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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I’m sorry you have to go through this.
    I literally cannot comprehend any parent who won’t realize their child just wants to exist as they are.

    The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. (Can’t believe I’m quoting the fucking bible of all things, this one is often shortened and misused)

    Anyway, it means the bonds you choose to make, the bonds with those who have your back in times of hardship are so much stronger, deeper and meaningful than whatever lottery of being born into whichever family.
    I wish they’d come around, but in the meantime, build your covenant.
    It might be friends, other family or online folks, but there are people who will accept you as you are.
    Surround yourself with them whenever you can.
    Cut out those who don’t, it sucks, but if they can’t respect you for who you really are rather than their idea of you, that’s on them.
    You deserve better.

    The concept of family is nice and all that, but if they don’t have your back on this, they broke that social contract first.
    It’s hard enough on its own without having to debate your own existence to your own parents.

    For whatever that’s worth from a random stranger, I’m proud of you for setting boundaries.








  • Darkest Dungeon (the first)
    It’s fun, but particularly punishing now that most available missions are at the hardest difficulty.
    Not too sure how long I’ll keep banging my head on certain bosses though.

    Dave the Diver
    It was interesting, refreshing even, but I don’t see myself playing too much past the the main story.

    Shattered Pixel Dungeon
    I’m playing on my phone, an everlasting classic in my rotation.
    I do have it on Steam, but I mostly play on my phone, I’m just used to using the Wacom pen (Samsung Note) for this game.
    A mouse would be fine too, but I usually play this on the couch and not at my desk.












  • Sadly, the CAD software I have the most experience with is SolidWorks. It has its quirks, but I like it and I know my way around.
    Which is too bad, because it’s completely absolutely fucking stupidly expensive for any home use.

    Not to mention I’ve heard stories of people getting caugth through exported models’ metadata and getting sued for publishing models made with pirated or student versions or whatnot.
    I’m not even a business and whilr I have no moral qualms pirating software, I don’t exactly wanna deal with an actively hostile company either.

    I’ve switched to onshape for now, but I know enshittification will eventually butcher it too.
    There’s a few others I’ve tried that I either can’t get good at, or that simply lack functionality.

    I’ve been meaning to try Alibre CAD, but last I checked, their trial thing required back and forth with a rep and I just never bothered.

    I don’t even mind paying, yet not $5k yearly or some shit.
    If you ever find something, ping me.


  • Honestly, I’d just use whatever the ISP provides.
    Sure, it’s not open source and it kinda sucks… But I mean, if you don’t trust the ISP modem, you can’t trust the rest of their infrastructure either anyway, so it’s kinda moot.
    At least that way you have a vague chance of having a modicum of support when shit breaks.

    If it can’t be put into bridge mode, it probably has some sort of DMZ function where it basically does port forwarding for any/all possible ports.
    Double NAT isn’t as bad as it sounds these days.

    Now to your question…
    They exist, they’re mostly targeted at ISPs though, so might be a harder find than other things.
    They might also be older, as basically all customers also want their ISP to provide Wi-Fi, which a bridge modem won’t.
    Anyway,
    You’ll have to know what DSL were talking about, there’s… ADSL, ADSL2+, VDSL, VDSL2, etc

    One old-ass model we used to use back in the day was… a Siemens 5200, but that’s ADSL2 at best, definitely not VDSL.