Sasha [They/Them]

Yes, that Sasha 🍉

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They/them

Anarchist/your local idiot with a guitar

If you’re occupying land in so-called “Australia”

If you eat food

And if you live on Earth

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Cake day: December 12th, 2023

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  • It’s just a regulated amount set by the government of each region, the manufacturers want to make them as profitable as possible, but the regulations say they can only be so profitable. The thing is, if you’re losing 2% per game, it doesn’t seem like much, but the point of slots is you play a lot of games, people sit there for hours and hours and the machines can run multiple games at once in some cases. You can lose all your money quite quickly.

    I never worked on physical machines so I can’t really answer any questions about coins, I just got data sheets with the reels on them and info about stuff like custom rules and bonus rounds.



  • I very briefly had a job as a mathematician for a company that certifies pokies (slot machines). I was technically also a software dev, but my job mainly consisted of calculating the theoretical average returns for each machine, writing basic code to simulate the machine for millions of games and then making sure those two numbers matched. I’d pass that on to a physical testing team who hack them to run real games.

    It was a horrible fucking job and I got out basically a month after I finished my training. All we did was prove the machines were exactly as profitable as allowed in whatever location they were going to be deployed at…

    Now I work as a regular software developer and it’s also a horrible job.




  • I love this stuff, I always put it on my face. It’s just enough to stop feeling like my skin is as dry as paper and it’s not oily, it feels more watery than anything. I switched to it years ago, use it after every shower and now my skin is so nice, presumably just because I’m not leaving my face all dried out, I doubt there’s anything special about this stuff.

    That said, I do also use a very gentle sorbolene body wash and hand soap because my skin was too fragile for normal soap. If I don’t, I tend to get lots of sores on my fingers.




  • I’m not poor but most of my fun stuff is free, hanging out at parks (picnics with friends or just relaxing with a book or something), walking/cycling trails, free or pay as you feel shows and weekly food not bombs community dinners.

    Nothing wrong with a 1 bedroom apartment tbh, and I don’t understand why not living in a house means you can’t buy and own things lol. I’ve got loads of stuff I can do here if I don’t want to go out, I’ve even got plenty of private outdoor space. If I didn’t have so much stuff keeping me busy I could very easily stay in my apartment for weeks at a time, only really leaving to get groceries, I’ve never gone mad from it.

    Tbh I find this life is significantly cheaper given I don’t have as much maintenance as a house, and I don’t need to pay the absurdly high costs associated with a car.

    Edit: looks like jerboa broke for me so I’ve got no clue if this posted or what anyone else is saying lol







  • I’ve been running from my problems by immersing myself in tech, I’m not sure if that makes me like it more or less but I’ve gotten very very good at what I do.

    Last night I set up an event ticketing service so friends can come to an event I’m hosting without me having to schedule them or manage capacity. Then I cried myself to sleep. -2

    But I also get to set up stuff for my collectives to use, like nextcloud and wordpress and it’s awesome to be able to turn a grassroots bunch of ratbags into a semi-professional looking bunch of ratbags. +10


  • I’m afraid I can’t answer your technical questions, I’m really not that knowledgeable about this. All I know is you ideally want the frequency curve to be flat, I don’t think it matters much where it sits relative to that line.

    Honestly, that Danon dropping off at the low end is pretty typical though it’s one of the better ones. You’d really just have to test it I’m afraid, it might be totally fine to chop off the bottom for some things but maybe it’s necessary for certain heart conditions, I wouldn’t know. If it were an option I’d say the best bet is to always stick to the analogue, but I’m absolutely with you on hating traditional stethoscopes, they’re so painful…

    You probably can just leave the crushers on your neck with the volume maxed out, but I’m really not sure if that’ll work. In all honesty the speaker might be worse due to the way the acoustics in the room can change what you hear, it’s really hard to say.


  • Rtings.com provides frequency response charts when they test speakers, let me see if I can find one that goes low enough for you.

    As for the bonus question, absolutely love it. I love when people come up with cool solutions to life’s problems, and this lets me hear my own heartbeat? Hell yeah!

    Here’s an easy way to check a bunch of them quicky, the Denon home was the best I found in terms of the very low end. I’m sure someone else can do better, I’m not that much of an audiophile and know very little about speakers.

    Probably worth noting that they stretch out the low end of the chart so they tend to go lower than it seems (I assume it’s a logarithmic scale). You might be able to go to a store and ask to test them yourself.

    Second edit: if headphones are at all a possibility (they might be better for patients who don’t want to hear their own heartbeat) then can I recommend Skullcandy crushers? They’re completely ridiculous as regular headphones, they basically just have a metal plate they vibrate for the bass, but it goes all the way down to 20Hz, and you can crank it waaaaay up with a slider on the side. (I use these daily for music because I’m a bad audiophile who wants to have fun sometimes, I have a proper wired setup if I want the audiophile experience.)


  • I started a free writing journal to help generate ideas and learn to get a little more creative. It’s basically just a regular journal at this point, I just write in it whenever I have a thought that I feel I should keep. It’s been invaluable for coping with mental health stuff too. I don’t think I’ll ever stop, it’s not something I have to force myself to do any more.



  • Not everyone likes the way these images are built, but the liinuxserver.io containers are so easy to use. You can replace so many cloud services using these, I’ve replaced:

    • All streaming platforms
    • Google drive
    • Google photos
    • Every note app
    • The library (sorta, I just host an ebook server for manga that won’t fit on my reader)
    • Grocery lists
    • Exercise tracking apps

    Plus I’ve setup some awesome new stuff like a website for one of my collectives and a few things to automate server maintenance.

    You need somewhere to host your services (I’m using an old PC) and a little linux experience, but it’s absolutely worth giving it a crack. I might work in the industry but I learnt more making my little server than I ever did on the job.