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~~Do you ever have the issue where FLAC files play at a slower speed than they're supposed to? Maybe I just need to update firmware or something (though I haven't been able to access the fiio forum to download it in a couple days which is super frustrating)~~

Whoops. It was an adblocker issue. I updated and it's all good now. 😅

Hello fellow film industry abandoner! I never went to film school, but I did briefly join the editors union in LA prior to the industry imploding shortly after lockdowns in LA. I switched to contract commercial work and, while it's been far more soul-sucking, at least it pays the bills. I no longer live in an industry city, so I've been trying to find my footing in a career that doesn't treat (and pay) a former union editor like a youtube editor (no hate on youtube editors, that work seems extremely tedious and they deserve to be paid more). But maybe I'll just break down and become an electrician if my client work ever slows down.

It’s an empty and hollow sort of attention though. I’ve had friends in the past where it felt like I was entirely invisible because they just couldn’t see me. And maybe that’s because I’m not good at being comfortable in a crowd enough to be myself (which itself stems from a lack of self confidence). It’s kind of a self-perpetuating issue. People (namely therapists) keep telling me to journal, but that hasn’t seemed to help at all, though it might help you if you haven’t been suggested that before. Idk it’s rough out there and it’s hard to hold on to hope without feeling like you’re just tossing coins into a fountain. Depression is a fucker and it will convince you that you’ve never been happy before and you’ll never be happy again, but if you start to treat yourself with the love and grace you deserve, things have to start clearing up, right?

My father in law is the very model of a modern major liberal and often inserts his opinions about human nature and how evil the enemies of Amerikkka are any chance he gets. I keep saving comments by cowbee to use as responses to him and the last few times I’ve done it, it has stopped him in his tracks, immediately changing the subject. I swear, there’s something about how cowbee responds that works really well on a certain kind of people.

This exactly. Fuck him and fuck Jonathan Ross.

People look at me funny when I tell them I used to have exploding head syndrome.

I have a modded iPod video as well as a Fiio Snowsky Echo Mini. Both work pretty well for me, though both have obnoxious flaws. The iPod can technically play FLAC files through the Rockbox OS, but it's wildly sluggish with high-bitrate songs, sometimes even crashing the device in the process. The Echo Mini has an issue with some(?) FLAC files, playing them about 20% slower and at a lower pitch than it's supposed to, but only for a couple japanese albums (I can't find anyone else online with this issue, so it might just be something affecting me). Playlist management is kind of a pain on both, but the scroll wheel of the ipod is vastly superior to the buttons on the Echo Mini.

Me with a kick scooter

She eats rocks

First you have to put a regular stew in an old copper still (if you have tomato paste in your stew it also polishes the copper too!). Mix in a bit of Meth+Tylenol to make methanol, which will blind you for a day if you drink the heads and tails of the distilled stew.

I will say that VLC, which isn’t in a rounded square is one of the most recognizable icon in my launchpad. But also, it’s a literal traffic cone. And I never hunt for it because I remember its name.

My launchpad in general is like 60% rounded squares and 40% whatever the developer wanted to do. Patchwork, gemini2, AmorphusDiskMark, HandBrake, Ryujinx, blackmagic disk speed test, supernote partner, vintage story etc. It’s more frustrating to me how inconsistent the iconography is since I never use the icons to figure out what I want to open and wildly different looking icons don’t look well in the dock. Spotlight search (or specifically Raycast) is what I use to open apps 95% of the time, so I might be a bit outside the norm. If I had to scroll through the 8 pages of my launchpad apps every time I wanted to open an app, I’d just throw my computer out the window.

I figured that at this point, app icon design is like website favicon design. Superfluous and unreliable for remembering what it belongs to considering designs change so often.

Do what I (another ADHD-haver) do. (I overuse parentheses). AI would blush at my writing style