iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 07/08/2026

holy shit, i can finally jailbreak my ipad 9th gen! i have no idea what i’m gonna do with it, but oh well.

the dopamine 3.0 beta on my ipad 9th gen running ios 18.5.

sileo, a package manager, also running on my ipad

the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 29/05/2026

i just bought a 2015 macbook pro for only $25, and this thing is amazing. it was listed as for parts, which is why it was so cheap, but it works perfectly, all it needed was a boot drive!

a 2015 macbook pro running mac os x mojave off of a 64 gb sd card (since this photo was taken before i bought the charger or the ssd adapter, whoops!)

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 20/04/2026

damn you spotify for killing off the older versions, i’m gonna have to find a new modded version after using the same one for the past 3 years :(

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 05/04/2026

i got a bit bored, so here’s what the bluesky app icon could’ve looked like if it launched 14 years ago.

a version of the bluesky app icon with a shiny gradient on the top half and a butterfly with an inner white glow above a blue gradient background, it basically just looks like the old ios app icon style.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 01/04/2026

rip to appadvice, i used to go there to download old ios app icons since their old articles still had them up somehow, and now they’re gone!

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 27/03/2026

to celebrate the 3-year anniversary of me getting it, my switch’s blue joy-con battery started expanding, how lovely.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 22/03/2026

goodwill prices are actually outrageous now, i definitely wanna pay $30 for a camera that doesn’t even have film made for it anymore!

a polaroid spectra system camera, for $29.99, dated march 11, 2026. a little bit of a side note, my aunt bought a spectra 2 at a goodwill a few years ago for like $7 and gave it to me because they hadn’t made the film in like 4 years, that’s the most i’d pay for one of these! i also buried it on the bottom shelf to stop anyone from getting screwed over.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 22/03/2026

YAY WE SUCCESSFULLY BULLIED MICROSOFT INTO SUBMISSION 🥳🥳

Windows Insider Program Email:
Our commitment to Windows quality
Hello Windows Insiders,
I want to speak to you directly, as an engineer who has spent his career building technology that people depend on every day. Windows touches more people's lives than almost any technology on Earth.
Every day, we hear from the community about how you experience Windows. And over the past several months, the team and I have spent a great deal of time analyzing your feedback. What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better.
Today, I'm sharing what we are doing in response.
Here are some of the initial changes we will preview

• More taskbar customization, including vertical and top positions
Repositioning the taskbar is one of the top asks we've heard from you. We are introducing the ability to reposition it to the top or sides of your screen, making it easier to personalize your workspace.
• Integrating Al where it's most meaningful, with craft and focus
You will see us be more intentional about how and where
Copilot integrates across Windows, focusing on experiences that are genuinely useful and well-crafted.
As part of this, we are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad.
• Reducing disruption from Windows Updates
Receiving updates should be predictable and easy to plan around, so we're giving you more control. This includes the ability to skip updates during device setup to get to the desktop faster, restart or shut down without installing updates and pause updates for longer when needed, all while reducing update noise with fewer automatic restarts and notifications.
Faster and more dependable File Explorer
File Explorer is one of the most used surfaces in Windows. Our first round of improvements will focus on a quicker launch experience, reduced flicker, smoother navigation and more reliable performance for everyday file tasks.
• More control over widgets and feed experiences
Widgets should feel helpful and relevant, not distracting or overwhelming. We're introducing quieter defaults, more control over when and how widgets appear, and improved personalization for the Discover feed.

Performance
We are focusing on making Windows 11 more responsive and consistent, so performance feels smooth and reliable.
Over the course of the year, we're improving system performance, app responsiveness, File Explorer and the Windows Subsystem for Linux, helping Windows stay fast as you move between apps and workloads.
Improving system performance: Reducing resource usage by Windows to free up more performance for what you're doing.
• Faster and more responsive Windows experiences, with early improvements already delivering launch time reductions in apps like File Explorer
• Improved memory efficiency, lowering the baseline memory footprint for Windows and freeing up more capacity for the apps you run
• More consistent performance, even under load, so apps stay responsive throughout the day
More fluid and responsive app interactions: Reducing interaction latency by moving core Windows experiences to the WinUl3 framework.
• Improving the shared Ul infrastructure that Windows experiences rely on, reducing interaction latency and overhead at the platform level
• Faster responsiveness in core Windows experiences like the Start menu, by moving more experiences to WinUI3

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 14/03/2026

i got a new windows laptop a few days ago, and it’s already stuck in an automatic repair loop for no goddamn reason, why did i make the mistake of giving windows 11 another try?

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 04/03/2026

i actually really like that new macbook, it looks pretty cool and you don’t need to sell a kidney to buy it. but i’m probably not gonna get one cause i’d rather choke and die than deal with that tumor known as “tahoe”, if they’d released it a year sooner i would’ve bought one by now

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 01/03/2026

i’ve been working on shrinking my loved playlist on itunes down, it went from 3,000 at the beginning of 2025 to 888 now, now i’m not constantly skipping songs!

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 14/02/2026

every time youtube makes a dumb change to the mobile app for no reason an angel loses its wings

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 06/02/2026

it’s so obvious that the reason adobe wants to kill off animate is because there’s no way to shove ai in it. there’s a million pre-existing ai models for generating images and videos, but there’s none for flash’s specific breed of vector animation.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 03/02/2026

fuck me man, every adobe executive is going to hell

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 03/02/2026

apparently adobe is completely killing off adobe flash/animate, why is adobe incapable of making good decisions.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 09/12/2025

i know that we’ve fallen from grace as a society because i can’t find any youtube downloaders that’ll let me download an age-restricted or copyrighted video anymore. not even the sketchiest ones will!

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 05/12/2025

after dealing with a 16-year-old hard drive for too long i finally got the cheapest 512gb ssd i could find and it is AMAZING. my pc boots in like 30 seconds now instead of 5 minutes, and it just runs SO much faster. the best part is that my dumpster pc got its hard drive back, so now i have 2 pcs!

an sk hynix ssd with 512gb of storage, i love this thing man.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 29/11/2025

i accidentally managed to get some of the songs on damn skippy on spotify, i don't have spotify premium so i have no clue how these are working without my local files, but i'm not complaining.

Dead Sea Monkeys
Sky Is Not Blue
When Robots Attack
Geeks In Love
Gonna Dig Up Alec Guiness
Flamingo Legs
Dizziful Bliss
Eventuality

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 26/11/2025

oh my god i just realized that it’s been 10 years since i uploaded my first youtube video, i actually feel ancient right now holy fuck

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 25/11/2025

after a lot of digging, i managed to find my favorite chrome extension from like 10 years ago! it was a recreation of the windows 8 start menu but as a chrome new tab window, and i'm surprised that it still kinda works!

an older version of chrome running "new metrotab", i used to have it on my computer like 10 years ago since i was using windows 7 and i wanted to try a newer version of windows, and this extension is probably the most accurate recreation of the windows 8 start menu.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 20/11/2025

i just got a kindle for only $28, it’s my first one ever and i absolutely love it. it came with a scratch on the backlight, which is why it was so cheap, but i don’t mind it. i have all of my repair manuals on it, this thing is awesome when i need to take something apart.

a kindle paperwhite 3 sitting on my desk, the backlight is on so you can see 2 little scratches on it.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 05/11/2025

apple released a new web ui for the app store and i noticed something odd, apple's now applying their own liquid glass-ification tools to app icons that were already uploaded without liquid glass. they have the same url, except apple's modified version has "ia" added to the image name.

the original xbox app icon, available at https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/d4/50/30/d450304f-b4c7-b71d-0209-5024da6fa088/AppIcon-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-85-220-0.png/1024x1024.png

apple's liquid glass-ified icon, available at https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/d4/50/30/d450304f-b4c7-b71d-0209-5024da6fa088/AppIcon-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-85-220-0.png/1024x1024ia.png

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 25/10/2025

reddit and ebay are in a competition to see who can make the most useless search box on the internet

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 19/10/2025

i just learned that xiu xiu only has 36,000 monthly listeners on spotify, i thought that they were way more popular than that!

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 14/10/2025

rest in peace to a version of windows that i never really wanted to use and never really liked but that i’m forced to use if i wanna do anything worth doing with my pc.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 04/10/2025

it’s a miracle my computer’s hard drive is still working after 15 years, hopefully i’ll be able to get a new one soon before it kicks the bucket.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 16/09/2025

hopefully i’m not the only person downloading as many apps as they can onto their iphone to prepare for the liquid glass apocalypse…

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 14/09/2025

holy shit DECLUTTR IS ACTUALLY DEAD, REST IN PIECE TO MY CD PLUG 2014-2025 🕊️🕊️🕊️

decluttr website:
DECLUTTR IS NOW CLOSED
Our website has officially closed.
Thank you for trading with us over the years. Although our website is now closed, our Customer Service team remains ready to assist with any active orders.
If you need help or have questions about an order, please visit our Help Center. We’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

im actually sad I'VE BOUGHT LIKE 30 CDS FROM THEM FOR CHRISTS SAKE IM GONNA MISS ACTUALLY CHEAP CDS THAT AREN'T FROM THRIFT STORES😭

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 11/09/2025

i got bored, so i started working on a userscript that would bring back some of the old amazon website's design elements, and i got the old ratings bar style to work! it looks really weird with the new-style stars, but i'm working on changing those too.

the customer reviews rating screen, but with the old style of bar graph. they're very 3d-looking compared to the flat, orange stars above it.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 24/08/2025

i tried playing my garbage (the album by the band) tape today, but it got really badly chewed up by my player, and i don’t think it will be able to play the first song every again, that actually really sucks, REST IN PIECE GARBAGE TAPE 1995-2025😔

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 23/08/2025

i got a little bit bored, so i made my windows 10 look almost exactly like windows 8.1. unpopular opinion, windows 8.1 was the last good-looking windows version, windows 10 is way too bland and colorless, and windows 11 is just horrific.

a windows 10 install but it looks almost exactly like windows 8.1, it has ms paint with a poorly drawn smiley face in it, command prompt, a sticky note that says "hello", a notepad windows saying "(THIS IS NOT WINDOWS 8.1)", a UAC window for command prompt, file explorer, and the about windows screen open. it has all the windows 10 version numbers and everything in it, but everything else is nearly identical.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 21/08/2025

i just found out that ALL the photos that i took on my trip to nevada are gone, yay, thanks google photos🙃

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 09/08/2025

macs (for some dumb reason) leave little turd files on flash drives with every file you open, i searched my hard drive for them and i found 38,643 of them! that's 154 MEGABYTES taken up for no damn reason. thanks, apple.

25 of these files, they're made for each file you open, and their name is the regular file's name with "._" added in front of it. i added some text to the right of this screenshot, which says "there were 38,643 of these damn files on my hard drive. that's this image times 1,543. holy shit apple."

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 01/08/2025

i finally eradicated all the big sur icons that i could from my mac's dock! here's how it looks now, i think i did a good (enough) job...

my dock on my mac. am i really gonna list all the icons? yes. finder, firefox, messages, facetime, mail, find my iphone, weather, news, calendar, notes, textedit, logic pro x, final cut pro x, flash cs6, photoshop cs6, illustrator cs6, indesign cs6, lightroom 6.0, word 2016, excel 2016, powerpoint 2016, publisher 2013, peazip, minecraft launcher, steam, obs, audacity, photo booth, iphone mirroring, and settings. and for my folders, there's my applications, windows applications, downloads, and the trash. that's a lot of stuff! and it all matches the old, fun style of icons, except for the dock itself. unless they updated the trash icons, whoops!

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 31/07/2025

i finally figured out how to semi-change the system icons on mac since i hate the big sur icons, so i made some mac os x catalina-styled icons for the apps that didn't exist when catalina was made. sorry if bluesky compresses these to hell and back.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 30/07/2025

do you remember when "lebronposting" was a thing? me neither, here's my old take on it.

a parody of a rap tv instagram post, it has lebron with his palm on the head and the price of adobe creative cloud on the right with the text "LEBRON JAMES REPORTEDLY PAID FOR ADOBE SOFTWARE" above it

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 28/07/2025

i just listened to the new clipse album and this might be my favorite album of the year. 10/10, this is culturally inappropriate

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 24/07/2025

i hate bandlab i hate bandlab i HATE BANDLABBBBBB

"Cakewalk: CbB (Cakewalk by Bandlab, basically old Cakewalk Sonar, this is just me cutting in here btw) Activations End 8/1/2025
Make the move to Sonar now. Transition seamlessly to Sonar's free tier, or unlock premium features with Membership."

I don't wanna put my rant into the tweet, so sorry to everyone who wants to look at/hear the alt text. Cakewalk by Bandlab used to be called Cakewalk Sonar before they got bought, sold, and bought again. When it got rebranded to Cakewalk by Bandlab, it was made completely free, aside from some plugins you had to pay for. It's been that way for nearly 7 years now. But now Bandlab wants to make a new, shittier Sonar, that you have to pay for! I know, there's a free tier, but it doesn't have the same stuff that the old Sonar had! Plus, the UI got redesigned, and you know that I DESPISE change. I pray that someone out there, anyone, can crack the activation after they stop supporting it, because I am NOT gonna use that new one. I know that I can't hate without trying it, so I installed it, and it crashed twice before it launched, yay, and now there's a big-ass banner asking you to buy the membership. Screw that. Eat my ass and lick my balls, Bandlab.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 15/07/2025

i am now just learning that my little samsung tv isn’t 1080p, it just supports displaying 1080p video at 768p. i’ve been using this thing for over 12 years for god’s sake, how have i never noticed

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 11/07/2025

i’m never gonna buy a new iphone until they bring back rose gold, the rose gold iphone se is the best looking iphone they ever made and i will die on that hill

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 03/07/2025

i bought a combo ipod dock and cd player at a thrift store for $15, and it works amazing. sadly, it doesn’t have the remote, and $15 is a bit pricey for my broke self, but if you think about it, it’s like $7.50 for each one, plus a radio. it’s also the first actual “hifi” thing i’ve ever owned, yay!

my ipod sitting in this mini hifi stereo (with no speakers since i’m gonna use it with my pc’s speakers), it has a few buttons on each side and a huge volume wheel in the middle. the part where the ipod dock is is sticking out. the cd tray is at the top, but you can’t see it in the photo. my headphones are plugged into it right now, but you can see the cable for my pc speakers right by the headphone port. the display at the top is orange, i was playing a cd on it, it was on track 5 at 4:26. the model is a sony mhc-ec69i, if you’re curious.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 29/06/2025

i am now just finding out that neil uploaded 2 new songs to the fump, and they’ve been up for 2 years now, and i just never checked since i thought he stopped, WHY AM I LIKE THIS

2 new lemon demon songs on spotify (if you count 2 years ago as new), the top one is funkytown on volume 98 and the bottom one is geeks in love on volume 97, “the fump” is short for “the funny music project” btw

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 19/06/2025

i don’t know about y’all, but putting hashtags in my posts feels really weird for me, it’s like i’m trying too hard to get noticed, that’s probably just me though, and it probably doesn’t matter

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 18/06/2025

i got a little bit bored, so i accidentally spent the last 8 hours trying to recreate a song in fl studio, and i actually think i recreated it pretty well, but i could've done something actually productive for those 8 whole painful hours, screw my brain for randomly wanting to do stuff

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 17/06/2025

i am now on month 7 of macbook ownership! it's actually amazing how long the battery lasts, it can run all my apps (thanks to parallels), and is way too fast for my own good. and i got the cheapest one! i'm probably not gonna buy a new laptop for a while, but if i do, it's probably gonna be a mac.

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 14/06/2025

i'm trying to port my minecraft texture pack to pocket edition, and the names for some of the textures are absolutely stupid. why is bone meal "dye_powder_white.png", why is an azure bluet "flower_houstonia.png", actually all the flower texture names are dumb, mojang needs to fire whoever named them

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 12/06/2025

i was bored, so i hooked up a wireless charger in my computer’s dvd drive. i know, it’s dumb, and it’ll probably catch on fire, but can you shove your phone in your computer’s dvd slot and have it charge?

my red galaxy buds charging on a wireless charger inside of my computer’s 2nd dvd slot. you can the wire running out the back and onto the motherboard. the computer has its faceplate and side panel off, and it’s running (thankfully)

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the bushfactory™ @bushfactory.neocities.org · 10/06/2025

that apple event made me a little bit too negative, so i would like to give a quick shoutout to the combo dvd player and vcr that i got at a goodwill for like $4 a while ago that i use to play cds

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