A timely delivery
Sep. 29th, 2022 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcThis morning, the movers came with the goods and effects that I had shipped from Eastern Tennessee so, as usual, the transatlantic shipment took a little over three months. At a glance, everything seems present and correct. It feels good to see my stuff once more, it comforts me to have it to hand, my possessions feel part of my desired identity. Perhaps hoarders have such feelings but rather more strongly than I, given that I now own far less than I once did.
Yesterday, my work laptop developed an issue that made pointing device input most troublesome. The trackpads, both built-in and external, became very insensitive, one to movements, the other to clicks. This coincided with a reboot, I wonder if some previous Linux update is the culprit. Anyhow, among my newly delivered stuff, I found keyboard and trackball that I much like, plugged them in, and became satisfactorily productive again. What a difference it makes to have one's interface to the computer become rather more ergonomically smooth.
Yesterday, my work laptop developed an issue that made pointing device input most troublesome. The trackpads, both built-in and external, became very insensitive, one to movements, the other to clicks. This coincided with a reboot, I wonder if some previous Linux update is the culprit. Anyhow, among my newly delivered stuff, I found keyboard and trackball that I much like, plugged them in, and became satisfactorily productive again. What a difference it makes to have one's interface to the computer become rather more ergonomically smooth.
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Date: 2022-09-29 09:49 pm (UTC)Plus I have one that has lighted keys. I love that.
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Date: 2022-09-30 03:42 pm (UTC)At work, I FINALLY got a new PC! I've been running a ridiculously old Dell "laptop guts built into a monitor housing" running Windows 10 with only 8 gig of ram for over 3 years. All they needed to do was up the memory to 16 and it would have been acceptable. The new box is a brand new i3 with 16 gig, still running Win 10 thankfully, and very responsive. I still have to set up my SFTP which won't be a problem, just a password and no certificates involved. Then I need to document a process and test it and get it to our new hire so she can cover it when I'm off for about a week soon.
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Date: 2022-10-04 12:47 am (UTC)Yeah, memory makes a massive difference, when my youngest was buying a laptop recently I said that, if trading off things for another, always opt to get more RAM instead.
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Date: 2022-10-04 01:51 am (UTC)Much ramness, and surprisingly, good video helps a lot as it offloads CPU hit frequently. But much ramness makes a big diff. I'm a bit annoyed as our IT boffins installed FileZilla for me, which would be fine, except I don't have permissions to update it! I did get everything running today, and wrote up a four page Intro To How We Do This Process, referencing two other documents, one needed as it has the password if you need it after I install the system for you, the other showing with more elaborate screen shots what I describe. Basically I describe everything pre- the SFTP step, which is a bunch of easy stuff that has to be done before the upload.
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Date: 2022-10-04 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-04 10:29 pm (UTC)Windows has so much graphics going on that by having a decent video card it takes away graphics processing from the CPU and frees up a lot of cycles. Doesn't have to be a lot of money on the card, and good video cards have been hard to come by of late, but that should be changing with the crypto crash - hopefully people will stop making mining rigs and video card inventory will improve. With just slogging out code in a text editor, you're normally not going to notice much. And our IT girl just came by and upgraded my permissions! I think I may be local admin now on my box!
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Date: 2022-10-05 12:51 pm (UTC)Hadn't thought about how the crypto crash might affect GPU availability, good point.
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Date: 2022-10-05 02:55 pm (UTC)Yeah, the miners were snatching up cards and basically fully populating boxes with them to grind transaction chains. The market is going to be flooded with them, but they're going to be questionable to use as video cards because they've been used so hard 24/7. The video card makers have tried making their card BIOS resistant to the calculations used by miners, but the miners have some extremely good codes on their side who basically wrote patches to the BIOS to get around them or rewrote the BIOS entirely.