I've been wearing this collar for the past several days, but opted to take the :therian: pendant from my necklace and attach it to the collar just now.

This feels right~ :neofox_happy: :fluffytail: :fluffytail:

Well, it's about time I start to face what I've been putting off until now.

The short version is that I need help with my living situation.

Since I left Florida, I've been residing in the same house I first crashed at for three years now. While I get along great with the folks who are still here, and I've grown to love the area I'm living in, my roommate (who's the main tenant on the lease) will be moving in with her wife in NJ next year. I obviously can't move in with them once that time comes.

I could probably pick up the lease for the house I'm at in PA, but I have a hunch that the landlord is gonna hike prices to match other houses in the area and I won't be able to realistically afford it. Even with other roommates, it'll be tight, and that's before getting into finding a local-ish job out here.

An alternative is that I move out to NJ where my current job is and find my own place out there, but that's NJ and a part of me hates the moronic laws of that state to put it mildly. Logistics and gentrification aside, I'd sooner move to CA or NY than NJ if laws were the only factor involved. >.>

Another option involves moving out to Colorado, since my mate and a number of my friends live out there, but that's not even getting into the logistics of doing a move that far away, let alone finding a job out there.

I'd very much appreciate pointers and other options to consider. I have a pickup truck, so I don't have a problem loading up my stuff and doing a long road trip somewhere. My main concerns would be finding a decent place to live and finding a decent job that would be accommodating to someone like me.

🎨 > HearthFox

You find yourself traveling into another dimension. Not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land of living inanimate entities beyond your wildest imagination.

It is here that all dread, all anxiety and heavy woes of life lose all meaning, supplanted with bliss, joy and urges to join the plush and inflatable denizens in massive cuddle puddles of soft tenderness and warmth.

You have entered.... The Toy-Brained Zone~

Squeaking of, I let my inhibitions go after years of holding off and bought their inflatable bapper boots. Now I finally have a matching set to go with my handpaw bappers! :blobfoxhappy: :fluffytail:

Been wearing them for a couple hours so far while working in the basement and they're incredibly comfy~ They have a hard foam base, like fursuit feetpaw slippers do, and give great support while the inflatable part squeezes around my calves and stays put like a well made sock. They even have reasonable grip, so I could literally wear these around the house all day if I wanted~

Perhaps I shall, since I'm otherwise rubbery still, hehehe~ :blobfoxthinksmirk:

#rubber #rubberpaws #latex

You know those matching sets of inflatable bappers and feetpaws from Rubberpaws UK?

When I woke up around 4 AM this morning, I couldn't get the thought of dousing my hands and feet in rubber glue and slipping those on out of my head~

Perma-bappers uwu

I now wonder how desensitized I am to a lot of harmful rhetoric that I don't even consider or mull deeply over. It feels like I make jokes in bad taste and I don't even realize it.

Am I the asshole, here? How else am I supposed to learn better when folks knee-jerk react to this stuff and immediately assume the worst?

Got any tips for locking the bootloader after installing LineageOS on a Pixel 8?

That's literally the only reason I'm using GrapheneOS on my phone currently. :blobfoxnotamused:

Reflecting on the recent shift of a number of Linux FOSS projects embracing AI slop, I think there's an aspect to this that's being overlooked. Apathy.

A lot of these FOSS devs are overworked, burned out and otherwise checking out mentally with maintaining their codebase, and that was before the proliferation of LLM chatbots. It's often a thankless job that has little to no compensation for the time and effort spent, and then the onslaught of code submissions from Claude started flooding the git pages.

Frankly, I'd check out too. The constant drama over code submissions causing a ripple effect, the community being toxic and full of drama... If I were on my own with this, I'd sincerely go "fuck it" and sell out to the nearest tech corp so I don't have to deal with the constant misery anymore. Doubly so if there's a payout structure involved. (I personally think this is what Linus Torvalds did.)

Not saying that's okay in any form or capacity to justify it, but I can understand the reasoning behind it. We need to address *this* if there's any hope of reclaiming FOSS from big tech.

Alright, cool. Got my ThinkPad 770X fully working with its docking station this time, hehehe~

Tinkering with Windows 98 again reminded me of how much of a POS Windows 98 really is to work with. I'd throw Windows 2000 on it, but the whole point of going with Windows 98 is specifically for the DOS support and avoiding antiquated NT OSes that'll get blam'd with malware within minutes of getting the damn thing online.

I wonder if I could get a modern-ish version of the linux kernel running on this thing. A Pentium 2 machine is gonna be lacking a lot of baked-in instruction sets, literally only supporting MMX, so that's gonna be the main hurdle.

Got any recommendations for an OS I can load on this thing?

I'll admit, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole plural thing. From the outside, it looks like multiple personalities manifesting within the same body, but I'm wise enough to know it's likely to be more nuanced than that.

I'd love to gain perspectives on the matter, as I've met a number of folks and critters who are plural and I'm trying to be more open and understanding of.

Anyone have good suggestions for an email provider I can use? Was looking into Proton Mail and they have subscription tiers now. >.>

I suppose I could just stand up my own email server, but that's gonna require a lot of work to implement.

Finally got a battery spot welder and a fresh set of 18650 cells to properly do this job with~

A decade ago, an adequate spot welder was $200+. This one cost me $60 and is just as feature rich as the pro units.

Looking forward to after work, where I'll finally be able to get back to a project I've been sitting on for over a decade.

Rebuilding the battery for a late 90s ThinkPad~

Had one of my exes reach out to me this morning. A friend of his also reached out to me, asking to help him find closure.

I'm honestly quite saddened to hear he's still torn up over the breakup after all this time. A part of me still loves him as a friend, still cares. Wishes I knew how to help him in the way he needs it.

So far, I've tried to be honest with him, but the conversation was cut short when I had to get back to work this morning. I'm honestly pretty torn up over this, too.

I've been meaning to mix up some rubber shine, going as far as acquiring the silicone oil and cyclomethocone, but I forget what the mix ratios are.

Any help?

You know what? Today seems like a good day for some rubbercrafting, hehehe~

$500 for 32GB of DDR5?! WTAF?!

:blobfoxdisapprove:

Somehow, I managed to find a seller on Amazon selling Lenovo OEM BU40N slim BD drives for $110.

Figured I'd give it a try, in the hopes of flashing it with the Omnidrive FW.

See? Floofy beansssss~ :blobfoxaww:

Also, Juniper is such an adorable vixen, hehehe~

I recently learned that a fox's paw pads are fluffy. It's one of their unique adaptations that allows them to survive in extreme heat and extreme cold situations.

It's also cute as heck, hehehe~