frostycakes [he/him]

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Cake day: October 24th, 2020

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  • Maybe on average, but you've got my ass who was put in the gifted program from 2nd grade on, with a single mom who was working two jobs and thus wasn't around much, and who couldn't afford childcare so I had to spend most of my before and after school time with my physically violent and abusive grandmother. Not that being in said program did much good (between the bad home situation and my ADHD, I was constantly in trouble at school), I didn't even finish my bachelor's in the end, but there were a few of us "smart" kids with fucked up home lives in there too.



  • It depends, does your fiber ISP just have an Ethernet jack going to the modem they gave you, with an ONT (the part that takes in the physical fiber and outputs Ethernet) on the outside of your home or in your building's telecom room (if you're in an apartment or condo), or does it have the actual fiber strand entering your unit and passing directly into the modem device?

    If it's the latter, odds are you'll need to keep their modem (as it serves as the ONT as well), since a lot of fiber ISPs are extremely picky about what connects directly to their optical network. You should be able to put it into bridge mode, connect it with Ethernet, and let whatever router you buy handle things like DHCP. If the former (this is how my fiber setup is), you should be able to connect your own equipment directly, so long as you have things like PPPoE credentials and whatever VLAN tag settings your ISP requires available to put in to the router you purchase.



  • frostycakes [he/him]tochapotraphouseIt's too fucking hot
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    1 year ago

    Meanwhile we've had more than our normal annual rainfall already, and it's barely July.

    I mean, I'm here for things still being green instead of brown and on fire like they usually are by now, but I'd be willing to share.


  • frostycakes [he/him]tochapotraphouseFunctional system.
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    2 years ago

    Oh yeah, I moved out again before it was truly feasible for me to do so since my horrifically violent grandmother was impossible to live with, even as a young adult. Even now that she's been dead for almost six years, I still refuse to move back in with my parents to save money despite their invitation, because they proved to me that they'd rather look like the good kids to the woman who not only abused their child physically and emotionally when my mother was single and couldn't afford other childcare--as well as my mother herself when growing up, than keep their own actual child safe, whether as a child or adult.

    Sorry, your actions proved your words about 'always having a safe home here' to be a goddamn lie multiple times in my life, and I'd be a fool to ever trust those phrases.


  • frostycakes [he/him]totechnologyiTreat 14 *still* doesn't have USB-C
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    2 years ago

    Apple should have not made it proprietary then, the connector that's on literally every single other rechargeable device I own at this point, from my weed pen and ecig, to my laptop, phone, and headphones, is truly the objectively superior option. Ubiquity wins out every time, when I can be assured that everything I own can be charged with one cable.

    Also how are you breaking USB-C ports or cables so much? I've had USB-C phones for almost eight years now and never once have any of my cables or ports gotten damaged to the point of unusability, and I'm definitely not the most gentle user out there.



  • frostycakes [he/him]tonewsUkraine-Russia Megathread 18
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    3 years ago

    That was actually the 2G days with GSM and cdmaOne, UMTS (what AT&T used for 3G) is a form of wideband CDMA. China even developed a hybrid of the two for their homegrown 3G system that used time slices and spreading out data across the full spectrum within said slices.

    Also fun fact, Hedy Lamarr invented the core concept behind CDMA.


  • frostycakes [he/him]togamesWordle 234
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    3 years ago

    Wordle 234 6/6

    ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
    ⬛🟨🟩🟨⬛
    ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
    ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
    ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    spoiler

    karst
    pearl
    brane
    crave
    graze
    frame

    From first guess yesterday to this today



  • frostycakes [he/him]togamesWordle 233
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    3 years ago

    Because I was stoned and don't have any sort of strategy for how I pick my first guess? It's a casual game, not something that needs in depth analysis or whatever.


  • frostycakes [he/him]togamesWordle 233
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    3 years ago

    Wordle 233 1/6

    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    holy shit I got it first try today

    why do I only seem to have luck with useless things like this


  • frostycakes [he/him]togamesWordle 230
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    3 years ago

    Wordle 230 3/6

    ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
    🟨⬛🟩🟩⬛
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    spoiler

    CARES

    TWEAK

    PLEAT

    Surprisingly the best I've ever done at this so far.


  • frostycakes [he/him]togamesWordle 228
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    3 years ago

    Wordle 228 5/6

    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

    ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛

    🟨🟩🟩⬛🟨

    ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩

    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    spoiler

    PEACH

    WRONG

    TOILS

    FOIST

    MOIST



  • Even the brooding mountain people aren't quite as intense as the West Kansas/Nebraska contingent from east of the Front Range. Three years at a junior college and taking a job out in Sterling turned my friend's little brother from a shy and somewhat nerdy suburban kid who was broadly apolitical into a straight up white nationalist. I've got family on the Western Slope (aka the land of Boebert) who, while still being right wing trash, are nowhere near as rabid as the plainsfolk.

    We're at least three different regions shoved into one square state trenchcoat.


  • frostycakes [he/him]tochapotraphouse*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    I really appreciate that right now, today's been extra rough.

    Almost makes me wish for the early days of all this, when people were pulling the cringe 'thank you for your service' style shit they usually save for the troops. Beats the waves of active antipathy all these people send our way now.