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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

came across a (very silly) privilege escalation bug on my laptop with last week's macos beta, updated to yesterday's beta to double-check if the bug still works and it doesn't, lol. apple is several steps ahead of me 😅

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

i like that the "his name is big boobs look him up on your school computer" meme became so well-known that googling "big boobs" actually brings up Uni the cat now

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

🟢 <-- wondering if the guys who haven't made reliable *laptop* hinges/cables in a decade have made a reliable folding smartphone on the first try

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

picked up a $10 serial mouse on Kijiji for a friend's ancient DOS laptop and it came with a catalogue. i want the Logitech Kidz Mouse.... do they still make mice that look like mice..

a photo of the Logitech "Kidz Mouse" in a catalogue. it is designed to look like the animal. the body is teardrop shaped and white, with a blue tail (the cable) coming out of the round end. the ears are the left and right buttons, also blue and about 2/3 of the way to the pointed end. past those, there are even little dimples that suggest eyes.

it looks like one would hold it with the hand on the "butt", with the nose pointing away from themself and the "tail" coming out under their palm. it's really cute but looks like it might be awkward to use.

the caption is as follows:

Kidz Mouse
The adorable shape makes computing easy for children 3 and up. And it's simple for parents to install.
• Windows & DOS
• Mac

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

dreamed i was on holiday somewhere and wearing an orange dress, bit weird since i own zero orange clothes or dresses irl. also don't think i ever left the hotel room, so not a very interesting holiday either

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

i didn't enjoy this at all. it probably won't work for very long (because i did a bad job). in my defense, i don't have a microscope, and im also not any good at soldering

macbook pro 2016 backlight cable which has been cut and spliced with a new one. it's quite small and has 10 tiny wires (poorly) soldered across the gap to connect the traces. there's scotch tape wrapped around the whole mess. my finger tip is in the top-left corner looking like a thumb because it's so magnified, lol

the other side of the cable (see first image) with tape covering the joint. no solder on this side. there's a connector at the top. part of the lcd and "MacBook Pro" lettering is blurred in the background

a 2016 macbook pro 13" with touch bar, functioning on the monterey lock screen. it has a green countryside wallpaper from "only yesterday". despite being opened all the way there is miraculously no "stage lighting" or backlight issue.

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

[insect photo (but cute, i promise)] the smallest monarch butterfly caterpillar ive ever seen, about the size of a grain of rice, omg

a very, very small caterpillar with black, white and yellow stripes (around the body, not lengthwise). its face has stripes as well. there tiny little pointy feet at the front and cute squishy feet at the back. there are soft black antennae behind the head and little black nubs at the back.

it's on the underside of a milkweed leaf, magnified so it looks very fuzzy. the veins are almost as big as the bug itself.

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

just found out that toads are a social construct

wikipedia screenshot: Frog species with rough skin texture due to wart-like parotoid glands tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal and purely cosmetic, and does not reflect taxonomy or evolutionary history.

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

no more chrome updates for macos 12, and by extension the last good apple laptops 🥲 thankfully, firefox (which i was already using anyways) supports as far back as 10.15, so i won't have to learn how to use linux or oclp for a while yet. yes i have an m1 air, it's weird and big 😓

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

one of the silliest macos behaviors is whenever i edit the contact for someone i talk with a lot on imessage, it freezes the app with 100% cpu for like minutes? like is it updating every message with their new details or something?? is there not just a global contact field for the whole chat???

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

why does the iphone 7 have chips called homer and maggie

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

btw, here's the progress on the purple and white phalaenopsis duplication. it seems to have decided to make like five plants?? it'll be a while until these are ready

five small green leaves growing radially from a stem. a couple of them have a second leaf nested inside. there are some other weird green blobs coming off too

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

🟢 💭 (burger tomorrow)

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

my eyes teared up spontaneously (bc allergies or whatever) and it tricked me into feeling sad for a moment until i realized i was being tricked

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

took apart my friend's compaq armada 1700 (1998 laptop) yesterday, super impressed bc all screws are t8 torx of the same length, fully interchangeable. never seen it before, i don't think even framework is doing that yet? i love it

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

is there a sane way to set an "accent color" on macos 26 but keep the classic light-blue folders? ive been doing this, which works but feels very dumb.. defaults write -g AppleIconAppearanceTintColor Other defaults write -g AppleIconAppearanceCustomTintColor '0.3566825 0.7819905 0.9708255 1.0'

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

my dad's nominally 5 cup rice cooker can properly cook 6 cups, nice

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

threw my phone onto my bed from a few feet away (as one does) and it somehow squished a fly in the process? what the hell

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

received a super cool print from an artist in toronto (saw the original in november) her name is Izzy Paez and the drawing is called "La Laguna Encantada". struggling to take a photo of my copy due to glare but it's this one! www.instagram.com/p/C9xZCJngRvN/?im… i would really […]

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

oh my god what, the "macbook neo" has the old style display cable that passes through the hinge support.apple.com/en-ca/126159 first macbook in a decade that won't have random display cable failures??? i realize it's _such_ a low bar, but they're finally approaching the standard of the […]

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

antagonizing the other swifties by interpreting "you go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me" as a node with three spokes rather than a linear chain

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

today's cattleya pic since it feels unfair to post endlessly about the phalaenopsis propagation drama and never even show my favorite orchid, just because it's comparatively easy to duplicate

a cattleya orchid flower and unopened bud. the flower is pale green, with three pointed petals at the back and two ruffled petals and a cylindrical lip in front, offset from the back ones such that they're all evenly spaced. the end of the lip is purple. there are various stiff green leaves behind

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

ugh, my lips "were chewed on" a lot in the last couple hours. someone really should've prevented it

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

expected to regret ordering a "no power" m1 macbook air on ebay but works after removing a single shorted capacitor in keyboard backlight circuit?? not even activation locked??? i now have a working arm mac?????

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

guy who has only shopped for batteries, trying to find out their bra size: 🟢 💬 (getting a lot of battery vibes from this)

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

where can i get more fake slang origins like: - we're called zoomers because of online school during covid - it's called a johnson because LBJ used to whip his out in meetings i want to start a collection..

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

took off my jeans and a big spider fell out 😓

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

face planted, hurt my thumb, it feels much better tucked under my very warm 2015 macbook air. thank you 2015 macbook air

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

in december i ordered a 2022 iphone se for $90 cad because i was curious about ios 26 and i figured (a) it's a good price (b) either my dad or sibling will surely want it since they're using the 2016 se and 8 respectively.. turns out i was wrong on both counts, nobody likes it and they're going […]

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

🟢 💭 (spraying my orchids to kill flies always gives me a headache, while my dad is unaffected. possible explanation: im more bug-like than him?)

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

spent 3 hours on transit to pickup a "no power" 2014 macbook air which works perfectly after cleaning the (visibly corroded) touchpad cable. this sucks lol

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

question for the chemists: is silicone like a science word or is it equivalent to calling plastic "carbone"

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

anyone have opinions on whether a google pixel 3a would likely be suitable for an iphone 6 enjoyer? on paper it looks almost the same size and shape, but i've never seen one irl. (or any other android phone recommendations for such a person? specifically: similar size, touch id, single back […]

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

there should be a certain threshold of sleepy where im allowed to put my head on the guy next to me on the bus..

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

noticed too late that the disk used by a very slow recursive wget was nearly full, quickly paused wget in lldb so i'd have time to make more space.. it resumed cleanly, saving me several days of re-downloading. super dumb, but a thrilling experience. lol

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

dreamed i was romantically involved with a blonde, more feminine, slightly shorter version of myself. wtf was that about

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

🟢 💭 (the evas were named with 0-based indexing while the children were 1-based)

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

laptop screw fell out again and i still haven't bought glue so im back on the "using green nail polish as adhesive" grindset

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

i have 10 sata hdds, and for years they would occasionally disconnect or get stuck repeatedly trying to spin up, often hanging or panicking my pc (thank you macos). anyways, they were all powered on molex-to-3x-sata dongles, and in november on a whim i cut off the molex plugs and soldered the […]

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

bit confusing (for me), a trace for boot rom was broken resulting in no sign of life and cycling S4 - S0 lines. thankfully there were test points at both sides to solder to. it's the "rare" i7 config as well! ordered it months ago but didn't try to fix it […] [Original post on asentientbot.ca]

blue corrosion on a black macbook air logic board

a copper colored magnet wire connecting two points on the same board

macbook air 2015 13" booted to the desktop

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

🟢 💭 (how my Moto e4 used to sort "Die Young" by Kesha in the Y section of music app bc it thought it was in German or something)

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

boring prediction: that rumored 12" macbook will be one of two things: - genuinely cheap but with ipad-like limitations (e.g. only appstore apps, no xcode, single usb-c port..) - a full-fledged computer but priced only like $100 below the regular macbook air hope im wrong, but "low-cost" apple […]

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

omg? the palm tablet i played pokemon blue on in high school is working again??

a partially disassembled palm zire 21 tablet with jumper wires connected. it's showing the home screen with default apps

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Amy @a.asentientbot.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

can't believe that magic plant hormones ("keiki paste") are really converting a flower bud into baby leaves 🥹 im so excited to (hopefully) duplicate my phalaenopsis orchids finally!!

two nested baby leaves growing out of a node on a plant stem where a flower bud would normally develop

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