silly tech confession
i was always Good With Computers as a kid but once in middle school our Computer Guy neighbor came over to diagnose why it slowed to a crawl one day, and blamed the fancy wallpaper i downloaded.
now here's the thing. i didn't get the wallpaper from a shady site, i made sure to virus scan it and everything. so it wasn't bloatware slowing it down.
it was the fact that i had set the wallpaper to a full HD PNG.
on our 2003 windows xp desktop.
the thing barely had any resources left after keeping that image loaded at all times.
i love old-ish computers. a single image file brings it to its knees thats lovely. god forbid something be 6mb








