Deth

The other day, I accidentally booted into windows for something. I was reminded just how hostile the experience can be when I had to click through ads when I logged in.

I finally got around to moving my Windows 10 installation to an SSD. The loading time at least not insufferable anymore like it was before where it would just sit and spin for minutes at a time. I wish I never needed to use windows.

Windows 10 update is painfully slow. Hell Windows 10 is painfully slow with everything it does to the point that it’s almost unusable.

I don’t use Windows that often but when I do it’s only because is need to do something that requires it. Windows 10 really seems to pick the worst times for its auto updates.

When I built a new computer a couple years ago I had to buy windows 10 for the few things that I need windows for. Windows 10 just fucking sucks.

I’m still happy with and using DesktopBSD on my computer. It makes using the computer fun again. I love the fact that the FreeBSD handbook is online to make it easier to learn.

It’s been nearly two months now since I picked up my Keychron keyboard. I couldn’t be any happier with it.

Someday, all the cloud software bullshit will backfire.

My Keychron Q6 was delivered today. My first impression of it after just a few minutes of usage is, “Wow, this is what I’ve been looking for.”

I never got used to my current keyboard. I just realized why today.

Regular expressions are so useful. I don’t use them nearly often enough, so I get rusty on them. It’s a catch-22.

After two of my old case fans died, I’d ordered Arctic P12 PWM s to replace them and the remaining one that was still functioning. They’re amazingly quiet.

I’ve been using my Antec P182 case for around fifteen years now with no problems at all. I’m on the second computer that’s been in it now. I noticed a fan grinding and upon further inspection noticed another wasn’t spinning.

I’ve had computers for a long time now. Many things have changed. I used to hear all sorts of sounds from my computers that aren’t there any more.

We came across an old unlabeled CD-r in the attic. II had to see what is on it, if anything. I was hoping for some forgotten pictures or something, but sadly, it was just a backup of the Windows 98 CD.

I am uploading all of my ripped CDs to an online backup. It’s really making me notice the difference between our upload and download speeds with our Comcast connection being asymmetric.

I finally figured out what was making my Firefox show white form controls with a dark background

I’ve always been fascinated with computers and how they can work, even as a small child. Now that I am reading Racing the Beam, it really helps me understand more how the Atari 2600 worked.

My old trusty hard drive is finally giving me smart errors. I’ve been using it for fourteen years, and it’s been through to computer builds.

I got a new monitor. I didn’t need it, but I wanted on with an actual power button and I thought the touch screen would be nice. It’s been a few months now that I have had my Dell P2418HT for a few months now. Here’s my quick review.

I forget when I bought our printer but it’s been flawless other than toner replacements. No Jams and it even accepts the cheap toner which is good enough for our purposes. Sure beats the hell out of the cheaper inject printers that dried up all the time.

I am looking into alternative editors for markdown. I’ve been using Kwrite and it works well enough but if I could find something more catered to markdown I think it might be useful.

I have had the keyboard for 4 years or so. I don’t remember when I bought it. My Deck Hassium keyboard become unresponsive today and the lights started flashing. It worked fine the next day but I had already bought a new one.

About a year a go I witched from a mouse to a trackball. After bending my thumb back I had a lump at the joint and the mouse seemed to be bugging it. I liked using a trackball back in the 90s. It’s been working really well for me and takes up less space on my messy desk.

We had an Atari 2600 growing up. The game Pitfall for it was and is one of my favorite games of all time. For some reason it just popped into my head today.

I was up in the attic digging through boxes of computer stuff looking for something. I saw my old zip disks. I wish I had a way to read them to see if I have any interesting old files on them. They seemed like such a good idea when CDrs were still expensive.

About three years ago I found myself once again needing a new keyboard because some keys in my old one stopped working. I wanted a mechanical one like the old school one. I found one in the attic that didn’t work. I bought and love Deck Hassium. The back lit keys are nice for the rare occasion I have to look at it.

I tried out Firefox 4 Beta9 today. The GUI sucks. It is much faster than Firefox 3, at least. Not sure why they feel the need to copy Chrome’s poor GUI choices.

I have been using Firefox 3 since the beta version and I’ve been really pleased with it. It seems so much faster than the old version was.

I have been seeing sites blocking websites when you use Firefox because of adblock. It’s not Firefox that’s the problem. It’s the shitty ads.

I have been wanting to switch to Linux for a while now. At least since the 1990s. In the past it just hasn’t worked for me. Kubuntu seems to be working for me now though.

Here are the handy Firefox extensions that I use. Extensions are one of Firefox’s greatest features.