elilla

elilla, 4 months ago to random

confirmed:

Projekt Skorpion (my trip to Berlin to research rare old books on Weimar lesbians and explore the lesbian nightlife): Jan 19–21

Projekt Mother-in-the-Deep (going to the North Sea on the day of Iemanjá, couchsurfing, potentially hitchhiking depending on weather/adventurousness): Feb 2–4

(bae insisted that I must give cool names to my weekend trips)

elilla, 4 months ago to random

the horror movie void knife is much bigger now and actually makes this Thinkpad borderline unusable without an external monitor. The new screen should arrive in 2 days, I hope I can do the unnecessarily fiddly, Apple-like disassembly correctly...

elilla, 10 months ago to random

and kid learns how to lift heavy things with their legs not bending their back and why it's important, in one memorable lesson

elilla, 7 months ago to random

I'll just post all the little things here and if I figure out (or someone suggests a solution) I go back and edit it.

• quite surprised to have no functional "nix search" or something. we are expected to use the website for everything? I don't like using websites I like command lines

elilla, 4 months ago to random

low tech stuff is great but I also look for "mid tech" when acquiring appliances:

• physical buttons (not touch or digital)
• absence of microchips and complex PCBs (e.g. magnet-based rice cooker)
• metal parts
• tech that is easy to understand, access and modify (e.g. simple dishwasher)
• parameters > preset menus (e.g. food drier has a "timer" knob and a "temperature" knob rather than buttons for "fruit", "mushrooms", "jerky" etc.)
• expendable components are standard and replaceable (e.g. batteries, light bulbs)
• absence of apps
• absence of Internet
• absence of "AI"
• no electricity > electricity (e.g. analog multimeter, thermometer, scale)
• plugged on > battery power
• wired > wireless

elilla, 5 months ago to random

expectation: I'm so afraid of the pain of my tattoo today :blobcatfearful:

reality: I'm so afraid of going out in this cold :blobcatfearful: can't wait to be in the warm cosy tattoo studio

elilla, 10 months ago to random

there's a new dwarf fortress :blobcatfearful:​

exactly coincided with my vacations. goddess why dost thou have no mercy for me

elilla, 6 months ago to random

me beginner German: "guten Morgen! ich möchte gerne einen Tasse Kaffe. bitte machen Sie es, no wait ihm, machen Sie ihm mit Zucker und ohne milch. wait I'm pretty sure I've heard people say „kein Milch“. but you can't use „kein“ adverbially. maybe it was something like, ich möchte gerne Kaffee mit Zucker, period, new sentence, kein Milch? or keine Milch? Milch can't possibly be feminine??"

me advanced German:
(waits to be addressed)
"was möchten Sie denn?"
"Kaffee. Groß."
"Milch? Zucker?"
"Zucker."
"jawohl"

elilla, 2 months ago to random

it's March and our hard-earned money is being burned, time to repost this

elilla, 9 months ago to random

many etsy people not shipping cute stickers to Germany anymore due to fear of some sort of packaging regulation

elilla, 5 months ago to random

I'm at the uni for the thesis defense of my ex. I missed my university's massive, evil-ass library building. I can almost feel the carresses of Brutalist PCBs infiltrating my lungs 😌

elilla, 6 months ago to random

the Japanese folklore of "tsukumogami" proposes that objects may acquire sentience after a long time of use. some say they need to be 100 years old, while others claim it depends on the intensity and amount of human feeling deposited into them.

printers are vengeful tsukumogami. in this essay I will

elilla, 8 months ago to random

it's cool when your country's music is considered to be fancy. I just put on normal Brazilian music and boom, my house is all fancy and shit. "wow you can sing all those sambas and bossas, so fancy" for us it's just like, normal music

elilla, 5 months ago to random

duck duck go jobs where you travel to a different city every day

elilla, 9 months ago to random

numbed down the pain as much as I could with ibu and Melissengeist, but it's still throbbing and affecting my ability to, everything. can't see how to do a dentistry operation in circumstances like these when even a gentle touch to the cheek is painful, but I'm about to reach the 2nd dentist, let's hope that this one has more success than the last one at actually fixing the problem

elilla, 7 months ago to random

oh crap even with the calendar alert I somehow missed that tomorrow is the appointment with the Ausländerbehörde for the kids. hopefully I have all necessary documents around here and there's nothing like certificates that I have to order in paper from some govt agency and takes 14 days to arrive by post

elilla, 7 months ago to random

I think I know just enough nix now that I can submit packages, I bet they'll love my contributions, it feels great that it's so much easier to contribute than Debian, I mean someone has to approve the PR but how big can the backlog b—

elilla, 3 months ago to random

"oh nice, #mastoDev has a professional design team, this will allow them to keep closer interaction with the community since programmers can focus on code while the professional design team participates in community discussions and respond to accessibility criticism with valuable feedback from users."

the #mastoDevs:

(from: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/614 )

elilla, 2 months ago to random

Lex doesn't work, I guess it's time to dust off my old OkCupid account—

"Unable to verify your email" wth. >tries a different email< "Unable to verify your email".

(to bae:) wth I'm shadowbanned on okc or something.
bae: did you have photos too erotic or covering your face?
me: ähm yes but what the actual fuck??
bae: yeah you can't wear masks anymore, since last year I think.

ok so my options is:

• app where not a single person ever replies to my ads
• "dox yourself to your local nazis! conveniently indexable by location!"
• Tinder.

no dating for the antifa I guess :pinkgirl_cry:⛈️

elilla, 26 days ago to random

huh I have slept a reasonable number of hours, had no trouble getting off the bed, and finished watering my plants and making coffee well before work time. who am I and what have I done with the real me

elilla, 10 months ago to random

I have things to dooo release me from my bondage :pinkgirl_cry:​

elilla, 6 months ago to NixOS

how do you /usr/share/dict/words in #NixOS :thounking:​

elilla, 1 month ago to random

got used to distinguishing the pigeons from the tits by the sound of their wings. compared to the rock pigeons from the city, the wood pigeons we get in the balcony are quite shy

elilla, 7 months ago to random

good morning! did I miss anything

elilla, 9 months ago to random

if you stopped masking, now's an excellent time to go back to masking. #covid variant EG.5 is increasing hospitalisations worldwide, vaccines are outdated, and the data on long covid and the effects of multiple reinfection are pretty terrifying. buy a stock of FFP2's while they're still cheap.