#Laptop Customization

[taperwolf]

So I now have a Tennouji Rina-branded laptop.

See, a while back, I picked up a little secondhand vinyl cutter. You've probably seen these around; the most popular is the Cricut line from Provo Crafts, which have even been sold at Target.

(Of course, Provo Crafts hate their customers, and have rendered all their machines released before 2014 into fancy bricks by not providing software to run them after the demise of Flash. So I really recommend no one purchase any of their products, but they are the biggest manufacturer in the space, so they're the ones people are familiar with as a comparison.)

My model is an early Silhouette Cameo, and worked great right from jump except for one minor problem: the O-rings on the drive shaft that help keep whatever you're cutting in place were made from a particularly bad type of rubber, and had degraded to the point of leaving black streaks on whatever material passed under them. Fortunately, someone online had identified the proper size for replacements, and today I took delivery of a new set of silicone O-rings. Installing them was pretty straightforward, so it felt like a good time to actually cut some vinyl.

Nobody here is surprised to hear that I'm very fond of Tennouji Rina of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, and one thing I've found amusing in her materials is that occasionally they'll depict her working on a laptop with her logo on the back:

It's clearly a parody of the MacBooks with the glowing Apple logo, but I've been thinking that I'd like her logo on my own laptop. Now, of course you can buy stickers and laptop vinyl clings from various places, but my laptop has a problem with just doing that: the Dell Precision M4500 doesn't have a nice, smooth cover surface for stickers. It's got these ridges across it. So there's plenty of room for a logo, but a sticker would have to either be small enough to fit between two ridges — and that's pretty small — or it'd overlap the ridges, and that'd both look sloppy and be an amazing collector of dust.

So! I took Rina's logo and created the outline of the three pieces, then aligned them so that I could take slices out of them. The recesses stay uncovered, all of the vinyl is properly attached to flat surfaces, and it generally looks nicely planned, which is the best I could hope for.

The application process went fairly well. There are a few air bubbles trapped under the vinyl, marring the surface, but that's only noticeable pretty close up, and on the whole, it's very striking-looking. And I'm pretty sure I have the only Rina-chan M4500 out there.

#vinyl cutters #love live #nijigasaki #rina tennouji #laptop customization

[peakvincent]

new game is to type one through ten in your tags and see what comes up. i think my favorite of mine is ‘my uncle told us he spent seven and a half hours in a sensory deprivation tank once’ but ‘gideon the ninth motherfucker’ is a close second

#one is that bad laptops can still handle custom content #two stupid old men who i lovehate :( #goddamn it i wish the three funniest women alive would tell me what i just saw #the f in rpf stands for fourth wall #ten pounds of trauma in a five pound bag #me and alice will both read it and i think that brings you up to like six!!! #my uncle told us he spent seven and a half hours in a sensory deprivation tank once #goal was one book per store and we ended up with six stores and eight books which actually i think is fine #gideon the ninth motherfucker #thinking about the ten inexplicable minutes where jay and i were very in on brandon saad/roberto luongo #*

[dreamlogic]

*goes here to take a five and a half minute bong rip*

#cc #the weed tag #saw this when googling a customer's address at work to verify it and had to get up and walk away from my laptop i was laughing to hard #pilgrimage when? #house of leaves #moss lungs #hall of fame #EDIT: added image description in alt text for accessibility. wasn't expecting this to blow up whoops

[alackofghosts]

some stephcass for the soul

#Cassandra Cain #Stephanie Brown #DC #fanart #speedpaint #i draw sometimes #i just got the customs notif abt my laptop charger arriving… soon i can return to the keyboard having life….

[wyrmghost]

Staying up late to work on a case and having a certain defense attorney fall asleep on you

I just really wanted to draw some domestic Klapollo fluff

+Sketch and without the multiply layers

#Art #klapollo #klapolly #aa fanart #ace attorney #ace attorney fanart #klavier gavin #apollo justice #Klapollo fanart #Klavier would 100% have a custom gavineers laptop case and you can’t convince me he doesn’t #firm believer in muscular Apollo justice #klavier gavin fanart #Apollo justice fanart #Aa4

[fruitsyrups]

some JTDs too

#jake the dog #adventure time #my art #these are from my old laptop as well and this brush was custom so i dont have it anymore #i should remake it

[arithmonym]

checking out the new stardew valley update :-)

#i don’t think her eyes are quiteee the right shade but for some reason the character customization screen is VERY SMALL on my laptop. oops #the locked tomb #tlt #camilla hect #stardew valley

[azucarera-art]

going to pound town on my laptop's peepaw pussy by downloading another skyrim follower mod

#skyrim #skyrim custom followers #tes #the elder scrolls #my laptop is OLD #absolutely primordial #beset by gout & arthritis & yet forced to run faster than an olympic athlete

[awkward-teabag]

Was looking at my iPod Nano and thought how utterly BS it is that companies say it takes too much room to have a headphone jack.

I already thought it was BS before but the claim invariably comes down to form factor and keeping the jacks would make the device too big.

My Nano is ~5mm thick with the jack (also it's thinner than that but the glass stands out to make it thicker). That's nearly 3mm thinner than the latest iPhone and even the thinnest iPhone is over 2mm thicker.

You're telling me as components and ports shrink and boards also get smaller, it's unfeasible to do something that was done a decade ago?

It's almost as if it's not that form factor/technology doesn't allow it and it's all about selling proprietary adapters and/or Apple-brand headphones/earbuds/airpods that can be paired without a jack, and removing customer freedom.

#it used to be about removing the option for customers to record music via the jack #but that's been something easily done for ages #'best' is when the claim is a jack is too thick for a laptop #a cell i could possibly understand but a laptop? #the hell is your board and battery if it's thinner than 5mm and you can't find room for the jack #'cause even on compact builds there's dead space #and it's not like optical drives are often a thing now so that frees up even more room #though funny story from when i got my nano #i wanted something to use at work for a physical job so it only needed to play music and fit in a pocket #the staffer (who was probably instructed to upsell everyone) kept trying to get me to buy a cell instead #because 'you can play music off it and do other stuff' #i legit only wanted to get something that did one (1) thing #especially given the chance it could be damaged #also even at the best of times a cell has trouble fitting in afab dress pants pockets #kinda hard to upsell someone on something that costs hundreds more and literally cannot do what they want

[still-living-like-im-trying]

More sketches for the Obsidian Gold AU

#i love these dorks #nimona #my sketch #my sketches #ballister #ballister boldheart #ambrosius #ambrosius goldenloin #goldenheart #bro my laptop is here but i have to wait for it to be released by customs #but the moment it is in my grasps i can finally begin #i wanna info dump about the au so bad

[smolmoss]

some Stray robot emotes! nobody asked for them but i love kitty cat game :) also kitty cat themself:

#custom emotes #Stray #stray game #robot #stray robots #happy #surprised #heart #blush #nervous #mad #sad #ive also done momo clem and doc versions but im gonna wait to send them til i also finish zbaltazar #i was so excited to play and get all the achievements and such but its not compatible with my laptop T^T #i was still able to play it on my brothers ps4 luckily but i wasnt able to do all the things

[dykeomania]

you know that one scene in 21 jump street where channing tatum and jonah hill are trying to buy off of dave franco's character ("you're the uh.. the dealer????? dealer???????????????? guy???" "yup." "oh cool so like do you make this stuff??? or???" "what do i look like, a fucking scientist? no, i just sell it.") yeah that's dealer!ellie x firsttimeweedbuyer!reader

#she's very physics and calculus TA who deals on the side coded #& she's either super agro all the time because she's a physics major and she sees the world through a lens of stress caused by her psets #or she's so fucking deadpan to the point where she makes you feel stupid for even trying to buy from her #Sorry for being a customer. #Or existing actually #ellie williams x reader #ellie williams #the last of us #mia what are you talking about #she warms up though #sees the light probably after you notice the savage starlight sticker on her laptop case and then you talk about savage starlight #probably will smoke you out for free at some point #which means that like the gates of hell have frozen over but like she's fine with that i guess #she comes to realize that you're actually kinda cute #she'll smoke you out all the time as long as she gets someone to watch cheesy 80s movies with #and maybe kiss on the side

[idliketobeatree]

the single most relatable Aziraphale trait is that he's completely convinced of his love for people but it's all rebutted the second a customer walks into his shop

#good omens #aziraphale #the angel of customer service pain #the patron saint of do not come here ever again. #az fell #marcela talks #each time he hears the doorbell chime and it's not crowley he's this close 👌 to breaking his nonviolence code #tbh #strongest girlie around keeping the bookshop (somewhat) open for over 200 years and still managing to not kill anyone in there #wait i have an idea i need get my laptop ASAP

[youredreamingofroo]

- - People you'd like to get to know better!

Thanks for the tag @torissims and @slightly-ludic !! 🫶🫶

Last Song - - lastjune by ericdoa (obsessed with his music)

Favorite color - - uhhh purple?? hello?? LMAO

Currently watching - - I don't watch shows im gonna be honest 😭😭 im a youtube goober

Sweet/Savory/Spicy - - Spicy, even though i always get my ass kicked by the spice

Relationship - - Single 🙃

Current Obsession - - Red dead redemption 2... i've been playing it non-stop...

Last thing you Googled - - "voices of the void"... I watched someone play it and now I wanna play it LMAO

Tagging... @groovetrys @minimooberry @circusjuney @holocene-sims @kuroashims @miralure @elderwisp and if you saw this, feel free to do this and tag me! (i'm super out of loop rn so if you've done this, then ignore this! and feel free to just ignore this if you dont wanna do it :))

#loveeee doing tag games #this is the first time i've been on my laptop in like a week #been putting my hours into my console LMAOO #2+ days worth of playtime on rdr2 and whatever else i've casually played on my xbox #currently downloading skyrim on my laptop so hopefully i can give ya'll some skyrim content 🤔🤔 #“will you try to make ro-” yes are you silly?? who do you think i am LMFAO #i might see if theres customization mods- cuz i've already played thru MOST of the game and dont think it'll hinder my experience at all #tag game #tagging game #people you'd like to get to know better tag game #yapping

[girlofwindenburg]

Although it was a rocky start, Evelyn's Christmas ended quite well after all.

an excerpt from my latest video. insane lot by yukihyoch.

#lot so insane it made my laptop lag #merry christmas to all my lovelies #rion's screenshots #evelyn gameplay #the sims 4 #ts4 #ts4 simblr #ts4 current household #show us your sims #sims 4 screenshots #sims 4 cc #simblr #sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #sims 4 custom content #show us your story

[lumikore]

Whenever I get nervous in this game I just start snapping pictures

#it helps #Plzzz ignore my horrible graphics settings I was playing on my laptop #I was shitting myself bc I was playing on max everything custom difficulty and my laptop was lagging like a bitch #amnesia the bunker