Okay screw that now I have some dArkOS mods to try, thanks for the inspiration. Gonna be a long night 🤣

I mean low. LOW HOPES. Okay that doesn't work either. I think I should sleep 🤣

(in the process of getting a job that will consist of at least half fun "psychological tinkering" so I kinda have high hopes for my future blood pressure if this pans out) 😅

And just to yap more, it's funny, I don't have THAT much time either, but writing and doing work and university stuff are in a completely different bucket than fun tinkering, that's more a relaxing thing, so I ALWAYS have time for that if I have free hours at all. It's not tiresome but the opposite.

Probably not a speculation that would lead to anything, however interesting 🙃

Tho softmods are a bit too easy these days, there's not enough tinkering goddamnit! Did install heatsinks, new buttons and did a few case mods for the R36S which was fun, I think I need to find a *shitty* project just to have stuff to do 😅

Yea figured from your post but thought to advertise anyway, someone else might be interested. I've had lots of fun for 30 bucks, it's insanely cheap for something that really does play tons of games well 😅

I think New 3DS XL is our next project with the kid, or at least he's been hinting wanting it

There are also native ports you can play if you have the original game files, including Celeste, Grand Theft Auto Vice City and such thingies. I'd pay much more than $30 for this little buddy, the "use value" is considerable. One of the best deals ever to my eyes 😍

Not very surprisingly, lives mostly in the toilet now and is used by several people. Very handy little thing. Kid also takes it to school - they have a phone ban during school hours, but emu handhelds don't count 😅

Strong recommendation for cheapo retro goodness, 30 bucks R36S. Basically a linux box that boots direct to emulator interface. Plays everything up to and including PS1 near-perfect. Almost plug and play, but you can also tinker to your heart's content with the open source OS and emus if you want.

and this viewpoint seems to be taking my head to places and spitting out stuff that makes sense and matches well with research observations and with my own extensive experience of working with three digits of my spectrum buddies.

More specifically, I'm looking at autism from birth onwards and childhood development through role theory and applicable, accepted "neurotypical" theories of child development

I work with these things and am current with most research, there are so many unknowns and simply so many framings to this complex thing that searching for new points of view that would work in some context seems always worth it, even if they wouldn't become some grand revelation.

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I've been thinking about the autism spectrum recently from the point of view of child development and some protective factors (like roles in behavior and also thinking) that seem to be different for us, and I think this point of view might lead to some extended understanding. Any opinions welcome!

And you'd still be sliding more and more towards a late-stage capitalism hellscape. I don't think a Dem candidate is enough to fix things. Trump isn't the cause, he's a symptom.

Too many fucks, it kind of loses efficiency at that point and you just think the speaker has some internal need to keep saying it 😅

Tho, hum, a nonbinary romancing themselves would probably not count as lesbian. Ignore. 🤣

Hm do I count? I once had an image model intepret my bathroom selfie, and then fed that interpretation as a prompt for image creation. Here's the result. I'm finally hot. 😅

Not really, going to check a scout cottage and mom complaining about absolutely everything the scout group that was there last weekend hasn't done 🤣

Having a soul break from all the news.

I'm not so sure, I don't think Steam is very much in direct competition with Apple, and Apple has high margins on the hardware. Proton would increase the perceived value of the hardware hugely without Apple doing anything. No idea what stance they take, but there is this "free value" POV to it too.

Totally loved this game!

And what would Donnie boy "warn" China with? China can cut off things like chips and almost all antibiotics used in the US. And much more. If China goes full-scale "let's fuck them up", they don't even need military conflict to cause insane harm to the US.

It'd be easier to understand if the orange shitstain was even winning something. But it's like he's doing this just for shits and giggles. To be evil.

For fuckssakes, why is this even happening? This just hurts ALL parties involved. And the whole world, indirectly.

It just makes no sense.

I kinda feel it's up to the Democratic party to choose a candidate people can get behind. Not the voters' responsibility to vote for whoever as long as it's not "the enemy". This is not how democracy is supposed to work.

For some it's probably an easy target that "weirds out" a large portion of the population - because their own ideas of gender and gender roles are very rigid. Trans people probably get bonus shit for this, they're targeted also by Republicans who just want to ride on the hate for political reasons.

I'm just ranting. It's amazing to me because it's not rocket science. Very important, very simple. I guess we could say very important for my goddamn survival but hey, I don't have all those social pecking orders and huge group think running wild in my head.

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Watch out. Skynet's happening. 🙃

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People really should understand that what can be done to one can be done to all if we allow such crap at all. Establish that science and facts don't matter. What next, will MAGA Mark decide that lobotomy is what should be done to autists like me for example? This matters for *everyone*.