Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

@thr33h3ad3ddragon@snouts.online i legit can't remember a time they weren't

i'm in my 20s, and i thought this

@EeveeEuphoria gosh, yeah

i did inktober once, and whenever i feel bad about my art, i just look at some of the things i drew then, ahahah

change is so gradual, but it's so obvious when you compare things that are years apart side by side

on the flipside, one of my oldest drawings is still one of my favorites--but i also need to remember just how much effort and how long i spent on that compared to the things i find comparable today

@EeveeEuphoria yeah! i've noticed you improving quite a lot..!

it's sometimes hard to notice that from a first-person perspective, but i think you should know that i admire your drive and how you've been steadily honing the things you can do ^^

@thr33h3ad3ddragon@snouts.online coincidentally, this is also my exercise routine

@PsionicDoggo@snouts.online oof. stay safe..!

@PsionicDoggo@snouts.online holy heck

what's the aqi like over there??

oh! and all this cool stuff? it turns off if i unplug it and puts the thing back into power-saving mode

so Android 17 basically turns back into a humble media/steam link tablet again with really good battery life

which consequently acts like a pretty handy switch that requires no real input to toggle..!

all this stuff was actually pretty fast to set up, because i've messed with tasker and termux a heck of a lot on my phone before

deskdock is newer, but since it's basically just "android synergy", there wasn't much of a learning curve outside of the initial "holy heck! this stuff is so much easier to do with my normal mouse and keyboard" (and the fact that it binds the "home" key to the home button, so i accidentally do that when typing a lot now ^^')

something totally ad-lib i did recently was i grabbed the rainymood file, which i can now invoke whenever i like! (which turns out to be an excellent way to drown out background noise when trying to sleep)

and since this is running an ssh server, i can make my phone control all of the things Android 17 can do now too

this tablet (that i named "Android 17") was a freebie i got once, and was actually pretty dated at the time i got it

it still runs termux, tasker, and deskdock though!

i plan to have it scan for proximity of my phone (Android 18) and have it toggle a bunch of stuff based on that too, so certain things will only be active when i'm around

this is what the schoolbell thingy that reads my habit calender and notifies me sounds like

there's a biit of a delay for this one, but here's what the mirrored locking and unlocking looks like

here's what that fourth monitor thing looks like! (and the combined timeline)

@EeveeEuphoria oh, nice! i had to jet for a second, but i'm actually gonna continue this thread with exactly that

the tl;dr version is that it's a fourth monitor for my computer, a watcher for things i care about, a more tangible thing to remind me of stuff i care about, and a little linuxy server that can do things with my other devices!

i'm currently using it like a faux-fourth monitor that i can control if i move my mouse off the edge of my last normal monitor. it also locks and unlocks when i do the same on my computer

i also have a lot of pretty power-hungry tasker and termux stuff set up on it because it's gonna likely be perpetually plugged in from now on!

it also, by default, has my masto and birdsite timelines all combined, just casually scrolling by

hee

getting excited over a dated android tablet i'm reviving into something significantly more useful than i ever thought possible

@EeveeEuphoria buuut yeah, shortcuts with social implications are kind of the worst :<

@EeveeEuphoria oof

in case it was something bad--you can look at your likes in the "getting started" column under "misc" for some reason ^^'

@monorail oh yeah. waking up mid-cycle can suuuper-screw up your day

i actually use alarms that try to detect when one finishes up to half an hour earlier than i need to wake up, and even though i'm technically getting even less sleep, i still feel like 100x better