lyrial @ lyrial @anarchist.nexus

She/her pronouns. With the help of a lot of cool people, I got the meds I n

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It was really, really, REALLY bad for me. Like an hour after surgery bad. I needed an emergency bed pan placement. But this was actually, oh fuck - 20 years ago now. I'm jealous of the current after market bits.

Thanks for this. I rarely check local (it's kind of dead here tbh), but this is was an interesting read that I will take into account going forward.

If you were unaware, this is a baseline for a micro generation sometimes called the Oregan Trail generation (or Xennials). I'm in that cohort myself. My district was well-funded though and by the time I was in late high school, the computer lab looked like this.

Is this referring to computer labs in schools in general? This is at least Win 95 (and the school system didn't bother to update things in 98), so I would have been in high school with these, and thinking back we had very similar machines. I do kind of miss it because my friends and I had setup a hidden series of IRC servers on a few PCs. So, while we were supposed to be learning to type, we'd just chat. In retrospect, it was a good idea that was poorly implemented (people will eventually get around anything that they have physical access to) but the modern idea of kids in schools just having a ChromeBook, tablet, phone, or w/e is kind of fucked up. We had access to the computer lab for 1 period a day vs. the modern 24/7.

I think that in the end my real opinion is that I don't miss this, I miss my friends and I testing the limits of the security for both network and individual PC. We did some wild stuff with our TI-83s. One of my friends from that time was a certified Machine God and wrote an assembly program for his TI that would allow him (and by extension us) to surreptitiously plug in our calculators to those PCs via serial and effectively "dial out" bypassing the restrictions. It was a wild time.

This reminds me of https://elan.school/ . Fair warning, It is pretty long and is the opposite of a light read.

And there is so much to that series of books in terms of complex topics that are dealt with in subtle ways that I don't understand how they think it is Y/A.

They are constantly adding levels too.

Edit: maps to levels

Honestly it is way better on PC. I don't think the controls translate very well to touch screen. It gets pretty damn hard, and I don't think I've ever been able to get very far on phone or tablet. That could be a me thing, though. The game is amazing nonetheless.

passengers wave

It's all the same guy.

You mean like the slang for champagne? No. That’s bubbly.

I am not autistic, but I have pretty severe misophonia. Sand paper is the worst. Just thinking about it is uncomfortable.

It is an amazing story. It is worth it if you have the time.

https://natethesnake.com/

I am going to try to make up for breaking the rules by making some OC that people might like.

I need a source, please. I'm struggling to find it.

The last I heard was on NPR and that some European companies are still blocking it from happening there. I could be wrong and things may have changed. I will see if I can find a source.