In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) by SIGNYM

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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Sunday, October 19, 2025 14:04
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Saturday, October 18, 2025 1:24 PM

BRENDA

Laundry day in a bit then a walk in the rain. Got to pick up a couple of things I couldn't yesterday.

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Saturday, October 18, 2025 6:33 PM

BRENDA

Laundry done and back from walk in the rain. Outside chores done and a couple of corners cleaned up as well.

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Sunday, October 19, 2025 12:35 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Glad you could fix it so quick! You're right: most people would look inside a PC and their eyes would rattle around a bit and they'd slowly back away. I know mine would, and, hell, I've even helped assemble a few in my lifetime!

Yeah. He said he saw a video that said to take the motherboard out and reinstall it too, but I'm glad he wasn't brave enough to try that. Had to give him credit for trying the battery swap though.

I actually learned to be really careful around things I didn't understand early with a painful Real World lesson. My bros and I were really excited to hear that our uncle was giving us his old Apple IIe with all the games and software when I was around 8 years old. He had just gotten himself a new 16 color IBM that we were going to be playing King's Quest on many nights in the coming years.

When my mom was bringing it in the house she dropped it and it never worked. It would turn on and you could hear the audio, but there was never a picture. It still came with us on the move though. One day many years later I found it in our basement and opened the case and noticed that one of the HUGE chips had come out of its place and it was easy to tell where it went back into. These boards were really stupid with rows of similar looking big dumb chips, kinda like a solar panel farm. Nothing even remotely similar to any chips and boards you'd see today.

After putting the chip firmly back in place, I fired it up for the first time in years and it started playing the "Ghostbusters" game title screen. Everything was working!

Then something inside went pop and electrical smoke came out and that was that. It never turned on again.

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One good thing about those old dinosaurs tho ... you CAN fix them. All of the new tablets and laptops are so integrated they're like modern smart phones and anything Apple: unfixable.

Yeah... that's one of the reasons I tend not to mess with the new stuff. I've gotten hand me downs or even bought a cheap used laptop over the years, but it's usually only if I need an upgrade or if I'm making something for somebody else with it. If I get the stuff cheap enough that I'm willing to gift it to somebody else, no big deal, but I'd never pay anywhere close to current price for new thing. I used to build computers all the time, but back during covid when I needed to upgrade the chip shortage made that price untenable. It was the first time I'd bought used PCs off of craigslist and I ended up getting great deals for a bunch of other people out of it too.

I always thought my next computer would be another self-build, but these days the stuff you can get pretty cheap is more than I'd ever want or need for decent prices. They'll be even better by the time I decide the old stuff I'm working with finally needs to be retired. Modern gaming just isn't my thing, and if you don't need to put together a rig to do that, it's amazing what you can pick up used on the cheap. When I can get a new Dell Laptop that would be capable of doing anything I'd ever need it to do unless i ever wanted to seriously get into making videos for only $300, it's really hard for people to sell old PCs and laptops for anything close to that. And now that Win10 is over, you'll probably be able to buy however many laptops you could ever want and put Linux on them and they'll serve you for years.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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Sunday, October 19, 2025 1:59 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

We have a couple of old dinosaurs built of server grade stuff. They've got to be at least 12 years old by now, and in that time we've tossed a three or four laptops and four cell/ smart phones. We currently have a tablet and a laptop for casual use. The keypad on the tablet stopped working two years ago and a critical area on the screen (the one that displays all open windows) stopped responding to touch. (Fortunately it still responds to the special pen they included.) The laptop, which is only a year old, needs to be rebooted at least once a day, not sure if it's crappy software (memory leak) or something hardware, but it's a PITA to use.

Anyhow... glad you're able to cobble together working systems for yourself. Most people are hostage to the ready made junk that's sold today. If you ever wanted to go into business for yourself you could do repairs and upgrades and recoveries.

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I took yesterday off. Aside from making b'fast and dinner and walking the dog, I crawled into bed and napped, or put my feet up and watched TV. I felt guilty bc there's so much to do, but I needed it. Gotta say, I made creative use of leftovers for b'fast and dinner. For b'fast I made hubby a bowl of leftover albondigas soup (no meatballs) and a wrap using locarb tortilla, mayo, swiss, a strip of hot pepper cheese and strips of leftover roast beef. For dinner I had a salad and leftover oven "fried" chicken, dear daughter had albondigas with meatballs, and hubby had meatballs that I turned into 'spaghetti and meatballs" with leftover tomato sauce and seasonings and no-cal "noodles", and a salad on the side. So we all had our veggies and the frig got cleared. Yay!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Sunday, October 19, 2025 2:04 PM

BRENDA

Just a lazy Sunday around me. Don't to tally know what I am doing to do, except the usual little bit of clean up.

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