Zauberin Stardreamer [4" tall] @Zauberin@awoo.space

Alright, still stuck on my laptop while I wait for parts to rebuild my dying computer. While I wait however, I've made my laptop my comfortable to use.

For some reason, my desktop's monitor, which was made in the last year or two, has a VGA connector. Seeing as it is the same resolution as my laptop's screen (1920x1200), I decided to hook that monitor up to my laptop along with my desktop's keyboard and mouse. Also used a spare speaker cable to hook my laptop up to my monitor.

Does anyone regard the term "mad scientist" as problematic, and if so is there a better term to use?

Form filled out and submitted. I'm hoping to get connected with a transgender group in my area :3

Currently filling out a form on the website for an LGBTQ+ organization in my area. One interesting thing is that it has two separate name fields: one for your legal name and one for your preferred name. Preferred name is a required field, legal name is not.

Note to self: do not put craptop into suspend mode for the night

FLOOFS

boops your nose :3c

The case lights come on, and I hear the fans and drives turning on, but the bios doesn't post.

Okay, I think my computer may be dead

I can't directly upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 because the upgrader won't work because reasons. So, in order to upgrade I basically need to reinstall from scratch. So, currently backing up what I can...

Oh, and this is because I uninstalled my GPU driver with the intent to roll back to an earlier driver... but apparently there are no drivers for Windows 8.1 that support the GTX 1650 Super. And yet it somehow worked fine when I installed it O.o?

Okay, still not working. At this point I'm giving up for the night. Tomorrow I'll back up what files I can, and just do a fresh installation.

More to the point, the install DVD is copying most of its contents to C:/ drive, but is failing to copy a 3.7 gigabyte folder which presumably is the actual installation archive -.-

[insert angry swearing here]

Windows 10 installation kept failing because the media creator included a file with the wrong extension -.-

Also, whatever tool that Windows 8.1 uses for burning DVDs is sucky, just takes infinite time to erase a disk. Currently booted up on my Linux drive to use Brasero, which just works.

Wait, that should be 2021, lol

Me in 2015: struggling to block Windows 10 update
Me in 2020: struggling to upgrade to Windows 10