I have an 8th gen LG Gram from 2018. I've been running Windows 10 since I got the laptop and been doing fine. This week though, without downloading anything suspect, my font changed. The only way I can describe the change is it looks like an improperly setup Linux distro, text being thinner and blocky from aliasing. There is nothing serious going on, it's just blocky looking text. However I find it odd that it changed randomly. The only thing I've downloaded recently was Pokemon Showdown, and that's literally just a locked down chrome instance, no I don't mean electron. This also happened DAYS after I installed the program, so I don't think it has anything to do with this.

I'm a very results oriented person. Doing shit for arbitrary numbers in class? Doesn't do anything for me, they're just numbers. However making something that I actually find useful will get me going. I used to take comp sci classes and know Java, even made a few shitty apps for class back in the day. However, I had a hard time sticking with it because we weren't really learning anything to make it immediately valuable. Could dick around in Php for weeks trying to build a website, but cannot focus for classes.

Anyways, my idea is to port PKHex, a popular open source Pokemon save editor. Someone made a port a few years ago, but it doesn't work with anything past Android 11, hasn't been updated in 2 years, and the dev expects you to build the app yourself. So making a new version for Android seems very interesting to me. Is it a good idea for a first 'big' project?

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One of the most exciting events of music people every year is the Spotify wrapped or whatever it's called on other platforms. It's fun knowing how much we've actually listened to something. However, most streaming services version of this kinda sucks. You can only get it once a year, there's no way of seeing all your previous years, it's just very limited. Not only does this not need to be a timed event, but you can get far better information.

What is a scrobbler?

A scrobbler is something that just tracks what you listen to for your own data. A "scrobble" is what one data entry would be. For example, if you listen to 90210 by Travis Scott on August 10th 2022, that would be a scrobble once added into the database. Weird name, but once you get used to it it makes sense. Anything you listen to music on probably has an automatic tracking feature, but they don't give you the data. This is specifically a database for you. Here is an example that shows you what it looks like

Options for scrobbling

The obvious answer here is Last.fm as they are by far the biggest. They require a subscription for some features, but none of the missing features are essentials. Last.fm is going to have the most robust community and widest out of the box support. If you're fine with it being proprietary, just make the account there now. You don't have to use Last.fm's scrobbler if you don't want to though, so you can still use open source software to collect your own data before it goes to the servers. Last.fm is very streamlined and has good recommendations for music. Here's an example of my page so you guys can see what it looks like

There is a self-hosted alternative that I've never tried called Majola. The layout is really nice, it looks good, but it's far more about having control over your scrobbling than being universal so it's missing some of the social aspect of Last.fm. (music recommendations, comments, ect.). Some people will prefer that, others won't. I don't know much about the project, but if it's lightweight enough and could actually support multi user, it would be so cool to get an instance of it hosted by us. Here is an example that shows you what it looks like](https://maloja.krateng.ch/)

Conclusion

Scrobbling is cool and gives you better ideas on your own listening habits. I'd strongly recommend it. It makes for lively discussion

This verse has a lot of great lines for being an old freestyle. But Chip finally made it an actual song

This is an odd question, but I recently just realized Pokemon has very little disabled representation. I find it especially odd because Pokemon has so many amazing chances for representation, and they love the small details showing people's relationship with their pokemon. Like people who are wheelchair bound could have Machamps to help carry them up the stairs. Or someone who is hard of hearing having a Chatot relay what other people say. Or having an Espeon as a seeing eye pokemon and an emotional support. I'm curious if anybody has decided to include any of these sorts of ideas into a ROM hack.