Amy @a@asentientbot.ca

can't believe that magic plant hormones ("keiki paste") are really converting a flower bud into baby leaves 🥹 im so excited to (hopefully) duplicate my phalaenopsis orchids finally!!

today's cattleya pic since it feels unfair to post endlessly about the phalaenopsis propagation drama and never even show my favorite orchid, just because it's comparatively easy to duplicate

is this good

why does the iphone 7 have chips called homer and maggie

finally checked out some other stuff from this author (Linnea Sterte), she's so cool, idk why i didn't sooner??

so far ive read "world heist" and "a garden of spheres" and would highly recommend both. very very pretty, interesting world building, a bit confusing.

https://peow.studio/shop/products/world-heist

https://peow.studio/shop/products/a-garden-of-spheres

also available as PDFs on her patreon, which i really really appreciate as a Laptop Guy

btw, here's the progress on the purple and white phalaenopsis duplication. it seems to have decided to make like five plants??

it'll be a while until these are ready

it's finally ready to pot! the roots grew up very quickly once they got started

🟢 💭 (burger tomorrow)

thank you again to the apple cve generator known as storagekitd

(dw, just more nonsense, i will not find any serious bug)

my eyes teared up spontaneously (bc allergies or whatever) and it tricked me into feeling sad for a moment until i realized i was being tricked

took apart my friend's compaq armada 1700 (1998 laptop) yesterday, super impressed bc all screws are t8 torx of the same length, fully interchangeable.

never seen it before, i don't think even framework is doing that yet? i love it

is there a sane way to set an "accent color" on macos 26 but keep the classic light-blue folders?

ive been doing this, which works but feels very dumb..

defaults write -g AppleIconAppearanceTintColor Other
defaults write -g AppleIconAppearanceCustomTintColor '0.356 0.782 0.971 1.0'

my dad's nominally 5 cup rice cooker can properly cook 6 cups, nice

there aren't even any other flies in sight at the moment. possibly killed the only fly in the house with my iPhone SE 2016 (Rose Gold, 64 GB, iOS 15.8.7)

threw my phone onto my bed from a few feet away (as one does) and it somehow squished a fly in the process? what the hell

received a super cool print from an artist in toronto (saw the original in november) her name is Izzy Paez and the drawing is called "La Laguna Encantada".

struggling to take a photo of my copy due to glare but it's this one! https://www.instagram.com/p/C9xZCJngRvN/?img_index=1

i would really recommend looking at it!! (features green frogs, mice, and much more)

oh my god what, the "macbook neo" has the old style display cable that passes through the hinge https://support.apple.com/en-ca/126159

first macbook in a decade that won't have random display cable failures???

i realize it's _such_ a low bar, but they're finally approaching the standard of the 2015-17 macbook airs again. minus replaceable ssd, plus replaceable keyboard. i didn't expect it at all

antagonizing the other swifties by interpreting "you go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me" as a node with three spokes rather than a linear chain

today's cattleya pic since it feels unfair to post endlessly about the phalaenopsis propagation drama and never even show my favorite orchid, just because it's comparatively easy to duplicate

omg, i think those little bumps will be roots? maybe i can separate it after a few more months!

also added the paste to 3 more (purple and white, pink and white, and mini yellow and white; this one is white and orange)

pleasantly surprised to be wrong about this! the 8 gb memory is a little worrying long-term but fully expected with a18 pro. other tradeoffs are perfectly fine and it looks nice?

won't be shopping for a laptop for a long time, and i have.. other concerns about apple right now, but fairly impressed nonetheless

a downside to this laptop that i didn't anticipate is that it's just always cold to the touch. it's unpleasant