#computers are hard

[pierrotdameron]

His Dark Materials on Twitter

“#HisDarkMaterials @BBCOne @HBO https://t.co/oPUgVFsQ7y”

[shalalalalura]

WIP

Hnnn I tried recording the progress for this, but I think i lost it :’/

[onemanscienceband]

oh my god

windows powershell aliased "dir" and "ls" to the same thing, but it's a commandlet or something under the hood that they're both referencing. so the whole search functionality of "dir" doesn't exist.

or at least i THINK that's why i can't do any searches with it even though the internet is very sure I can

[xellandria]

My computer is finally back in my hands. I haven't been able to test it for crashes because I'm essentially starting from scratch; my files are mostly all there still (and I have a backup drive anyway) but all my programs and things are not. This includes all of my bookmarks and internet passwords, because apparently they did NOT properly sync on either Chrome OR Firefox. Also, any audiobooks I have from prior to ~Sept 2022 need to be deleted and redownloaded to actually work, which is... a lot of the books I listen to on the regular T__T It's gonna be a slow-ass tedious process, lmao.

Also my extensions aren't synced either. I feel like I must have done something wrong because it's just like "yeah, no, I have no idea" on both browsers :\

[xellandria]

Computer is home from the repair shop and seems to be doing okay at the moment; we'll see if it holds up in M+ tonight or what. No idea what the ultimate solution to the problem was cos everything listed on the receipt were things Naha & I already tried. Whoooooo knooooooows, lmao

Everything looks funky right now but I think that's due to my eyes, which I should probably make a different post about but uh

I'm having cataract surgery on the left one at the end of the month and the right the week after and I am fuckin terrified like, getting the injections is bad enough but that's usually only like 30s-1m in the clockwork orange eye opener nightmare things

but being able to see again would be nice, so I just have to nut up I guess, heh

[xellandria]

A couple weeks ago I started bluescreening a couple times a day, typically when I would try to do anything graphically intensive. We eventually narrowed it down to a ram issue (ran several memtest86-es in various configurations and they all failed) so now I get to go through the exciting process of either RMAing my ram (leaving me without a working computer for however long it ends up taking) or buying new stuff, and either way hoping I can install it properly.

For now, my computer is sitting on top of my desk and my cords are a nightmare and everything sucks. We'll see how long it takes Corsair to get back to me on this rma process to see where we'll go next. I don't know why I keep saying "we" as if it's not just me over here lol

It's really brought into sharp focus how bad I feel about myself when I'm not actively avoiding pretending to exist as a meat sack by being bits and bytes on the internet. I don't want to have a physical form, physical forms suck ass and they hurt and they're not good at things and they get in the way, but here I am twiddling my thumbs without a computer* with nothing to do** and I'm just straight out miserable.

*the computer is working now, though it's still prone to crashing **I'm sure there's plenty I could do, including draw since I've been doing that exclusively on my ipad lately, but you know how it is.

[normal-newt]

Oh gosh. Oh gosh.

My hands have been extra shaky + have been accidentally pressing the like button twice + un-liking half the stuff!

Ah! Anyway, is not me going "on second though, that's a terrible post", is just my horrible muscles.

[aflowerofwords]

your ao3 link is not working

Sad but I'm a dumbass and don't know how to fix it