Okay so, the conda morph in hognoses was originally called anaconda morph, since it reminded the person who discovered it of anacondas. However that name is very confusing, so the morph name was shortened to conda
The conda morph is a co-dominant trait. That means that if the snake baby gets the conda gene from neither mom nor dad, it's a normal. If the baby gets the conda gene from just one parent, but not both, it's a conda! That means it has less, but a bit bigger spots, it's belly is completely black and it has white stripes along the belly like a border. Now if the baby gets the gene from both parents, you have a super conda!!! That means that it only has patterning on the head, the rest of the body is one color. The belly is still black with white stripes along the side

So basically there's
Normal (aa) normal pattern
Conda (Aa) or (aA) reduced pattern
And Super conda (AA) no pattern

This is a normal/wild type

This is a conda

And this is a super conda!

And of course, all this can co-occur with other traits

you know what? imma pin this shit

hug your fucking friends, you cowards. i challenge everyone here to ask a friend if they want a hug. respect personal space and body contact boundaries and all that shit, but dare to try as well think about telling your friends goodbye not with a hand wave, but with an honest "take care". what do you want friends for if you're gonna isolate yourself still?

*narrator voice*
"but it was not downhill. it was, very much. uphill."

anyway i am bored so im just trying what happens if i tape/block certain pins on the network card.

turns out, that a mini pcie has 52 pins, 13 of which are, by standard, "reserved". i think i know what four of them do now.

supposedly, the pin 51 controls the rfkill signal for bluetooth. not in my case tho. so i am, well, experimenting. i know that i managed to make bluetooth work some hours ago, so i should be able to make it work again at some point

anyway, there are funny results happening here and there. i managed to make the OS detect a singular network card as two network cards half-operating at once. ngl that has been entertaining.

also there is disagreement over which pin controls the wlan rfkill but this one is a 20, so that, at least, is "a standard thing". other places pointed to the 13, for example.

anyone wanna bet what happens if i block 8 "reserved" pins at once?

a normal mini pcie connector, btw, has 52 pins. 26 in each side. not all of them do have 2x26 tho. mine has 23 in one side and 11 in the other, for a grand total of 34, and it makes it way harder to know which pin is which

the answer to blocking 8 reserved pins at once was "huh it works. not even half-works, it fully works (bluetooth aside of course, because fuck me)"

now there isnt much left to experiment with. i mean, intel datasheets for similar wireless cards say that pins 8 to 16 (even) are "reserved", but on the normal minipcie pinout those are named stuff like "vcc", "clk", "I/O", and other stuff that sounds slightly important, and i dont feel like messing up with those.

i officially dont know what the frick i did some hours ago to enable the bluetooth part of the card. but i think i will take this as a defeat (for now, but i have a tendency to "i forgot what happened but it cannot be that bad" and retry this sort of shit) and just resign to use a bt usb dongle, like a loser.

i mean, i havent used bluetooth in my life until a bit over a year ago, when i discovered the magic of "ooo, wireless headphones using their own dac instead of using the computer/phone's sound better" miracle. i am pretty much used to survive without using bluetooth, and have been all my life.

...but i wanted to.

also i guess i will leave two network cards inside the laptop because why not, might be useful in the future. if the laptop doesnt die because of it.





TL;DR the brand of laptops "thinkpad" says you can only use three specific, very specific, models of network cards in every laptop. if you want to replace your network card, you have to buy "that exact model" or the laptop will simply not boot. i decided that such a thing was bullshit and flashed a modded bios. the modded bios makes it so the laptop boots with unauthorized network cards, but still disables them to hell. i am blocking the "yo, network card, get disabled" signal that the computer sends to the card. and it works only for half of the card, the other half of the card is still getting disabled. and this is a specific enough problem that internet has no answers for, not even questions for, and honestly i understand it. life is complicated sometimes.