#laptop customization

[taperwolf]

So I now have a Tennouji Rina-branded laptop.

See, a while back, I picked up a little secondhand vinyl cutter. You've probably seen these around; the most popular is the Cricut line from Provo Crafts, which have even been sold at Target.

(Of course, Provo Crafts hate their customers, and have rendered all their machines released before 2014 into fancy bricks by not providing software to run them after the demise of Flash. So I really recommend no one purchase any of their products, but they are the biggest manufacturer in the space, so they're the ones people are familiar with as a comparison.)

My model is an early Silhouette Cameo, and worked great right from jump except for one minor problem: the O-rings on the drive shaft that help keep whatever you're cutting in place were made from a particularly bad type of rubber, and had degraded to the point of leaving black streaks on whatever material passed under them. Fortunately, someone online had identified the proper size for replacements, and today I took delivery of a new set of silicone O-rings. Installing them was pretty straightforward, so it felt like a good time to actually cut some vinyl.

Nobody here is surprised to hear that I'm very fond of Tennouji Rina of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, and one thing I've found amusing in her materials is that occasionally they'll depict her working on a laptop with her logo on the back:

It's clearly a parody of the MacBooks with the glowing Apple logo, but I've been thinking that I'd like her logo on my own laptop. Now, of course you can buy stickers and laptop vinyl clings from various places, but my laptop has a problem with just doing that: the Dell Precision M4500 doesn't have a nice, smooth cover surface for stickers. It's got these ridges across it. So there's plenty of room for a logo, but a sticker would have to either be small enough to fit between two ridges — and that's pretty small — or it'd overlap the ridges, and that'd both look sloppy and be an amazing collector of dust.

So! I took Rina's logo and created the outline of the three pieces, then aligned them so that I could take slices out of them. The recesses stay uncovered, all of the vinyl is properly attached to flat surfaces, and it generally looks nicely planned, which is the best I could hope for.

The application process went fairly well. There are a few air bubbles trapped under the vinyl, marring the surface, but that's only noticeable pretty close up, and on the whole, it's very striking-looking. And I'm pretty sure I have the only Rina-chan M4500 out there.

[peakvincent]

new game is to type one through ten in your tags and see what comes up. i think my favorite of mine is ‘my uncle told us he spent seven and a half hours in a sensory deprivation tank once’ but ‘gideon the ninth motherfucker’ is a close second

[alackofghosts]

some stephcass for the soul

[wyrmghost]

Staying up late to work on a case and having a certain defense attorney fall asleep on you

I just really wanted to draw some domestic Klapollo fluff

+Sketch and without the multiply layers

[fruitsyrups]

some JTDs too

[arithmonym]

checking out the new stardew valley update :-)

[fanofflames]

Working on a Skeptic Funko Pop!

Sir Nighteye makes a great base lol.

[azucarera-art]

going to pound town on my laptop's peepaw pussy by downloading another skyrim follower mod

[awkward-teabag]

Was looking at my iPod Nano and thought how utterly BS it is that companies say it takes too much room to have a headphone jack.

I already thought it was BS before but the claim invariably comes down to form factor and keeping the jacks would make the device too big.

My Nano is ~5mm thick with the jack (also it's thinner than that but the glass stands out to make it thicker). That's nearly 3mm thinner than the latest iPhone and even the thinnest iPhone is over 2mm thicker.

You're telling me as components and ports shrink and boards also get smaller, it's unfeasible to do something that was done a decade ago?

It's almost as if it's not that form factor/technology doesn't allow it and it's all about selling proprietary adapters and/or Apple-brand headphones/earbuds/airpods that can be paired without a jack, and removing customer freedom.

[still-living-like-im-trying]

More sketches for the Obsidian Gold AU

[kthecritter]

hiii i'm back :3 I have a request! I understand if this isn't a good time right now, I know you might be busy or doing other things, so pls ignore this ask if you can't do it! can I please have a laptop wallpaper with kitty (caseoh's cat) and themes of chocolate milk, apples, and passion fruit cheesecake, with hidden therian symbols? if not, can I just please have a yellow and orange themed laptop wallpaper? thank you! please don't pressure yourself to do this, I know it's really specific :3 much love and tail wags!

here you go, I hope you enjoy! sadly couldn’t find many pictures of kitty, but that is a very cute cat 🥺

[98chao]

for anyone wondering the brush ive been using for my art for the past like month has literally just been the default G-pen from CSP because i like the way it makes my lineart and sketches look

[da-riya]

I really feel like I will have to quit this job because I don't like telling people "the bad news"

[dykeomania]

you know that one scene in 21 jump street where channing tatum and jonah hill are trying to buy off of dave franco's character ("you're the uh.. the dealer????? dealer???????????????? guy???" "yup." "oh cool so like do you make this stuff??? or???" "what do i look like, a fucking scientist? no, i just sell it.") yeah that's dealer!ellie x firsttimeweedbuyer!reader

[desire-mona]

i fucking hate fedex with all my heart

[sonknuxadow]

i wish there was a way to use multiple texture packs at once in minecraft bedrock like i just want my game to look entirely normal but also use the sonic texture pack for some minor decorative stuff like paintings . or maybe there is a way to do this and i just havent figured it out . idk .