Nov 05, 2019 10:58
Been a while, hasn’t it?
I have much to do today, and also have a sinus infection which I got pills for last night (HUGE PILLS, GUYS. SO BIG). The doctor and the pharmacist both said they’re seeing a lot of people with this thing right now, so it’s, well, a thing. I’ve had it for like 3 weeks but didn’t realize what it was. I thought SINUS INFECTION meant being 100% miserable, whereas mostly I’ve been Annoyed As Shit.
In other news, I killed my desktop computer (more precisely, broke a couple connectors on the motherboard) while trying to give it a shiny new brain. I have all my stuff backed up so this is not a tragedy, and on advice of Very Cool Repair Dude, I bought a used computer identical to mine - a mid-2010 Mac Mini, $130 - off eBay, and will have Repair Dude install the new solid state hard drive (“brain”) and also the shiny new RAM I bought. Since, you know, I already have those.
Partly this project is because I don’t wanna spend what it would cost for a new machine, but also: I am sick of the cycle of tech obsolescence and I want to hit the brakes on that. It’s so wasteful. If I can upgrade an older machine for a fraction of the price of a new one, and do the things I need to do, that’s pretty cool.