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i know that others have already commented on this but most of my high school interns are so helpless when it comes to technology that doesn't completely spoonfeed the experience that it is actually terrifying
#tbc our awareness of this means we now spend extra time on these skills but it is a shock at how many cant navigate basics on a desktop#let alone use a program like excel#ppl just assumed these kids would be 'digital natives' and be far ahead of us naturally#but the reality is they grew up on phones and tablets and apps that strongly handhold and control your experience#and computer skills - esp on desktop - are something you have to learn#and that includes learning where to go to try looking for an answer yourself first#not st#doctor's log
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Can u talk about why u chose the Connecticut to California route for the road trip au 🧐 and why SF as their final destination 🧐
oooh okay so
i wish i had a more genius smarty pants answer for u asljhkdf but frankly. the thought process was... uncomplicated lol.
in this road trip au, they live in hartford connecticut bc i feel like that's a pretty wealthy city on the east coast (or so they say in gilmore girls), and it's different from like new york or something i tend to gravitate towards. i wanted them to live in a suburb, specifically, where they would have those experiences you see in a classic coming of age/ girl next door/ neighbors to lovers story. and. you know. suburbia can make you feel trapped and lonely when you're desperate. who doesn't want to run away from their childhood neighborhood where nothing changes?
(also a little cheeky reference to the show's pre-broadway run in hartford teehee)
as for san fran..... 🤷♀️ idk where that idea came from, it's as old as the fic itself tbh. but when i picture a cross country road trip™ i always imagine heading west and for some reason i always picture san francisco as the destination. if we want to get Smart about it, i feel like sf is like,,, the opposite of their home town? like it's a city so it's bigger, it's quirky, it's artsy, it's liberal. at least that's how i picture it lol. and then the idea of Heading West sort of coincides with the american dream™, which we know, and soon dimya will know, isn't always what its cracked up to be. themes. u know.
i DID, however, meticulously plot out their route and timing 😤 on google maps and everything! there were a few stops i Wanted them to take so we had to make sure the story beats i had in my head could make plausible sense in the states they were going through, like the party in Nevada or the waterfall in Indiana, specifically. the first few chapters they didn't really have a specific destination in mind so they went west and then south for a bit, but once they decided to go to sf i was committed to a specific highway route. this was also helpful to see how much i could reasonably fit into their drive before reaching sf.
(map only shows their route from kansas city bc by the time they picked sf as their destination they were in kentucky, and when i looked up [toll-less] routes there were two main ones that split at kansas city, one was through like texas and entered sf from the south, but for some reason we were already committed to them driving through nevada lol)
#asks#asecretshekept#dimya#my writing#road trip au#and idk if this has come up yet but dmitry is a nyc native 😌 (before his dad's death)#if it hasn't come up yet it will soon asljkdhf#also this screenshot has been on my desktop for like. a year and a half alsjdkf i used it as a reference for a while as i typed#anyway#thank u <333
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#(describes things that are just a new look with less customization) more than just a new look!#(the right click menu is a mess in win 11 requiring an extra button press and clashing ui design to reveal basic functionality) find things#with fewer clicks!#i mean no wonder 60% of users haven't upgraded. they do not even spindoctor their new evil technology like copilot in their own copy.#is it because most older hardware does not even have the architecture to support the “neural engine accelerated” features?#like let me go through it. 1. added dedicated “weather and news” widget that in practicality just displays ads. 2. start is centered now#and less customizable. you cannot move the taskbar anymore. 3. native integrated zone snapping. i mean. not bad in itself but works worse#than powertoys. which is a win app to begin with. that i would use instead in win 11. and that you can install to win 10.#4. new ui design for multiple desktop overview. basically just a macos copy but i'll give them it looks slightly less confusing than what's#in win 10. win 10 does have multi desktop natively though? 5. you call it simpler and quicker when you kill the native calendar and mail#apps and replace them with the horrible outlook wrapped webapp. which comes with ads you cannot deactivate????
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I was gonna put this in the tags but I think it should go here
It’s like if schools stopped teaching reading to kids because “everyone knows how to read.” Just because we don’t remember a time before the internet doesn’t mean we’re born with an inherent knowledge of how computers work.
They only tell us picture books exist and then are surprised when we can’t read a novel.
So this was originally a response to this post:
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Which is about people wanting an AO3 app, but then it became large and way off topic, so here you go.
Nobody under the age of 20 knows how to use a computer or the internet. At all. They only know how to use apps. Their whole lives are in their phones or *maybe* a tablet/iPad if they're an artist. This is becoming a huge concern.
I'm a private tutor for middle- and high-school students, and since 2020 my business has been 100% virtual. Either the student's on a tablet, which comes with its own series of problems for screen-sharing and file access, or they're on mom's or dad's computer, and they have zero understanding of it.
They also don't know what the internet is, or even the absolute basics of how it works. You might not think that's an important thing to know, but stick with me.
Last week I accepted a new student. The first session is always about the tech -- I tell them this in advance, that they'll have to set up a few things, but once we're set up, we'll be good to go. They all say the same thing -- it won't be a problem because they're so "online" that they get technology easily.
I never laugh in their faces, but it's always a close thing. Because they are expecting an app. They are not expecting to be shown how little they actually know about tech.
I must say up front: this story is not an outlier. This is *every* student during their first session with me. Every single one. I go through this with each of them because most of them learn more, and more solidly, via discussion and discovery rather than direct instruction.
Once she logged in, I asked her to click on the icon for screen-sharing. I described the icon, then started with "Okay, move your mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen." She did the thing that those of us who are old enough to remember the beginnings of widespread home computers remember - picked up the mouse and moved it and then put it down. I explained she had to pull the mouse along the surface, and then click on the icon. She found this cumbersome. I asked if she was on a laptop or desktop computer. She didn't know what I meant. I asked if the computer screen was connected to the keyboard as one piece of machinery that you can open and close, or if there was a monitor - like a TV - and the keyboard was connected to another machine either by cord or by Bluetooth. Once we figured it out was a laptop, I asked her if she could use the touchpad, because it's similar (though not equivalent) to a phone screen in terms of touching clicking and dragging.
Once we got her using the touchpad, we tried screen-sharing again. We got it working, to an extent, but she was having trouble with... lots of things. I asked if she could email me a download or a photo of her homework instead, and we could both have a copy, and talk through it rather than put it on the screen, and we'd worry about learning more tech another day. She said she tried, but her email blocked her from sending anything to me.
This is because the only email address she has is for school, and she never uses email for any other purpose. I asked if her mom or dad could email it to me. They weren't home.
(Re: school email that blocks any emails not whitelisted by the school: that's great for kids as are all parental controls for young ones, but 16-year-olds really should be getting used to using an email that belongs to them, not an institution.)
I asked if the homework was on a paper handout, or in a book, or on the computer. She said it was on the computer. Great! I asked her where it was saved. She didn't know. I asked her to search for the name of the file. She said she already did that and now it was on her screen. Then, she said to me: "You can just search for it yourself - it's Chapter 5, page 11."
This is because homework is on the school's website, in her math class's homework section, which is where she searched. For her, that was "searching the internet."
Her concepts of "on my computer" "on the internet" or "on my school's website" are all the same thing. If something is displayed on the monitor, it's "on the internet" and "on my phone/tablet/computer" and "on the school's website."
She doesn't understand "upload" or "download," because she does her homework on the school's website and hits a "submit" button when she's done. I asked her how she shares photos and stuff with friends; she said she posts to Snapchat or TikTok, or she AirDrops. (She said she sometimes uses Insta, though she said Insta is more "for old people"). So in her world, there's a button for "post" or "share," and that's how you put things on "the internet".
She doesn't know how it works. None of it. And she doesn't know how to use it, either.
Also, none of them can type. Not a one. They don't want to learn how, because "everything is on my phone."
And you know, maybe that's where we're headed. Maybe one day, everything will be on "my phone" and computers as we know them will be a thing of the past. But for the time being, they're not. Students need to learn how to use computers. They need to learn how to type. No one is telling them this, because people think teenagers are "digital natives." And to an extent, they are, but the definition of that has changed radically in the last 20-30 years. Today it means "everything is on my phone."
#thank you tumblr user maniculum for having the only take on this I’ve seen that’s not just ‘these dumb kids don’t want to learn’#I’m 19 and I took typing classes in elementary school and hated them cause I sucked at it but I can type on a computer now but even I still#hardly understand the functional difference between a desktop and a laptop cause we never had a desktop in my house all my life#like I know they’re set up different and I think desktops are more powerful?#we stopped learning because no one was teaching us#we used google classroom all throughout school everything was handed to us to use the programs given and we were never told how to use#anything else or even that anything else EXISTED#they don’t tell us these things exist anymore!#we’re ‘digital natives’ bc we don’t remember a time before the internet that doesn’t mean we’re born with an inherent knowledge of how#computers work cause we don’t#and to anyone who’s like ‘you can just teach yourself this!’ I’d like to introduce you to the crushing weight of capitalism and the modern#school system. also the fact that we are grasping at straws here no one ever taught us how to find ‘how to computers’ in the first place!
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Any time a post says "stop scrolling" or any similar variant, I just scroll faster. I don't care if it ends up being nothing more than a kitten on a bicycle telling the viewer it thinks they're cute and hopes they have a nice day, you don't tell me what to do (:
#jess rambles#it helps that i have phrases like ''stop scrolling'' blacklisted lol#on desktop via extensions at least#i don't remember if i have it blacklisted natively
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I don't think people realize how absolutely wild Linux is.
Here we have an Operating system that now has 100 different varieties, all of them with their own little features and markets that are also so customizable that you can literally choose what desktop environment you want. Alongside that it is the OS of choice for Supercomputers, most Web servers, and even tiny little toy computers that hackers and gadget makers use. It is the Operating System running on most of the world's smartphones. That's right. Android is a version of Linux.
It can run on literally anything up to and including a potato, and as of now desktop Linux Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are so easily to use and user friendly that technological novices can use them. This Operating system has had App stores since the 90s.
Oh, and what's more, this operating system was fuckin' built by volunteers and users alongside businesses and universities because they needed an all purpose operating system so they built one themselves and released it for free. If you know how to, you can add to this.
Oh, and it's founder wasn't some corporate hotshot. It's an introverted Swedish-speaking Finn who, while he was a student, started making his own Operating system after playing around with someone else's OS. He was going to call it Freax but the guy he got server space from named the folder of his project "Linux" (Linus Unix) and the name stuck. He operates this project from his Home office which is painted in a colour used in asylums. Man's so fucking introverted he developed the world's biggest code repo, Git, so he didn't have to deal with drama and email.
Steam adopted it meaning a LOT of games now natively run in Linux and what cannot be run natively can be adapted to run. It's now the OS used on their consoles (Steam Deck) and to this, a lot of people have found games run better on Linux than on Windows. More computers run Steam on Linux than MacOS.
On top of that the Arctic World Archive (basically the Svalbard Seed bank, but for Data) have this OS saved in their databanks so if the world ends the survivors are going to be using it.
On top of this? It's Free! No "Freemium" bullshit, no "pay to unlock" shit, no licenses, no tracking or data harvesting. If you have an old laptop that still works and a 16GB USB drive, you can go get it and install it and have a functioning computer because it uses less fucking resources than Windows. Got a shit PC? Linux Mint XFCE or Xubuntu is lightweight af. This shit is stopping eWaste.
What's more, it doesn't even scrimp on style. KDE, XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon, all look pretty and are functional and there's even a load of people who try make their installs look pretty AF as a hobby called "ricing" with a subreddit (/r/unixporn) dedicated to it.
Linux is fucking wild.
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My retro video game pet peeves:
No, sprite flicker on consoles like the NES didn't look like that. The NES ran at 60fps (and how it managed this on contemporary televisions which technically didn't support progressive scan is a fascinating piece of technical bugfuckery, if you have an afternoon to kill to read up on it), but YouTube downsamples all videos that are below a certain resolution to 30fps, which makes sprites that are flickering at 60fps look weird. The way that sprites sometimes seem to disappear entirely for long periods in NES gameplay footage on YouTube is also usually an artefact of this process – YouTube just happened to exclusively pick frames where the sprite in question is not visible when converting from 60fps to 30fps.
No, not all old-school pixel art was explicitly designed with "CRT fuzz" in mind. While this was often the case for games originally released for non-portable consoles, portable consoles have always had LCD screens (yes, even the original Game Boy!), so CRT fuzz simply wasn't a thing for them. Conversely, while desktop PCs of the era did use CRT monitors, from the mid 1980s onward, PC monitors typically used a variant CRT technology that had a much higher scan rate than contemporary CRT televisions in order to improve legibility of small text; such monitors had pixel sharpness comparable to that of modern LCD monitors, so CRT fuzz wasn't a thing for most PC games, either.
No, the textures on N64 and PS1 games weren't that bad. While these consoles were technically capable of resolutions up to 480p, this was very demanding for them, and rarely used outside of menus and cutscenes; actual gameplay output for games on these consoles typically ranged from 192p to 240p. The textures were of an appropriate size for the gameplay resolution. The whole "razor-sharp polygons with drab, muddy textures" look that pops up in a lot of retro media inspired by games of this era isn't imitating how such games look on their native hardware – it's imitating how they look when played on desktop PC emulators that have to stretch the textures all to hell in order to render them.
Like, I'm not saying these aren't valid aesthetic choices for modern retro games – particularly those that are trying to capture the experience of playing pirated console games on a janky PC emulator – but it's the spurious assertions of greater authenticity that often go with them that get my goat. If you want to slap a CRT filter on a Game Boy Advance title because you like the look of it, be my guest, but insisting that this is "how it was meant to be played" is simply false.
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QSMP LANGUAGE DAY
It will be in March 3rd‼️‼️
Since this weekend there's still the strike so not everyone will be online, so moving it to next weekend!
What is "QSMP Language Day"?
It will be a day here on qsmpblr that everyone will speak their native languages and, those who speak english by default, try and speak other languages they're learning and get some help as well!
The goal is to make everyone feel more comfortable speaking their mother tongue here on our hellsite and even find other peers that speak the same language as we do and we never knew about!
If it all goes right and we enjoy it, we could have it happen more often, even weekly if so, to also make qsmpblr a little bit less english-centric and maybe even rope some non-english speakers in here
The translator use is not only recommended but also actively cheered upon!! You can use Apple's in-built translator, you can use Ok Google's in-built translator, you can go copy text it in translator, or download a browser extension if you use desktop!! Everything is allowed for your better understanding
So everyone!! Prepare! Spread the word! Cram some duolingo lessons more!!
Let's all be ready for March 3rd!!!
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Follow for Seasonal Themes
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do you have any recommended apps for playing hunger pangs audiobooks/reading the epub with?
On Android and iOS devices the native e-readers like Google play and Books can read the ebook file just fine.
It can also in theory be opened with the kindle app though that needs to be configured manually.
If you are on a desktop device then Calibrr works really well. https://calibre-ebook.com/
For the audiobook the files should work with anything that supports mp3s. I use vlc media player on my phone.
If you’re on desktop you can also load it into the windows player, or something again like vlc media player which is free and open source.
Hope that helps!
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Well. I have a feeling I'm about to have a million new followers. (March 31st, 2025; not an April Fool's joke, unless Nanowrimo has very poor taste and timing)
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Here's a link that explains in long video format the whole entire thing in detail:
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and to sum it up:
This blog was made as an Anti-Generative AI to Nanowrimo, as well as a way to actually build a friendly, low-pressure, helpful community of aspiring writers, without the hard-fast-do-it-or-die pressure brought on by nanowrimo.
There is no official "contest" -- only a community coming together to inspire each other to write, help out with motivation by setting community goals, keeping participation motivation via Trackbear.app, etc!
The most popular writing challenge is still November for most people, but I myself have also started to keep a year-round, daily writing goal of 444 via the website 4thewords, which has been an extreme help in getting me to write a little at a time.
This year has been very hectic for everyone what with the election results so I haven't been very active on tumblr (I think everyone can understand that) but I was originally planning on also having each month of the year being a different themed writing / art challenge but got a bit distracted real life.
So, what is the Novella November Challenge?
It's a fun challenge where writers come together to write 30,000 (or your own personal writing goal!) words in 30 days, sharing tips, writing advice, plot ideas, accessibility aids, and committing to having fun while explicitly fighting back against Generative AI by using our own words and disavowing the use of scraping and generating to take away the livelyhoods of artists of all spectrums, and proving everyone who insists "generative AI is an accessibility tool" wrong by committing to our creative visions and making it easier for everyone to find the tools they need to succeed by sharing tips, free programs, and finding a like-minded community to support you! 💙
There is no official website, there is no required place to show your participation, this is a community initiative that will never be monetized by predatory sponsors or dangerous moderators abusing their power.
This blog is here to inspire everyone, regardless of experience level, to write and create the story they want to tell, in their own words, while striving to remain a fun, low-pressure challenge that doesn't turn into a stressful spiral, like often happened with Nano.
Want to start writing but not sure how? Don't have money to spend on expensive writing programs? Have no fear!
LibreOffice: An always free, open-source alternative to Microsoft Word (and Microsoft's other office suits)
4Thewords: A website (both desktop and mobile web browser) that syncs your writing cross platform to the cloud, with built-in daily word goals, streak tracking, and you can fight monsters with your word count to game-ify writing!
Trackbear: A website dedicated to tracking your writing, setting custom goals, and creating leaderboards for community participation; you can join the year-long community leaderboard with the Join Code "f043cc66-6d5d-45b2-acf1-204626a727ba" and a November-limited one will release on November 1st as well.
Want to use Text to Speech to dictate your novel?
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Want to write while on the go, but don't want to / can't use the small phone keyboard to type, or speech to text?
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SPOP Appreciation Week 2025
This upcoming May will mark the 5 year anniversary of the finale of Dreamworks' She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. To celebrate, we're hosting a Big Bang with lots of fics and art, but we wanted everyone to be able to participate in some form.
Introducing SPOP Appreciation Week, a week of prompts to help us celebrate our fav and show the cast, crew and fandom itself there's still a lot of love for these characters out there.
SPOP Appreciation Week 2025 Prompts List
Remember / Memory
Past, Present and Future
You aren't alone.
A Beautiful Wish
Imperfection Is Beautiful
Heart
We're Going to Win in the End
How to participate
What can we make? Anything! Text posts, edits, show meta, fanart, fanfic, or even love letters to the show, cast, crew, or fandom itself. The main point of this event is to celebrate the show and get more posts out there overall, so think outside the box.
Where do we share? Everywhere! Anywhere! AO3, Tumblr, Facebook, Bluesky, Twitter, Instagram, etc wherever there's SPOP fandom.
Prompts can be interpreted anyway you like or ignored entirely if you want to do your own thing. Go out of order if that's what the muse wants, the point is just to make stuff and celebrate the show!
When you make your post, no matter what platform you're sharing it on, tag it #weloveSPOP2018 along with all the usual SPOP fandom, ship or character tags. Why this tag specifically? So if we do happen to trend anywhere, we ensure that Crew-Ra / Mattel / Netflix / Dreamworks et al understands which version of She-Ra we are celebrating.
We'll be reblogging our favorite SPOP Celebration posts on our sister blog, SPOPBang to keep them separate from the Big Bang posts so you don't have to tag us so long as you're using the #weloveSPOP2018 tag.
Remember: you don't need to make something long or complicated to participate! Whether it's silly memes, heartfelt posts about what the show means to you, fanworks inspired by the prompts, or using the prompts as a jumping off point to talk about your favorite scenes or character, we'd love whatever you have to share.
And if you have multiple things you want to post for each day, by all means, please do! The more, the better!
In addition to new content, we'd encourage you to reblog/retweet/re…bluesky older SPOP content during the celebration week to add to the nostalgia.
Tip: If you've got an idea for a post now, schedule it to post in advance so you don't forget! Tumblr and Twitter (well, on desktop anyway) let you schedule posts in advance natively. The app Buffer even has a free plan that will let you schedule posts on places like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky.
Here are the prompts with some suggestions of how you could interpret each…
Remember / Memory
Past, Present and Future
You aren't alone.
A Beautiful Wish
Imperfection Is Beautiful
Heart
We're Going to Win in the End
Remember / Memory
Could be…
Nostalgia about the show or past fandom moments
Reviving a long dead AU (even if it's not yours!)
Updating a fic or other WIP you haven't touched in a while
Past, Present and Future (This year marks the 40th anniversary of the She-Ra franchise overall!)
Could be…
Celebrate the original She-Ra and how the legacy of the original inspired the reboot
Explore how the character have changed over the course of canon or might change in the future
Talk about SPOP's place in the wider context of children's television or queer media
You aren't alone.
Could be…
A collaboration with a fandom buddy
A tribute to your favorite supporting characters
Focusing on friendships and the characters leaning each other
A Beautiful Wish (This one's on the actual anniversary of the finale release!)
Could be…
A thank you to the cast and crew for this wonderful show
A love letter to the SPOP fandom
An exploration of what the characters want or where they might be in the future
Imperfection Is Beautiful
Could be…
Celebrating three dimensional, flawed characters
Sharing an unfinished fanwork
Giggling over funny screenshots or animation errors
Heart
Could be…
The Heart of Etheria (whatever that phrase means to you)
Focusing on the scenes, ships and characters you love most
Love in all it's many forms both in the show and out of it
We're Going to Win in the End
This last one is all about finding hope in these uncertain times. A reminder that we must be strong, we must be brave, we gotta find every bit of strength that we have and never let it go. It's ending the week with love and determination and looking forward to a better future together.
Please reblog to help us spread the word!
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