@joshatticus

having a job is awesome i can buy stuff like my new domain that im waiting on nameserver changes to propgate, joshattic.us

i just had to lie and say i was a us citizen to get it and they also accepted my australian po box

Update on my laptop: still haven't gotten it back

Linux on a TomTom XL IQ Routes hell yeah, you can't do much but it's still cool thanks @micahlt for your modified opentom, took a bit of tinkering but I got it to work :)

update: it stops booting after a few boots, have to keep replacing the opentom folder with a fresh one

it crashed 1674km in :(

currently my tomtom is running a 7000km route from my house to the other side of australia in demo mode we’ll see how far it gets before it crashes with 64MB of RAM

currently 100km down and just 105 hours to go

I’m stupid I was never supposed to get a shipping box the support person was wrong they sent me an email 2 days ago saying I had to take it to Australia Post and they package it so I did that today.

While out I got a mint condition Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100T) from ewaste with no battery so I had to steal one from my other S2, and an absolutely dogshit HP Pavillion TouchSmart 11, that thing actually belonged in ewaste, I’m talking 4GB DDR3-667, 1GHZ AMD A4 and a failing mechanical hard drive, I was also somehow able to fully charge the battery in 15 minutes, so I checked the battery health and it literally has 8 % battery health, or about 1 and a half airpods 2 cases.

oh and I went to a thrift store and got a casio classpad 330 for $4 (fully working but no stylus) and a tomtom xl with iq routes for $5 which I’ve already hacked and gotten pirated maps and attempted to boot linux unsuccessfully with https://github.com/micahlt/OpenTom

Still haven't gotten my prepaid shipping box grr

Why on EARTH do we still use mAh as a unit to measure battery capacity in the big 2025, it's dependent on voltage, yeah my battery has 9 quadrillion mAh at 2 millivolts, we should be using Wh instead

2h 50m later I can use my computer again they’re fixing it for free yippee anyways here’s the configuration for the camera stuff

they're doing windows updates now after restarting my computer multiple times

I finally got pissed off enough that Dell killed my Face Recognition and Fingerprint Recognition on my XPS so I contacted them and they're remote controlling my computer and the support person just tried to GASLIGHT ME into thinking that my computer doesn't have IR emitters, so I took a photo of them and sent it to my computer and they tried to close it, then they opened Dell’s website and opened the system configuration tab and right there it said “ HELLO, IRLED”, which is Windows Hello Facial Recognition and the guy just closed it and didn't say anything and he still hadn't said anything but he's updating my graphics drivers for the third time

I've discovered how to make temporary tattoos with a cricut machine, pen, transfer tape, heat and pressure and I'm not unstoppable

Android 16 is absolutely BEAUTIFUL, and not only that but it has MASSIVELY improved battery life on my pixel, I've been able to get 7 hours of screen on time on a full charge compared to an absolutely pathetic 3-4 hours previously on my Pixel 8 Pro

Firefox is dogshit for privacy

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/05/13/the-forced-firefox-terms-of-use-tos-clickwrap-agreement-is-here.html

Sadly it looks like i’m gonna have to scrap Spotify integration with neubot, despite numerous attempts to tell Spotify that neubot doesn't use AI in the typical sense or LLMs at all, they refuse to extend my quota :(

TL;DR: whoever reviewed my applications has an IQ of about room temperature in Celsius