$100 oil change... I stopped going to the $50 place after a lube tech forgot the oil cap, it made a huge mess, and the burning oil causing my car to smoke out leading to a minor panic. Cost me $300 to steam clean the engine bay and change the filters so my car stopped smelling like burning oil.

I will take 3. One left, one right, other left.In that order please. ko-fi.com/home/coffees...

Would u give him a smooch y/n

I was gonna try TrueNAS but man, everyone on the forums are smug assholes. It's a huge turn off. Their reddit is cool but damn the official forums are full of the worst kind of Linux / sysadmin nerds. Googling setup questions and everyone just replies "Read the Docs, n00b!" rather then helping.

Happy Valentine’s Day my wife is finally home

Moved offices. No longer have the big window. Wall mounted my Nendroid instead.

Man that Vocaloid subreddit really doesn't like Teto / Teto+Miku songs. Memeloid loves Teto but the mainsub has such a hate boner over her.

Mistakes were made. Woke up with heartburn, took some Tums to try to settle the stomach. Then decided to try a handful of trail mix as a mid night snack before trying to go back to bed... The tail mix was the "Asian blend" with the wasabi balls. The handful was all wasabi balls.

Ahhhhh~~~ Someone ordered my [Test Product Please Ignore] and used real credit card information. Please someone tell me this is a coworker pranking me and not really someone finding/paying for my debug items I forgot to disable after testing.

This NAMM show, we took some time to celebrate SOLARIA's birthday - as well as those of our CFO (Elijah) and CEO (Taylor) which also fall close to the event! Thank for your enthusiastic support and attendance of our booth today on Day 1!

cosmoP got that bag. Take that McDonald's money my dude. You deserve it.

Knock Knock Whose there? McDonald's Japan collab. McDonald's Japan collab, who?

Badge update after visiting artist alley.

Ran into @untramentaro.bsky.social who gave me stickers to decorate my badge!

Defoko Sweep. Top 10 queen! #1 in my heart.

yohioloid design i made for fun. okay? #vocaloid

Happy birthday, Frimomen!! 💙🩵💛 I was out of town so I couldn’t finish a cover, but I brought my art supplies with me and managed to get this done yesterday! #frimomen #frimotan #フリモメン #フリモたん #vocalsynth #SynthV #Voicepeak #art #copic

Doing some spring cleaning and selling some of my tech / creative gear for really good prices: $100 Wacom One 13 Pen Display (non-touch) $140 Rode Procaster Dynamic Mic $200 Yamaha AG06MK2 Mixer/USB Interface $500 Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 15.6" X Elite $50 2x CH Products FlightStick Pro USB

MAIKA has been retired from purchase and is now discontinued. This means that all Voctro Labs voicebanks (and therefore all Spanish voicebanks for the VOCALOID engine) are officially discontinued.

Is it bad I can't listen to IOSYS produced music because traumatizing experiences with Denpa music? I used to carpool with someone who only listened to (intentionally bad) Denpa music and now I associate Denpa with the torture that is LA traffic. Even new releases give me Nam flashbacks now.

<!--the emperor wears no clothes-->

Been sturring these sausages and balls every 10 minutes for 2 hours now.

I asked Super * Review about the status of his Hatsune Miku M500 review he promised 3 weeks ago. First batch and his review unit had defective batteries. He is delaying his review until he gets a replacement. He recommends against purchasing one until the batteries are confirmed fixed.

My White Elephant gift for tomorrow. $38 in scratchers in a $4 picture frame from the thrift store.

Mail Day! Prize Figures from Japan. Man these look really good for how cheap they were. $60 for the set.

Batch 2 preorders reopened for Hatsune Miku Android 4G DAP. No discount from early bird but you still get all the preorder bonuses including case, badge, and acrylic. Avoid the bundle with the Miku IEMs, they look pretty but are supposed to sound terrible. store.hiby.com/products/hib...

YouTube Music recommended me a Kasane Teto song today! music.youtube.com/watch?v=LN9G...

#UtaForum Service Update Webhost as remotely rebooted all the services on our server node and has given us access to our server again. I was able to log in and repair our database. Everything should be in working order again.

Concerning #UtaForum. Our database server crashed and needs a manual reset. Unfortunately my admin credentials no longer work and even SSH-ing as ROOT won't let me reset my password because of various authentication errors. I opened a ticket to resolve the issue but we are waiting on our host.

Lmao these were personally created (with AI assistance) by the founder of Duck Duck Go himself. He manually created and added these aliases. Was taking feedback on the Vocaloid subreddit. I think he may be a Vocaloid fan.

You should be using Duck Duck Go

WHAT IS YOUR NAME🗣️🗣️🗣️

Hear me out. Baguette wrist wrest. www.target.com/p/vivitar-ba...

Nekomura Iroha my beloved… #collecting #itabag #vocalsynth

i'll be performing in japan, for real this time! february 15th, for TETO SONIC 2026! :~) ❤️💚 tetosonic.jp

A crowfunding page for an Adachi Rei VOCALOID6 voicebank has been posted on CAMPFIRE. More info below. camp-fire.jp/projects/897...

My dog is passed out and won't eat her Taco Tuesday leftovers but suddenly wakes up and growls if another dog tries to take it, before passing out again. #doggo

I might have to attend ALA this year. Vtuber Douga, more than a dozen Vtubers covering the all time classic Vocaloid hits as a convention virtual concert.

Will you do Miku shots with me?

Hot Take: Most Hololive English original songs have bad lyrics. They are written in JP then translated which makes them super weird. The translated lyrics never have meter, rhythm, and sybelic stresses right. They always super awkward to sing along to. Get an EN lyricist!

Not every YouTube Music new release recommendation is a banger. Today was another Miku song with AI art but the track was meandering and boring, at least it wasn't Suno AI as well. Not linking it because I didn't like it, but yea, some days the algorithm gives you boring/mid as well.

Today's Vocaloid new release from MI YouTube Music recommendation algorithm is from another artist I never heard before. Another banger, no AI art this time. music.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ha...

✦ ANNIVERSARY COUNTDOWN: 2 DAYS ✦ Less than 2 days until the celebration! Come join us. Today's previews are taken from the works of @nellielmn.bsky.social and @pk9614.bsky.social 🐺🦊 tailsofadecade.carrd.co #VOCALOID #zinepromo #dd10th #vocaloiddex #vocaloiddaina

Because I trained YT Music that I liked indie Vocaloid music & new releases it also sends me some weird stuff including this producer dueting Hatsune Miku today. The amount of AI album art on these new releases is unfortunate. I been getting a lot lately. music.youtube.com/watch?v=Da2l...

I get enough automated calls and texts from my health insurance UnitedHealthcare I added them to my address book. Like with most of my contacts I even gave them a custom caller profile.

My debit card let's you upload your own photos or art and make your own custom card. I tried uploading my own Vtuber model and they rejected it and sent me a generic card instead. RIP. Was worth a shot I guess.

Banger of a new release Miku English song from an artist with less than 20 subscribers. Honestly, I have trained my YouTube Music algorithm well. Anyone complains they never see new indie Vocaloid music probably doesn't actuality listen to new & indie stuff. music.youtube.com/watch?v=qEao...

My local Japanese Community Center is doing a fundraiser. "Free" 10x homemade Poke Buns from an authentic Japanese obbasan with $25 donation. Should I donate/buy some?

The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku (above Venus)

Sometimes I wonder, if we never had that falling and we ended our relationship over that last Vocaloid album what else we would have done. Would we have made Synth V music? Explored more UTAU? Transitioned to vtubers? We never talk anymore, and it will never be, but sometimes I wonder "what if?"