Amy @a@asentientbot.ca

🟢 💭 (carly rae jepsen rhyming "sentimental" with "detrimental")

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!!

i've ordered jeans which fit me. then ordered a size smaller to check if it's too small. it is too small. why did i do that

@ireneista fixed for you now too?

@ireneista same (i think?) here, the "condition" and "item location" dropdowns are broken for me. was also wondering if it's somehow my fault, but sounds unlikely then

@samhenrigold doesn't "plateau" imply flat? i mean, unfortunately accurate in my case, but seems risky for general use

i believe in a "misery business" x "better than revenge" cinematic universe i.e. they're about each other/the same guy

becoming the mythical "10x engineer" by simply spending 10 minutes on the computer for every minute in the day

(for some reason, my pc just Does This every week. i don't know why)

@nina_kali_nina (11" gang 😮) played with it some more with my sibling, and it seems to vary by viewing angle; they see red on "red" from the side but green head-on. i'm still not sure i ever see red, but it's definitely not always green. sometimes yellow? lol. really interesting effect!

@nina_kali_nina fascinating. i see green, purple, and black respectively. no idea if my laptop (11" macbook air) or brain is at fault here 😅

ofc, i'll be keeping the 11" macbook air as my main laptop since the 12" is very slow and a notoriously unreliable model, but it _is_ very light and very cute..

bought as non-working on ebay for ~100 cad. turned out all internal flex cables were torn (???), the keyboard had several bad keys, plus an unrelated short in the touchpad caused it to intermittently think the power button was held down 😅

...at least the main board and screen were alright, and i stole cables and a keyboard (~90 screws, yay) from a second machine. the touchpad issue confused me for a while but resolved in the end just by cleaning corrosion!

finally got my hands on my very own [in]famous 12" macbook!

@eb i had a similar experience last year; my gen 2 airpods' batteries became unusable and i "temporarily" switched to wired earpods (came with my sibling's iphone 8)

they fit and sound ~the same, and i never got around to shopping for new airpods. picked up a spare pair of earpods instead 😅

(viewable at https://amys.website/orchids if interested)

finally learned the name of my mystery brassanthe orchid by umm, reading a label i didn't see before 😅

obligatory 1y hardware replacement therapy posting

highly recommend, less so the preceding years of Fucking Around

@BasicAppleGuy i've always loved how the big sur wallpaper makes the menubar almost solid purple on some screen resolutions