Gave the middle finger to Microsoft, its pushing of Windows 11, generative AI and all of the e-waste they're creating simply because older machines can't support the pure shite they're pushing, and installed Linux Mint.
Decided as well that there was definitely still life in my seven year old laptop and got a hold of a new battery from the manufacturer (I enjoyed the "this is quite an old model..." from the support line person).
Happy to report that the old girl's running like a dream now!
Loved all of the learning and unexpected good that came out of it.
I learned lots of new things, like the basics of Linux, how to flash a USB stick, how to open up my laptop with a screwdriver and a few guitar picks and how to replace an internal battery.
I connected with tech savvy friends for their advice and opinions, got excited with others about doing the same thing or getting into similar projects, used my local library to take out a book on Linux and borrowed a mini-screwdriver off of a colleague, who I'm in chats with now about laptop repair.
All this is to say, save your stuff from the wasteful destiny that's planned for it!
the twrch trwyth in the search for olwen !!
my three favourite genders of podcast protag: Can Never Do Anything Wrong Ever™, Oh God They Do So Much Wrong And I Hope They Get Worse™, and Miserable Wet Cat Begrudgingly Discovers Friendship™
Don't fall for it @camlannpod! I'm sure that's the Bristol uni rugby team up to their usual tricks.
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I really feel like le morte darthur lends itself to a the green knight 2021 esque interpretation a little too well
the great thing about medieval literature is that it returns us to a time when men were men and women were women, *insert gritty realism gif here*, featuring such important and eternal gendered characteristics such as
(M) Why Would I Learn To Think Critically When I Could Find a Random Damsel In The Woods To Tell Me What To Do
(F) Demands To Be Brought The Heads Of Her Enemies
(M, to F) Be Mean To Me, No, Meaner Than That
(F) Meticulous Maintenance Of Social Connections And Alliances Via Writing Letters
(M) Crying
(M) More Crying
(M) Even More Crying, While Being Held Tenderly By Brother In Arms
(F) Necromancy
(M) Meticulous Maintenance Of Social Connections And Alliances Via Mistaking Friend’s Identity, Attacking Him, Then Kissing And Making Up
(F) Expert Medical Practitioner
(M) Self-Care By Episodes Of Madness In The Woods
(F) Owner Of Haunted Castle
I re-watched the Labyrinth of Gedref episode with a friend last night and I'm obsessed with the weirdness potential of the missing scenes...
Arthur and the knights saw off the unicorn's horn while an upset Merlin looks on and idk, they leave the body behind in the woods? Seems like a waste but I guess taxidermy hadn't been invented yet.
Merlin actively ignores the rat problem.
Uther and Arthur leave Camelot to go stare at a barden field together.
Merlin spends time trying to find that really specific turn sand into water spell.
Gaius collects Merlin's bath water lol.
The rat goes to town on some tasty prince boot.
The single, anachronistic cherry tomato that Arthur leaves on his plate is eaten by the rat, probably.
Merlin straight up kills the rat, carries it around the castle, skins, cuts up and stews it for Arthur.
Gwen commits kitchen thievery under the dreaded Cook's nose. Maybe she finds Merlin there stewing the rat.
Merlin runs around the woods in circles or else he's kept out by some kind magical barrier while Arthur fights the fake thief.
Gaius catches two beetles for his and Merlin's dinner.
Uther congratulates himself that he's convinced his son to be a cartoon villain, just like his papa.
Merlin manages to impart to Arthur the conversation he had with Anhora out in the woods and it somehow goes well. Does he explain why tf he was out there alone? Gathering herbs might not be believable with all that's going on with the crops...
The vines in the labyrinth deposit Merlin onto the beach. Also Anhora ties him up.
Arthur wakes up on the beach. Just when he thinks he might have reached the afterlife Merlin appears and kisses him chews him out for being a stupid, self-sacrificing clotpole.
Merlin and Arthur learn to get along again on their long horse ride back.
The crops randomly grow back in an afternoon and somehow, in a kingdom where magic is outlawed and generally regarded with fear and suspicion, this is treated as Totally Fine and Normal, Actually™
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