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Having Erebus in a coma (and increasingly looking like its down for the count) has had an unexpected positive side effect. It's an excuse to work from home, which is turning out really good, because I have been woken up by jackhammers outside my window at 7:30AM for the past four days.

Considering I'm working until roughly 7PM and thus don't go to bed until after 2AM? I am developing a strong loathing of jackhammers.

My parents sent me my brother's old laptop in hopes that I could fix the thing. It's only a year old but it's never worked quite right. Based off diagnostic tests last night, I'd say the fact that the hard drive keeps failing certain tests that suggest it's close to catastrophic failure might have something to do with it.

Word of advice: if you ever ship a laptop UPS, for the love of god, insure it. Since my parents wrote off this thing as a POS anyway they didn't, but UPS managed to damage the shipping box to the point where it caused cracks in the laptop case. If it had been insured, the damage would possibly have been enough for UPS to replace it. I'm not trying, since the thing's a brick anyway, but I figured this is useful information to some.
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Memoranda from the Usual Suspects

Media List:

Currently Watching:
-- She-Ra(in theory)

Currently Playing:)
--Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS)
--Astral Chain (Switch)
--itch.io bundle (PC)

Currently Reading:
Fiction
-The Silence of Bones, June Hur

Nonfiction
-none

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"So she's good cop, he's bad cop, you're morally-questionable cop, and I'm set-things-on-fire cop."

"Sounds about right."

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"WARNING: When attempting to be clever, make sure you not actually just being stupid."

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"Did you remember to sacrifice the goat before burning the ISO to the DVD-R?"

"Crap! Um, I've got a charred piece of meat here."

"That's called a steak. That's dinner. What about the sacrifices?"

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"I escape through quantum-tunneling. What do I need to roll for that?"

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"Why is it called a 'Monkeylord'?"

"Because it looks like a spider."

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"I have a moral objection to this problem. It implies microwaving a steak."

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"Did you eat the crazy cookies this morning?"

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"The GPU goes 4 by 4, hurrah, hurrah."

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