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Had another dream of the elderly southern italian man on that same mediterranean vista sobbing because he never ate a hotdog at an american ballpark. It's starting to really get to me. He was a lot older this time.
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I've got these two sewing machines, made about 100 years apart. An old treadle machine from around 1920-1930, that I pulled out of the trash on a rainy day, and a new Brother sewing machine from around 2020.
I've always known planned obsolescence was a thing, but I never knew just how insidious it was till I started looking at these two side by side.
I wasn't feeling hopeful at first that I'd actually be able to fix the old one, I found it in the trash at 2 am in a thunderstorm. It was rusty, dusty, soggy, squeaky, missing parts, and 100 years old.
How do you even find specialized parts 100 years later? Well, easily, it turns out. The manufacturers at the time didn't just make parts backwards compatible to be consistent across the years, but also interchangeable across brands! Imagine that today, being able to grab a part from an old iPhone to fix your Android.
Anyway, 6 months into having them both, I can confidently say that my busted up trash machine is far better than my new one, or any consumer-grade sewing machine on the market.
Old Machine Guts
The old machine? Can sew through a pile of leather thicker than my fingers like it's nothing. (it's actually terrifying and I treat it like a power tool - I'll never sew drunk on that thing because I'm genuinely afraid it'd sew through a finger!) At high speeds, it's well balanced and doesn't shake. The parts are all metal, attached by standard flathead screws, designed to be simple and strong, and easily reachable behind large access doors. The tools I need to work on it? A screwdriver and oil. Lost my screwdriver? That's OK, a knife works too.
New Machine Guts
The new machine's skipping stitches now that the plastic parts are starting to wear out. It's always throwing software errors, and it damn near shakes itself apart at top speed. Look at it's innards - I could barely fit a boriscope camera that's about as thick as spaghetti in there let alone my fingers. Very little is attached with standard screws.
And it's infuriating. I'm an engineer - there's no damn reason to make high-wear parts out of plastic. Or put them in places they can't be reached to replace. There's no reason to make your mechanism so unbalanced it's reaching the point of failure before reaching it's own design speed. (Oh yeah there is, it's corporate greed)
100 years, and your standard home sewing machine has gone from a beast of a machine that can be pulled out of the literal waterlogged trash and repaired - to a machine that eats itself if you sew anything but delicate fast-fashion fabrics that are also designed to fall apart in a few years.
Looking for something modern built to the standard that was set 100 years ago? I'd be looking at industrial machines that are going for thousands of dollars... Used on craigslist. I don't even want to know what they'd cost new.
We have the technology and knowledge to manufacture "old" sewing machines still. Hell, even better, sewing machines with the mechanical design quality of the old ones, but with more modern features. It would be so easy - at a technical level to start building things well again. Hell, it's easier to fabricate something sturdy than engineer something to fail at just the right time. (I have half a mind to see if any of my meche friends with machine shops want to help me fabricate an actually good modern machine lol)
We need to push for right-to-repair laws, and legislation against planned obsolescence. Because it's honestly shocking how corporate greed has downright sabotaged good design. They're selling us utter shit, and expecting us to come back for more every financial quarter? I'm over it.
“You have to cheat. Ask for as many extensions on papers as you possibly can. Pretend your computer is broken. Use your charm if you have any. If you’re going to cry, don’t wait until you’re out of the room–do it where the people in power can see you. Eat the same food every day if you can’t think of anything else to make. Put other things ahead of taking a shower, even if your mom said you have to take a shower every two days. Sometimes people won’t notice you’re cheating but even if they do and are annoyed you might still get by. My mom goes to workshops for people with ASD and then gives me the really long printouts that go along with them. The printouts tell me to sit down and make a list of everything I have to do. When I am anxious, as I have been this year, it’s hard to think about these things so I hold on to the printouts out of guilt but don’t actually read them. Then my mom finds them and gets upset that I haven’t read them and says that I’m not ready to live on my own. But I am ready to live on my own. Badly. Just like I can hold down a full-time job. Badly. Just like I am getting my homework done. Badly. And I forget to balance my checkbook, which none of my non-disabled friends do because you can get it online, and my mom says, “Well it’s different for you because they would be able to do it if they needed to, but you wouldn’t, so you have to do it.” Theoretically I understand this is true, but my checkbook remains unbalanced. Which is bad. And I feel bad. I do! At this rate I’ll never be able to go to college. But I do go to college. At this rate I’ll never be able to have any friends. But I do have friends. I just don’t do everything right with them all the time. For people whose lives are controlled by executive dysfunction, I firmly believe the difference between getting stuff done and not getting stuff done is not caring about doing things right. You cannot always make a list all the time and be early for everything. You just can’t. Hopefully you’re good-looking or funny or you remind someone of their niece. Exploit all opportunities. Do not do what people who are not disabled tell you to do (unless you want to, of course). All too often I find myself waiting for the day when I can do shit properly, which more or less amounts to waiting until I’m not disabled anymore. Then I can feel good enough to deserve everything I want. Well my cure is slow in arriving, so I’m just going to do everything I want now, if that’s okay with you.”
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from I’m Somewhere Else, “Max is a Miracle”
The best advice I’ve heard on how to get through college with a developmental disability when there are zero accommodations for executive dysfunction. You can’t let anyone else try to live your life for you, and you cannot worry about “doing things right”. Also: none of the things described here as “cheating” are ACTUALLY cheating.
well sometimes when i go to the shawarma place i wish i was a man so the shawarma man would call me brother but that’s the only time. otherwise i dont.
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If you're applying for office jobs and you're lying about being proficient in Excel (which you always should bc nobody knows anything and google is free) a handy video to give you the basics on Excel's functionality is Joel Sposky's You Suck at Excel Video. It's about an hour long and gives you enough background info to know what people are talking about when referring to Excel, and from there you can do your own further research. There are also handy little guides and notes people have taken on the presentation that go over the highlights here and here <3
So, animated cursors are a little trickier because there isn't a reliable .cur to .ani (animated cursor) converter. You'll need to download an old program to get what you want.
But it IS possible! And just as customizable.
Part 1
Let's say I want my mouse to be Furret. First I need a gif with a transparent background.
(If you want to make your own gif instead, you need a series of .png files, then to upload them on this website here and customize what kind of timing you want.)
This gif is definitely WAY too big to become a proper mouse. So we need to shrink it down. Upload or paste the link in here, then figure out what size you want.
When you're ready to test it, go ahead and click "Resize Image!"
You'll want to pay attention to that file size there. At MAX, you never want to go over 60KiB.
So we have our tiny Furret. What now?
You see all those icons underneath the preview?
You want to click this one.
Then hit "Split into frames!" here. Don't worry about the "Split options" box, it won't really impact the end result for what we're going for here.
Ta-da! You now have every frame of your gif ready. Click "Download frames as ZIP," then once you have the Zip file, extract the files into a normal folder.
Part 2
Part 2 of this, turning those frames into a .ani file, is slightly less straightforward if you're going in blind.
You'll need to download and install AniTuner. It's free and safe, but it also looks and acts straight out of Windows 2007, so be warned.
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Once you have AniTuner installed, go ahead and open it up.
You'll get a window open that looks like this:
Go ahead and click "Create a new animated cursor."
Now we get to the cursor creation stage. You can pick out a name for it and give it your author signature if you want to, but for now, we're just going to be working on the gif part of it. Click on "Edit Cursor Frames" on the left hand size.
Hit "Import image(s)," go to that folder with the gif frames, and press Ctrl + A to select them all. Don't worry about whatever file names they have, they're in the right order.
Ignore everything here. You don't need to mess with it unless you're further editing the image. Just make sure your background color is something you can stand seeing a few pixels of and that "Set the color as transparent" is checked, and you're good to go.
Unless your image was 32 x 32, you'll get this box. I'm going to hit "Resize Image to fit the new size," that way it doesn't cut off any bits of the cursor, but this is up to you. Check "Don't ask me again," then hit "OK."
Now's the slightly obnoxious part. It wants to ask you to adjust things for every frame.
You can hold down the enter button to blow through them, or you can button mash the "OK" button, doesn't matter. Just know that however many frames you put in, that's the number it's going to ask you to do this. So if you're compressing the entire Morbius movie, you've been warned.
If your file explorer pops up, you hit "Enter" one too many times and it thinks you pressed "Import Image(s)" again. Just X out of the file explorer and ignore it.
Now your window should look like this:
Right click that blank "Frame 1" and hit "Delete Frame(s)," otherwise you'll have a single flicker of nothing in your cursor.
Next you want to click "Set Length" down in the bottom right.
This is how many 1/100ths of a second each frame is going to last before it switches to the next. 10 makes a really slow Furret:
While 2 makes a fast one:
If you want to know the timing your original gif was set to, go to the folder your frames are saved to. All the frames will be named something like frame_00_delay-0.03s.
That last bit is the timing. "0.03s" means "3 jiffies," "0.12s" means "12 jiffies," etc.
Once you've decided how fast you want it, go ahead back to "Cursor Properties."
Ignore the Cursor Preview in the bottom left, it runs slower than your mouse will.
Now you want to choose your "hotspot." This is the part of the image that your computer expects you to use as the point you click with. You can set that manually with numbers, OR you can click somewhere on the image next to it to set it with crosshairs. So if I want it to be Furret's nose that clicks on things, I would click there.
You can test your timings, hotspots, etc with the "Test Cursor" button. Click it once to turn on your new cursor, then again to turn it off. If you somehow lose your mouse, just press "s" to get your old one back.
Pick your title and click "Save Animated Cursor..." on the left hand toolbar, then save it and close the program.
Congrats! You've just made a .ani file.
From there, treat it just like I did the Skyrim cursor in the first tutorial—go to "Control Panel," then "Mouse," "Pointers," click the cursor you want to replace, "Browse..." then find your file.
And there you have it! One animated cursor of whatever you want.
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Okay listen I have another disability related thing that’s important!!
If you have any disabilities linked to tooth decay/erosion, through direct cause or secondary symptom, it is vital that you get one or both of the following items: Sensodyne toothpaste and enamel repair mouthwash
This includes health conditions such as acid reflux, diabetes, thyroid conditions, fibromyalgia, chronic pain & mental illnesses such as depression that create poor hygiene routines, sensory issue disorders like autism and ADHD, and any health condition that causes frequent vomiting / increased stomach acid, including eating disorders and migraines.
All of these disabilities will erode the enamel of your teeth, not only opening you up to cavities but making it very easy to chip your teeth from such simple things as biting the wrong way on the tines of a fork. (I’ve chipped my teeth at least 4 times this way).
The toothpaste on the left here (sensodyne pronamel) is gentle on your teeth, won’t cause painful sensations from any extreme mint flavor, and will even protect your gums if they’re sensitive from any of these conditions.
The mouthwash on the right (Crest enamel repair) will, as it says, repair your enamel — which is marvelous, because the technology to repair your enamel at all is relatively very new to society! — but it is most importantly non-alcoholic. Meaning that it works well as a once-a-day rinse without any of the burning sensations of antiseptics that typically discourage people with sensory issues from taking care of their teeth.
I know remembering to do these things every day can feel like a lot when you’re sick and exhausted, but I promise a collective three minutes out of every day is going to save you an incredible amount of pain and money in the future. If your teeth are susceptible enough to rot, you can actually die from infection. And as they say, with how little insurance actually covers dental —
Okay so even BETTER than the enamel repair mouthwash (though get that in addition to this for even better protection) is MI paste. It can be hard to get but some dentists will sell it to you. (It seems to be easier to get in the US. I believe Amazon carries it as well)
It's not cheap at $20 for a small tube, but it is incredible at not just preventing enamel loss, it actually remineralizes your teeth! I'm a fan of the melon flavour personally.
If you have fluoride sensitivities (my mast cells hate me) or want to add another layer I have had huge success with n-ha (nano-hydroxyapatite). Studies have shown it either matching or outperforming fluoride, and I know I personally stopped getting so much tooth sensitivity (which we now know is actually sinus pressure referred and the fluoride was potentially triggering) and my cavities have gone down drastically. Which is great news since the numbing doesn't work on me and I cant afford dental work every 6 months.
I personally like boka, they have a few mint free toothpastes. I keep a travel size in my bedside table for when I can't get out of bed or was 2 dizzy to stand and brush my teeth.
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