Red hair is known to be caused by a recessive allele, so it was highly likely hiding in their genes. It can skip generations because it's recessive (you need two copies, one from each parent - both can have a different expressed hair color than red).

There are several genes linked to red hair:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas...81210101930.htm

My laptop saga continues...

​I was finally able to open the laptop to replace the CPU fan. Before replacing it, I cleaned the dust inside the laptop's body parts and replaced the thermal paste. The new fan is more quiet that the old one - I guess the old one was just worn out (the actual point of replacing it).

​I also received the keyboard, which had Bulgarian letters on it, this time painted in red, unlike the original on which they were all white. The bad thing here is that the OG keyboard is higher build quality, because behind the aluminum mesh, where the keys and the membrane are mounted, there is another aluminum shield-foil-sticker kind of thing. That wrapper-like sticker keeps the keyboard from bending so easily. On the other hand, the replacement one doesn't have this back foil and it bends like crazy. When I mounted it on the laptop, part of it floated a little, and when I press a random button, the whole assembly jiggles . The actual OG keyboard, which is shielded, was out of stock. When I asked if this keyboard would be in stock soon, they said that they stopped importing it years ago. Luckily, I got the right materials to fix it and I'm not willing to return it. We even have a phrase for it — to "Bulgarianize" it :D

I finally assembled the laptop and it's ready for use. I sticked on tree layers of paper tape and two layers of aluminum foil tape on keyboard's back...and that's it. What I was expecting from cheap aftermarket spare parts - It still jiggles but atleast less than before. There is a phrases about it - "The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten." or "If you buy cheap, you pay twice." - that's all I'm going to say.

Speaking of laptops, nobody should ever buy a ASUS Vivobook. I'm usually a fan of ASUS, they can go kick rocks this time around.

I bought this laptop a couple of years ago. It is not meant to play games on or do anything serious with. I bought / used it to watch Youtube on in my bedroom. We had a small LED TV taking up space that wasn't being used for anything, so with a HDMI cable, I could chill and watch crap while in bed.

The problems started a couple of months ago when the stupid thing wouldn't turn on. This problem started shortly after a Microsoft update. In order to get it to boot, I kept having to mash the on / off button; eventually it would boot. Fast forward to yesterday and the POS wouldn't shut down. I had to hold the on / off button for a good minute before it would turn off.

Later in the day, after arguing with the generator company, ( more on that...) I decided to mess around with the laptop to see if I could figure out what the problem was. It refuses to boot, at all. Today said laptop is being dissected, having its hard drive yanked and the rest will be recycled at Best Buy. I refuse to pay $400.00- plus dollars to have somebody look at a laptop that today is worth $100.00, if that. I paid $400-$500 at the time of purchase.

On to the generator company...

The generator company came out back in April to do maintenance on the generator. I called them in June asking where my bill was as usually I get one within a week of them being here. I was told they had to finish putting the bill together and I would get a bill soon after.

As of yesterday I had yet to see a bill, so I spoke with the person that handles billing. He confirmed that work was done in April, but was confused as to why I haven't been sent a bill. About a hour later, a bill showed up in my email, so I called the person back to pay said bill. I could have paid via their website, but since it has been literally months, I don't trust their website or them at this point.

Turns out one of the people that was here has been out with a broken foot; nobody had access to my bill. I'm sorry the dude broke his foot, but that didn't happen back in April, It is a very recent injury and why the fuck does nobody have access to customer bills? This person in question is not the owner of the company, co-owner of the company, ect... He's a employee, sure, but WTF.

I was apologized to / thanked a hundred times for my having to hunt down my own bill and for being honest. I wasn't mad at the dude from billing as it wasn't him that I spoke with back in June, but it is highly annoying that I had to hunt them down because one of their employees decided he couldn't be bothered. Some people wouldn't have said anything, but from where I'm sitting, that wasn't a situation I was willing to fuck with. Eventually they would have found said bill, then been up my ass about how they were not paid. The money has been sitting around in my account for months. Generator maintenance has a line in my budget. When spread out over the year, it is about a $9.00 a week I put aside for that purpose.

I accepted a long time ago according to some, I'm a asshole. If nothing else, I'm a honest asshole.

I also have an Asus laptop (ROG series) that I used regularly until I got my desktop PC. It was perfectly fine for the first two years during the warranty, and I was using it for all kinds of purposes. The thing that pissed me off the most about it was that it overheated super fast if not placed on a separate cooling fan thingie, and it was almost always with the fans at full speed like it was going to take off 😭🛫

​After the warranty ended, the problems began. Asus has a nasty software system that decays the machine with every month during and after the warranty. I don't wanna talk about what happens when you replace parts with non-original parts.

​The last major problem it had was a faulty GPU... the repair cost was expensive because it was out of warranty. I got a non-OEM monitor and a battery that drains itself without the laptop being turned on. I won't buy another Asus laptop a second time - It costs literally a fortune to keep it running!

If you want to have Asus laptop that is actually reliable buy the old models. If you want newer model, please stay away from Asus!

I tried taking the laptop apart, but couldn't figure out how to get the case open, so I waited for my son to come home and have him do it since he went to school for that kind of stuff. He pulled the hard drive and battery which are now sitting on my desk. I paid him $20.00 for his time.

As for buying another laptop ( regardless of brand), I probably won't unless I have a real need for one. I play my game on a desktop, I use Photoshop on my desktop and just happier in general using a desktop. More power, more fans, better cooling, ect... Currently I'm not having any issues with my tablet that I use as a glorified Kindle, so I can watch YT videos, read a book or listen to a audio book with that.

I'm tired and bored of the cycle of buying something only to have to replace it after a couple of years. There are things that break that need to be replaced ( a washing machine as a example) but for other things like a laptop, I'll pass.

Rain! Rain at last!

Not a drop for over two months and my garden has suffered badly. With a hose pipe ban in place I was having to resort to the watering can, and there is a lot of ground to cover. I'd been advised that early morning, around about 5 am, was the best time for watering the lawn and that was what I intended doing today. So you can imagine my pleasure at seeing that it had been raining overnight and it was still coming down. I took great pleasure in going straight back to bed.

Made ice cream, a new recipe that's no-churn, using marshmallows. In the freezer now, so it's gonna be interesting.

Made one half with banana, chopped chocolate and caramel, plus another with strawberry swirl (strawberries + a bit of lemon and sugar, made into a quick jam).

Last time I tried one that had sweetened condensed milk - it was decent, but the condensed milk gave it a slightly strange aftertaste (or whatever it was, can't quite remember).

I want to go to the cinema and watch a movie but nothing interesting is on and if there is its inconveniently timed like why does this movie only play at 10:00 or 23:35??

US Senate to investigate Roblox following claims it "prioritises revenue and engagement" over child safety

Roblox says its "built on the foundation of safety" and looks forward to "sharing the facts about

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/us-se...er-child-safety

A few days later...

Roblox makes three of its AI safety tools open source

Platform has shared its tools on the Robust Open Online Safety Tools Model Community (ROOST), which it co-founded in 2025 with Google, OpenAI, and Discord

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/roblo...ols-open-source

David Baszucki ( CEO of Roblox) really thinks this is some kind of flex. Was this about 'showing people what they are doing for safety' or was this about sending a SOS to Wall Street, because who in their right mind would assign AI to moderate anything.

https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/RBLX

The Senate isn't exactly a shining star in this story either as most members of Congress ( both House and Senate) have stock in the same said companies. I can't get into that because I'll be accused of yapping about politics even though it has nothing to do with politics other than the Senate is part of the US government. It isn't a red or blue problem, it's a lack of disclosure problem for both sides.

The gaming industry is frickin' shady. I'm glad I don't buy into their bullshit...

went outside to the supermarket
saw a child cry
wanted to go home as fast as possible
then i remembered how horrible i was as a child
i was so bad, even worse than this girl
but overall it was kind of sweet because the girl was doing groceries with her dad, carrying the basket and stuff and wanted to scan her receipt to be able to open the gates to leave, but she couldn't do it so that's why she got so sad and loud </3

Dolly Parton died yesterday. I don't feel myself good after found it.

Now I have drama around another old computer, but this time with one that I used to work on until my late teens. It's still pretty solid for its age and recently became handy again because of an application that is not compatible with my new PC hardware.

​I bought a new HDD for it because the old one was damaged (bad sectors, data failure, rattling noises from the mechanical parts). The new one that came was not the same SATA generation as the one I actually ordered, but SATA 3 has backward compatibility with SATA 2, though it can't use the full bandwidth. The bad thing is that they sent me a damaged one that makes rattling noises, freezes, and crashes the system. So I have to return it or giving it to a repair, because I don't know how I would deal with it when it's damaged. (Also, PC components are really expensive these days for whatever reason).

​Anyway, after 2 days of searching, I finally found the right custom theme for my Tumblr page. I edited the code to match my style and now it looks pretty legit. The only thing that bothers me here is that none of the themes I reviewed had custom code for the archive page.

Tim Curry today!

What is going on this year and why so many people of art died? Some died from old age, other died (way) too soon - mostly due to some mysterious reasons and don't know how to explain.

Readed that he has a stroke. That was changed his face to bad.
That's also sad. He fought his desease for so long. And Dolly just gone in one day.Sisters said when my aunt caught her death "man, such happens".