The "What made you happy today" thread!
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I cannot give you enough likes for that statement. My allergies are weak assed reactions, but they still ******* suck.
I found the Hot Wheels Racerverse toy I wanted today. I largely ignored the line, until...
I found out they did a Star Trek Captain Kirk release. And not just any, but of early-mid 80s coifed hair Shatner riding in an Enterprise 1701 refit in all its Wrath of Khan glory. The fact it wasn't TOS or a more recent series just made it impossible to pass up.
I've been hunting since summer and finally found one on the pegs at retail (because fudge scalpers).
I found out they did a Star Trek Captain Kirk release. And not just any, but of early-mid 80s coifed hair Shatner riding in an Enterprise 1701 refit in all its Wrath of Khan glory. The fact it wasn't TOS or a more recent series just made it impossible to pass up.
I've been hunting since summer and finally found one on the pegs at retail (because fudge scalpers).
I woke up at about 6am this morning.
Hoping this leads to a regular sleep cycle, at least for a bit.
Hoping this leads to a regular sleep cycle, at least for a bit.
I managed to get some cleaning done, and got some christmas wrapping done before I ran out of paper. Thankfully, the biggest gifts and the ones for the people whom actually live in the house, so I don't need to do anything drastic when wrapping the rest.
Edit: and finished the wrapping! I found a nice roll of christmas corgis at staples, and it was enough to finish the last three.
Edit: and finished the wrapping! I found a nice roll of christmas corgis at staples, and it was enough to finish the last three.
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I need to do my warpping but then I am mostly sorted in terms of gifts but its getting the decor up among other things, but after work, one just feels rather lazy and not very motivated
I have a Dunkin discount.
I bought some aviator switch caps, and macgyvered them onto my PC to protect the power and reset buttons, so the cats can't press them anymore.
Granted, it's literally only happened once, but it'll never happen ever again.
Granted, it's literally only happened once, but it'll never happen ever again.
The cats are like "You, Homan, pay us attention, not this thing, we grant you the right to be our personal staff!!"
What made me happy is to:
1. Be rid of the headache I had for a good chunk of the day
2. To watch the first two eps of the new season of Dragon Prince
Speaking of MacGuyvering and PCs... I built my new PC that I bought over Black Friday weekend! And by "built" I mean "dumped the parts into a boring office PC case from the mid 2000s, because it was either that or figure out how to use the case whose power LED plug doesn't fit the motherboard." The specs are modest enough (Ryzen 5700X and Radeon RX 6600) that I shouldn't have to worry about airflow anyway, although I am now considering replacing the rear case fan as it is by far the loudest part. No doubt it too is from the mid 2000s. First thing's first, though, I need to find a front panel USB hub/SD card reader because at the moment I literally only have the two USB 2.0 ports (At least I think they're not just 1.1! Does anyone know if there's a physical difference?) built into the case.
By the way, anyone know what that program is people on YouTube are always using to put an overlay on the screen showing CPU and GPU load, temps, etc.? The one with the really angular font.
By the way, anyone know what that program is people on YouTube are always using to put an overlay on the screen showing CPU and GPU load, temps, etc.? The one with the really angular font.
alright, so USB (from experience not official.) black tab is everything up to 2. USB 2 is white tab, USB 3 is blue tabs, and yellow is fast charging, but they some times do data. I know on my case (corsair airflow 4000d.) the front side bus has yellow tabs, but has reasonable read/write speeds. I don't use any fast charge wires and don't have any devices with that standard anyway.
So long story short: as long as the case is provably built after the year 2000, it's a 2.0 spec. As for the hardware monitoring: it's either HWinfo, or AIDA64. Those are the two big ones, BUT you can also get all that information through your GPU software these days.
So long story short: as long as the case is provably built after the year 2000, it's a 2.0 spec. As for the hardware monitoring: it's either HWinfo, or AIDA64. Those are the two big ones, BUT you can also get all that information through your GPU software these days.
Oh, also: This is the first computer I've ever built from scratch like this. I had no idea what I was doing beyond what I already knew from the various part upgrades and replacements I've done over the years. First time installing a CPU or cooler (the cooler came with the thermal paste pre-applied, which is wild to me but handy since my tube of Noctua NT-H1 is from four years ago), first time seeing standoffs with the peg in the middle (I was like, oh no, why are these two longer than the others?), first time removing or installing an IO shield (I thought I was going to have to cut the old one apart to get it off because the edges in such a way that look like they're gripping the case from both the outside and inside). Linus Tech Tips' guide and a little googling here and there helped a lot. Oh, and I really didn't like the idea of jumping the on-button pins manually with a screwdriver during the pre-test, and thankfully I didn't have to. The old board happened to have a jumper attached to two of its pins, so I pulled it off and used that.
As I said to my dad afterwards: Everything worked on the first try, which is good because I have no idea how to second-try.
As I said to my dad afterwards: Everything worked on the first try, which is good because I have no idea how to second-try.
Awesome, just awesome.
What made me happy today is getting about half of my wrapping done, while having a entertaining Christmas movie on in the background, Muppet Christmas Carol, a true classic and a film I put on every year as its just a good film based upon a book that I really need to get a copy and read at some point!
Because this was too good not to share.
I love my neighbors.
Catching up on the new Walace & Gromit: Vengence Most Fowl, this is a great film, REALLY funny to watch, Feathers is a great villan, smart and cunning, but also silent, its the body language you have to watch, he very much the embodiment of old school villans, no need for complex backgrounds or motivations, he is a thief, through and through, nothing more or less! I HIGHLY recomend this film, it will blow away the blues with its comedy, it doesn't matter if you never seen the Wrong Trousers (the short its a sequel to) as it does give insight into the back story of the film and the events that took place just before the climax of that short, from a different angle, thou I do recomend seeing that prior as that is a classic, the film has a few throw backs to the Wrong Trousers in places and a lot of refeneces to other movies. I cannot state that you are missing a serious treat if you don't watch this film, its well paced and very entertaining!
Wallace and Gromit are ALWAYS on the must watch list.
Journey: Don't Stop Believin' on the radio on the way home from work.