Gooey Time Kilroy @Kilroy@awoo.space

@tsunderdog it's been pretty crazy! but this is what happens when you inconsistently save files across multiple units! Consolidating to one machine gets to be time consuming, especially when you have to use a WiFi connection that for whatever reason gets real slow intranet transfer speeds. At least almost all of the massive chunks of files are transferred; now I just have to eventually sort them and remove duplicates with a duplicate checker

I've had to work with SO many drives over the past week to do all this D:

So I've managed to pull almost all my image/video/documents files from every drive I have (save for one that is MIA at the moment) and now I've got the daunting task of figuring out how to pull the data files for the various mods I installed ages ago on the old desktop drive. ...after I figure out what the mods were that I want to keep.

@sockeye@puppy.place Aaah Tucker is <3

Finally wound up unfollowing my dad on Facebook today. While I am sure he's not part of the alt-right, I got real tired of hearing him constantly parrot them in his constant political rants: Everything bad that happens is the fault of Antifa, BLM, George Soros, etc. The riots and looting, mostly by white nationalist extremists, that took place all over the country several months back in response to the extrajudicial killing of several black folk? The wicked work of the terrorists Antifa, BLM, and funded by the Jewish leader of the New World Order Soros. The attack on the federal Capital building by the far right insurgents? Those darned terrorist Antifa and their fellow BLM thugs and that damn multibillionaire Jew were behind that, infiltrating the republican ranks to make them look bad! How dare they make the almighty Trump look bad when everything he does is good and right?!

Honestly it's getting to the point where, while I'm sure he's not one of them, I'm not so sure I could pick his political beliefs out from those of any other white nationalist, like Milo or Spencer or any other Hitler worshipping nazi. It's seriously that bad. He's so deep into the cult-like worship of Trump that he just happily lets them spoonfeed him whatever conspiracy or warped viewpoint they desire. He's so blind to the rot within the conservative right that he can't see that it's poisoning his mind. As are most of the Republicans. And at this point there's likely nothing I can say or do to bring him out of it, so all I really could do was just... remove it from my feed. Maybe now I can stand to look at Facebook more often.

So it turns out it may not have actually contained a malicious virus, but was in fact a suite of penetration testing tools that have been sitting on my external drive for probably 6-7 years now unnoticed. I wound up getting ahold of a bunch of programs from a friend, and I guess that was one of them! Ah well, it's deleted now so whatever it was doesn't matter anymore.

Oopsies one of my external drives contains a virus apparently! D: (Luckily it was caught and quarantined immediately)

Aw yeah save for the power supply and the graphics card, this PC is more or less built! I really like how it looks, and at some point I might get some RGB lighting to go with it. A shame the front USB-C port is useless (board requires a type E header for 3.2 gen 1 USB support, case has an older 3.0 header connector for it. I'll eventually swap that out with the appropriate port) but the 2 front USB ports are connected, and there is a 3.2 type A and type C 10gpbs plug in the back (not shown, I'll have a photo of that when the rest of the equipment comes in.)

Case is a Silverstone RL5 B/W, motherboard is MSI MPG B550 Gaming Edge WiFi with AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and Cooler Master Hyper 212 CPU cooler, and G.Skill Ripjaws V 2x16GB DDR4 3200 memory chips! Tucked underneath the Lightning Gen 4 thermal shield is a Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB SSD drive. Windows 10 is now on the system thanks to doing something you really shouldn't do with a power supply that doesn't fit :P

I kind of wish the CPU cooler didn't stick out so much, but as long as it keeps the CPU within acceptable operating temps, especially under heavy use, I'm happy!

It was also probably not a smart idea to set this all up on not a lot of sleep after a very long work day. Fuck am I tired. Ah well, tomorrow morning...
Fuck, it's already tomorrow. Uh... after I get a decent amount of sleep I'll retackle this thing and get all the cables set up nice and pretty and waiting for the new PSU and GPU

Pretty sure this was not the smartest thing to do, but I needed to get the PC set up and Windows installed. It was a super temporary setup that was quite risky. Now that everything is done, I have it unplugged and waiting for a new PSU that will hopefully fit properly! ...otherwise I'm going to have to try and find one that is set up for a bottom of the case mount. The CPU power plug cables are a bit too short to reach the power pins way at the top of the motherboard

...holy shit I could get one of these with 8 terabytes of storage space if I really wanted. Hell, I could get two of them and remove the wifi card from one of the two m.2 slots and never need space ever again. Except... I kinda don't have $2,500 to throw at that kind of excessive hardware. And if one should fail, well.. that's a shitload of space I suddenly need a backup of.

I'll share photos of how small this thing is this weekend when I build the new PC! (Seriously though, just one of my RAM sticks is bigger than this thing is)

Holy shit I knew the m.2 SSD format was small, but this is so tiny! I've seen 128MB thumbsticks as big as this, and yet it can pack a whopping terabyte of info on it! Hell, I could have gotten one that supported 2 terabytes!

@Metaph I think it might be related to the hyperfixation part of ADHD, where the brain just can't let go of the idea that fucking up a thing would be the absolute worst thing that could ever happen in the history of worst things happening. I can't say for sure though, as I don't think I experience RSD as bad as others do?

Not to say that I don't; I know I've had a lot of missed opportunities over the years simply due to the fear of fucking up and forever being shamed for it/having it thrown in my face every time I think about trying again.

Aw yeah, looks like nearly everything for my new PC will be in by this weekend! I got a case fan, the UPS battery backup, and the thermal paste so far; Everything else except the case, power supply, graphics card, and the monitor will be in tomorrow, and the case and monitor come in Thursday! Still don't have an ETA on the PSU and GPU, but I can (hopefully) salvage my old PSU and GPU to at the very least get the whole thing set up until they do come in.

@StarlightPath Aaaaaah so pretty! <3

@sockeye@puppy.place Well, I mean.. if he'd be okay with my doing that kind of thing, I'd certainly consider doing similar~

@jacel The subtitles could definitely be improved. Seriously, Mista's Stand is clearly a reference to Sex Pistols, but oh no localization has to make it Six Bullets for some weird reason.