Ah ok. whoosh I guess. I’m used to hearing “just write the drivers yourself” and the like.

You’re thinking like a developer. “I can just add or remove this or that.” I have to think like an IT guy. I’m working on dozens or hundreds of machines that are not mine and that I can’t change. So I need to get comfy with the tools that are most likely to be there by default.

Vi/Vim. Is it intuitive? No. Is it user friendly? Heck no! What it is is everywhere. $20 Chinese travel routers? Yup. Wireless access points? It’s there. If it has a shell you can log into, it almost certainly has it.

There’s a frog with the species name niputidea from Spanish Ni puta idea.

Also, obligatory mention of my conlang:

rCFqKqmg “Egg eater”, far more weighty when you’re oviparous. Calling someone this at work is a resume generating event.

slmqNLg “Cloaca butter”, BS or nonsense.

Cool. My conworld deeply reflects my interests and fears, and I don’t expect or intend it to be broadly appealing. I am both the author and the only audience member worth pleasing. One of the reasons I love amateur speculative fiction is that I’m seeing the author’s raw imagination unfiltered by editors or focus groups. The prose is rough at the best of times but rarely is the setting or concept uninteresting.

That being said, I love drawing but I’m not good at it, which is why I attempt writing. I’d love to make this into a web comic, since I always have little scenarios or character interactions in my head that would work best in that format.

I have attempted some fiction in my conworld but the stories serve to build the world further rather than the world existing as a backdrop for the stories. Also, I’ve migrated from Obsidian to DokuWiki. I want version history and an easy way to share what I write. I used Obsidian in my post because I figured people would know it better.

No. My bedroom is for sleeping and only for sleeping. No computer, no TV, etc. That’s not to say I don’t scroll on my phone in bed, but in general I try to make my brain associate it with sleep.

Also, it’s amazing how much easier it is to clean my room now that I’m an adult and don’t have to keep every possession I own in that room.

This is probably too late but, I just make up my own universe. Make yourself an Obsidian vault and start writing notes. What are the planet(s) like? What sapient races are there and what are they like? What animals and plants exist? Languages? Religions? Countries? History? etc etc. Worldbuilding doesn’t have to be attached to a piece of media, you can construct your own world.

I never stopped playing pretend, I just started documenting things as I got older.

I always thought it was cool how you could go from one very specific location to another very specific location very far away with just a few relatively simple directions.

oh you’re welcome. Homestar Runner was a staple of the 2000s. The original site used to be all in Flash until adobe killed it, which they comment on here. There used to be a “disturbingly comprehensive” wiki, but it seems to have been buried by bot traffic. The domain is pingable but http requests time out.

IDK but the Brothers Chaps are from Georgia. I was just trying to be funny.

I remember this! Then we went on a field trip or something in what the teachers called a “charter bus” (as in a bus and driver you rent for an event) and it spawned some lame jokes probably from yours truly.

Are you sure it wasn’t “dwayne”?

I used to happily pay for YouTube premium. Back in 2008 someone told me he uses YT to listen to music and I was like “You silly man, the youtubes are fore watching not listening.” Some time in the early 2010s I realized he was right. I can’t get through a work day without some nice ambient something or other on in the background. It also used to be a phenominal source of info about any sort of topic you care to name, with videos posted by actual humans who were interested in those topics. It fed my sundry ADHD hyperfixations very well.

Now I still pay for it, but I’m not sure it’s worth the money anymore between them foisting shorts onto us and the torrent of AI slop. The other day I wanted to watch videos on Australian lungfish and was met with AI voiceover after AI voiceover. It’s made me wonder if I should quit, but where else am I going to find 8 hours of server room ambience or an hour long video of a dog chewing on a bone?

old school forums.

I can think of many people I wish didn’t have the power and influence they do, but I don’t wish death on anyone. Quoth Gandalf:

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

The most expensive thing I bought on ADHD-fueled impulse was a $2500 portable radio transceiver. I should probably sell the thing but eh.

Funny thing is it normally comes as a kit you have to assemble, and I paid extra to have it assembled. And it feels like a hand-assembled product, that is, not at all something you could toss around. But it’s supposed to be something you stick in a backpack and hike up a mountain with. I got a battery module for it, but you have to remove some screws and crack that chassis open like a clam every time you want to do anything with the batteries.

I also bought the iambic paddle (the thing sticking out the bottom).

It’s got the ergonomics of a scientific calculator from the 80s.

I love worldbuilding and lore, even for franchises I’m not otherwise invested in. In 2018 I devoured every wiki article and YT video I could on 40K. I thought the AdMech was a really cool faction (still do, actually ⚙️💀) and looked into the models. Nope. I’m not paying that much for a sprew full of plastic that I’ll inevitably mess up.

Safes aren’t just for theft prevention. Indeed the small ones probably don’t do anything in that regard ,but many are fireproof as well, so you can keep documents safe if your house burns down.

I’ve made way too many impulse purchases but off the top of my head I can’t think of one that’s “funny”.