I guess it had to happen sometime! My iMac display has officially given and now only displays streaks: This started happening intermittently yesterday evening after it woke up from sleep, and now it's just not displaying anything period. Really, it's no great surprise. This computer celebrated ten years of daily service this year (don't ask me for a specific date). Yeah, I've been using this computer since I was 14 or so. I'm now 25. The fact that it hadn't developed issues sooner (outside of Read more

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So because I gotta remember that all the people who see what I do only see about 10% of it each, let's start off with some news: this evening, we started streaming Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves! Given that I was able to get through the first two, it felt wrong not to finish off the trilogy, and now that I have consistent days off from work, here we are! It wasn't as exciting or high energy as I would've liked, I was a little out of it, folks were a little sleepy, but that's okay, they get like Read more

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Having five years worth of somnolescent.net backups really does pay dividends sometimes, especially when I'm trying to resurrect things for archives. Rather than relying on spotty Wayback grabs, I simply pull from the copy of each site I made five years ago, patch the links (each archives site has links across the site network changed to the contemporary version on archives, so Cammy site in 2019 goes to Caby site in 2019 and not the live caby.somnol), and upload to its own directory on Read more

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(Brief aside before we start: Happy six years of us talking, Caby—8/18/18 <3) One of the less-exciting and less-visible aspects of the archives overhaul is that I'm trying to reorganize the subdomain some in the background. I made it in 2020 with purposes slightly different than what I have in mind now, and as a result, things that shouldn't be on there are on there, things are in places I prefer them not to be in, and my methodology for storing what is staying on there has changed a bit as Read more

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I gotta start making these journal entries smaller, or I'm never gonna update this thing. I've been putting this one off anyway because I didn't want to call a very good thing before I was confident in it, but now I am! There's a lot I didn't say or post here with regards to my last grocery store job, because it was just bad all around. The people were nasty, the management was sketchy, communication was hilariously nonexistent, managers would literally ignore you when you needed their help. I Read more

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