Hi, fellow peeps!

I am Lemonheep, a queer nerd who is mainly a hobbyist 2D artist and aspriring system administrator, but often also a home cook and a gamer. I've mostly been doing small projects here and there in my free time, though I hope to get better at things like making comics, 3D art, and webdev in the future.

This web-space by itself is nothing too special. It's a dedicated space for my artworks and other creative works for anyone to browse through (and not just those with a Smigglo/Bidjen account or whatever). However, I feel that more and more of us need to get back into making personal websites. It's honestly the best representation of your online self, where you're free to present you and your creations in any style and layout you want!

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05.01.2026 - My (Almost Rocky) First-Time Mac Experience

Uhhhh, so I had to sell my Macbook Pro and get a Macbook Air instead. Yea, I was a bit more than stubborn with trying to stick with it, especially since sunk cost fallacy with accidentally winning an auction, then having to clean it up, wait for a SATA SSD and Magsafe charger to arrive so I can actually use it, having to find a way to make a Mac installer for Windows cause' of course Steve Apple hates me, and finally waiting multiple hours during the night for OpenCore to patch up its install. I was even in love with how it represented the old Apple, where it had the ports everyone needs even today (cough, cough, SD, HDMI, and USB-A), it was so easy to disassemble it and give it better parts compared to the sheer clusterfuck that you'd have to do just to repair modern Macs (and if you wanted to upgrade it, lololololololol no). Yet, in the end, it and its poor Core 2 Duo just couldn't catch up to modern computing's higher demands.

Still, I was able to get most of my money back, though I will still continue to ensure I cover for all of the losses. First, returning the SATA SSD only required sending it back to the seller, and eBay even let me keep the Magsafe charger when I tried to return it! It especially helps that they were both full refunds as well (very nice). Also, it took some time until yesterday for me to make the sale on the Macbook Pro. As a result, I was able to cover for its $15 shipping cost, and I will cover for the remaining $20 that I have lost for the laptop itself as well (gonna get on that eBay grind). Most important, though, is that besides making enough money from other eBay items I made the sale for, the Macbook Air wasn't even too expensive compared to the Macbook Pro! While both prices were technically different at $68 (not nice :< ) for the Macbook Air compared to $35 for the Macbook Pro, the Macbook Air included a charger with the listing, and it already had a SATA SSD inside. Meanwhile, the Magsafe charger was $11, and I struggled to find an SSD that was $20 or less (kys, Sam Altman), meaning the real total for making the Macbook Pro "work" was in reality $66. Basically, when doing the math, it was just better to pay for the higher upfront cost of the Macbook Air.

In terms of the Macbook Air experience itself, I seriously don't wanna jinx myself by saying this, as I literally just got this today, but its experience is not just better than the Macbook Pro's, it's been holding up well when it comes to my own usage habits. On macOS Sonoma, the only things I dislike about it aew its loud fans (which are most likely solvable by disassembling it, cleaning it out, and giving it new thermal paste) and its slower boot (which my HP certainly outmatches, but I'd still rather spring for a Mac than an HP shittop). Otherwise, at least when it comes the multitasking, light web-browsing, note-taking, and blogging tasks I intended to use it for, it's been quite responsive. Certainly, it's not pissing me the fuck off and making me consider returning it. Overall, I think I'll be alright with this, even as hard as trying to get a new-old laptop has been over the past few weeks.

P.S.: If you have the time and are interested, check out the Pokemon Super Music Collection albums! The Pokemon series has such a wonderful and varied OST, and it makes for great study music as well.

Also, if you're considering also getting a Macbook Air, if you don't have the budget for Apple Silicon, go for it! Though it represents the start of Apple's dark age, it was still fairly repairable, with the ability to get passive adapters to upgrade to third-party SSD's and the battery only needing to be unscrewed. It's fast-ish, too, so you don't have to either unleash your gamer rage on a slow-ass Macbook or have to get it a lightweight Linux distro/desktop and make it apparent that you might as well become a ThinkChad user cause' Thinkpads are just better at Linuxing.