Amy @a@asentientbot.ca

i thought it died years ago, but apparently the battery was just so low that it wouldn't even try to charge. briefly injected 5 v to the battery terminals and now it's working and charging off usb!!

sadly the pokemon save is long gone since they need power to keep data..

omg? the palm tablet i played pokemon blue on in high school is working again??

only just learned that Maxwell (low-poly spinning cat) and Uni ("big boobs") are two distinct individuals. embarrassing

is this good

so is a "hot minute" another "biweekly" situation or is one usage objectively wrong?

🟢 💭 (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

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)

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!

(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

i swear they introduced new colors of purple flowers this year

for the macos 26 beta enjoyers, this seems to enable a water animation on the default wallpaper (at a couple fps, lol, maybe hidden for a reason)

sudo mkdir -p /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/NeptuneWallpaper.plist onemove -dict Enabled -bool true

also didn't realize these things' fans are fully off most of the time, afaik the airs are always spinning at low rpm? kind of neat