AstralPegasus98 @AstralPegasus98@fosstodon.org

#introductions

Hello Fosstodon and greater Fediverse beyond, I'm AstralPegasus98!

I'm an amateur (read: noob) coder and artist, hoping to eventually improve at both. I also enjoy playing around with web design occasionally. At work I'm just low-tier tech support, mostly trying to keep our Windows boxes running.

I've been running Ubuntu MATE as a daily driver for about a year and a half now and loving it, but I still have a lot to learn about Linux.

Got a new microSD card, time to play with #Pinephone images again!

(Hopefully it works better than the old microSD card I tried.)

I'm torn between my desire for cool gadgets and the fact that I don't actually have a use for that many computers...

When I bought my Surface Pro 4 in 2017 I thought I was getting a premium product, but I've learned the hard way to never trust Microsoft hardware ever again.

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Being home for the past week due to a winter storm has only reinforced how much I despise my job.

I was hoping zram would give me the bit of a boost I needed on this old machine, but it's crashed twice since I installed it which it never had before. 😕

Playing on the #Fedicraft #minecraft server at lunch, I found a spider spawner just off the stairway down to the mines at spawn. 🕷️

Looks like there's a cave on the far side of it if anyone wants to check it out. 😀

Tech support is not how I want to spend my Saturdays. 😫

@wholesomedonut I should ask, what's the #fedicraft stance going to be on things like TNT dupers and bedrock breaking? You can do cool things with them, but Paper disables both by default.

Having a frustrating night tonight. Computer's completely frozen up twice while I was trying to play #minecraft. 😖

Maybe I should take it as a sign to start looking for a better laptop.

Over the weekend I started trying out the #minecraft Fabric mod loader with Sodium and Phosphor as an alternative to OptiFine. They're LGPL-licensed rendering and lighting optimization mods, respectively.

So far, so good! The game seems to run as well or better than it does under OptiFine on my ancient laptop.

Yes! I finally got my favorite #Pokemon in #PokemonGo today! 😊

I've been waiting so long to get a sun stone to evolve that shiny Gloom. 😩

Current events aren't doing any favors for my mental health, so it's time to get back to #minecraft I think.

I'm so proud of how my big creeper farm came out! I love seeing this monstrous cooling tower on the horizon.

(I do feel the need to maybe make something a bit cuter now though. 😄)

I've got a room where two desktops so far haven't been able to connect to the projector. The drop and cable work with a laptop, and the DisplayPorts on the desktops work with DP-to-VGA adapters. Drivers are up to date. What the heck?

Projectors were a mistake. 🙃

Woke up to a BusyBox initramfs prompt instead of my desktop. 😕

I got it sorted out, but yeesh don't scare me like that!

I really don't like doing tech support. I wish I'd pursued programming, I think I'd have enjoyed that more.

I took a class on Java in high school, but it wasn't taught well and I didn't understand anything and that really discouraged me.

But when I think back over the last decade, the moments that always stand out are the ones when I was making things in Game Maker 8 and Python.

New Year, New Password.

The muscle memory seems particularly hard to overcome this time. 😣