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Turns out it's possible to draw a QR code with a marker onto checkered paper

my router doesn't want me using Unicode as the ssid but apparently a single space is fine

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Hey guess what I'm getting a big ol surgery, help me out with some of the hella costs

gofundme.com/ariellesurgery-re

Windows Keyboard Layout Creator is good software

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the y doesn't belong into the top row fight me

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me: *typing*
me: *needs a special char*
me: where the heck did you put the <character>, Americans?

my hope is that an international layout will help with programming, all the brackets are kinda hidden away on German ISO layout

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the switches are okay, they're obvs not Cherry but they feel good, there's obvious variance in the actuation force which I'm still getting used to (I used Cherry MX Black before, these are Outemu Blacks)

the layout sucks, ISO is so much better (not really but it'll take me quite a while to adapt to this)

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Never forget: most of us have been poisoned by a toxic educational system that teaches us systematically that failing at a task or not knowing a correct answer is shameful.

There is no inherent shame in failure, in not knowing, or in being wrong, and we shouldn't actively shame others for it.

Get back up, learn something new, and try again.

aaaand I finally three-starred that pesky flower cup

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"bold of you to assume I can read" as a phrase has such a powerful energy

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I like "So much for the tolerant left", it's a good comedy phrase

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ah, great, both the AfD (Nazis) and the CDU (conservatives that love to cuddle up to them) apparently really didn't like public tv inviting the punk band "Feine Sahne Fischfilet" because they're "left-wing extremists". The Verfassungsschutz (basically the national secret service that's a running joke because they fail so much at convicting Nazis) had them on their watchlist at some point, with no follow-up. The organizer uninvited them, so much for artistic freedom

m.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/afd-

today I learned that there's both analog and digital USB-C audio and some phones support one but not the other

this is fine

there's probably more I haven't played the entire N64 library

there's also many other good N64 games, but most of them have been superceded now

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N64 games that aged well:

Starfox 64
Pokémon Snap

thank you for coming to my Ted talk

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