War and graduation
The Epic Poem of Tanya The Remarkably Effective 2, episode 6
This week, The Dance Of The Certifiable Badasses. Plural, because we get to see Russian mages tough enough to survive being purged and sent to “rehabilitation” camps, as well as a general who leads from the front. Also, Our Nimble Adjutant survives playing decoy.
Bumpkin & Harem 2, episode 6
They did not cheap out on animating The Big Duel. They used a few speedlines, but only to represent… speed, and put a lot of effort into the action and camerawork.
However, Our White-Knight Haremette’s crush has reached the point where not seeing Our Bumpkin Hero leads her to spend her evenings in drunken exposition with Her Red Rival. Short-Stack, on the other hand, is completely oblivious to her eligibility, with no reaction to hearing Big Daddy say “seriously, son, get a wife; maybe a nice swordswoman or wizard”. Personally, I’m still rooting for Our Hot Magic Teacher.
(unrelated swordswoman is a fully-qualified waifu candidate)
With fourteen you get catgirl
I understand why Our Tan Teen Oni Waifu is on the cover of every book in the Frontier Lord light-novel series, but why does it take until book 14 to reveal that there’s a catgirl in town?
Oura farming
I have an Oura ring, which started out with a roughly 7-day battery life. A while back, it started reporting “N hours” left after maybe 3 days, and updates and restarts didn’t help. Then it started saying “21 hours left” and just shutting off about 3 hours later. Device is just over 1.5 years old.
When placed on the charger, it immediately claimed to be about 40% charged. Thinking this sounded an awful lot like the old laptop battery behavior where one cell went bad and the device didn’t notice or adjust, I started looking at a new device. Coincidentally, there’s a new model of Oura ring that just came out.
I didn’t really want to buy another one, but then came the day when the device shut down and didn’t come back. The basic support advice was to reset it from the app, but you can’t do that when it doesn’t boot. Reading further, I found the last-ditch failsafe reset: place ring in charger, pick up charger, rapidly smack charger down onto table a bunch of times, wait one minute, repeat if needed.
That worked. Pity it still shuts itself off at ~40% battery life. I guess I’ll just put it on the charger after two days. If its life drops any further, I’ll think about a replacement. I’d prefer a ring to a watch for sleep tracking, but not if it has to be replaced in less than two years again.
Dear Adobe,
I have all notifications disabled for Creative Cloud, and yet just now you decided to cover the lower right corner of my screen with a custom oversized pop-up window informing me there was a new version of Illustrator, and asking if I wanted to update right now or later. The pop-up was missing a “fuck off and stop bothering me” button.
The worst part? I already installed that update yesterday.
X hates casuals
My new daily ritual is unlocking my xTwitter account by checking the yes-i-am-a-human box and acknowledging my understanding of the rules I somehow violated in my sleep. I’m guessing it’s pissed off at Brave, since I’ve almost never posted anything, and really only use it to keep up with a handful of people. Either that, or someone disapproves of the accounts I’m giving likes to…
Speaking of X
When a tweet appears in the “for you” timeline, the top choice in the “…” menu is “not interested in this”. When a tweet with a reply under it by someone you follow appears, the top choice is “follow this person”, and there is no “not interested” option, although you can still mute or block them. In both cases, misclicking the round “…” button by even a single pixel takes you to the tweet you were trying to avoid.
Infected Mexican jalapenos are Trump’s fault!
Taylor Farms, makers of fine products containing e.coli and cyclospora, have now recalled jalapenos full of salmonella. The Ars writer and the commenters make it all about Trump.
Elven Tradwives Of The American Midwest
Too elegant to just walk around barefoot and pregnant!
Fantasy Fox
I don’t usually go for the full furry type, but…
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