userse31 [it/its, he/him]

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Cake day: April 26th, 2022

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  • he’s got a comic book collection that’s worth buy a house money.

    I’m really glad the fandoms I’m interested in are like, that one small book series by a perfectly average writer, the Rats of NIMH, and some of the older Call of Duty’s. Stuff that’s pretty cheap to get into.

    This one guy I know has a similar flavor of autism to me, and he has a bunch of Warrior Cats stuff, especially the books. And Warrior Cats has a LOT of books in it.



  • Most of my fanfiction takes place in the same universe because… I don’t actually remember why I decided that.

    Does mean my “Romance novel” happens in the same world as my Rats of NIMH, Redwall, and RWBY fanfictions. Although the latter three occur in simulations, and the “romance novel” and Redwall simulation happens hundreds of years after my author self insert character dies.

    …Who needs drugs when you have autism? Now that I’ve written it out, this is all incredibly convoluted!






  • This one android tracfone I had in middle school was plagued by garbage NAND flash (The entire model.👌EVERY👌 single one of them.) It kept locking up and resetting from the watchdog timer, garbage data would be drawn to the screen, the phone would shriek, etc. Factory resetting the phone shuffled the blocks around and eeked a little bit more life out of it, but eventually it gave up.

    Oh, and the incoming call dialog box was broken. The phone would ring, but you couldn’t accept to decline the incoming call. You had to wait for it to stop ringing and THEN call that person back.

    …Or was that a different phone? I don’t quite remember, I was ~14 or something!

    The online reviews of the thing consisted of 1 star reviews complaining of the phone doing the same weird stuff. Ran Android 5! Don’t remember the model sadly.

    Tbf other then being slow and being incredibly locked down, every other android based tracfone I’ve used was fine.




  • Disconcerting software decisions, like having everything running in “supervisor” mode. (Which essentially gives you full control over EVERYTHING on the phone, including the memory mapped hardware registers! Very handy for overclocking the display controller though.)

    But user interface wise, it’s nice! You can even ignore the touchscreen portion as it has a keyboard with all the navigation buttons on it.

    Hell I can’t even complain about the software development experience. You ask the operating system to do something… And it does it.

    You might think I’m being facetious here, but the bar is so low with these ancient proprietary operating systems where some implementations have fundamental stuff that’s broken. You genuinely have to wonder how some of these devices boot up when so much of the underlying operating system is broken.

    Steve Jobs was a horrible person, but he was dead serious when ranting about these things when revealing the iPhone 2G.