I had a post sitting in my draft from yesterday that I decided not to post. I think I’ve been complaining a lot lately and the law of attraction says thats gonna make me notice more things to complain about. I don’t like being a complainer, and I certainly don’t want people to see me as one.
I’ve been putting off my physics homework all week. I think this class is fascinating but oh my god this textbook is so hard to read. It’s just like word vomit on the page and I struggle so much to read it. I have a PDF of the textbook, I should try to run some OCR on it and change the font to opendyslexic or something with heavyweight bases. I was super discouraged yesterday because I finished reading the 4 chapters for this section of the class and went to take the quiz and immediately failed it. It’s fine, I get another attempt, but I guess that’s what I get for taking my quiz at 11 at night. Whatever, I saved the review so I know what to work on, just gotta redo it by tomorrow… which means tonight because tomorrow is the pride parade and game night.
I’m marching again this year. My partner works with a queer org and I’ve been asked to join. I really don’t want to. I’ve been feeling a lot of disconnection from the community. I just don’t feel like I fit in? No that’s not it, more that we’re like gears that don’t quite mesh. I don’t get along with people well.
It feels a bit weird to say that, but it’s true. And that’s not really all that surprising. I’ve got the flip-floppy brain that keeps changing how I feel about people. The best friend slot and mortal enemy slot are like right next to each other, ya’know? I get a bit confused.
I’m meeting the CEO of Games Inc for lunch today, we’re building a computer, probably the most powerful I’ve ever touched in terms of raw horsepower. She’s gonna need more RAM, but she’s got enough for now.
When I first built my PC, I thought I was all hot shit for how powerful it was. It wasn’t even that powerful, just a capable gaming rig. Nowadays it’s been through some upgrades, and I think of it more like a semi truck. Enough compute and storage for whatever task I wanna throw at it, assuming I’m willing to wait since it’s not the newest hardware. At some point in the last couple years, my priorities shifted. It’s still technically a gaming rig, but it’s mostly a server nowadays. I need some more storage to clone all my VMs and containers to backup and migrate.
I should turn these dead laptops into a compute cluster, or just finally get rid of them?
I started a project the other day. And by started I mean I created it in gnome builder and downloaded a wordlist. I’m gonna make a password generator to teach myself gtk. It’s gonna make high entropy phrases from dictionary wordlists. I have no idea what I’m doing and need to look back at my textbooks. I also need to look at the documentation for gnome builder, and for gtk and meson because I’ve got no idea what the hell I’m looking at.
Thanks for reading,
Nora
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I’m Nora (they/she). I’m some nerdy girl adjacent thing. I make code, I selfhost, I tinker with stuff. I play guitar and am teaching myself synth with a eurorack sim.
I love hiking and biking. I’m in school to get my degree in software dev (finally).
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