New meds. Gotta love the experimentation of hope. I don't mean my doc is some Frankenstein. I mean just feeilng like shit because of them. bugger all muscle control. Having to rewrite this a few times. 
And yet. because of the proviso, I'm willing to be a Frankenstein monster. 
These 'blogger's  give some outlet to say when everyone around expects perfect moods and thoughts or behaviour  
Ah well. New low doses of pills...  

Also.. That fuck for the turning from 2020, to 2021. I don't expect any big change. i hope people will relax a slight amount and watch their f maxes. 

And yes, this goes exactly where  you might think it will. 

The laptop I bought from PCS has had a long life. The battery for example, with no reason failed, giving  maybe half an hour so.  One of the speakers never worked from day one, but was rarely needed when headphones were used. So WTF, right? I forget the name of the laptop I bought which was one of the re-branded Clevo laptops (p151sm1), but it worked well. Back when 8GB of RAM was loads and a 4th Gen i7-4700MQ processor was really nice and 120GB was something to write about and booted faster than anything Windows had going. To be fair, still boots faster.. These days the laptop is relegated to HTPC. 

My Asus desktop is showing its age. An eight year old i7-3770S, even bolstered with 16GB DDR3 and SSD just doesn't cut it anymore. My search for the 'right' desktop began. Sort of. 

Before that really takes place, I'm going to harp on a lot about PCS's lack of Linux support since I've had one of their products (and I'm sure many a person has) for over 6 years with no software problems or compatibility issue using Linux. The problems were all hardware. It's almost like Windows needing to be compatible with Linux  for quality, unless nothing is needed more than Fortnite.

And now, my dear readers we come to why, in the year 2020, the lack of support for Linux on bespoke hardware is laughable when Dell and HP sell business class laptops and desktops, as does Lenovo if you are feeling like a enterprise level server. Other bespoke places in the UK are managing to create a product range, not limited to a single place. 
Other company's websites use the same method and description of options/configuration as PCS does. Assuming most bespoke companies ares buying the same core hardware I think is a safe bet. That is to say, if others companies can create OOTB Linux compatible on basically the same pre-fab hardware, PCS can call themselves specialists, but doesn't seem that special to me.


Linux drivers in early years and were annoying, Fair enough. That hasn't been the case for more than a decade.. Nowadays things just run OOTB these days. Even my detested fights with printer drivers are  painless. 
If printer drivers don't work, drivers are supplied by Brother HP, Epson, Canon, Xerox, Lenovo.. The usual printer names you may recall. 

If gaming is more your thing, support for playing has advanced light years. Steam's Proton and (even WINE directly) takes Linux into consumer areas and gives a flexibility of hardware that Windows users can only weep about. I'm not familiar with using GoG, but Steam Play is pretty good with getting stuff that previously could only work on Windows. To be fair, however, it's not perfect.

The final point is that if someone is plonking down hundreds or thousands of pounds, any product needs to be special. For example, Porsche Design. Some of their products are odd. Would I have bought a Porsche Design phone? Probably not, but only because the cost. That doesn't change the fact that it looks amazing and special. Bespoke PC's with shelf level hardware are not special unless they are made so. Design the products, and then they will be worth   
A few bespoke places appear to have got this message. I comment on how good they are but having only a few models just is easier. You can still have Windows even though these machines are not rated for that OS. 

Being glib.
"Given to or characterised by fluency of speech or writing that often suggests insincerity, superficiality, or a lack of concern." 

Dunno or not but I guess sometime I come off as being 'glib' with friends. Not because I am flippant or don't give a shit about them. Sometimes I just can't be bothered with correct words and don't have the quickest of wits. There's usually no question of people who I dislike or would rather never know existed.
Sometimes I am truly snarky with people who pump up their thoughts and abilities because they spend so much time of what they have done and I just can't give a toss. When writing a couple manuals for new employees, one of the first things was "write it for a 5th grader" because it took less time for people to grock the information than having to re-read it. I've found that people who really know their stuff don't show off and can answer questions, in that 5th grade manner. It's amazing.  

The people? The people. I'm so grateful that the numbers I have are so low they are meh. Those very few are mainly people I talk too anyway, so banter or any glibness is fair game. 

Be yourself as much as possible. You don't need to send names or numbers or photos for people to pay attention. Dick or tit pics are not wise, nor are any pics unless you've got bullet proof skin and expect people to comment. Trying to get everyone to be nice is a fool's game with the only winner is anyone who snickers. 

 For a bit of context this isn't about anyone or anywhere, but a random thought.  "As a general topic... Has anyone ever run into a IRL person online? As in someone you know (say work, or school, or porn shoot) and just bumped into their character online?  I've been online and in the tech world  long enough that the chances seem real enough. A local BBS thing was a real occurance, the 'big' web just seems less so."

Here we go...

  I was considering how people get so tied into their lives these days that things can lose the message. Not Chinese whispers. But sort of like someone's experience. Kinda. Maybe.  Some people are so 'OK' with sharing details, to me they look like a TV show.  I'm much better in person than on mic or on line convos.  Maybe because working in tech support and hearing my own voice again  and again. Dunno.

I grocked that some people on here have (let's be blunt) issues they work through so I figured they might not want to reply.. I'm no social butterfly, so the  Covid country lockdown was like "yeah, whutever" since little changed except when I wanted to go to cities.  
Ease of use and consistency is also why I've kept the same 'nym  roughly the same one I've used for 20 odd years.  Back then, having a 'nym different from one's name was just normal.

For better or worse.  I've had epilepsy for...  ffs.. i've forgotten.. 25 years now I think. Gotten slightly worse I think over the year and is barely controlled now. Used to be I could drive

 

 

Neighbours keeping me awake...

Since last time back in march I think, neighbours have either fallen or something  a couple times. Quite odd for 90+ year old people. Unless kids push them over or they honestly fall. I actually hope they fall since I don't like their kids much.

Stayin' Alive or mostly at home

Normally the hanging around home would be no sweat. No big thing. Having to consider neighbours who for the price of a possible big of money is quite another. Having to keep the hound entertained within the spirit of the rules, if not the letter. She gets two walks a day with a brief handover which avoids social interaction.

For the first month or so, physically I've been fine, until my body decided it wanted to react to a cat dander  or pollen or some other thing my system doesn't like.  Normally the 24hour allergy pills shut it down, and all is well. Either these pills aren't good, or my system has found something new.. A cold or whatever. There's nothing like waking up feeling like I'm working through a half-rack of strong ale and stuffed paper in one's sinuses to make one's day feel great.  Pretty sure it's some other cold virus I've picked up while acting like the family pack animal  since I'm the youngest and I'm not showing any of the other covid symptoms.

Will try to avoid people as much as possible

Aside from the moaning, if this turns out to be more serious, I figure writing something up now isn't a terrible idea. Not a Will or declaration of stuff I've done well or bad.. Simply a note reminding people of how I really see them for better or worse.

One of the first things I'd assume people will notice is that LTS in the Linux sphere is different. Win7 started life in 2009 and ended here in 2020. Whereas most desktop distros give you a rockin' 3-5 years. If you get a server distro (like CentOS) you might get 10 years of ancient apps. Don't get me wrong here.. I adore Linux. I adore Mint. but people who've spent ages on Windows will expect the LTS nature and up to date applications. When I found FerenOS and figured it was (effectively) a rolling version of Mint, that was great! But now it's KDE, and not so rolling rolling rolling. I like the idea of rolling distros, but have also seen people lose entire installs because of an update. I don't view Linux through rose tinted glasses, but after 10+ years using almost exclusively Linux distros, I have to say Win7 is a better general purpose OS. Mainly because you know what you will get. For example, like installing KDE's versions of things for no other reason than installing an application or Cinnamon's, or whoever. I like KDE, but I don't need multiple versions of Terminal.

Well,

The idea of 2019 being a better year than 2018 was a disastrous hope.

I think the best improvement was finding a site which made ordering things for customers. 

All the stuff that I would get off my chest is stuff I can'rt because of privacy  and general consideration of it.  Unlike some people I don't blab about the misdeeds of others for clicks or interest.The misdeeds really aren't that outside the people involved and trying to keep a