I am loving the wallpaper that I found for it on… what is it, that “official” fandom Wikia page? Yes please.
I think our desktop is finally loaded now!
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I am fixing a problem Windows Updates caused.
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It will remain to be seen how long it actually takes until this problem is fixed (as everything went to Hell in a hand basket, as they say, after I did the update)… but there is my laptop which continues to function well, which has not been updated and which will not be updated in the foreseeable future until this is a problem that has been confirmed to have been fixed, and I am fastidious about backing up absolutely everything of essence that needs to be backed up. So while I’m rolling back that Windows update on the desktop, glad that I caught this when my kid was blissfully sleeping, I am checking my mail and updating things on my laptop because it continues to work just fine. So we’ll just have to see how that goes. It isn’t as though Windows 11 hasn’t given me problems on that thing in the past, or it hasn’t given me… problems to begin with, even though it’s able to take Windows 11 just fine and is nearly a clone of this computer. If this continues to give me trouble, I’m seriously thinking about leaving Windows 10 on it because Windows 10 has given me a lot less trouble than this and it’s just not something that I want to fight this computer over.
It had to be mentioned in here at some point.
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One of these days, I’m going to get around to starting a category (or tag, I’m not quite sure yet) about questions that I’ve gotten asked… a lot of them have to do with whether or not something is “safe to take”, and friends of mine like to ask me these questions because they know that they’re going to get a non-judgmental answer, but also a no-nonsense one. Two of the questions that I am most frequently asked are whether or not kratom is safe to take — and questions branching off of that about kratom, which for the sake of this blog post I’m lumping into one question — and phenibut, which… I’m going to warn some of you now, I have developed quite a colorful response to that for reasons I get into when I answer the question…
Meanwhile, now that this computer is hardwired I’m beginning to muck around with different streaming schedules to figure out which one will work best for me. I don’t want to stream to the point that I burn myself out on it, but I do want to become Twitch Affiliate at some point (and then, in the future… Twitch Partner).
We are making progress re-downloading games!
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I am actually almost done re-downloading Bub’s games because of our hardwired connection!
Weirdly, a few times the SSD has shown up on the drive list of the gaming PC… but I’ve always seen it vanish, so I know not to depend on it for anything important. It’s also vanished each time it’s shown back up, and the time on that has varied. Sometimes it hangs out there on the drive list for a few others. Other times, it’s there for ten minutes. Either way, it’s getting replaced at some point with something that can actually be depended on and relied on, and I’m not using the one that’s currently in this computer until it’s replaced with that more dependable and reliable one. As much as I don’t like having to break into this computer again (or even the laptop, for that matter), I know that it’s going to have to get done at some point, just like how I want to upgrade the 1TB HDD in my laptop that stores Bub’s games to a 2TB one to avoid me having to shuffle games around on it to make room. These things are like my babies too! I want to take good care of them!
Well, that was certainly new and unexpected.
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For some reason, the gaming computer — the desktop — seemed to have some kind of BIOS or hard drive error, or… something that completely formatting and reloading fixed, and now that I’m getting to be on the tail end of that I’m finally writing this post. I’ve finally gotten Windows 11 back on here, have downloaded and installed all of the Origin games we have (here’s looking at you and the newest few expansion packs, The Sims 4), am about midway through our Steam collection, and will get to our Epic Games collection once I am all done with that. I will then cull startup processes that don’t need to run when the computer is started up and make sure that nothing is running that would actively slow down the computer, because that’s never good. Right now, I’m choosing not to format the internals beyond that or any of the externals, and I’ll see where that takes me in terms of free space. Luckily Bub managed not to know that this actually happened.
He did see me tinkering around in the computer at one point, but he didn’t know that I had to reload the OS.
I might buy a cheap SSD hard drive off of eBay just to have on hand, just to be on the safe side.
These have been days… days that have ended in y and have caused migraines that have lasted for days.
We’ve finally solved the problem, so let’s do this.
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I’ve resumed streaming now that the gaming PC is hardwired straight into the modem! Now that there is a more direct connection to the Internet, I only had ten or eleven slow frames… not five hundred (or worse, more) like I had been getting some of the time, which is great. I can and will definitely take that. Streaming at 720p was almost effortless, as were following Twitch Studio’s recommendations based on the computer that I was on and what my bandwidth and Internet speeds were. I tested it out with Among Us, and in the coming days and weeks I’m going to start (almost) all of the games over that I had been attempting to stream wirelessly so that I can get more hours out of streaming them on the computer that is currently hardwired to the modem. I’ve also been continuing to finagle with the Steam Deck setting certain buttons to certain actions in… certain games so that they are more playable, although I am seriously impressed with Valve’s level of commitment to making games optimally compatible with it, resulting in me having to let sometimes up to twenty games update each morning when I turn the thing on. Good times, am I right…
Maybe I’ll get Twitch Affiliate sooner than I had originally anticipated. At any rate, let’s finally do this, folks!