Caitlin @c8rz@witches.town

i can't find a decent source for clegg getting a fucking knighthood, but... lmao. what did he do??? what could he possibly have done to deserve one. jesus christ. please be the mail making shit up. i will fight the goddamn queen if i have to.

Any feeling I had of being good with computers has now been obliterated by having to hunt and peck because I can't remember how typing in QWERTY works any more

I like Linux so far but for some reason it won't let me switch between Dvorak and QWERTY? If I have anything other than Dvorak enabled it just puts me straight into QWERTY and I can't change it at all. >:?

I cannot believe how fast this is? My laptop is literally 8.5 years old and it's running faster than it did when I got it. What.

I installed Linux!! It actually worked! Now I have to figure out how to make the fans stop blaring 24/7 because I accidentally broke one of the temperature monitors in my laptop lol

Merry Christmas, mastodon <3

I'm trying to install Linux for the first time! It's nice to have new, exciting computer problems instead of my boring old ones

It's just so frustrating to see people complain about the ~q slur~. Like, you literally cannot call yourself something that a homophobic straight person hasn't used as an insult. It doesn't exist. If that's your criteria for naming your identity, you're kind of fucked, because even if you spent a decade picking the exact right words nobody had ever insulted, some dickhead on Reddit would immediately take the piss out of them, sorry.

It bugs me so much when people complain about the word "queer" being a slur, as if straight people aren't going to use anything we call ourselves as an insult. I've never seen anyone complain about the word "gay", despite the fact that I grew up with it being used as a synonym for "bad".

There will always be people who use the words we call ourselves as insults, as long as there are people who find what we are insulting. Let people call themselves what they want

I love PC gaming, but it is very much a sometimes treat for me, otherwise I end up spending like three straight days on my computer

Hiveswap is extremely charming and I am enjoying it a lot!

My mum is pretty adamant that the best way to enjoy a holiday is to figure out what you actually want to do and then... do that, if you can.
I think it genuinely is less stressful to do the unpleasant bits of holidays if you're aware that you've got, like, an audiobook and a long walk planned just for yourself. Idk.
Obviously not everyone can do that, tho. My thoughts go out to ppl who have to do things they don't want in the name of family

@agaric the gift giving part of Christmas is like, the worst bit after you're old enough to buy stuff yourself? I just wanna have snacks and fairy lights and see my brother for a week. Idg why everyone is expected to buy stuff! Capitalism!!

Tumblr's sensitive post setting is fascinating, because sometimes the post it hides is gay porn, and sometimes the post it hides is a small heap of piglets! There's no way to tell! It's like a kinder surprise egg, but better

I'd really like to try and reduce my environmental impact next year! All the stuff I can find says not driving/not flying is most helpful, but I'm already doing that.

I think I'm gonna get one of those electricity monitors to see if I can use less energy, check if I'm using eco-friendly lightbulbs in everything, and see if I can go all the way vegan. I'd really like to have less impact on the planet!!

@agaric that's so charming! I'm looking forward to playing it

@agaric oh, cool, I'll look into it! I think it's kind of endearing when games are glitchy if you know that going in

@agaric oh shit, I didn't even realise you could do that!! All the stuff I'd seen was about emulating on PC. Thanks!

@agaric haha, I did that with Dune! Just like, started and enjoyed it and put it down again. I'll give Earthbound a go sometime. I'm still Mildly Offended the rerelease for 3ds doesn't work on the older consoles >:l