things come in (fans especially) though, those are worth their weight in gold. I always keep them for sorting things like twist ties, small wires, and tiny extra screws, etc in drawers.

Have we met before, Mr. Tongue?

I don't know a lot about biology or things like that, and this is probably a bit of a mess of a thought, but a lab grown brain in a jar could have some really interesting implications if given, say, a computer, as it's sensory inputs and ways of interacting with the world.

Would it know what it was? How might it socialize? What would it do on the internet? Would it understand the difference between real human controlled characters and AI characters in a video game? How effective might it be at learning our languages, and communicating with us in them? What might be the most effective way/medium for it to learn a language?

I think it would be really interesting to study, and I don't imagine there would be many ethical issues?

Brown, with blue a close second.

The non-pokemon ones I played the most were:

DMG: Kirby's Dreamland 2

GBC: Shante

GBA: Drilldozer

Platformers to me always felt like the best suited games to handheld games, and I love the bright colorful art styles. Drilldozer is definitely my all time favorite. If you can find a copy, I'd highly recommend it! The rumble pack cartridge is so cool.

Oh wow, I went and looked up the MacBook Air, it looks like you could snap it being so thin. I'll have to keep an eye out for one of those at the junk stores, I've not disassembled a laptop nearly that thin yet. Personally, I'd probably just end up taping a battery to the bottom of that if it came to it. Most of the laptops I've got are at least an inch thick, so it's generally not a problem finding some space in them.

I recently picked up a T430, which turns out is an absolutely awful crapshoot with third party batteries that may just not charge thanks to Lenovo, or that just might stop holding any charge after a few cycles, or at worst manage to catch fire. Lenovo no longer sells new OEM batteries for these older machines, and as they get even older, finding new third party batteries will only become more difficult.

I think I might have left my thoughts a bit unfinished in my original comment. I think where I was trying to go with my issue with laptops being included in here is that requiring the batteries to be easily detachable won't stop manufacturers from trying to lock you into something evil, something along the lines of a battery subscription like it's printer ink. If anything it may encourage them to, and that's a scary thought. What happens when they stop producing batteries for your locked down hardware? Can't use "non-genuine" batteries, they won't be allowed to charge. The average user is likely just going to toss it and buy another one, creating more e-waste.

What I feel should be regulated is the interchangeability of parts like batteries, similarly to how USB-C has been enforced. Innovation is great, but proprietary major components that are destined to fail prematurely to the rest of the device from normal wear and tear don't benefit repairability, even if they are easily replaceable. Eventually that part will no longer be manufactured, and a consumable part that no-one else is allowed to sell to your users encourages you as the OEM to design that part to have a mean time to failure that's as short as possible.

Sorry if this reads a bit disheveled, I wrote it kind of sporadically.

It's not that I disagree with you entirely. It's just personally, knowing how to solder, and having had to replace batteries for both external and internal battery laptops recently, I'd rather not have this extend to laptops. As it is now with modern laptops, you just open up the housing, desolder the old battery, get just about any lithium battery from anything (those cheap USB power packs are great), and solder some wires from that to the control board. Going back to detachable batteries means having to deal with every single manufacturer's proprietary awful housing and pinout slots. You either buy an OEM part from the manufacturer (if they still sell them) or risk a fire with third party batteries in awful housing. Detachable batteries is also how you end up with things like Lenovo using firmware to disallow third party batteries from charging on their laptops.

I feel it's more important that housings should be user openable with normal tools (guitar pick, razor blade, screwdriver) without damaging the housing. HP is genuinely awful for this on laptops.

uses another engine to handle said physics

I would love to expand on this for people that may not know, the physics in Source are based on Havok. (Wikipedia Article)