The Asus one died in the first two years. The Alienware one took close to a decade, as did the Microsoft one.

It's particularly annoying this time because this one isn't replaceable, it's the only PC I have available right now, and the SB2 has only 2 USB ports.

*more growling*

What's with WiFi/BT adapters dying at random?

Happened in an Asus laptop from 2010, an Alienware laptop from 2015, and now my MS Surface Book 2 from 2017.

The first two were replaceable.

This one's not.

*growls in curmudgeon*

Old Dutch is regional and centers around the upper Midwest. I don't know if their products get as far south as you.

I'm DEFINITELY out of their region now, so I've probably eaten my last Dutch Crunch™.

To anyone unfamiliar with kettle chips: they're VERY crispy, and can hurt sensitive mouths.

A very grainy but still beautiful photo of the night sky. Dozens of stars are visible, the silhouettes of trees fill the lower half of the visual field, and a dotted streak from an aircraft's lights cuts across the left-most third of the frame.

Long-exposure shot of the night sky from a mountain in Arizona.

32-sec., 3200 ISO, mobile phone.

Old Dutch brand, Dutch Crunch (kettle chips), Mesquite BBQ.

Ruffles Cheddar & Sour Cream are damn good, but the ODDCMBBQs take first place for me. :)

Nice. 👌

Ahhh, so the poor neighborhood.

Got it.

With zero context to go off of, I'm guessing that's the rich neighborhood or something?

Desert doves do what they want.

#photography #dove #aviandisobedience

Summer is almost here! Another one for @yogurtboy.bsky.social 😃🙏☀️

Feeling nostalgic for the first several months after I became a furry.

Interaction with other furries seemed so much simpler and interesting back then.

Now it feels like interacting with furries is the social-equivalent to gingerly stepping in a minefield.

One wrong word and 💥

Guess I'm a barbaric sorcerer, then.

Did not expect that.

Ok now, no need for sarcasm. =P

Whoo!

Wordle 1749 4/6

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Note to... everyone:

Don't stay at a Red Roof Inn.

A oval shaped slice of wood rests in some evergreen branches, with the image of two wolves embracing/circling each other and licking one another burned on its surface

nearly finished with this kissy wolves woodburn, excited ♥

What about eggs? Those are still ARM$ and a LEG$, right?

Knowing Owen from #RepeatVN, he'd probably be into this. x3

Repeat Visual Novel by: @/shirokoi.bsky.social

Whoo, the month-long anxiety buildup hit a head today!

Made a reservation for a TRAILER with UHaul two weeks ago.

It took...

FOUR. FUCKING. HOURS.

And!

EIGHT. FUCKING. PHONE CALLS.

today to get it.

And I have every one of them recorded.

Fuck. Uhaul.

*ahem*

LibreWolf, do as I command you...

You are absolutely right.

I clicked 'Post' and didn't wait around for the result, just closed the browser.

LibreWolf's default settings don't allow sites to use your browser canvas data, and this kind of thing is the result.

I just want to say that the TP-Link Deco BE3600 mesh wifi setup is shit.

Utter shit.

Biggest red flag of them all: NO WEB INTERFACE.

You **HAVE** to use their app to configure it!

(No, I did not choose it.)

TIL my fursona shares his color scheme with... Estonia?!

I feel like... after decades of contemplation... I've mentally crossed some line that means I could never go back to that kind of superstition.

So...

...

... what happens if my mind can no longer tolerate reality, and *wants* to escape to those belief systems... and can't?

🤔

I feel like even if I *wanted* to take up religion again, to *choose* to believe in something unproven, that my logical brain could never be convinced and I'd be in a permanent state of intransigent disbelief.

At my age, if I "saw" "God", I would just assume that I was intoxicated or poisoned by something that caused me to hallucinate, or that my mind was "short circuiting". I wouldn't believe it to actually be the phenomenon known colloquially as "God".

So... what would it take to convince me?

I turned back to my desk, blinked hard, looked back, and everything was normal again... and then I went to bed! xD

I bring this up because I wonder what it would take to convince me something is real that I otherwise know isn't. What would it take for me to NOT dismiss something as a hallucination?

You're supposed to take it and lie down to sleep. You are not supposed to fight the sedative effects.

Well, I took it one night, remembered I had something I needed to do, and worked on it. Later, I turned around and saw something impossible.

Have you ever hallucinated? I'm not talking "got so high, I saw some things" type of hallucinations, just... something you can firmly point to as a hallucination.

I did once, over a decade ago. It WAS chemical-related, but not illicit drug.

It was shortly after I started taking Ambien for sleep.