beccaelizabeth's dreamwidth journal

My watch just challenged me to run 5km tomorrow and get a little badge.
My watch knows my exercise routine (clue: Not 5K, and that walking).
My watch is either taking the piss or attempting homicide...

Due to the new (last) DLC I am playing Wrath of the Righteous again, and I think even on Core difficulty, though I just realised I didnt check when I loaded the frustrating save. It's kicking my ass a lot so it's high enough whatever it is.

I'm sort of not invested in the story level, even though I was looking forwards to playing a tiefling cleric and staying Angel this time. I've played it twice already and Azata or Trickster were more the choices I wanted so now I'm having to ignore the stylish for the alignment. But also when I played as Ianto it combined extra good things in a way that has been excellent brain story for aaaaages now. It's going to be difficult to be more interesting than that.

Might go quiet while I play a lot of game.
Might get frustrated at the difficulty and leave off again.
Shall see.

Stupid apple watch updated
and now half the control gestures dont work
the buttons do different things than before
and the weather app has become entirely unuseable
because it writes in white on light grey instead of perfectly legible white on black.

What idiot keeps thinking that more complicated is better?
more pixels and fancier graphics dont tell me the weather is cloudy today, they tell me this minute is cloudy and the rest is unreadable.

the accessibility settings do nothing to it.

stupid.

I have been thinking about how and why people use computers, livejournal, dreamwidth.

There was a short story I read from ages before the internet was a Thing that was about a student learning computers, and one of the assignments was to go through old old data and sort it. Don't remember where the story was or many details or I'd reference it better. But. The student saw that in the early days of computing it was all numbers, accounts, business, science, practical stuff you'd need a computer to get done.

Then humans started being human with computers.

And eventually it was all kinds of EVERYthing in there, like recordings of your partner to prove they snore that turned out to get used every night they were away.

So I was thinking, the internet very swiftly has been for all kinds of EVERYthing
but
lately I have been seeing less of it.
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I dont think we use online quite the way we used to. Not just we here dreamwidth, we here humans. The way the computers are set up focuses attention for you, will you nil you, and I think we started going quiet in several ways, not being focused on.



But I also personally went quiet for ordinary reasons of doomscrolling, falling out of fandoms, and not really having new opinions.

... sometimes I disagree with earlier me, sometimes a show developed in directions that dumped me right out of it, but the baseline stuff about gender and sexuality and disability feels rather like having the same grumble for twenty five years, because whatever progress we make, there's still grumble to be had. And it hasnt got any more interesting to say it.

All the reasons I fell out with my degree topic, cultural studies, also get in the way of interacting with media texts.

Tricky.



So I take this thought for a wander for a whole bunch of minutes, and then at the end I get the impulse to friends lock it, because anxious.


I kind of miss posting multiple times a day and having a little chat going in the background.

Hello humans, we are human, let's be human!

Let friendship thrive.



I'm going to have to find new ways to try that.

Stargate SG1 in July 1997 reckoned their supercomputer could calculate two or three gate addresses a month.

How does a 2019 phone, tablet, or laptop compare to 1997 super computers?

I tried looking it up but hit my learning new words limit before I even tried any math.

Have decided to take TOSH the new laptop to college tomorrow.
Which is New and Change and therefore Scary.
But it has all my notes copied over - so far seem to be readable too - and it has Inspiration and PowerPoint on it, and I have stuff in them.

So I just packed my new customised backpack and figured out which pocket the plug fits in and which I'll use for the mouse (because I still haven't got the hang of that pad thingy) and which one is for folders. It's very cool.

I still need to glue the Betan Astronomical Survey patch on.

But the ImpSec eyes are already pinned on each side.

I was going to pack orange juice and be all prepared and stuff but I just tried the juice boxes and they taste peculiar. Like quite different fruits than usual. Fruity but not like the bigger boxes. Don't know what's up with that. Hope they don't new-and-improve my juice.

Still have to put the Vorkosigan pictures on it... or not, actually, I'll have to put my files on the college computer to run them anyway, I can find the pictures links then. Sorted.


... yeah, this is me being calm and in no way flapping and fiddling at all

I could do more reading for class but if I do then I'll want to put it in my essay and then it'll get un-finished again. Reckon I'll go read Cetaganda instead.

The BBC website has lots of bits for download that were not in the episodes or confidentials. But lacks mostly bits that were on the TV.
I actually find that a bit annoying. I mean I get what they're aiming for, added value, website to be something that TV can't give you, but... Is a bit hard to get the whole story. I mean you have to hunt for things, and realise that the things with similar sounding labels to things you've already seen are not the same as on TV.
And also, the website stuff is, mostly, a bit lame. Because TV gets the best bits. Which I understand, they are a TV channel.
But it just ends up a bit annoying. You have to hunt, and then mostly its rubbish.

Also, realplayer. Nasty squishy sound, tiny pictures. Quick download, yeah, but where's the high quality option?


So anyways, not brilliant yet.



I'm going to shop for a new TV soon. I feel vaguely like I should wait until computer=TV+phone+everythingelse, but it has been theoretically possible to get my computer plugged in to my TV for years and I just never got around to figuring out how.

And also, my TV goes green and purple down the sides. Which is not helpful.

So a new TV I shall buy.

Christmas Invasion - didn't hate it. Interesting mentions of Torchwood. ( Read more... )
I can't decide if I liked it. I didn't love it, but I may or may not have liked it.


The interactive adventure keeps telling me technical difficulties *grumpy*
so I watched digital 301, then 302, which is bad outcomes and good outcomes respectively. Has to have the info bar over it all the time or it keeps booting me out to regular channels, but I can live with that. Is rather fun. Do it right and the Doctor 'might just pick you up one day'.
:)




In >:[ grumpy news my computer just decided to stop admitting it had a keyboard, which means I have to reset and shut down and start over again, which means all my programs are cranky and my windows all closed. There was fic, I'm sure. And things to reply to. And... I don't know, stuff. All vanished stuff. Wah! Shall have to attempt finding them in the History. Meh.