Mama Ashy

I recently found a secondhand Tanya Charybdis. This was the state I found her in. Some snapped joints. Crushed together with unsanded nubs, her unbuilt legs in a ziplock bag and arms loose enough to fall apart.

She needs to be rebuilt.

She needs a little love.

All her parts are being sanded, polished and panel lined. The poor original assembly is being redone price by piece.

And to the fine folks who asked if this was yuri:

She lost her balance. Now she does a final inspection.

That’s not part of routine maintenance.

Remember, after-maintenance aftercare is important.

i dont normally draw stuff like this but pofemkin and bridget is just such a silly concept to me i cant help it

Discovered last year I couldn’t look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.

Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.

-And I couldn’t spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.

Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.

And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and I’m still dealing with a vertigo migraine.

For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.

And it’s not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. There’s even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that won’t trigger eyestrain and headaches.

So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.