Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • frogspawn

    stuck in this town I call home where I once dreamed to return to the steady clank of the railway a distant voice announcing departures barely audible train after train leaving the place of warm memories

  • Turtle Roadkill

    One day while heading to town, I spotted a snapping turtle attempting to cross the road. Box turtles are fairly common around here, but snapping turtles are a rare sight. I pulled over to let him cross, but he refused to move while I was nearby, so I decided to drive carefully around him and continue on.

    A few days later, on a different road out of town, I discovered a dead snapping turtle in the middle of the road. I'm pretty sure it was the same turtle.

    In the American Midwest, where the dominant form of transportation is by private automobile, roadkill is a relatively common sight. But I get much more upset about it when the victim is a turtle. Squirrels and rabbits I understand: they dart out into the road and find themselves under a tire before one can react to them. Even foxes and deer are notoriously hard to avoid. But turtles are slow, and stubborn, and they steadily follow their chosen path without jumping in anyone's way.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: AGLRYVU Wordo: FOXER

  • What I'm playing 🪱🪐 WORMHOLE | Next-level Snake

    WORMHOLE, like all Snake-style games, has the usual formula. Eat stuff, get longer, and don't hit the walls or yourself. I found this game from a Steam Next Fest last year, where I was drawn in by the enigmatic trailer. I was really surprised by how intense and hypnotic the demo's gameplay was.

  • Where I've Been

    Hey! It sure has been a while, hasn't it? Genuinely I've been meaning to write this so many times over the past few months, just to keep things going and updated, turns out I've been so busy recently that that kinda just hasn't happened haha. Either way I've just been busy both figuring myself out and doing life events. real "this cutscene can't be skipped" level stuff.

• Technology and Free Software

  • I think I dislike most modern tech

    Nowadays when I look at most new things in technology, my first instinct is **not** "Oh that looks cool."

    My first instinct is instead: "Oh great, another tool to fuck us over."

    New GPUs? Great, more resource hungry bricks that add features games don't really need just because someone has a boner for ultra-realistic-graphics or "AI."

    And yes then there's the blanket term "AI" that has so much trash in it. I'm so fucking tired of it.

    Then there's some new websites or web "apps" or whatever that are like "yo join our thing" and they will fuck over their userbase when they run out of money.

    It's not all that bad though: When I see new FOSS projects, I get excited, interested..! Because if they fuck me over, I can just fork it if I rely on it, or alternatively stop using it. But they rarely do, because many FOSS projects are made by actually nice people. It's refreshing. (Not all of them though, if you know, you know.)

    **I preferred when tech was tool to create end goals, not the end goal itself.**