TheEmpireStrikesDak

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023
  • Colourism is different from caste. We’re not Hindu, so we don’t have castes, but I was told as a child how it was a shame that I and my oldest sister got darker skin, not nice light skin like our other two sisters. Boomer generation in my family still says things like, “Look at white things when pregnant so you have a white baby.”

    They love the idea of one of their kids marrying a white person, but hate the idea of them marrying a black person.

  • That’s why you just reset the chip manually.

    Once I accidentally found that printing in photo mode doesn’t use black ink. So I can get a dark enough colour for documents by telling the printer it’s using photo paper. (Except one time when I printed on matte sticker paper ond it decided not to print any of the black.)

    I thought it was because the black had pigment ink, but even after a thorough manual flush before switching to dye ink, I still get clogged nozzles. I never had this much blockage on the old family Epson, so who knows, maybe this one just hates me.

    The only reason I haven’t switched to laser is because they just don’t compare to the res of inkjets and I mostly use my printer for miniatures and other art projects.

    1.5cm vinyl sleeve covers printed with an inkjet

    I just couldn’t get this level of detail on a laser :(

  • It’s common in neurodivergent people.

    It was a big problem for me for a long time. The words are in my head, but my mouth couldn’t articulate the sounds and sometimes it was literal nonsense sounds that came out my mouth.

    Weirdly enough, it turned out that I had a sensitivity to eggs that was making that (and my mental health) a lot worse.*

    Even now, ten years on, when I can articulate a long sentence without tripping over my words, it still feels like a little victory.

    This is a completely different thing from mutism btw.

    *Unfortunately, the price of lower anxiety and better speech was losing a lot of my neutral/useful autistic traits as well.

  • I remember reading in a book that it was hard to actually break Windows, so I loved messing about in the settings. It was probably the 95 or 98 days where I turned on file extensions on my profile and never looked back.

    I also played a part in infecting the family PC with about 500 different types of adware, but oh well.

    I remember when I learnt you can customise the default icons for My Computer and the Recycling bin, so I used the image in the book or magazine as a reference and manually edited every pixel to make them golden.