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feral philosopher bug

I don't seem to be able to stop making things and putting them on the internet

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fiction

The Dragon Racer (webnovel)

Heaven Can Wait (novel)

Smashwords

Itch

Fanfic (Ao3)

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music
Bandcamp

Soundcloud

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podcast

(about Japanese RPGs)

Youtube

Libsyn & RSS

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streams

Twitch

Youtube (archives)

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#all my made-up mech pilots

(h/t: @Making-up-Mech-Pilots / @Scampir)

#Denis Urban, fictional sports pundit


amaranth-witch
@amaranth-witch

Desktop computer just died on me tonight with no warning, just bip, off, won’t turn back on at all

Asked a friend for a ride to micro center tomorrow. Picking up a new PSU. If you’ve got good vibes, send them my way: I’m hoping that this is a “$100 and an afternoon” quick fix problem, and trying not to succumb to panic attacks.


amaranth-witch
@amaranth-witch

Update: new PSU has been purchased. Hanging out while waiting for other things to click into place; haven’t gotten home to install yet. Gonna eat some thai food. Emotions are a MESS but soon enough we will see if it’s the first order problem or if there’s something else at work.

Worst case, my data is all on SSD’s, if I HAVE TO I can crowdfund a new machine and just drop in the old drives, or ask around for help with individual parts. But I’m hopeful.


amaranth-witch
@amaranth-witch

Update to the update: yeah no dice, I get a very brief flash of lights which is better than last night and then nothing. I am exhausted. I don’t know if I have it in me to disassemble and try to troubleshoot piece by piece. Trying not to cry.


amaranth-witch
@amaranth-witch

After coming face to face with the specter of my own disability (taking 8+ hours to replace a PSU, not having the cognitive function to run through tests for other components, shaking hands and hurting myself in the process) I got the machine taken into a local service shop. Made the call that getting help was the best thing to do; I could have asked friends for help but I’d still be on the hook to get them the parts and impinging on their schedules and so paying someone professional to take a look was roughly equivalent without adding stress to already-stressed friends.

Turns out that most of the computer is fine, probably, it’s the GPU that needs replacing. Found out today. So good news, just one part, bad news it’s the most expensive single part of the machine, yaaaay

I’m still crowdfunding for help with post-move expenses, but now I’m adding the immediate need of “replacing this part IS going to cause me instability immediately” to the list. So if you can, please help, I don’t know what the damages are for sure yet but it’s coming out of the same fund that rent and food and meds are, and I could really truly use a hand if you’ve the ability.


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in reply to @amaranth-witch's post:

There’s a couple things keeping me from going off the dread deep end; when I upgraded to the current machine it was, for the very first time, NOT replacing a dead or dying laptop whole-cloth, but rather in a window of “I have the funds, I’m going to buy a new computer while the old one still functions, even if that function isn’t tip-top” and so I’ll have communications capability even in the first tier of worst case scenarios. I’ve got a working phone this time, it’s where I’m posting from now. Past me made sure I’d be “fine, technically” and that’s really good!

But yeah it’s like… I’m basically housebound and disabled. That is my entire life in that box. That’s my entire window to the outside world, if it dies and I didn’t have backups, I don’t know what I would do.

Many thanks! With luck it’s the PSU and a friend gets me to micro center and I’m out $100 and have a nice afternoon trip and treat them to lunch and micro center is one of the places nearby that hasn’t banned masks and canes and I’d rather not spend the money but it’ll all be over in an afternoon

But I’m collecting good vibes regardless because I need ‘em

in reply to @amaranth-witch's post:

The Thai food and company was excellent; pad woon sen and spring rolls and talk about rogue like games and favorite literature lately

The luck, well, she has not paid off yet but I’m still keeping the wishes around, they’ll be helpful sooner or later I know

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in reply to @amaranth-witch's post:

I am extremely glad that it seems like there’s only one point of failure, we are solidly in “it could have been worse” territory, my data should be fine, etc etc etc, in theory it should basically be me going “yeah I authorize you to grab one off the shelf and replace it” and then I’ll be back in action soon

But by golly if things weren’t tight already