jan Niko, Queer of Pastries @nihilazo@tiny.tilde.website

BOOT WINGS

how I made them:
https://itwont.work/log/bootwings.html
gemini://tilde.town/~nihilazo/log/bootwings.gml

well "get away with", it's still not like "acceptable" but there's probably a threshold where I get weird looks and psuedo-hateful comments either way and may as well just do whatever I want

I think at this point I'm already strange looking enough to cishets that I can probably get away with anything

wondering how furry I can go in everyday clothes before it's too weird
can I wear a big fluffy wolf tail casually?
answer: yes but I don't have the confidence to

so the miso I used to make miso soup yesterday has apparently been out of date for like 6 months
it's super pungent and probably not how miso should taste but I think it still tastes OK so I'm still eating it

also if I do stick to a genre idk what
I want to use norns for stuff in my fawm music too. I need to find a way to make it work within a larger setup. I also want to have real bass guitar parts

not sure if I want to try and stick to a genre/theme with my FAWM music. I think it'd be good for me creatively to try that but also I tend to be very scattershot
if I want to stick to a genre I want to do more vocal stuff but also I hate my voice
idk how to deal with that, maybe I need to learn vocaloid or smth

how do I uninvent something
I want to uninvent wifi so it never existed and we all still use cables for internet
because wifi is trash

just look at this, I love it for some reason. I think the fact that I can just close the playlist and the music player becomes a super convenient desktop widget thing for controlling music playback is awesome

I never used winamp, but audacious with the classic winamp UI sparks joy
no idea why it just does

after not really finding a completely satisfactory calendar program, I'm gonna try just using a paper diary, the same way that I replaced accounting software with a spreadsheet

But I don't want to become that person who whenever you ask for software recs they say "have you tried a spreadsheet or paper?"

if I had the ability I would replace the micro-USB connector on my kobo with some other connector that's more sturdy. But I can't solder that small

micro-USB charging port failure seems to be by far the most common problem I have with devices
I thought my kobo was completely dead but turns out it just wouldn't charge bc the micro-USB port only works if you hold the cable at a specific angle
I feel like micro-USB is fundamentally a bad and unreliable connector design and one that's a pain to fix when it fails on devices

damn they actually got a linguist to create a "real" belter creole based on how language would develop in space
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/12/nick-farmer-knows-dozens-of-languages-so-he-invented-one-for-the-expanse/
that's awesome