Two months ago, I upgraded almost all my computer components except for the SSD, PSU and monitors, because I was getting tired of how it was beginning to show sluggishness. I could choose to step down the heavy usage a bit, but also felt a little bit money could do the trick. One thing led to another and it ended up being a bit more than what I originally planned to do.. but we are here now.

Tonight, I pushed the computer pretty close to its limits, and satisfied to see that it still hustles around without breaking much of a sweat

• Ubuntu server running on VirtualBox to run nginx RMTP repeater that copies the livestream to both Twitch and YouTube
• OBS streaming
• a voice transcriber webapp for the livestream
• Voicemeeter (virtual sound mixer program)
• BlueStack creating a virtual instance of Android on whcih I’m running HelloTalk (a Language learning partner app)
• HelloTalk messages webapp
• WhatsApp webapp
• Hangouts Webapp
• A dozen Google Docs/Spreadsheet windows open for document cross-reference and taking notes
• A dozen WordPress tabs open in editor mode
• A dozen chrome webpage tabs open for research
• YouTube
• Slack, Signal, Discord, KakaoTalk
• A dozen File Explorer windows for design assets
• Dropbox
• Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop all open with no open documents, because they take a long time to load

while searching for photo shots with asians latinx and black students in Adobe Stock Images, I see plenty of white students or white+black students but barely any latinx or asians. And like 99% of Asians I saw were women. Lol what decade is this stock library from? I even tried searching “California classroom”

there are way more low-information & “low-care” voters out there, but approaches that are effective with these voters are super counterproductive with high information voters (many of whom you find on the internet). and not just voters; the public in general as well.

and then in online spaces – i wonder how much does information and conversations that high information voters put up impact the low information voters who are usually merely browsing

A good representation of the rollercoaster that is California these past few weeks

When I saw this AMEX offer, I thought huh that sounds good but there’s no way I’m gonna call a restaurant to charge the credit card directly to them instead of using a middleman delivery service like Postmates.

Now why is Adobe in this list as a “small local business”?

The sweet spot for most medium-scale voter mail would be the High Volume BRM category.

Reference: Basic vs High vs QBRM vs High-QBRM | Pricing

Gutenberg lets you edit colors with the hex code, but the Theme customizer doesn’t allow you to edit the accent color with hex. So instead I exported the Theme configuration from Customizer, edited the Customizer and replaced the section where it read s:6:”accent”;s:7:”#EA7C22″, and imported it back. It worked.

First half of the year has been very close. I’ll need to tighten up a lot of the expenses for the second half. Food, donations… shopping should decrease as it was setting up the home office. Income is projected to increase as I work closer to full time in the Summer-Fall cycle, but that’s assuming that I can handle working full time. Still feeling pretty weak physically.