Played around with AO3 site skin css and ended up creating my first site skin ✨ You can find ithe css and instructions on how to use custom site skins on this page.
Also created a Github, I'll be adding my AO3 skins and FocusWriter themes there too.
So, I think I'm switching to Linux Mint for good!
I installed it in this (new) laptop back in October, and have needed to boot to Windows 11 only twice since and HATED both times. I did the only the mandatory things there and booted back to Linux as quickly as I could and felt SO relieved to be back in Linux. I'm so terribly tempted to remove Windows entirely, I don't want to keep it anymore - it just gets on my nerves.
I put Linux Mint on Mom's old laptop something like a decade ago maybe (which originally ran the notorious Vista and was slow from the start), and she liked it so much I had her on it for like 6-8 years until even with Linux the laptop became quite slow (it was 14 years old at that point). Mom bought a new laptop in 2021 but when I tried to install Linux Mint in that because she wished it so, it seemed to go okay but when I tried to boot to Linux Mint, got errors. I didn't have werewithal at the time to figure it out and Mom was okay with Windows 10/11 which still worked fine. But we got to talking about it again in October; Mom still misses Linux Mint/Ubuntu and I did love it, so I decided to try it out again and I instantly in LOVE with it so much again!
The last time I still needed Windows because there were a few Windows only programs I needed because of my fansites, but now I don't really do fansites anymore and in the about 3 months I've now been using Linux Mint, I've either figured how to do everything I need or don't actually need them anymore! Because I don't do fansites anymore as extensively as I used to.
Mom said that she's totally okay if I put only Linux Mint on her laptop again - if I can figure out the errors - and get rid of Windows. So now I'm putting Linux Mint on my old laptop so I can give it to her for the time being - I'll have to bring her laptop home with me, so I can troubleshoot it in peace and see what I can figure out. I already have some ideas what it could be, having done more in-depth research to make sure I can install Linux Mint to dual boot with Windows 11. But it'll likely take some days at the minimum to get it all ready, so Mom and her SO need a laptop for the duration.
My answers to today's questions at thefridayfive@DW
1. Do you mostly drink tap, filtered, or bottled water?
Only tap water.
2. Is it safe/recommended to drink tap water where you live? If not, why?
It's safe. The quality of tap water here in such that it's a given - nobody born here even thinks about it.
3. What does the tap water taste/smell like where you live?
Nothing, IMO.
4. Do you collect rainwater? If so, what do you use it for?
Nope.
5. Do you/have you ever had restrictions on water use where you live? What did you have to change about your lifestyle?
The only times tap water isn't safe to drink is when there is a temporary, local problem with some local plumbing/water supply/water treatment plant. These happen occasionally but I've never had it happen to me in my 51 years.
People still have summer cottages that are old and basic enough that they don't get municipal running water, or the running water comes from their own well in which case bottled water is needed for drinking. My Mom and her SO had a place like that for a couple of years, spent only summers there and had to haul in water for the stays. They had their own well and running water, but it could not be used for drinking or cooking, just for showering and gardening and such.
The only thing was that when I visited that Mom's and SO's summer place, I had to remember never to drink water from any faucet. And while showering, not letting water in my mouth.
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1. Did you get an allowance as a kid, and if so, how much was it?
I did. I don’t remember the amounts because it increased as I grew older. First it was a weekly allowance, and then later on I got a monthly allowance. I usually spent it on candy, comic books and if my friend and I went to see a movie, the price of the ticket came from my (monthly) allowance too. This was in 1980 -> 1990.
I never got money for good school grades or for doing chores at home. Things like that were and are considered things you do for yourself (learning), or need to know and nobody’s gonna be paying you to do them when you’re living on your own (home chores).
2. How old were you when you had your first job, and what was it?
I think I was probably 14? My Mom’s work hired their worker’s teenagers (if any were interested) to wrap the Company’s Christmas presents for their employees and business partners etc. This was for 4 nights during one week after school in November, and each night I worked wrapping gifts for 4 or 5 hours. I did this for two years. It was fun, I was familiar with Mom workplace and many coworkers already because she’d been there like 20 years, and Dad and me would pick her up with the car whenever there was something we had to go do right after work together. And during the summer vacations, I (often with my best friend) would often bike to Mom’s work for her lunch hour and we’d all have lunch together.
3. Which do you do better: save money or spend money?
I don’t know. I’ve never been freely able to do either. My monthly income is just too small and/or uncertain. Back when my father had died and I got my portion of his inheritance, I was able pay all my education with it and the free public education benefits (taking a loan wasn’t that common back then, unless you went to university which I didn’t), to buy a small apartment upon graduating and then to stretch it out for many years using it to supplement unemployment benefit which was and still is unlivable. But because work was few and far between, I had to keep dipping in to my savings simply to pay rent and eat until it all run out.
4. Are people more likely to borrow money from you, or are you more likely to borrow from them?
Neither.
5. What's the most expensive thing you've ever bought?
My apartment.
Yesterday/today's downtime was due to server downtime, according to my host Asura Hosting:
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My answers to today's questions at https://thefridayfive.dreamwidth.org/144788.html
1. What do you see when you are looking out of the window closest to you?
My tiny backyard and white fence, then a little bit of grassy area, the walkway to the parking lot, the windowless end (gable??) wall as well as several entrances to the apartments in the rowhouse across the walkway to the parking lot.
2. Who was the last person coming into your room?
My apartment, and my Mom on last Tuesday.
3. What is the most predominant colour around you?
My kitchen, living room and tiny hallway’s walls are all white so that’s the one I guess. My bedroom walls are pale blue which is nice and soothing for sleeping.
4. What is right behind you?
The living room wall. Higher up on the wall there are 12 acrylic pour paintings I made, behind the couch on which I’m sitting on as I write this.
5. What is on today's calendar sheet?
Nothing at all and it’s wonderful! I’ve been too busy the last 3 weeks and need a break very much.
I’ll be away the entire next week! I’m going in for the third and last part a multi-professional individual rehabilitation course and will be staying overnight like in last March. I’m leaving early tomorrow (Monday) morning and will be back sometime after 3pm on Friday.
I’m not taking my laptop with me, so if any server problems pop up during the week with my sites, I’ll look into it after I’m back – maybe Friday evening, but more likely, Saturday.
Answers to f.riday5.com today's questions!
1. What is your water flask like?
It’s just a used Frezza bottle.
2. When did you last hold a mic?
I don’t think I’ve held a mic - I have an office headset but the jaw mic is attached to it so no holding.
3. Of whom are you jealous?
People who can buy groceries and pay normal bills (such as rent, phone or electric bills etc.) without having to count whether they can afford to do those things and when.
4. For what are you zealous?
Getting rid of this cruel far-right, only-for-the-rich and big corporations government.
5. And when might you go on a hike?
Never. It’s not something I enjoy, and my health doesn’t allow it now anyway.
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