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How to Clean the Face Buttons on a Steam Deck

Sunday, December 22, 2024

Today my friend’s Steam Deck hits the Black Workmat of Doom™, which to be clear is legally distinct from the Workbench of Doom™. They’re both full of doom, but this one is smaller, and more suitable for smaller items.

And small this is, though large-ish by mobile gaming standards? This is the first generation Steam Deck from Valve. This thing kicked off a well documented surge of tiny computers stuffed into large gamepads that can actually run games pretty well, though IMO the Deck is still the best, mostly hands down to Steam OS and of course the amazing work Valve has done on the Proton tech under the hood that lets Steam OS, which if you didn’t know, is actually linux, to run games so well.

But anyway, this isn’t a history lesson. My buddy got some sticky mess on his face buttons, and that’s no good. Let’s go dig it out.

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Can my Air Fryer Stop Screaming At Me?

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

So a ways back we got one of these Chefman 6.3 qt air fryers from my aunt. We love the thing, it’s great to use and does a great job cooking food, apart from one massive, massive flaw: this thing’s buzzer is LOUD. Like genuinely the loudest buzzer I have ever heard in a kitchen countertop appliance, to such a degree where it would actually hurt our ears to use the thing.

Now I’ve resolved a problem like this before, with our electric fireplace, which had a remote to turn things on and off, and also the same exact kind of buzzer (though honestly even that one wasn’t this fucking loud) but the point is: I knew what to look for. And finally it irritated me enough that the thing ended up on the Workbench of Doom™.

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Soft Opening

Saturday, November 16, 2024

I’m going to do my level best to not let this first post simply turn into a carbon copy of the site’s About Me page, so if you want to know about me personally, then you can find all of that there.

Here I’d like to go more into detail about what this is, what my plans for it are, and why I’m undertaking a new “online identity” of sorts.

Without getting too into my previous life, internet and otherwise, the short version is I had my egg crack moment as the kids like to say not too awfully long ago, and for the uninitated, that’s when a trans-person realizes they are trans. I’m writing to you now still very much in man-mode, as they say, and I’m laying out the plans for the route forward to becoming the woman I now realize I very much want to be.

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