Scrambled Eggs 🍳

Greetings people of the link layer and beyond! I am writing a post for an unknown reason, perhaps just to keep things moving. Do you like scrambled eggs? I don't mind them, I like them with cheese and salt and pepper, or even cayenne pepper omfg so delicious! However the allegory here is that scrambled brains. Curious? I'll tell! 🤯

One, such as myself, who has come from a world of shit, basically, and has moved a far enough distance to a different enough place with the expectation of chill, quiet, no fucktards and the way laid out for me, by me, is one I'd say who is blessed. Mostly blessed because how did I do it? Is it normal that I still fear more retarded shit to happen? Alas, where is my faith. Manufacture faith, I will immediately, and I have created a solid goal which over time I will fill in the plan to get it. I won't say what that is, because though I'm "bad at opsec" LOL (screw you ROUNDBOX I'd teach you a thing or two, if you could even comprehend), I'm not stupid, nor bad at opsec actually LoL. However where I needed to put cheese in my scrambled brains is because having lived in a world of shit (big city) and even had to go back there unwillingly there's been an accumulation of knowledge as well as interest in things I'd want to do in computing.

So, somebody from XMPP was a serious asshole, righteous stump dick loser, and decided that (and admittedly I'm assuming, making a most probably guess eh) they didn't like me hosting MusicPlace.Vip? I've never ever had an issue with hosting the XMPP I host at TooFast.vip, like, ever. I can't even imagine, despite the unsurmountable leagues of shit-tardedness I profess from with that domain, how that could warrant my previous hosting provider to have used a thinclient to snoop on my server files. Well, that being said, F U C K Y O U O V H you make my country ASHAMED.

That leaves only ONE SINGLE POSSIBLE problem that could've raised ANY suspicion with the personal services I host, although publicly not loudly or driving traffic. That is my music sharing website. It is my assumption somebody ratted me out from the literally only place I EVER share a link of music to in XMPP network. Possibly out of spite? Possibly out of offended? Possibly out of short dick syndrome? Sad from all angles basically, that sucks. I will PERMANENTLY BOYCOTT OVH and I recommend you do too, withholding the great many serious other reasons I have not stated here, as well. Whatever truly did happen, that platform is utterly terrible and I've known that for some time however I continued to give them a chance based on just how cheap their dedicated hardware server rental rates were. NOT WORTH IT!

Alas, amidst the scrambling for a place to live, the being under duress of a maniacal overpowering narcissistic manipulator, having very little money and mental health getting shitter and shitter, my goal in life remains and that's to continue to enjoy computing, web development and various linux and hosting and system administration and even networking stuff! One day I'd love to open an internet cafe!

I found cheese at last. Cheese = Peace. I found enough solitude, peace of mind, but what I'm left with is scrambled eggs. Fortunately I have cheese. So.

If you're curious what I'm wanting to do? Please note that I wrote this post without really any purpose (as usual) and it may seem that I were eluding to a thing? I feel I might've been, but perhaps that thing might've been that I wanted to go about what I want to build, code, and etcetera, but so as not to make a humongous wall of text I will state I just wanted to say my brain is scrambled to shit, but I found the cheese and a really heartfelt goal and a handful of happiness again to help me on my way, decided by me, for me. A woman is invited, the rest are uninteresting at first sight. We'll see how life goes as we dip into the ice of winter! God speed internet folks, and quit being a hater, you can't kill me, I'm going to host XMPP and make creative web apps forever, and kma. With love, make sure you kiss my ass ONLY with love, while you payin for your prejudice (sooooo much about this, nevermind).

_{PLUS: Man I am so stoked about my online work, and my IRL work. I hope y'all are happy people too. Maybe I'll catch you on the XMPP network, maybe you're a glowie and you're gonna be following me around all next summer, either way, much love ⭐ 🌍 🧀 🥪}

Tags: boycott-ovh, scrambled, hardtimes, goodtimes, goals, life, progression, positivity, my-haters, hosting, irrelevant, soda-crackers, dirt-poor, clean-money-dirty-hands

Lenovo USFF Project News for May

Greetings TCP farers. Did you know? Neither did I! That is a multitude of things LoL

I have not been on my keyboard for programming so much lately but instead playing games. I ordered a Lenovo ThinkCentre from Ebay that was stuck in that damn ebay global shipping program, which I honestly can't stand. After waiting a full month I got my refund back yet still the (expensive) thing came! I truly did feel blessed in a time amidst multiple hardships. This enabled me to move right ahead and get the project done as it were simple from there. What I needed was a PCIE 8x (proprietary) Lenovo riser that provides a PCIE 16x port on a 90 degree angle. In case you aren't aware this computer is very small. It's like 7x7x1.5 inches and can be mounted behind a monitor. Maybe you've seen such a device, about the size of a thin client. Anyways, then to get a GPU for that slot. The computer's CPU is actually not bad at all and has quite appreciable graphics without a dedicated GPU but my friend on XMPP found one that meets my hardware constraints and actually boasts real performance. Hardware constraints such as not using too many watts for the PSU cable, which I've upgraded to 230w from 135w demand stock, size for the sake of fitting in the case (this is a large portion of the appeal for this project) as well as not needing external SATA or PCIE power.

So I bought this literally TINY half height AMD Radeon RX 6400 that doesn't require external power and is about 157mm in length and fits into the already tiny computer I have on that riser I mentioned. I have been able to play Need For Speed Unbound and even made a few screen recordings and posted on my YouTube Channel. It's not quite as good as my previous gaming MSI laptop but it definitely is appreciable for what it's worth. Being tiny and, although loud, not producing really serious amounts of heat.

I have had about ③ weeks of fun with this, and a lot of fun as I was missing NFS Unbound's Volume 6, however unfortunately I had to learn something and had made a costly mistake. The mistake was not knowing, or thinking when I installed it and seen the GPU's pcb board resting on the metal housing of the USB jack on the rear, that some metal contacts on the GPU's board might short by bridging across the metal housing of the USB port. I honestly didn't think much about it at the time and when I was playing on it for the first while the performance was literally really good but (and only after noticed) eventually slowly degraded to a point where it seemed I couldn't tweak settings to achieve what I had before. After a while it had did something weird my computer reset on me, but wouldn't actually boot then. It did a few more times in shorter intervals and at last after doing it twice in shorter time caused my computer not to boot.

That caused me much sadness, so much sadness that I wouldn't even mess with it for ③ days. I had to get in a good mood to bother cracking it open and popping the GPU + riser card out and alas! It booted! I had noticed that while not booting no fans would operate and the lit up ends of my HDMI cable wouldn't light up BUT the power light on the machine did. This is how I thought it may be a power fault.

What I eventually seen while inspecting the GPU's board was an odd light discoloration looking vaguelly like a burn that was sort of through the board and seemed to travel from the HDMI slot on the GPU towards a capacitor on the other side of it. It was at that time that I declared officially my (not so cheap but fortunately not that overly expensive either) GPU dead. Sad, I see it on one of my shelves, so new and only 3 weeks of life, it's dead 😔

Now my only remaining concern was if somehow I burned out a component on the riser. If I did, and I'm honestly not sure exactly if I'd be able to determine, then I would need to pay another approximately 350CAD to redo this all. I am not rich, not even close, I am dirt poor just about I won't lie so this deepens my sadness but I am still extremely grateful this little beast fired up again, the computer I mean. At first I really worried that it had died but fortunately it wouldn't have been that humongous of a loss, if so, because I did acquire it free. Thanks capitalism! You finally did me a solid but I still hate you! 🖕 LoL ... I actually like ebay, for the most part, and definitely with the exception of the ebay global shipping program.

If my home life wasn't so damn terrible, er, lack of a decent home, whatever, I'd consider redoing this right soon and getting another GPU but it will be postponed for the sake of leaving this entire civil district and getting away from a doomed mission to live in a place that I cannot be free or comfortable. Always losses in life and that will cost too (A LOT). So perhaps I will also postpone pictures and a more detailed post until I am able to make it work under the best conditions. Here's hoping that happens, and soon!

Here is a sweeeet forum post with a MASSIVE amount of details related to computers like this, you might probably find this interesting .. and some more related .. 🎲

Tags: tinyminimicro, lenovo, thinkcentre, project, computing, the8woodcutter, amdradeon, nfsunbound, thestonewall, hardware, gaming, life