I'm getting tired of this trend of making everything thinner and thinner, squeezing the power of a super computer into a sheet of foil, at the cost of the entire machine becoming entirely unusable if you put it down funny. I want to be able to drop the fucker from the top of my house and have it still working like new. I wanna be able to whack a bitch with the damn thing and have it still look bra... » Continue Reading
It may or may not have the potential to be my new favourite game. I never really understood the hype about it before, but I get it now. Holy hell do I have a lack of rhythm, though. » Continue Reading
I haven't looked into the problem too deeply, but it's looking bleak. The machine tries to boot with it installed, but it doesn't display anything. Not over HDMI, not over VGA. Nothing at all. The machine won't even display anything through the integrated VGA plug. Maybe I was too rough with the card when disassembling, the heatsink removal was unnecessarily violent, after all. Maybe I screwed » Continue Reading
So I decided the graphics card needed some cleaning, as one should after more than ten years of zero proper cleaning (Please, for the love of god, blow the dust out of your computers and game consoles every once in a while, compressed air in a can isn't that expensive) Well, first step was to take off the heat sink. I knew there was a lot of dust, and I needed access to all of it. Thermal paste ha... » Continue Reading
Maybe it's because I haven't played an updated version of Minecraft in a long while, mostly just playing older versions of the game, mainly 1.0, with anything regarding the newer versions just being online anarchy servers or attempts at a superflat survival world. I created a new hardcore world, let it load up, and my god, right off the bat, everything seems to be a little more substantial. I spaw... » Continue Reading
I remember making all sorts of characters back in the day, some good, some bad. I had a bit of imagination, something I wish I had put more of an effort to grow. I did manage to make some pieces that I am still quite proud of. I would go into some Discord roleplay servers and start messing around, making some characters and writing some stories, all that stuff. I wasn't the best, but it was a fun ... » Continue Reading
It was a simple thing, definitely not thorough, though. I took out every single electric component from the case, every light, every button, every port, nothing left behind. I then took it to the bathtub and just hosed everything down. There were a lot more dust bunnies than I thought there would be. It did leave a little bit of dust just slightly layered over everything, though I will get it clea... » Continue Reading
I remember years ago, when I was first getting into my retro tech phase as a young teen, I found a particular guy on Youtube who hit every interest of mine. This guy is Druaga1, a retro PC wranglin', SSD installin', blunt smokin', taquito microwavin' geek of a man, installing SSDs and vintage OSes on the most outlandish hardware, (Sometimes even installing modern OSes on older systems) I remember ... » Continue Reading
Working on that old little junk tower I had dug up. Haven't cleaned it out proper yet, but that's soon to come. I did replace the clock battery though, as that had gone bad. I ended up deciding to remove Windows 8 from this machine. Apparently upgrading it to 8.1 is a bit of a mild pain these days, and Windows 8.1 is only getting a year of extended support anyway. I tried to install some systems, ... » Continue Reading
I was digging around in my basement, trying to sort some stuff out, and I had dug up one of my old machines. It's nothing special, not even for its time, having an AMD Athlon 64 dual core CPU of some type, some Asus branded graphics card that I have no idea which kind it is (Probably Nvidia, probably not gonna check it as it is somewhat faulty and has been removed), four gigs of some kind of short... » Continue Reading
So I was searching through some random music, and I came across this thing by this guy called "Good Kid". I gave their EPs, Good Kid and Good Kid 2 a shot, and they might be some of my new favourite albums. It's just a simple little rock thing, and it's perfect to me. I can't really pick a favourite song out of any of them, and they definitely work best as a whole thing. https://goodkid.bandcamp.c... » Continue Reading
Recently found out about Food House. Haven't dug into them a lot just yet, but from what I've heard, it's a strange vibe that I absolutely dig. "Let's do shit that gets us in cringe comps" and "Think about how many people know they're gay because of me" are some powerful statements. » Continue Reading
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