20 july 2021
Reviewing an interview transcript we did participating in a research study about plurality (which seems pretty promising!) and realizing that we say "you know" a LOT. Sometimes several times a sentence. Guess that's our filler phrase instead of "like" or "um!" Interesting to see our own speech quirks. There's a lot of rephrasing, and incomplete sentences are everywhere. It's not that different from how we write now that I think about it. Kind of funny how that happens! We did pretty alright on the interview though, transcript is accurate (though clearly generated electronically instead of typed out- typos, anyone?). We were worried that adrenaline threw off replies, but they're surprisingly coherent and do the job. Was also expecting it to be more stressful to read than it was- entirely forgot how nice the interviewer was.
Still trying to get brightness keys working on Sway. Both brightnessctl and xbrightness are refusing to respond to the hardware keys, and the keypresses are being registered so that's not it. It's a weird issue and we're going to go log digging to see if there's anything there. If not, time to trial and error for a bit before trying yet another utility to see if that works. Everything else is now up and running perfectly! Pretty happy with it. Just those brightness keys... ugh. Wish us luck.
Made the mistake last night of listening to Achilles Come Down for the first time- ouch. Luckily we're not suicidal anymore, but we used to be and it hit hard. Adding that to the list of songs that make us cry (which is a useful list for when we need to get things out). It's a lovely song though, just very emotional to listen to when you've been in that position on both sides. We had to talk a friend down multiple times as well. It's hard because we care so much and it's full investment. Sucks because we had to do it when we were 15 or so and had no idea what we were doing, but that friend is still alive and that's what counts.