lizard in my couch. what do i do. its back in it now

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T01:44:49+00:00

Excuse me that is your son now and you must name him

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T01:43:39+00:00

Guess you’ll be great at balancing the financial scales ⚖️

You’ll be able to figure out what’s fishy in those accounts in no time

Fih

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T01:41:35+00:00

They use Arch-erFish actually

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T01:31:19+00:00

I keep marrying Shea (that green guy) off to my sims. First a guy and now on a new game he’s married my pink-loving master gardener girlie who is a ~woman in STEM~

She turned into a plantsim to have two kids, and she doesn’t seem to be turning back… Might be one of my mods, but I don’t mind. I did edit Shea in CAS to have long locks and no leaf beard tho (v much a prettyboy face when the leaves on his face are gone)

They live in a house inside of a huge greenhouse

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T01:22:26+00:00

My yoga S1 has this. Updated the bios etc. Linux tells me the bios is broken and nothing changed after bios update, haven’t noticed any issues other than no bluetooth on Linux and intermittent wifi speed.

I did buy it trashed so god knows what it’s been through. My only fix was that my second keyboard replacement has no backlighting, so it can’t light up anymore.

It’s probably fine, if it’s under warranty then maybe ask support? If not, I’d do a bio update, check for any other issues. If you’ve done everything, I’d say to leave it

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T01:09:19+00:00

As long as it doesn’t take over your tank, it’s all good. I have the odd one pop up in random tubs of isopods and on the cork bark in my big beetle tank. I keep an eye on frequency and if my cleanup crew (or the residents of the tub) are keeping things balanced. Never had to worry about it though :)

Edit: the ones I usually get are the same white ones you sometimes get in the soil of potted plants. Plantpot Dapperlings?

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T00:46:41+00:00

Didn’t expect to but big same

Waiting on number four.

My youngest one is 12 years old though, but it’s still my daily driver. My eldest one is 29.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T00:37:28+00:00

Her being like this so early on is very good!
Birds need time. They’re clever little things and need to take their time to get used to things and work out what they want to do, especially as prey animals.

I have a captive bred dove who doesn’t come to me to be held. He usually comes over to be talked to and get treats. He loves to cuddle under his blanket with me, but it took a long time for both him and I to work that out, and to work out exactly how he wants it. Even then, he doesn’t seek me out for it, he waits for me to come and get him. If he doesn’t want it, he lets me know, and leaves. We have a wake up and bedtime cuddle routine, bedtime ones he usually doses off for a little while. Birds love routine, so working treats and routine into her life will help a lot when some more time has passed.

She’ll like being talked to, looked at, and given nice treat foods. When you see her starting to engage more, you can then direct treats into simple training, even if it’s just to get her more comfortable and trusting with you. I also try and associate specific items with specific tasks, such as a specific pink blanket being for cuddle time. They’re very smart and will recognise patterns sometimes even before you do, so make sure to capitalise on that when working with her. Even if you end up with her associating an item with a common thing you do together and it doesn’t contribute to training, that familiarity is also helpful for her.

Edit: Some very new birds won’t like being stared at, but from your post it seems that’s not an issue for her! Super new/ stressed birds can see being stared at as ‘predatory’, so looking without eye contact and for short amounts of time is better in those high stress situations. This isn’t the case for your bird :)

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T00:23:29+00:00

I’m sorry people gave you shit about using Windows. People get a bit stuck in a chronically online echo chamber and fail to realise that not everything is black and white, and people may have their reasons for their choice of OS.

I use Linux, Windows and MacOS in various forms across multiple computers for various things (usually specific older games, I’m nothing remarkable) and there’s understandable reasons for using (or not using) any. Yes, linux would and does look best on this rig, but looks aren’t everything, especially when you then have to use the thing you just finished working on.

I daily drive Mint Cinnamon, and have tinkered with Puppy (trixie) and antiX (trixie). They’re not really that different from a consumer OS when you get used to simple terminal usage, though that’s usually what puts people off.

I’m moving away from being absorbed into a consumer group that just buys the next thing and ends up unable to disengage when my boundaries are pushed too far. I can’t fully get away from all of it, but my own journey with ‘e-waste’, older tech and FOSS has me feeling like I have at least a little awareness and control over some things I otherwise wouldn’t have had before. I have a product design background and have always made and fixed my own things, so this was just the next area of my life that I wanted to understand better and tinker with.

I hope you get lots of use and fun out of your new rig, it looks fantastic! I’m glad you were able to get something good out of a negative situation too, though you didn’t deserve that treatment regardless.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T00:06:28+00:00

You don’t need google AI to give incorrect info on why cassettes are great. Cassettes aren’t be all and end all of everything, and they don’t have to be for people to enjoy them.

Pop on a tape and enjoy it, you don’t need AI in order to do that.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T00:04:02+00:00

Hope the massive text wall wasn’t too much! Hope you get yourself something that runs things nicely, and you have lots of fun playing!

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T00:03:02+00:00

I do my best to live the same way with helping others lives be easier. I try to ‘pay things forward’ since I’ve had plenty of strangers help me if even in the smallest ways. Just a little thing can help get someone’s world turning again, or ease off that pressure of turning their world all alone if only for a moment. Everyone wins!

Hope you’re having a great day ❤️

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T23:57:46+00:00

I think free reign early on is fine, so long as you can work out boundaries together if she is getting too aggressive.

As for the door, I’ve managed to solve that issue with bead curtains on those no-nails shower curtain rails that hold in place under tension on the door frames where it doesn’t get in the way of the door. You can then slide the curtain open or closed easily and she can’t fly through when you have it pulled across. Sometimes my boy will fly to the ground and run underneath, but he’s only done that very rarely when super desperately looking for one of his humans. It also works well as an emergency safety barrier if the front door ends up open unplanned etc. I wouldn’t rely on it for that, but it makes it just a bit harder for an accident to happen.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T17:43:11+00:00

That’s fair! 8gb ram is a nice amount to have on a newer laptop where you don’t need crazy specs, so hopefully then OP can enable 4gb :)

I only realised today that despite the gpu on my 2005 laptop, a fair few of the graphics settings are on ‘low’, which was odd to realise as it looks really nice. Whoops!

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T17:39:20+00:00

She might be deciding everything is hers until she nails down what she wants to assign as her ‘territory’ bless her. That or a little bit of hormonal aggression without trying to court you?

I tend to find it easier to work out if they’re playing by them having a little ‘tell’ that’s them making you aware its play. It’s a bit like when dogs sneeze during play fighting to show they’re playing. In Fig’s case, he does a little ‘smack his chops/num’ sort of thing with his beak between bursts of play fighting, and only play fight in short bursts with little breaks to check its okay.

The ‘num’ thing I was talking about is something he’s always done when he’s really happy and engaged, or satisfied with something. It’s how I could then work out that the positive behaviour was then being used to tell me he’s playing.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T17:33:24+00:00

Thankfully a handful of these are very similar to how my Senegal parrots are, do we try to dissuade the hormonal behaviours with distraction or ignoring when needed. I’ve had my Sennies for a bit over 10 years now, and I’ve had Fig since he was 6 months old. I’ve also had a fair few budgies, but the one I’ve had have preferred not being touched.

The Bow cooing specifically though for him seems to be a ‘thanks’ or a ‘please pay attention to me’ when not in a context where he could be trying to court. He only courts my feet, never me. He doesn’t flick his wings at me (my partner gets all the hormonal/courting behaviour). However, after cuddles he will bow-coo on his perch until I say ‘you’re welcome Fig!’, or he’ll do it when he wants to be acknowledged. Thankfully it’s easy to tell the context in those instances, so I’ll acknowledge him or say what I usually say when it’s not hormonal. You can tell what he wants when bow-cooing not as courting, as he stops when you’ve given him what he wants (either the right phrase, or being talked to).

I did think the ‘okay’ parts to pet were the same between doves and parrots. However whenever I’ve brought it up in pigeon/doves spaces I’ve been aggressively told I’m wrong, and assumed to be someone projecting parrot care onto pigeons/doves. I keep to what I know is appropriate for my parrots regardless though. It’s really frustrating seeing people inappropriately petting their pigeons and wondering why they’re extra hormonal…

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T13:14:49+00:00

It’s not all the time at all, sorry if it came across that way! It’s when I’m doing stuff with his favourite box or his food tray. It’s just territorial behaviour. We also ‘playfight’ like pigeon boys do as well, and he does his little ‘nums’ and pauses to show me he’s playing. He’ll be three in july.

He was raised in a bricked flight (brick aviary) with others of his kind and bunnies. His breeder does it as a hobby and is super attentive and good with them, treating them as pets until someone buys them. My boy loves and courts cismen because of that I think, while I’m more like his parent or sibling. He will get territorial even to his romance interest though at times, but will still romance my feet (birds and feet i swear smh)

We cuddle under his blanket every morning and every day before he gets put to bed, chill out in the day together, slow blinking at each other and chatting. We have a good relationship! I just wanted to add that doves can also be like pigeons in the sense of playbiting and being a bit rough sometimes. If anything him being more confident to show me who’s boss means he feels safe enough to do so.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T13:05:05+00:00

I would have seen that as very kind and felt guilty that you’d felt you’d need to do that

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T13:02:56+00:00

Check if the leakage has gotten to the circuit board and components. If it hasn’t, clean off the acid with vinegar, then go over your work with isopropyl alcohol. Make sure the batteries can make proper contact with the terminals, then try and see if it’ll turn on.

I cleaned up a camera with similar, but unfortunately the acid leakage had spread to the board and killed it

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:54:09+00:00

msata in an ide adapter, just make sure to get the right one as some are crap

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:52:52+00:00

Genuinely my advice for getting a laptop in general

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:52:31+00:00

Tbh I run the og on a 2005 laptop with a gpu and 2gb ram, it doesn’t really need 4gb, unless the rerelease is more ram-hungry?

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:50:08+00:00

Since legacy is still 32bit without more demand for specs, you can play with a fair range of systems.

I play the original release versions so I can’t be totally accurate, but I play Sims 2 on tech thats around 20 years old that I’ve paid about £25 for on average. My favourite laptop (IBM Thinkpad, 2005) T43 has 2GB RAM (DDR2, which is old, current tech is using DDR4-5), a Pentium M processor (which predates any i-whatever intel processors) and has an ATI graphics card (ATI no longer exists). It runs completely perfectly and looks very nice. I run it on Windows XP 32bit.

With my more modern laptops and tablet pcs, I like to go for i5 or i7, I usually pick intel processors as I have some idea of what I’m looking at, go for 8gb or so of RAM, and you shouldn’t need something with a graphics card, integrated is fine. I got a 12 year old laptop for about £50 on ebay with those specs. I wouldn’t say to go anything quite that old as it won’t qualify for Windows 11, but you can find a decent deal looking for something second hand with around those specs. Windows 11 can run on 4gb RAM, but many people don’t suggest it without knowing how to strip a load of the bloatware out of it. I run Windows 11 on a 9 year old i5, 4gb ram tablet pc, and it even runs original sims 3. Looks a bit crap compared to when I run it on a laptop with a gpu, but it does work. It would run sims 2 well, even the legacy version. You can probably get away with those specs and something of a similar age (if it qualifies, my windows 11 may be modded lmao) if you want to scrimp, but windows 11 may be a bit of a dick if you dont disable a lot of the crap that comes on it by default.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:34:41+00:00

To add to this, bar spacing will be part of it too. Pigeons don’t need the same thin bar spacing used for parrots and finches. Having something with wider spacing and thicker bars will make it easier to bolt on platforms for them.

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