TheEmpireStrikesDak

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • That’s why you just reset the chip manually.

    Once I accidentally found that printing in photo mode doesn’t use black ink. So I can get a dark enough colour for documents by telling the printer it’s using photo paper. (Except one time when I printed on matte sticker paper ond it decided not to print any of the black.)

    I thought it was because the black had pigment ink, but even after a thorough manual flush before switching to dye ink, I still get clogged nozzles. I never had this much blockage on the old family Epson, so who knows, maybe this one just hates me.

    The only reason I haven’t switched to laser is because they just don’t compare to the res of inkjets and I mostly use my printer for miniatures and other art projects.

    1.5cm vinyl sleeve covers printed with an inkjet

    I just couldn’t get this level of detail on a laser :(





  • Never had any luck growing carrots because our soil is such heavy clay. But I chucked a few potato skins near my budgies’ graves when the compost bin was full and even after digging the plants up the first year, they just keep growing back and as long as I water them, they provide a decent harvest without any effort.

    If I bought proper seed potatoes to grow, they probably wouldn’t.




  • It’s common in neurodivergent people.

    It was a big problem for me for a long time. The words are in my head, but my mouth couldn’t articulate the sounds and sometimes it was literal nonsense sounds that came out my mouth.

    Weirdly enough, it turned out that I had a sensitivity to eggs that was making that (and my mental health) a lot worse.*

    Even now, ten years on, when I can articulate a long sentence without tripping over my words, it still feels like a little victory.

    This is a completely different thing from mutism btw.

    *Unfortunately, the price of lower anxiety and better speech was losing a lot of my neutral/useful autistic traits as well.




  • This is a really good way to tackle these things, and I wish I’d learnt about it earlier! I think I accidentally discovered it last year or the year before. I do that thing where the clean laundry will be moved from the computer chair to the bed and back depending on which I’m using and I’d put it off until the next laundry day.

    So one day I told myself, just do the knickers and leave the rest for tomorrow.

    And it works. So I’ve been using that ever since.

    Although right now, the lot is still on my computer chair since Monday. I’ll do it later.