Finally got all the cables and shit to hook my Framework 13 up to my desk setup and try running it as my daily driver pc. As far as a computer it's not very different, but the real change is daily driving Debian w/ XFCE. We'll see how this experiment goes.

(The only issue I've had in the past is sometimes watching a longer youtube video, the whole fucking computer just restarts? Not sure what's up with that)

I feel like this past week I've been having a lot of thoughts of personal dissatisfaction with myself, between my almost complete lack of an irl social life, the parts of my personality I dislike, my output as a creative, etc.

Thinking about the manufacturing of consumer tech is so fucked, sometimes.

$5 for an optical mouse. A PCB, injection-molded outer shell, fasteners, an optical mouse sensor (which is basically a low res camera and computer vision algorithm in a chip), a wireless radio and receiver, the cardboard packaging surrounding it, and everything else inside this product. For $5.

I dunno if it's good, but, christ. How the fuck did we get here.

I was apparently a raccoon in a past life, or something, because I just love digging through e-waste. Every tech company I've worked at has had a bin somewhere that, if you're persistent, you can get some real goodies out of. An Xbox Elite controller, an entire working 2-in-1 laptop, parts for projects, all things I've fished from the bin.

Recently my work had an employee e-waste event where people could drop off their own stuff. And in there, I found this thing - a Cricut Mini.

For those who don't know - Cricut makes a series of cutting machines with the same form factor as like, a printer. You load in some material and a cutting blade drags across the surface, cutting out shapes for craft projects. It's a neat piece of tech, and so finding this one discarded, I figured I'd take it home and see if I could fix it.