Amy @a@asentientbot.ca

i have 10 sata hdds, and for years they would occasionally disconnect or get stuck repeatedly trying to spin up, often hanging or panicking my pc (thank you macos).

anyways, they were all powered on molex-to-3x-sata dongles, and in november on a whim i cut off the molex plugs and soldered the sata plugs directly to the psu cables.

it's been stable for a few months now, so im tentatively concluding those 4-pin connectors are not reliable..? is it just my cables or a known thing with molex?

unsolved secondary problem called "i have like 6 of these now and nobody wants to buy them For some reason"

bit confusing (for me), a trace for boot rom was broken resulting in no sign of life and cycling S4 - S0 lines. thankfully there were test points at both sides to solder to. it's the "rare" i7 config as well!

ordered it months ago but didn't try to fix it until today.. i've been feeling yucky and i'm happy to accomplish something minor 😋

🟢 💭 (how my Moto e4 used to sort "Die Young" by Kesha in the Y section of music app bc it thought it was in German or something)

boring prediction: that rumored 12" macbook will be one of two things:
- genuinely cheap but with ipad-like limitations (e.g. only appstore apps, no xcode, single usb-c port..)
- a full-fledged computer but priced only like $100 below the regular macbook air
hope im wrong, but "low-cost" apple devices are always one or the other. they won't risk cannibalizing their other product lines

i think it's still working! no roots yet though

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!