I had a lot of fun yesterday! Me and my siblings played hide and seek around the house (NEVER think you're too old for that!!!) and it was of course a blast. Our version gave a hundred seconds (1:40) to hide instead of 10, and that gave way to some more interesting hiding spots.
After that, I did the dishes in my sister's stead because I owed her one for something private. I'm not gonna divulge here. That was also fun though! I hit the shuffle button on vlc, and all the music it played felt just right. I still remember it; Walking on the Moon, One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer, Wonderful Christmastime, and Lochness. Say what you will, but those hit the spot for cleaning dishes at midnight.
Oh yeah! I've started doing these on my laptop, as previously mentioned, but now I'm on another laptop. My sister had a laptop she wasn't using, so I agreed to taking it off her hands. Why? It's a million times better as a machine. Double the ram (4 to 8 GB), a CPU worth sneezin at (an AMD A12-9720P instead of Pentium N3540), and it can actually play back video (the other one stuttered like hell on anything other than a youtube video, which meant I couldn't check my videos over before posting them here)!
The big catch with this machine is that the battery's on its' way out. it's been sitting drained in random bags for years, only occasionally getting dragged out and used. This started from my brother getting a new laptop and then forgetting about the whereabouts of this one, then it was used for a month or two, then my sister also stopped using it in favour of doing everything on her desktop computer and phone. All that to say that it's had ample time to make the battery fizzle out. The tools I checked with on linux say that the battery's at 85% of its' max capacity due to age. Not horrible, but not exactly reliable to use either. It's bad enough to the point where stressing out the machine too much while away from wall power makes it turn itself off. If you just do something light though, like word processing, it seems you get a couple hours out of it. Anyway, today's a big day, so I'm off! bye!
I had a lot of fun yesterday! Me and my siblings played hide and seek around the house (NEVER think you're too old for that!!!) and it was of course a blast. Our version gave a hundred seconds (1:40) to hide instead of 10, and that gave way to some more interesting hiding spots.
After that, I did the dishes in my sister's stead because I owed her one for something private. I'm not gonna divulge here. That was also fun though! I hit the shuffle button on vlc, and all the music it played felt just right. I still remember it; Walking on the Moon, One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer, Wonderful Christmastime, and Lochness. Say what you will, but those hit the spot for cleaning dishes at midnight.
Oh yeah! I've started doing these on my laptop, as previously mentioned, but now I'm on another laptop. My sister had a laptop she wasn't using, so I agreed to taking it off her hands. Why? It's a million times better as a machine. Double the ram (4 to 8 GB), a CPU worth sneezin at (an AMD A12-9720P instead of Pentium N3540), and it can actually play back video (the other one stuttered like hell on anything other than a youtube video, which meant I couldn't check my videos over before posting them here)!
The big catch with this machine is that the battery's on its' way out. it's been sitting drained in random bags for years, only occasionally getting dragged out and used. This started from my brother getting a new laptop and then forgetting about the whereabouts of this one, then it was used for a month or two, then my sister also stopped using it in favour of doing everything on her desktop computer and phone. All that to say that it's had ample time to make the battery fizzle out. The tools I checked with on linux say that the battery's at 85% of its' max capacity due to age. Not horrible, but not exactly reliable to use either. It's bad enough to the point where stressing out the machine too much while away from wall power makes it turn itself off. If you just do something light though, like word processing, it seems you get a couple hours out of it. Anyway, today's a big day, so I'm off! bye!