So I would've had the eMachines Box back up and going by now, but unfortunately, my stupid ass bought a SATA drive! It had an IDE one in there. I returned that this morning at work and rush-ordered an equivalently-sized IDE drive from eBay yesterday. It should be here by the 21st. Hopefully that's the end of it. That said, there are some new things to note in the saga: First and foremost, the old drive does still kinda work! Work has some IDE-to-USB cables on the tech bench, and plugging it Read more
I'm gonna be honest, I'm going through it a bit right now, hence the lack of journal posts. It's alright, everything is fine—strictly speaking, work is a grind but a pretty positive one (I got a really nice thank you card from one of the other employees for helping them out so much, and I think I am selling more ESP than anyone else still, a month on, so I feel pretty confident in myself), and the group is chatty as always and I think pretty close?—mostly just working on a lot of really Read more
So my mom and my sister often pawn off tech issues onto me, just because it's quicker and easier if I handle it than if they learn how to do it themselves. I'm alright with that bit, but the one thing I hate is when I have to sit on the phone with customer support of any kind, let alone outsourced customer support. And the past few days, over my days off from work, I have gotten stuck with so much of it. So I have Consumer Cellular. They've been phenomenal. Their prices are great, they have a Read more
Ever since the Fusion Drive Crash of 2019, I've been eternally paranoid about losing stuff. It sticks in my head at all times. I refuse to ever lose data ever again. I've been making random copies of stuff I feel like I'm gonna lose on random drives for years now, on top of the DVD-R site backups I already do and my two externals filled with random garbage I've been using since late 2019. Of course, a backup solution is only as good as your ability to find anything in it, and I've just had shit Read more
Hope everyone's September is going swell so far. I'm really keeping my head down and working a lot, and it's paying off. Customers dropping $2200 my store in one go tonight. My manager was impressed, and after I learned he's just hard to read and doesn't actually hate me, I've been a ton more comfortable in my job—and I mean, that's what you need in retail, to feel good and be able to chirp at customers. It helps that I'm a lot more excited about what I'm selling now than I was about Read more
So, as you've probably seen in some of the photos I've been posting lately, the eMachines Box finally has its own setup. I already had the PS/2 keyboard that went to this machine, and I bought a cheap wired mouse from work partially because I needed another mouse, partially because I needed a spare even after I upgrade this one, and partially because the cheapness of the mouse seems to complement the low-end nature of the eMachines Box anyway. I also needed to get an extra long ethernet cable Read more
I spent maybe way too much time today on a project that will actually be unveiled in September, so let's talk instead about me having to replace all my shit! So in the interests of full disclosure, I've had my setup for roughly ten years now. I know! I've really been interested in making this iMac, this keyboard and mouse, and this optical drive work for me for as humanly long as possible, and it more than went through its paces. I was wondering if it'd last to the ten year mark and I'm pretty Read more
I'd like to start off this journal entry by eulogizing the PhotoCam. Just—my entire saga with it has been a shitshow. I literally had a working one eat itself on Tuesday. Let me list off all the attempts at getting a single working camera so far: The first one didn't power on and had a battery door that wouldn't stay closed.
The second one was never shipped and eBay wound up refunding my purchase automatically.
The third one was a Pretec DC-600, and its battery door won't stay closed, but at Read more
Someone offered to work one of my shifts this week! That means I am thankfully off today and doing as much as I can to do not much of anything at all. I'm down six hours as a result, but 33 hours is still not far off from my old high of 35-37 hours or so and still probably a bit too much for what I'm actually hired to do, but that's okay, quite happy with this arrangement. One thing, months later, I still have yet to get right, is being able to balance working and hobby stuff. Forget big Read more
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