Alexis @alexis@tilde.zone

It's probably about time for an #introduction, isn't it?

So, hi, I'm Alexis. At my day job, I'm a fullstack engineer for a company you've heard of. If that interests you, it shouldn't, and I won't, and that's really best.

When I'm doing what I choose to, I'm an sf/weirdtales writer, a wildlife photographer, and a doer of helpful stuff for people.

I've never said this out loud before: I'm intersex and genderqueer. I don't know how I feel about saying it now, but I guess I know how to find out.

#AmWriting: Voortrekker (https://cosmic.voyage/ships/Voortrekker), a gay as hell solarpunk space opera love story that updates every Wednesday and Sunday.

Voortrekker is part of #cosmicvoyage, a semicollaborative sf ‘verse invented by @tomasino, open to all, and currently the playground of over a dozen writers including myself. Lots of good #FreeFiction there; come and see!

aaaaaaaa how is it that i can flawlessly perform No User Serviceable Parts Inside iphone repairs yet fail so hard at assembling computer lego that the resulting configuration won’t even f***ing POST

i’m cursed, that’s what it is, cursed

can whatever tech witch i inadvertently offended please tell me what i must do by way of propitiation? i don’t care what it is, it’ll still be better than taking it to the spotty nerd i used to be at the micro center help counter tomorrow

using olive oil as a face wash? maybe ok if your skin is compatible (mine isn’t...)

using olive oil as a face wash in the shower? a terrible idea, never do this, it *will* block your drain and if you spill even a tiny bit it will also imperil your very survival

honestly, i’ve had a safer time getting into an inflatable pool full of J-lube, this is no joke, my feet are still soaked in oil that no amount of soap has removed thus far,

lb: now i want to write rat, a cat replacement that only outputs to /dev/null and after doing so copies itself to a random location in the filesystem as a dotfile

maybe deletes a random file out of a user’s trash directory, if the user’s using one

it just felt like the right time to post a cat

cheap jerks indeed! the sleep/wake button’s in rough shape, too, and the screen’s dinged in a few spots...might be making another ifixit order sooner than i had in mind.

more importantly, i now have three of the Last Good Apple Phone, which should keep me going for quite a while! i also have valuable repair experience gained working on a phone that was already busted anyway, which will be good next time i need to replace a battery or something - maybe soon, considering that i don’t think this “refurb” A1723 i’m using now got a new one...cheap jerks. oh well! i can fix that whenever i decide i need to!

that went surprisingly well! i lost one noncritical screw and couldn’t figure out how to get the home button connector bracket back on, and the home button itself is a bit proud of the screen for unclear reasons (might’ve overtightened the backing bracket), but the screen protector will conceal that, and the now-refurbished phone will serve nicely as a backup with a fresh battery as well as a replaced screen!

(only took an hour and a half, too!)

is it normal to giggle madly throughout the process of pulling loose the adhesive strips when replacing an iphone battery?

100% asking for me, i’m still grinning and idk why!