Theory Of A Death Worker

In which I rant about my life to random people on the internet.

Fit and Feel

The buds are an odd shape compared to other buds, they're a bit thick and tend to hurt my ears upon first attempt at wearing them. The eartip size selection is not very good, even the largest size still feels to small for my ear canals. It took them a bit to feel semi decent, and even then they still cause a bit of pain after prolonged use. The case is bulky but well built, it's sturdy, the slide mechanism still hasn't broke yet. Much to my relief.

Listening Experience

Upon first use, the sound quality surprised me. They're loud, louder than any bud I've tried so far. The audio is clear but does sound a bit like it's underwater on some things. Overall, good sound quality. Good bass, doesn't seem to care for EQ setting, though. I attempted to use custom settings on LineageOS AudioFX app, and got nowhere. I could easily be doing something wrong, though, I don't know a lot about audio things.

Battery and Usage

The battery life on the buds is a bit above average, I get decent mileage even when I forget to charge them. They were a cinch to pair and get on with it. I haven't had an issue with any of my devices yet, they work well on every device I own. The touch controls don't work very well, most of the time I just use my phone. Neither bud recognizes touch very well, I've tried cleaning them to no avail. I hope to see it addressed in a future update, but I'm not even sure how that's supposed to work! I wish there was a way to integrate them with fwupd and do so that way.

Thought I'd go ahead and post an update. First things first, I'm not dead. Obviously.

I've been equal parts busy and bored as hell these past 2 months, with surprise bake sales and even a curse! I got sick for the last month, first got a shiga infection after I returned from Tennessee, then proceeded to get strep three days after! It's been an ordeal, I finally seem to have beaten it, though. Thank Gods.

Onto my second point, I went back to Tennessee for a little bit to visit with friends and family. It was uneventful, save for me getting adopted by a pendulum, and accidentally inciting Appalachian rage upon my friend! Those two are unrelated, by the way. I then went forth to Alabama! Huntsville, specifically, my old stomping grounds. What a weird phrase. It, too, was uneventful. I hung out with my cousin and his cat, visited another cousin and the previous cousin's girlfriend, and had a brief visit and coffee with an old friend!

This is related to the point before, I flew for the first time in my life! I know this is very out of order but whatever! It was interesting, I'll give it that! It gave me a bit of trouble with my VP shunt, more excruciating pressure than anything else. I'm getting better at energy work, I was able to cushion the blow on my joints for the landing!

More on the metaphysical, I've been doing tarot and pendulum scrying more. My empathy has gotten stronger, my sight is better than ever, I even conducted a psuedo-exorcism! My connection to the divine is ever-growing, I'm focusing on my catholic side for a bit. I went to church at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church the last two Sundays, it was nice. My best friend's ghost is no longer bound to my rosary, we've become intermeshed in a lot of ways. I think we're bound to each other now.

Until next time and Gods/Goddesses be with you all!

Hello and Happy Litha to all who continue to follow this blog. It's been a while since my last post, but here goes.

First and foremost the accursed Chromebook has been sold. I struggled to find any actual use for it as it didn't seem to like MrChromebox's firmware at all. It didn't even like Arch!

I attended a Beltaine celebration put on by some close friends. It was a nice reprieve from the usual hum-dumitties of life. I even managed to catch a sprite of some type on camera!

I've gotten into cooking more as well! I made an apple cheese casserole for Beltaine and attempted keto brownies for a bake sale. (Note to anyone baking keto: Use coconut oil!)

A friend and I did a bake sale for my Historic Paranormal Society; we barely managed 50$ but it was good fun.

That's all for now, folks!

I've gained a new name and title since my last post. I've been using it for years but it's nice to be “official”.

Since my last post I've gained ordination through the Universal Life Church, and I'm going to become a chaplain. I know what the general consensus is with ULC but still, it was the easiest route for me. I have no disposable income to speak of, so this was the best way.

I'm continuing my writing as well, just fanfiction for the moment Though. I'm working on a small southern Gothic story collection about my home state of Alabama. Basically taking my run-ins with the supernatural and writing about those.

I tried putting Fedora on the Chromebook. It went sinkingly, ultimately ending in me pulling the battery because it wouldn't stay powered off. I may try again with a different distro, or try an find a way to keep it from powering on unless I hit the power button.

I went to my first official Ostara festival. It was awesome! I'm also helping plan a Beltane celebration, the theory is we'll be celebrating every sabbat. It's nice to finally have friends to celebrate with as well.

I also may be attending DefCon. I've got to plan it all out, I may end up volunteering. I've always wanted to go, it'd be a great learning experience. I'm going to try an get a hold of a pinephone as well, it'd be a better idea than bringing my most likely vulnerable Moto Kiev

Good evening, Fediverse! I've returned with more tales of misadventure from my just OK, ever so slightly melodramatic life.

As I've been bitching about the past few posts, my old laptop died a watery death and I'd been using a Chromebook. My new laptop arrived today, so the torture can finally end.

A little on my new laptop. I bought a used Latitude 5840 from Walmart refurbished, overall, not a bad deal. 8GBs of ram and 256GB of NVME, Intel 630 Graphics and an Intel i5 processor. It came with Windows 11, I ditched that for Fedora 37. The install was ever so slightly annoying, it didn't like being installed in UEFI tho, which is fine.

I was finally able to flash the resource's file to my pinetime and get access to the new watchfaces, I really like the Casio G7710 face. I used watchmate to flash the resource file.

I've been using the PineBuds Pro, audio quality is overall pretty good, tho the control scheme and the fit bug me a bit. They feel strange in my ears, I might flash one of the few alternate firmwares for them to see if I can fix the aforementioned control scheme issue as well as possibly find a way to improve the audio quality.

I'll be officially getting my name changed on March 9th, The name I use on my accounts isn't yet my name, tho I don't see the use in mentioning my deadname here. Once that's done I'll be getting ordained thru Universal Life Church.

An update on the Alt. religions group I've been going to as well. I'm really glad to have found them when I did, It's nice to have community. I even met a few fellow computer geeks! Even saw a Flipper Zero in the wild!

Until next time! Peace out and Blessed be!

#lifeupdate

Thought I'd post a small life update.

Nothing much of note to report other than the fact that I've gotten back into creative writing, I also now have an AO3 Account.

Not sure what I'll post, probably fanfiction for the myriad of shows I watch, I'm still trying to work up the nerve to post what I've already got, I've been using ChatGPT as a beta reader.

I'm also considering exploring chaplaincy as opposed to the priesthood, I feel more of a calling to it and feel like I could really help people.

Until next time!

I've been using a Chromebook as my primary computer for the past few weeks, since my old laptop's wifi card died. It's been an interesting experience, as I've had to adjust to using a Chromebook rather than a traditional Linux PC. Despite this, it's been working decently for what it is. I enabled developer mode so I could sideload an F-Droid client (neo-store). I wish there was an easy way to gain root access on the Android subsystem, but I haven't found one yet.

Overall, the experiment hasn't been too frustrating. After enabling a chrome flag for GPU support, Linux apps run a lot better. I can even do some light photo editing with GIMP.

#ChromeOS

12.12.22

Hello again, Fediverse friends! I have some more life updates to share.

I've recently upgraded from my Moto G7+ to the Motorola One 5G Ace, which has a much improved 48 megapixel camera system (48MP wide, 8MP ultrawide, 2MP macro, and a 16MP selfie cam). I'm excited to get out and take more pictures, although I've run into a problem trying to unlock the bootloader so I can install LineageOS on it. Hopefully, I'll be able to resolve the issue soon.

On a related note, it seems that some of my pictures have disappeared from PixelFed. I'm not sure if this is just a server glitch or if there has been actual data loss. Either way, it's frustrating because I no longer have access to those photos. If it is a fixable issue, I hope it gets resolved soon. If not, it's a good reminder to always keep things backed up when possible.

In other news, I recently had a small crisis of faith that has since been resolved. I still identify as a Christopagan, but I'm struggling to separate the atrocities of the church from my spirituality. I'm sure it will all work out in due time.

Until next time, have a lovely holiday!

Thought I'd give a small life update, not much has happened since the last one.

I've started drinking soylent as replacement for 2 of my meals, and I feel fucking amazing, more energy, better focus, less stomach issues, win win win.

I'm thinking of starting a band as well, like maybe filk, or folk horror or something, idk, I feel kinda buzzed, tho I guess that's because my body is finally taking energy from food instead of storing it as fat that never gets burned.

May also be giving a small talk on southern folk magic, so that should yield interesting results, maybe.

That's all for now, if any washingtonians in centralia happen to read this and it peeks your fancy, shoot me a message!

Bit of a small life update, I know I don't post often, tho I've began to post more stuff over on mastodon.

I'm still in Washington, tho I may be moving to another part in January, still gonna be in Centralia tho.

I've recently found a small interfaith get together and I've been going for a few months, it's nice to be able to talk to people about my faith and other faiths and not get screamed at or called a blasphemer, I'm currently going with christopagan, it just feels right.

I'd like to post on here more, but I also try not to think of social media too much, so it doesn't usually cross my mind to update or post here.

I've also started seeing a therapist and finally got medicine for my depression and sleep issues, so that's great.

I'll try an post more, until next time.