stupidly lucky and woefully overprepared

When a popular book is turned into a film/drama series, quite often lots of changes are made for various reasons. Maybe too many characters in the book, plotlines too complicated, want to bring in some surprise factor to those who know the original. And whatever other reasons that media creators come up with. That's fine.

Murderbot is no exception. The creators presumably wanted to make that into a comedy. Ha-ha! obvious comedy with exaggerated tropes like sitcoms that go with their 30 minutes per episode format. Fine.

But if there is ONE THING that I really want the "from-tv" fans to know (there are a lot more but if i'm forced to choose one) - is that MURDERBOT IS A COOL, HIGHTLY COMPETENT SECUNIT!

Yes, it has lots of social anxiety. Yes, it often says self-deprecating things, like its terrible plans, being made of cheap parts , etc.

But don't be fooled. You cannot see its anxiety unless you can hear its internal dialogue. The only human that could see through its vulnerability is Dr. Mensah, who is also keeping her vulnerability invisible to others, by being a calm, competent leader.

Muderbot has survived as a rogue for years without its status being detected. It has first-rate hacking skills. It has creative problem-solving skills. It has protected its clients against odds over and over again. It can beat other SecUnits in a fight, because it's not just using its programmed functions.

It's not good at talking with humans, but its anxiety makes it blunt rather than cringingly awkward. It never quotes Sanctuary Moon out loud.

TV show was a sort of transformative work.

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.

So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.

These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.

DECEMBER IS TOMMORROW.

Glorious!!

Taken from a stepladder putting up Christmas lights

“Brewing Storm on an Evening Commute”

And “Finally, no Power Lines”

Park And See The View 2020

(it took seconds to happen)

Waiting for The Pharmacy Line to Move, 2021

the pride montage we’ve all been waiting for