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GIVE. ME. SWAPPABLE. PARTS!!! I WANT TO BE LIKE A FRAMEWORK LAPTOP!!!

TVP rocks, I love that shit. Made a stir fry style thing with cashew, TVP, udon, vegetable stock, peppers, hot sauce, broccoli yummy

Anyone trans around these parts?

I wish I had someone. I'd like to yap a bit and cuddle. I'm tired. And I kinda wanted to talk more earlier today but idk what specifically about or what I'd want to message someone about.

I'd also like to have someone to cuddle with me right now. I feel alone.

Cuddling and yapping about stuff, two things I wanna do.

Mom is currently discussing with her friend as to why I suddenly went from keeping a buzz cut to growing out my hair.

"What could have happened?"

Truly a mystery for the ages

Funny story inb4 the thread closes, so I've had a lot of falls lately due to being clumsy af and all the non stop ice storms teaching me to skate without skates, my knee hurts at night and wakes me up sometimes since my worst fall. An older former coworker mentioned pregnancy pillows are gold tier for all sorts of aches, though she was also big on holding yoga stances for 30min, especially lying on the floor 30min straight with your legs up against a wall, that was her doctor. Anyway, pregnancy pillows are no joke expensive, like 50 dollars on Amazon and 20 dollars or so on Aliexpress/etc. Last week I saw them at the local hardware store on sale for a mere 9 dollars, so I buy one.

So, I pick it up and I carry my big ass pregnancy pillow big as me through the big ass hardware store, the whole local universe knows I was fired recently and the confused weird stares I get are just fucking gold. I can just imagine the elaborate soap worthy tales they're cobbling up in their heads since I pass, though I'm sure whoever various HR is in town knows otherwise and let others know via the mill. I couldn't help but crack up in my car it was some Mel Brooks meets John Waters tier shit.

You hate capitalism because of its exploitation of the working class. I hate capitalism because Adam Smith wasn't a trans girl. We are not the same

I got conscripted to be an Estrogen tester at the femmeperor's imperial court :(

They gonna take me to the flower capitol and dress me up in smooth silky pink robes

Then they gonna force me to wear jewelry and makeup and "serve" her majesty's every "need" TT

Thankfully I'm a communist spy so I gotta assasinate her then run away. It's only temporary. I gotta endure.

I think I've finally turned a corner with embedded Rust, I tricked a Pi Pico 2 into playing NSF files!

I'm scared of how many thousands of lines of code the NES emulator I had to write was, and for a while it felt like it was never going to be fast enough to run on a 150MHz processor, but some optimization that was within run-to-run variance on the benchmarks on my laptop must have really favoured the pico 2, and now there's no dropouts!

Lessons learned:

• as far as I can tell, if you overflow stack on these microcontrollers you won't get a fancy stack overflow error, it will just hard fault (although I suspect sometimes it won't even fault and will just give you fun UB). Lost a day to that.
• goddamn lifetimes and statics and interior mutability etc. caused me so much grief. There's a crate called embedded_alloc which gives you access to Rc, Arc, Vec, etc by actually letting you define a heap. I highly recommend this although remember that when a Vec needs to grow it needs 3x it's previous size in memory, because it creates a new Vec with 2x previous capacity, copies from the old Vec, then drops it.
• I didn't end up using both cores (yet) but Embassy doesn't appear to support the doorbell IRQs or the inter-core FIFO queues, so if you want those you need to use rp-hal.
• The embedded-sdmmc library certainly takes some getting used to. You need to implement long file name support yourself, no file sorting (do it yourself but use a master branch), use RawFile instead of File because it seems to be so ready to drop my files when I look the other way, etc.

The Time Has Come (Again)

Also just got my ears pierced and I feel so cute and gay :)))

The higher up the ranks of the electromagnetic illuminati you climb, the less magical it feels. You can only have technical difficulties with your fucking orbs and silicon runes for the 58657th time before you forget all about the wonders of thundermancy and the profound formulae of fourier's spectres.

Looking at my chest and low key wondering if there's visible growth? Like at least for me, doubt anyone else would notice atp (thankfully).

Leading our monthly meeting tomorrow, fuckin hell how did I get roped into being center stage

Kind of feel like I don't get nostalgia, at least not now. Transitioning definitely has a part in that, but I'm just more interested in what's going on right now.

Maybe one day I'll think back this time in my life and be like those were the days

Anybody know where I could get DIY Progesterone? I've almost gone a year in HRT so I'm pretty sure now is the ideal time to introduce it.

If you put your gender under your pillow when you sleep the trans fairy will replace it with a new one

my life is a cartoon

unfortunately that cartoon is Bojack Horseman but like 4 times sadder and not even that wacky this last season

For a while now I have been trying to thrift theory books. Kind of a useless personal challenge, but hey, it's free for as long as I can't find anything 😭 Local used bookstore politics section is 99.8% reactionary garbage and 0.2% gems. Finding a compilation of Lenin's writings printed from before the fall of the Soviet Union today was pretty cool. I have now seen on paper.

Unfortunately still no Little Red Book. Not sure if I'll ever find that one in the wild TBH.