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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • The ability to update Xbox controllers, though when mine dies I’m probably switching to a similar priced high end brand with better joysticks.

    And on that note, I also miss being able to assume anything I want to use or install is available for my operating system. I was looking a month or two ago at buying one of 8bitdo’s pro 2 controllers, but it didn’t support Linux. I never had to check if anything was windows compatible, everything either was or loudly said it wasn’t.

    Still not going back


  • Not just public schools. I went to private school and still woke up with high school nightmares for years as a college graduate.

    I think the expectations are a part of it, but I also think it’s the fact that it’s an extremely stressful time period between expectations for one’s future, high hormones, major social changes that happen as everyone’s brain cooks at a different speed, and the constant fighting for increased independence.

    Like, don’t get me wrong I also didn’t enjoy being in class, and I’ve had full on flashbacks to fights with my father over my grades in high school (also have a ptsd diagnosis), but imo the educational elements of high school weren’t meaningfully worse than earlier years or college/adulthood. It was being a teenager that was particularly traumatic, and high school was just the location where most of the issues converged