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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Ohohohoo I just scored one of these.
thaanak youuuuu
(either it goes into the bedroom and the old bedroom TV becomes my retro console tv since that's what it was always set up for being as it has UHF inputs (just moving from the bedroom to my office), or it goes in my office as my retro console TV)
I want an Existential Crisis Duck Night light. My life will not be complete without it.
Idk, have you seen the capybara variant?
There is glowing Whump?! You just changed my universe.
Capybaras? Who cares. But a duck ...
I like those glowing mushroom lights.
They look good when lit, but like those mushroom coathooks in the cold light of day you're sprouting wall penises
That’s cute as hell. Perfect little bedroom telly
Good night everyone 😘😘😘
Tomorrow I’m going to be getting my phosphate supplement, Melbcat’s biccies, and maybe some physical storage items from Officeworks. It’s going to be an expensive day but you know. There’s a need.
Feeling a bit stressed for the end of the year when I’m going to have to give up my social media. It’s both really unhealthy mentally and bad for privacy but it’s something for days where I can’t do much. I wish I knew how to do useful things like code or could get rid of this art block.
Edit: I also found a box of 100 pre-pasted toothbrushes online for $26.90. Unit cost of about 27 cents, very nice. The drawback is they may not have fluoride and might get thrown out after.
Also I don’t know the website. Plus they might get stolen off my doorstep and thrown into a bush or bin before they can be given out…
Still considering it for the community pantry when money is less tight because even if they’re crappy, 100 toothbrushes supplies a lot of people who might not be able to get a new one. And they can be kept for reuse with donated fluoride toothpaste.
Computer yapping
I’ve kind of got a plan. The stuff is on my computer now and hopefully I work out how to avoid it being yoinked again when I unlink… like happened to someone else. I do have doubles on another cloud storage so I can potentially delete some of the largest files. That’s still cloud tho.
I’m having to fight the computer on backup. It keeps hiding the physical backup option and directing me to the cloud option… I kept digging and found a Win 7 backup option (WTF) which then failed.
I hate Windows 11. Windows 11 was a mistake.
I do have an optical drive that could be used to make a cd copy of just these files but 1. cheap crappy thing doesn’t work and 2. storage capacity. I don’t have dvd discs and there’s no cd drive on the computer.
If this little bitch keeps testing me I actually could remove the hard drive, screw it into an external drive enclosure and rip the data off it that way. However I don’t want to mess with it drastically like that before being able to reliably back up everything else on there. And I’m still in the process getting my photos off Facebook to store locally in preparation for potentially deactivating so I need to back those up too.
Also I don’t want to risk damaging that drive while doing that because I need a Windows computer to play games. I did manage to get my hands on a Windows 10 iso which I could revert it to once backup is sorted but then I would be left with an outdated insecure system.
I could just buy a massive thumb drive and drag files on manually just to get myself some breathing room with freeing up my email. Some of the files are just large ie. security camera video clips.
I’m also working on getting Linux onto an old desktop that doesn’t have the requirements to update to Windows 11. I’m backing that up and will see how I go once I’m done with previous. I’ve installed it before but only did things like installing stuff and surfing and once ran an antivirus to practice the commands so this might be an easy way to take a deeper dive than previously. See if it can do the things I need.
The one snag with that is I’m trying to do the checksum to verify the Cinnamon iso before creating the bootable version and the hashes are not matching.
I downloaded both the sha256 files I was directed to so they should be the right ones, I’m typing the powershell command right and it’s working, and have tried multiple mirrors for the iso so… ???
Maybe I should try again with Ubuntu? But Mint is the beginner version for people transitioning from Windows
Halfway through s3 of Animal Kingdom, hearing about the Pope dying is a bit confusing now. I mean I'm sure he's eventually going to die by the end of 7 seasons... Still a solidly B grade series so far, the network TV tropes are meh, but I do love Shawn Hatosy though which is why I'm really watching this show...
