#can do the new one for me for cheaper

[citrlet]

my uncle who works at Intel (not nintendo) told me he might be able to get me one of the newest CPUs for the computer I'm saving up for FOR FREE

#im freaking out im like yesyesyesyesyes #ill still have to get all the other parts but im hoping my relative who built my first one #can do the new one for me for cheaper #he only charged me 700 for the one i have and at the time it was really good quality #im so freaking excited i might be able to finally play triple a games like sons of the forest on the pc

[hellenhighwater]

Welp. Beowulf, the beloved car I inherited from my grandmother, is not much longer for this earth, which means I'm going to have to start car shopping. On the one hand, road trip! (Because you should always buy cars from southern states, they're far less rusty) but on the other hand ugh. Cars expensive, and I refuse to have a car payment unless it's completely unavoidable.

So maybe I'll post some paintings for sale soon. And maybe some pottery? Idk about that.

#my mechanic broke the news like he was telling me my dog had been shot #i will always always buy used cars #i have an excellent mechanic and its for sure the way to go #i love owning my car free and clear and i do not want a monthly expense if I can...just not have one #i will take a shittier cheaper car #or ideally a truck but who knows truck market is bonkers rnnd

[bunnyb34r]

Something I'll never understand is how apple elitists will find ANY excuse to bring up how they have [apple product] and you have [not apple product]

Like that annoying new guy that was in the breakroom and would not shut up (I get you're bored but it's 7am and we don't care), had walked past me and saw how small my phone is. It's not SMALL but it's not like the length and width of my hand, iPhones are like at least 1.5 the size now.

Anyway he was like "damn what kinda phone is that??" (Meaning what iphone is that) *sees the big SAMSUNG on the top "oh you got samsung. But I bet you USED to have an iphone before right?"

Why would you assume that?? That's such a fucking weird thing to say like unprompted to someone. And I was like no??? I've always had androids?? (And LG before smartphones lol) And it's like they always assume you didn't have a choice, and only got an android bc you couldnt get an iphone. Like no I think iPhones are pieces of garbage, I hate the way the app store works, and the only apple products I've ever had were ipod touches. I like being able to choose where my apps go and can download "non-approved" apps and shit. Bitch I CHOSE this phone bc I LIKE it. I only got my other phone (which IS iphone size) bc this one no longer gets service from the network I use. I use this one for everything but calls and texts, and my actual phone-phone for calls, texts, and sometimes youtube. I paid like $100 max for each phone, I ain't paying more than $150 for a phone that's gonna be slowed down by the company I bought it from in a planned obsolescence scheme to get me to drop another $500-$1000+ in a year or two.

But yeah apple superior you're right 🙄

#marquilla #i seriously do not understand the apple elitist mindset like iPhones are ugly lol like oh boy it has an engraved piece of fruit on the back! #gotta get a specific case that shows that off! i dont get the flex financially?? like you just seem like a dumbass to me if you spend that #much on a phone that youre gonna replace in a year or two like... i dont get it #thats not to say anyone with an iPhone is a loser bc i know you can get refurbished older models for a lot cheaper than they new ones and i #know some people do keep their iphones til they dont work anymore. i dont have a problem with that at all #my problem is with the people who go out of their way to snub people who dont have iphones or people who don't have the LATEST (within 2 #generations) of iphones. like THOSE are the people im talking ab #my beef is with the people who buy apple as a flex #especially mac books lmao those things are absolutely trash products my god

[bloodgulchblog]

halo lost track of ai generations.

(i, on the other hand, have lost all control of my life.)

all recent smart ais in lore are identified as 5th generation as recently and authoritatively as the 2022 encyclopedia. black box is 4th generation. cortana has been identified as 3rd generation since halsey's diary at the very least, and even if it's not set in stone earlier (digging through digital copies of fall of reach and first strike is dicey if the copy doesn't identify which edition it is) it's supported by ackerson's ai araqiel and blood line/saint's testimony character iona both being specifically identified as 3rd generation.

however, ghosts of onyx also established a 5th generation ai, deep winter, that had been in service in the 2530s (and this longevity is canon as of infinite-era lore, see link.)

(2009 encyclopedia also names deep winter's predecessor eternal spring as a 5th generation ai, but 2009 encyclopedia is noted to be suspect on some details/assumptions and to have borrowed fan speculation from halopedia.)

this would mean the "top of the line" of smart ai tech is 20+ years old, which is hilarious but also strikes me as unlikely.

so. here's what i think happened.

i think 5th generation being called out in ghosts of onyx is legitimately a fluke that was forgotten about, or slated to be corrected in a later printing that never happened due to some combination of the shuffle of establishing 343i/halo cutting nylund off/maybe someone sitting down and looking at the inconsistencies between ghosts of onyx and halo reach and deciding maybe they should just gently nudge it all under the rug and pretend it's not there.

then, the kilo five author (notoriously not somebody who sticks to lore of established franchises and who was probably just going off a then-recently-established list of details when 343 commissioned her) established black box as 4th gen following the logic that this would make him the next better step after cortana, who was firmly established as 3rd gen at that point.

now, because this is how making numbers bigger works, everybody's 5th gen.

...and i think it's possible someone by now has noticed this, because if you look back at concurrent material (like waypoint's old character profiles) for halo 5, cortana's generation is just quietly not mentioned. (this is also true of 2022 encyclopedia.)

i think it's just a straight up oversight that ended up unsolvable because it got ingrained in some firmly-established materials and now, because just-not-mentioned isn't enough to discredit an old detail to a fandom/especially to a wiki, it's just kind of like this.

but, as an in-universe idea, it's very funny to me because you can also go:

oh, catherine halsey was so particular about her smart ai design that she built her magnum opus on top of 20+ year old architecture because she didn't like two whole generations of volitional ai development and did a shit ton of custom work.

there's something fun about that as a thought, to me.

#halo lore #cortana #smart ais #catherine halsey #this would also make black box one of the last guys pushing the most out of his architecture maybe #which is also funny to me #the best i can do for araqiel and iona? #made cheaper i guess #just because a new tech exists doesn't mean old tech all goes to the landfill instantly

[theboarsbride]

suddenly hella emotional about moving again... many tears being shed... I don't wanna leave this place.

#my mom texting me 'a place can hold so many feelings' like YEAH MOM this one really do...that's why I'm sad #tbh I think this is for the better tho #to move to a totally new place - for way cheaper too #a place where I will be on my own and there won't be memories of my sister's diagnosis that make me feel guilt y'know?? #but also a lot of good memories of the sisters and I bonding as we help heal each other from the shock and help her thru her diagnosis #justl... #idk... #imma miss this apartment #I'm so scared and so sad to move #but I know it's for the better #whole new chapter in life #wholly entering adulthood #to delete

[derpinette]

i miss going to school because i always knew everybody's business but nobody knew mine due to being a huge loser. & it ruled

#now i am still a loser ( well actually this cool bubbly normie girl likes to pull me along with her but it makes me feel bad ) #( also i hate going outside & barely do now because i am having an androphobia flare RN which is to say agoraphobia like i vomit... gay AF #but anyway i also went to small private schools with declining enrollment numbers all my life Well only two one for 13 years #& then i switched to a cheaper one on my senior year. i would lurk & people would be like No worries you can say it it's only nyumie here #or they would tell me directly when nobody would want to talk to them due to drama & then leave & forget me as soon as they could #nobody would ever ask about my business it was so effingg awesome. altho there were rumors i was gay ( completely true ) #the fact that both schools were small made it so that it was easier to know what was happening in most grades #but now IDK ANYTHING EVER even if i were to eavesdrop my faculty is just way too big & i barely even attend anyway +i hate that dump ETC ET #this is so detrimental to my QOL & need to Observe &Lurk my life is so EMPTY & boring i want to know somebody's petty drama #& i KNOW it happens you just have to be in a circle & attend everyday which I CBAAAA. when people pull me aside to hang out i know then #but i want NO INVOLVEMENT !!!! i just want to be in the background leave me alone i already have a girl i can relate & be loyal to #& she dropped out i never thought i actually would but here we are. i just want to acquire information from a distance on a regular basis-_ #the reason why i never hated going to school despite bullying up until like my last year is because well i grew up in my original school #so i was familiar with everyone & everyday there would be something new & funny to discuss with my bestie who lives far away now -_- #i meanwe only really saw eachother at school anyway Man i wish i could GO BACK but not really vut yes but no...

[drev-the-procrastinator]

love waking up to my mom giving me an ultimatum and ordering that i have to give up my (admittedly expensive) apartment 1n 2 weeks and move back home for good. i had stuff to do today but i guess being gripped by dread and anxiety works too

#i had been thinking about moving to a smaller one too. but now she's ordering me to do that #and expects me to move back home #when my university and all of my two friends are in the city. #and i have TWO WEEKS to live here if she wants me to move before summer because i have to go back home anyway in early may #for my summer job. #like sure i wouldve understood like a hey. my child. your financial situation is oretty tough so i have some suggestions that could help #but she was like okay here's whay you do: option a) [something i couldnt do before fall] b) find a cheaper apartment and live in two weeks #c) move home for good and commute over an hour any day you have university stuff to do and also essentially lose access to your #friends and all and any independence you have managed to cobble together so i can treat you like a child and yeall at you #the last part wasnt included but it's what she does anyways so i assume it's part of the deal #then i would have to commute or drive an hour any time i wanted to see either of my friends. after every summer im already #tired and desperate to come back to my apartment to get to be on my own. and now she's saying i have to never do that again #and here's the fuckin thing. her husband is planning on fixing my car. my mom pays my phone bill. i know what a loser i am whatever. #she actually owns my dogs and my childhood home. i cannot. piss her ofd too much. because then i'll lose all of those #phone. whatever i can get a new one. car. slightly more heartbrwakin but like i still own it. but the house? #my dogs?? i think i would rather die atm if im being honest #so what the fuck am i supposed to do. huh. #maybe i should just walk into the sea foe good i feel like that would just so neatly solve all of my problems

[inga-don-studio]

SPIRIT, WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BABYGIRL?!?!?!

YOU STOLE HIS FUCKING FEMURS

(And his voice - that AIN’T The John Kassir. And they dare charge that much for a glorified wiper motor animatronic with a meh voice impression?!?! Spirit, you are dead to me.)

#🎃 cryptid sighting #Crypt Keeper #What did my friend my pal my silly old comedy cadaver ever do to you?! #I’m so disappointed #Not that I could afford an animatronic this year but I was so excited when his re-release was teased #I’ve wanted one of the original Crypties from like 20+ years ago since I was little but they go for BIG MONEYZ #I think the greatest insult is not using the original’s audio or just bringing Kassir back in to record new lines #Like that man will go into Crypty mode for any reason AND still does the voice flawlessly (seriously he’s amazing) #I kid about Spirit being dead to me - my ire is directed @ Gemmy or whomever made this - but I’m still pissed #Spirit Halloween #I guess I can just hope to find a cheaper broken one on eBay in a couple years or something #I’d probably rebuild his legs to be like the original by giving him his leg bones back tbh #He deserves that much

[carcarrot]

alright we're okay. it's all going to work out and happen. ive got my short film idea. i just have to make it absolutely perfect and then we're good to go

#my short film idea is a kinda sorta prequel kinda. to my Big Main Film Idea #essentially its just a little bit of silly backstory to a character that gets no backstory in the feature film #and this character is making a short film. and im playing the character. so im making a short film abt someone making a short film. #when i was first writing my Main Film Idea i was like ok yeah this character that im thinking of playing is obviously based on and like me #but as time went on i was like ah fuck. theres parts of me in every damn character #the good news is that this short film idea should be relatively cheap to make. im thinking of having only one filming location #and i could get a deal filming there bc i used to work there (my old cafe) so renting out the space might be cheaper #im not sure yet abt cameras. im thinking abt emailing my old film teacher and being like. hey. would you wanna help me make my film #i think he has some film cameras himself or if not he knows a lot of film people #but since this is essentially a one man (its me im the man) show i dont really need other actors. but im working on that #another problem of potentially many is that if and when this gets done. now what #ive got zero clue abt where to like. send my short film to be shown or whatever but maybe my film teacher could help w that! #before i do any of this i am going to finally finish that filmmaking course i bought. and then see where we go from there #but this still needs a lot of writing bc i havent done any screenplay work for this yet #and thus obviously havent storyboarded anything #i gotta get Organized <- least organized person on this earth #wish me luck that this will lead me on the path to my dream movie. we can all hope

[mossflower]

ah i see my phone has hit the ‘closes apps randomly while i’m using them’ part of my owning it

#i don’t know what it is. but my phones always fucking break and die really quickly #like i’ve only had this one for about a year #i’ve had like four phones including this one? #the first one restarted itself exactly every three minutes without fail #the second died a week into me owning it. just turned itself off and never turned back on #my other one didn’t do too badly it lasted a couple years #but much like this one it overheated really quickly closed apps randomly and had a really shut battery life. technology hates me i guess #or just iphones. i always end up with second hand iphones. this could be the issue here #but having my mums old phone is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a new one so what can you do #morganposting

[toytulini]

really irritating that the avenue of communication i keep open bc i pay the phone bill keeps using it to inundate me with fucking Ads?

#toy txt post #I DONT WANT A NEW PHONE. I DONT WANT AI. LEAVE ME ALONE UNLESS THERE IS A FUCKING PROBLEM. GO DIE IN A FUCKING HOLE #@both SAMSUNG AND VERIZON. ROT #the best part is that they ALSO keep sending me shit like 'agree to opt in to whatever the fuck new terms and conditions to continue #recieving offers! LAST CHANCE! #it never is the last chance and not interacting with it or actively opting in somehow never makes them stop sending me the fucking #offers! youre a liar and piece of shit #youre not getting my fucking s10. im not trading in jack shit. i will keep it until it is fucking bricked #i still have my old HTC one maxx or whatever and i am only now considering send that to some sort of erecycling place if i can #bc it is reaching fully non functional levels despite turning on still so ig i should wipe it and see if it can be taken apart and things #reused. hopefully. i know its inefficient and expensive to do that but idk i think maybe we're looking at the cost wrong. idk. no nvm #i was gonna say maybe it doesnt have to be if you actually valued the human lives youre throwing into the precious metals mines #but quite frankly it does feel like theyre gonna make it cheaper to recycle parts by doing the exact same shit and juat having someone they #see as worth less as a human being paid pennies to hunch over a stupid bricked device and pull miniscule amounts of precious metals out #instead of the mines. that might be marginally better working conditions than The Mines idk. theyll find a way to make cruelty the point #tho im sure. god #also #256gb???? 256gb??? are you fucking kidding me??? die #the s10 has over 500 and ive discovered i CAN in fact fit 1tb microSD card. rot and die. you are nothing to me. useless.

[saffronique]

Hey guys, I know there are a lot of really severe tragedies in the world right now and I in no way desire to push those aside, nor do I really want to load another thing onto people's plates, but anyone here in the US needs to be aware that on March 11, 2024, an agricultural company known as NEW Cooperative spilled 265,000 gallons (1500 tons) of liquid nitrogen fertilizer into the East Nishnabotna River. This is the ecological equivalent of dropping a nuclear weapon into the river. Over a 60 mile stretch downstream of the spill its been a near total ecological wipeout for the river. So far, an estimate of 850,000 fish have been killed from this spill, and that's to say nothing for the insects, amphibians, reptiles and birds that relied on or lived in this river. It is literally filled with animal corpses. This river flows into the Missouri River and the impacts will likely continue to spread far past this 60 mile stretch. And this disaster has barely made local tv in Iowa, let alone national tv, despite the fact that 60 miles of river ecosystem were just wiped out in a way that may be impossible to recover from. And what's the punishment for this heinous act of destruction through negligence, you might ask? As it stands, its looking like a 6k fine from the DNR to the company. Not 600k. Not 60k. 6000 dollars. The maximum fine that the DNR can charge in Iowa is 10k unless they decide to take it further in court. That's why these spills are so frequent in Iowa: it's literally cheaper to eat the fines than it is to bother properly storing fertilizer. I don't know exactly what the proper course of action is here, or who needs to be contacted to enact change--I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable than me will chime in with that information--but at the very least, every one of us should know. Every one of us should make sure we don't forget this. And every one of us should blacklist NEW Cooperative fertilizer unilaterally.

Sources:

#iowa #iowa news #fertilizer spill #ecology #river ecology #ecological disaster #usa news

[redgoldsparks]

My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza by Maia Kobabe

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My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza 

Project organized by @ connectinghumanity_

by Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks 

Page 1 

In Fall 2023, I saw instructions on instagram for how to purchase an eSIM card and submit it to be distributed to someone in Gaza. 

Download an eSIM app-> Select Middle East as the region-> Purchase-> Screenshot the QR code-> Do not activate-> send to [email protected] 

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “That sounds easy, I’ll buy one.” 

I emailed an Airalo eSIM QR code to gazaesims on Nov 17 2023. 

Page 2

By January 2024, it hadn’t been activated yet. I bought a second one from Nomad and sent my new QR code and resubmitted my old one. 

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “How long does this usually take, I wonder?” 

By February neither had been activated, but Connecting Humanity kept posting about needing more. I bought a second Nomad and resubmitted all of them on February 15, 2024. 

Page 3

The Nomad eSIMs are much cheaper than Airalo, but what I didn’t realize is that they expire even if they haven’t been activated. At the end of February I decided to try a third company, Simly. Here’s a price comparison: 

AIRALO: $39 USD for 3GB, never expires 

SIMLY: $22 USD for 3GB, never expires 

NOMAD: $16 USD for 3GB, expires after 8 weeks even if unused, only offers in-app refunds 

Page 4

Connecting Humanity asks folks to wait at least 3 weeks before resending a QR code that hasn’t been activated yet. On March 7 Mirna Elhelbawi posted: 

We send EVERY esim we receive. Bear in  mind that we are dealing with people at a war zone. They might take it and get killed before activating it, they might take it and their phone gets lost or destroyed. They might take it and search for days for stable internet connection to activate it, and some of them activate it unsuccessfully due to lack of knowledge and the horrific situations they are in. ~Connecting Gaza 

By early April, my first Nomad eSIM expired unused. I resubmitted my three remaining eSIMs. 

Page 5

Suddenly, two of my eSIMs were activated on the same day! The Airalo I’d purchased 4.5 months earlier and my second Nomad. 

Image of Maia looking happy and surprised. 

Image of Maia looking very intensely at eir phone. “I have to make sure these don’t run out!” 

I began buying top-up packages immediately. 

Page 6

I felt like I had planted a seed in the fall and waited all winter for it to sprout. Seeing it activated was like watching the first new leaves break the soil. 

Image of Maia with a watering can labeled “data”, sprinkling water on two little sprouts. “Watering my eSIMs!” 

Sadly, only .07 GB of data was ever used on my Nomad. It was never used again after that first day. 

Page 7

But my Airalo has been in constant use for over a month now. I check on it every day. 

I will never know the person I am buying data for and they will never know me. But we are connected by the same strings of hope and grief that connect us all. 

Image of two hands holding a phone, which is connected to a flying kite. 

Page 8

On April 5, 2024 Connecting Humanity reported they had sent more than 250,000 eSIMs to Gaza, equivalent to approximately $6.3 million donated! You can visit gazaesims.com for more info, instructions, and discounts. Here are my referral codes: 

MAIA5367 for $3 off Airalo 

MB772 for $3 off Simly 

MAIA66GF for $3 off Nomad 

If you need more incentive, the Cartoonist Coop is doing art rewards. Visit cartoonist.coop/esims4gaza 

Page 9

Image of Maia, weighing two options. “Buying an eSIM is easy and can make a very direct impact. It can also take a lot of patience and could get expensive over time if you commit to keeping the eSIM topped up indefinitely.” 

If an immediate one time donation is more your speed, I recommend Operation Olive Branch and Gazafunds, two places to find Gofundmes aiding Palestinian families. 

gazafunds.com

@ operationolivebranch on insta

linktr.ee/opolivebranch 

-Maia Kobabe 2024 

#esims for gaza #esims for palestine #gaza esims #palestine esims #connecting humanity

[medicinemane]

Not to take an extreme stance, but I will once again point out that often fines for companies are less a punishment and more just the cost of doing business

If a fine isn't higher than the cost of doing things right, then it becomes a fee you pay to get to cut corners

I'm sorry, but I feel like at a certain point the only way to get companies to stop violating the law may be prison time for upper management (no scapegoats allowed). Obviously only for more severe violations, but still... we see that fines don't deter companies from bad behavior... maybe repeat offenders need to face more than monetary consequences

#this is about that price fixing fine and me thinking... yeah... but is 40 million more than they made by doing it? #like that's great and all; but did you actually deter them in anyway #or did they just get a massive win? #did their price fixing for instance make them 100 million; cause that's 60 million in profit #like when you leave morality aside; the answer becomes obvious that price fixing makes more money that it costs if that's the case #fines need to either be so painful that paying them costs more than you make from the violation #or like I said... upper management needs actual consequences that are high enough to deter them #I don't have a properly laid out iron clad policy with robust consideration for loopholes and legal precedent here #I have an opinion and a wish that we maybe begin thinking what that legal framework would look like #but I'm not saying anything new; you probably already know this #seriously though; how often is a fine less of a punishment and more of a fee for getting caught #and how often is it literally cheaper to pay the fine than to do things the way they need to be done #if it's cheaper to pay an EPA fine than it is to dispose of things properly why not pump sludge into the ground water? #these companies have no human decency; so what reason within their value structure is there not to do this stuff? #and do these fines actually do anything to truly compensate for the damage done? #like that fine that was given in the price fixing case... it's gonna be paid out to poor families or whatever #is it even close to as much money as they lost to the price gouging that they're gonna be getting a check for? #you see what I'm saying right? not that I have the answers; but this fines as fees is a failure of policy #why even have rules at all if you can just pay a fee to waive them? #like many of these rules are ones I want in place; I want price fixing to be illegal cause it's very harmful... but what's the enforcement? #will this make these companies change and not do this again; or will it make them go 'shucks; shame we got caught'?

[henpeckedho]

Boring life update:

After looking at all the options in the budget phone range, I'm just going with the newest version of the phone I have.

While a "nicer" phone would be good, the reviews from other long time moto g fans say the same thing--2023 is a huge improvement over the other ones in this line but you can still drop your phone with abandon and have it be okay.

My phone requirements are: basic internet and the ability to drop my phone an average of 3 times a day for 3 straight years and still have it function. I AM the intended original Nokia user. And moto g delivers on that kind of durability. So, basic budget phone it is!

#i call my budget style the marie kondo of finance #as long as my phone kind of works i'm happy with it and it brings me joy #i do not need a phone nicer than my laptops to bring me joy #so i'm not going to spend money on that #even with the repair policy added in the entire thing is cheaper than the current pixel 6a #and while i could probably limp my current phone along for that long to get black friday sales... #i need to admit my phone is dying and it's okay to buy a new one before i hold a total brick in my hands #i didn't do a trade in so I can use my old phone as emergency back up if my new one breaks or dies unexpectedly so #i have a phone while i wait for a replacement #i got the replacement policy because i am THAT hard on phones #i'm just a clumsy person #i'm getting better but i'll never be good at not knocking things over or falling over or dropping things #but i made my current phone last 3 years #hoping to get 3 years out of the next one

[faultsofyouth]

all the Zelda posts I reblog are in honor of my mom. I dont even play zelda

#I saw that post a few months ago about how BOTW and TOTK (<- haha he's crying) are way too expensive for children #because realistically how many children can ask their parent for a $70 video game (or TWO) and actually get it. #in that scenario a ton of parents would say no outright and/or buy them one of the Many Cheaper Zelda games out there #but of course child accessibility don't matter to Nintendo when it comes to these new Zelda games #Because they have a Steady Audience of Thirty Year Olds who WILL buy Zelda games no matter how much they cost #And because this target consumer base is primarily 30-50 year olds. A lot of these people have KIDS #Boom. Parents pass on a generational love of Zelda to their kids guaranteeing even more 30-50 year olds in the future will buy zelda games #Because let me tell you. I don't even see teenagers posting about Zelda it's a TON of >30 bloggers #do you feel me? #my posts