the personal blog of the "no longer in their 20s" owner of the above blog, where i:
• play and write about video games (usually old ones i guess but anything goes)
• go thrifting for cool electronics / things that deserve to be tinkered with and fixed
• ignore my unimportant job as much as i can
• melt my brain with the weed (mute "#weed log" to mute me posting while high if you want)
in that order


not really nsfw but no minors please and thank



but goddamn is the screen super reflective. it's an hp 24-g020 (what a charming name!), it was probably sent to the bins because there was no AC adapter to test it with, although it runs off of a standard 65W laptop barrel plug, so it wouldn't have been too hard to find one

someone at the bins told me "something inside of it rattled around when i picked it up", and asked if i wanted to take it from them, cause rattling = broken to most people / resellers, i guess, even though i opened it up and saw this as the culprit

someone upgraded the HDD to a 256 GB SSD, but then... didn't secure it to the drive cage or anything, so it was flopping around only being held by the SATA cable lol

inside is a AMD A8-7410 CPU with 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, and the previous owner already put a password-free fresh mint install on the SSD, another $3 well spent


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in reply to @HerzogZwei's post:

that's what i was curious about too, i'm not sure if the previous owner toyed around with drivers after installing mint, but the touch screen worked immediately with no problems!

it's single point touch only, if i do end up keeping it, it wouldn't need much else to be what you said lol