UrbanMysticDee 
Bae > Bay
I went to McDonald’s today. There must have been 50 crows there. That’s like a mass murder of crows. Several were taking turns eating out of the trash cans. It was cool.
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UrbanMysticDee
Bae > Bay
I opened up the old IBM Aptiva today. That was my first computer, I’m never throwing it away. They overengineered the hell out of that machine. It’s got like 30 pounds of steel under the hood. There are things in there that I’m not sure what they are. There’s something that looks like a separate PCI daughterboard, there’s what I’m guessing is a resistor made out of cement, it’s got separate L2 cache, a 16 MB and a 32 MB RAM stick, and a Pentium MMX which fit in socket 7 but needed a separate voltage regulator, and it had a heat sink that was just a black metal piece with no fan. It looks like cast iron but it’s not magnetic so I don’t know what it is. The motherboard is also this big ass thing, the biggest I’ve ever seen. There’s a steel bracket that keeps you from accessing it, and another steel thing that the PCI board screws into to stabilize it that also blocks access to the motherboard. IBM really didn’t want you to open this up and make changes. It also has a Quantum Bigfoot CY 6.4 GB hard drive, a 5.25 inch model, and that shiz weighs a ton. You could kill someone with that. When it spun it sounded like a jet engine.
There’s a fan behind the front panel but there doesn’t seem to be any air vents on the front (there are vents on the side, but I can’t see how the fan would draw air through them). The front panel detaches from the inside, and the inner hard steel chassis has bays for optical drives but I don’t see how you can modify the front panel in any way to access them. The machine did come with a “media center” I think they called it, which had a 3.5 inch floppy drive and a CD drive. It also had the power button. The power button for the computer was on a separate box that you had to plug into the computer, it wasn’t an integral part of the machine. That thing was allegedly made of ABS but I dropped it last year and it shattered like glass into a thousand pieces (more accurately, I held it with one hand and it weighed so much that the cheap plastic broke in my hand and it fell to the floor).
The monitor was a cathode ray tube. You’ve never head of those. It’s a particle accelerator that’s also a very large capacitor. It weighed more than every other component combined and came in a box that must have been the size of a washing machine. It sat on a big ass steel bipod, with these inch thick legs. You could kill someone with that.
There’s a fan behind the front panel but there doesn’t seem to be any air vents on the front (there are vents on the side, but I can’t see how the fan would draw air through them). The front panel detaches from the inside, and the inner hard steel chassis has bays for optical drives but I don’t see how you can modify the front panel in any way to access them. The machine did come with a “media center” I think they called it, which had a 3.5 inch floppy drive and a CD drive. It also had the power button. The power button for the computer was on a separate box that you had to plug into the computer, it wasn’t an integral part of the machine. That thing was allegedly made of ABS but I dropped it last year and it shattered like glass into a thousand pieces (more accurately, I held it with one hand and it weighed so much that the cheap plastic broke in my hand and it fell to the floor).
The monitor was a cathode ray tube. You’ve never head of those. It’s a particle accelerator that’s also a very large capacitor. It weighed more than every other component combined and came in a box that must have been the size of a washing machine. It sat on a big ass steel bipod, with these inch thick legs. You could kill someone with that.
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@UrbanMysticDee
Neato is it still functional?
>It also has a Quantum Bigfoot CY 6.4 GB hard drive,
Hey, it’s huge compared to the old commodores that I have a bit more experience with (though a pro I am not). At least personally, me and my father used to open up old computers and mess with them all the time but I was younger then.
>The monitor was a cathode ray tube. You’ve never head of those.
2000s kid here (well, born in 1990s, raised in the 2000s). I still grew up with them. My grandparents still used them in the 2010s. Yes they are indeed heavy.
Neato is it still functional?
>It also has a Quantum Bigfoot CY 6.4 GB hard drive,
Hey, it’s huge compared to the old commodores that I have a bit more experience with (though a pro I am not). At least personally, me and my father used to open up old computers and mess with them all the time but I was younger then.
>The monitor was a cathode ray tube. You’ve never head of those.
2000s kid here (well, born in 1990s, raised in the 2000s). I still grew up with them. My grandparents still used them in the 2010s. Yes they are indeed heavy.
UrbanMysticDee
Bae > Bay
@TheBridge
It stopped working in 2003. I transferred the files to the XP machine, then several years later to the 7 machine, and finally in 2019 to the 10 machine. There are files hidden on the XP hard drive that I can’t access unless I hook it up to another XP computer, and I have no idea where to get one. (I tried to buy one on Amazon, and got a piece of junk, had a ridiculously hard time trying to return it, and was threatened by the company that they wouldn’t refund me unless I gave them a 5 star review, so I had a whole ordeal getting Amazon to back me up and I got a refund. Never did get the files off that old disk.)
You know what’s great about old computers? Control. You’re in control. Microshaft doesn’t access your disk whenever it wants and do whatever it wants.
It stopped working in 2003. I transferred the files to the XP machine, then several years later to the 7 machine, and finally in 2019 to the 10 machine. There are files hidden on the XP hard drive that I can’t access unless I hook it up to another XP computer, and I have no idea where to get one. (I tried to buy one on Amazon, and got a piece of junk, had a ridiculously hard time trying to return it, and was threatened by the company that they wouldn’t refund me unless I gave them a 5 star review, so I had a whole ordeal getting Amazon to back me up and I got a refund. Never did get the files off that old disk.)
You know what’s great about old computers? Control. You’re in control. Microshaft doesn’t access your disk whenever it wants and do whatever it wants.
Officer Hotpants 
Moderator
Double-0 Negative
@UrbanMysticDee
You too? My first PC was an Aptiva. I can still hear that music from the PC tutorial it came with. Did yours have that pointless front cover that s l o w l y slid down the tower when you pushed the button?
You too? My first PC was an Aptiva. I can still hear that music from the PC tutorial it came with. Did yours have that pointless front cover that s l o w l y slid down the tower when you pushed the button?
TheBridge
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@UrbanMysticDee
>There are files hidden on the XP hard drive that I can’t access unless I hook it up to another XP computer, and I have no idea where to get one.
An XP hardrive alone? Was it encrypted or something odd and you can only get in by that windows XP install specifically and not access it through something like this or this? Using clonezilla or like software to clone your HDD into a virtual machine and boot into VM might be a option. I do see some deals on ebay some of which claim to have windows XP installed but I can’t vouch for them
>Control. You’re in control. Microshaft doesn’t access your disk whenever it wants and do whatever it wants.
Oh yeah, they are slowly forcing us to not even be able to use Win 11 without it being fully plugged into the cloud You could always install Linux or BSD, or if you really want to go crazy Haiku or some other off eternally in beta OS.
@Officer Hotpants
My first computer is way less interesting. Dell Latitude laptop with XP in the era when vista reigned. I still have it. I still have the one after and I still use the one after (though only with linux).
>There are files hidden on the XP hard drive that I can’t access unless I hook it up to another XP computer, and I have no idea where to get one.
An XP hardrive alone? Was it encrypted or something odd and you can only get in by that windows XP install specifically and not access it through something like this or this? Using clonezilla or like software to clone your HDD into a virtual machine and boot into VM might be a option. I do see some deals on ebay some of which claim to have windows XP installed but I can’t vouch for them
>Control. You’re in control. Microshaft doesn’t access your disk whenever it wants and do whatever it wants.
Oh yeah, they are slowly forcing us to not even be able to use Win 11 without it being fully plugged into the cloud You could always install Linux or BSD, or if you really want to go crazy Haiku or some other off eternally in beta OS.
@Officer Hotpants
My first computer is way less interesting. Dell Latitude laptop with XP in the era when vista reigned. I still have it. I still have the one after and I still use the one after (though only with linux).
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@TheBridge
Yeah, I’m never getting Windows 11 myself. When the time comes, I’ll either find another computer that has a more versatile and strong CPU with at least 8 GB of RAM already installed with Windows 8.1, or Windows 10; later on adding dual boot between that and either Linux Mint, Gentoo, or Debian.
Yeah, I’m never getting Windows 11 myself. When the time comes, I’ll either find another computer that has a more versatile and strong CPU with at least 8 GB of RAM already installed with Windows 8.1, or Windows 10; later on adding dual boot between that and either Linux Mint, Gentoo, or Debian.
TheBridge
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@Anonymous #E0CE
My family recently surprised me with a used windows 10 computer because they felt my beat up machines were out of date; before that I had been almost purely linux with one old laptop that I sometimes still used Windows XP on for certain offline programs. I still primarily use Linux even on this machine. As for Windows 11, something about it offline being forced to pro really feels icky. I may or may not upgrade, as I keep my online profile so compartmentalized that it is very easy for me to have a icky profile and being relatively “clean”.
@Anonymous #841B
Win 7. Unfortunately I never got to see that one much and it was a shame as I know people who swear by that being a wonderful system. The last system built for a relatively pre cloud, phones and tablet, and other cancers mindset.
My family recently surprised me with a used windows 10 computer because they felt my beat up machines were out of date; before that I had been almost purely linux with one old laptop that I sometimes still used Windows XP on for certain offline programs. I still primarily use Linux even on this machine. As for Windows 11, something about it offline being forced to pro really feels icky. I may or may not upgrade, as I keep my online profile so compartmentalized that it is very easy for me to have a icky profile and being relatively “clean”.
@Anonymous #841B
Win 7. Unfortunately I never got to see that one much and it was a shame as I know people who swear by that being a wonderful system. The last system built for a relatively pre cloud, phones and tablet, and other cancers mindset.
Sapphie 
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I think MLP fics have permanently fucked up my sense of relationships. Specifically, ship fics. Fiction has had such a strong influence of how I see relationships and romance that I don’t think it’s even worth it for me to look for a man anymore.
bit heavy for this thread, but putting that shit in vent sounded too fucking gay to bother
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@Sapphie
On the less serious end of things, MLP fics I think have damaged my perceptions of novels and what I consider a decent read. 100k and 200K fics make a lot of novels look short by comparison. Though I have enjoyed some shorter stories as of late, so maybe their is still hope.
On the less serious end of things, MLP fics I think have damaged my perceptions of novels and what I consider a decent read. 100k and 200K fics make a lot of novels look short by comparison. Though I have enjoyed some shorter stories as of late, so maybe their is still hope.
Sapphie
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@TheBridge
Oh yeah same. When I was in high school I would c o n s u m e fics. 24 hours was enough to read through a 150k word fic like it was nothing.
Meanwhile, shit I had to read for french class? 10k words a week was too much.
English class was a bit better since at least we got to read entertaining stuff like The Hobbit or Brave New World.
Oh yeah same. When I was in high school I would c o n s u m e fics. 24 hours was enough to read through a 150k word fic like it was nothing.
Meanwhile, shit I had to read for french class? 10k words a week was too much.
English class was a bit better since at least we got to read entertaining stuff like The Hobbit or Brave New World.
Sapphie
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@UrbanMysticDee
My fic is 165k and counting B-)
I’m not even halfway through and it’s taking so long :<
My fic is 165k and counting B-)
I’m not even halfway through and it’s taking so long :<
Officer Hotpants
Moderator
Double-0 Negative
@TheBridge
Ah. Well after my time. Mine was a Windows 95.
@Sapphie
I can wear reins. I’m not putting on the blinders, though, so don’t ask.
Ah. Well after my time. Mine was a Windows 95.
@Sapphie
I can wear reins. I’m not putting on the blinders, though, so don’t ask.
TheBridge
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@Sapphie
I don’t know if my case was “better” or worse. I could consume non-fiction alright, heck, I would seek out topics that were obscure and odd ball, but as for fiction I wasn’t drawn to much outside of fanfiction for awhile, and it was a diet of just pony fanfiction at that.
@UrbanMysticDee
Neat. I can respect a word count of that. I know you have brought it up before and I have watched only a few of your videos which have mention aspects of it, but what is the topic of your book? (Which I assume the reply might be better for the political thread).
@Sapphie
Based. The longest fic I did I have no idea how long the word count was because it was entirely in paper but it was over one thousand pages long at least. I tried to have a court trial scene and got caught up in all the little details…
Anyway, is your fic published anywhere?
@Officer Hotpants
Indeed, I am quite behind you, though if it does help, according to this meme I still have the rank of 90s kid technically!
Speaking of that, I will this Bionicle related reply here:
@Officer Hotpants
I don’t know if my case was “better” or worse. I could consume non-fiction alright, heck, I would seek out topics that were obscure and odd ball, but as for fiction I wasn’t drawn to much outside of fanfiction for awhile, and it was a diet of just pony fanfiction at that.
@UrbanMysticDee
Neat. I can respect a word count of that. I know you have brought it up before and I have watched only a few of your videos which have mention aspects of it, but what is the topic of your book? (Which I assume the reply might be better for the political thread).
@Sapphie
Based. The longest fic I did I have no idea how long the word count was because it was entirely in paper but it was over one thousand pages long at least. I tried to have a court trial scene and got caught up in all the little details…
Anyway, is your fic published anywhere?
@Officer Hotpants
Indeed, I am quite behind you, though if it does help, according to this meme I still have the rank of 90s kid technically!
Speaking of that, I will this Bionicle related reply here:
@Officer Hotpants
they’re not Lego, nor were some of the other things they were pushing.
To be fair they were a offshoot of the Lego Techinic line and were using some pre established pieces (let’s not forget these two themes before, but ultimately, I understand it. I have debated myself how much Bionicle fits a “core” Lego ethos. It was very weird and though I consider it to have had a lot of interesting features I understand it being a turn off.
Sapphie
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@TheBridge
>is your fic published anywhere
Yeah, here. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend reading it, though. The themes explored by it aren’t most people’s cup of tea, and the writing is far from great. If you wanna give it a read I won’t oppose it, but if you don’t like “misery porn” as the kids call it these days, you probably won’t enjoy it.
>is your fic published anywhere
Yeah, here. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend reading it, though. The themes explored by it aren’t most people’s cup of tea, and the writing is far from great. If you wanna give it a read I won’t oppose it, but if you don’t like “misery porn” as the kids call it these days, you probably won’t enjoy it.