Artemis Mog 🌸 @[email protected]

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Anyone know how best to clean out a USB-C connector? I've dropped my phone into a bowl of queso =/

Spent the last half-hour scraping it out as much as I could but I'm not satisfied enough with that to try to plug it in

It's a 300 MHz Celeron machine overclocked to 450 MHz (sort of like a faster Pentium II), with 256 MB of RAM and an ATi All-In-Wonder Pro VGA card (basically a 3D Rage Pro AGP card with a built-in TV tuner). It was my family's main PC from 1998 to ca. 2004, and then my main one for another 5-10 years after that

Pulled out my Windows 98 machine last night and messed with it some. Today I find myself wanting to use it for more, and I have a feeling I had something specific in mind that prompted me to hook it up in the first place, but nothing is coming to mind =/

After fiddling with things for a while, I just gave up and said "well, let's just lower the RAM speed if the computer gets crashy." It was so frustrating

Today I learned what a horrid state RAM testing programs are in for newer hardware. I was a bit shocked. The free/older tools don't work on DDR4/with lots of RAM (and I had a heck of a time trying to make bootable media for it in the first place too). Those that do work either cost money or have an intentionally bad and artificially hamstrung UI to annoy you into buying a "pro" version. It's just so gross

@1200bps HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 🥳🎈🎉🎊

And the only reason I've been able do this well/get into such a messy situation is because COVID forced me back into my parents' house, and they're encouraging and enforcing this behaviour while also making me feel like I'm still not doing enough (and deadnaming and misgendering me constantly). But without them I'd just be failing everything like I did for the previous two years. I have no idea how to go forward, but I don't think I can deal with this for another year+

I just don't know what to do...I'm not even taking enough of a courseload to be considered a full-time student, but I'm struggling so much to stay on top of what I do have. I'm doing relatively well in my classes for once, but that's come at the expense of taking care of myself. I've not been showering regularly, my sleep schedule is erratic, and I've been shirking all other responsibilities. I have no idea how anyone else gets through this school, especially in 4 years

So now I'm preoccupied by wanting to fix this, which is making me work less effectively, but if I stop to fix it, I'll definitely miss some hard deadlines (if I wouldn't have anyway).

This sort of shit happens all the time to me, and I really wish I could figure out how to break the cycle (to say nothing of somehow acquiring actual Free Time, which seems like a foreign concept at this point). The stress is so real

The issue now is that I still have a ton of stuff on my plate for school, so I don't have time to fix it even though I have a hunch about how to. I've been using my old phone in the meantime, but I'm being reminded that there are very good reasons why I replaced it...

Sigh...second time in a row trying to update my phone has resulted in it being unbootable, this time for less clear reasons than the first. My ROM switched from Android 9 to Android 10 in April, and everything since then has been broken for me =/

@sky Hey, I have a friend who just moved here from another Mastodon instance. She backed up all her posts before she moved, but she can't find a way to import them back into here. Is there some trick to it/is that a thing that she can even do?

After writing this, neither colour nor color look like words to me anymore. I keep wanting to read colour as "cuh-LORE" and color as "CO-lore"

Only weird thing is that the Telegram taskbar icon is now black for some reason lol (it used to have the normal blue circle behind it)

Rebooted and ran apt again, which fixed the chromium issue. I still have a few more things to look at possibly needing to fix, like python3 and gnuradio and some PPAs I might have to re-enable, but everything seems to be working so far. Yes!

So I found the log at `/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-term.log`, and it looks like it only complained because of that chromium package I had trouble with earlier?? What a scary message for something so mundane. I really hope that's all it is.

Fixing to reboot, so I guess we'll see…

I don't even know what failed because it wouldn't let me look at the log

Fuck