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

picked up a $10 serial mouse on Kijiji for a friend's ancient DOS laptop and it came with a catalogue.

i want the Logitech Kidz Mouse.... do they still make mice that look like mice..

i mean, would've presumably happened within a few weeks of regular opening and shutting too, but still. what if it wouldn't have 🫣

> the camera cable also has a sharp crease but it still works, for now.

i wiggled the screen a lot to see if it would stop working and it stopped working. what is my problem

dreamed i was on holiday somewhere and wearing an orange dress, bit weird since i own zero orange clothes or dresses irl.

also don't think i ever left the hotel room, so not a very interesting holiday either

when i got this (from a child on facebook marketplace) it had the classic "stage light" effect when nearly closed, and the backlight cut out entirely at around 30° open. this page and linked videos were helpful:

https://logi.wiki/index.php/A1706/A1708_TConn_Backlight_Pinout_(FlexGate)

the camera cable also has a sharp crease but it still works, for now.

it's exciting to see "flexgate" up close at last! this happens on almost all mac laptops to this day, btw 😓

i didn't enjoy this at all. it probably won't work for very long (because i did a bad job).

in my defense, i don't have a microscope, and im also not any good at soldering

the smallest monarch butterfly caterpillar ive ever seen, about the size of a grain of rice, omg

just found out that toads are a social construct

no more chrome updates for macos 12, and by extension the last good apple laptops 🥲

thankfully, firefox (which i was already using anyways) supports as far back as 10.15, so i won't have to learn how to use linux or oclp for a while yet.

yes i have an m1 air, it's weird and big 😓

also completely ruins one-off contact changes to make like "dumbass" or "satisfactory small woman" or whatever show in blue for the recipient..

one of the silliest macos behaviors is whenever i edit the contact for someone i talk with a lot on imessage, it freezes the app with 100% cpu for like minutes?

like is it updating every message with their new details or something?? is there not just a global contact field for the whole chat???

completely missed this earlier, the "keiki paste" had also triggered it to make another set of flowers and one of them
has two lips??

anyways don't buy these, they're arguably apple's worst laptop of the last couple decades and the 11" is much cuter, better, faster, stronger etc

i mailed this thing to my friend in february but it got eaten by her country's customs and then i got another one last month and am about to repeat the same actions hoping for a different outcome

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)