Oh, look at me... you've got me tearing up again. ◈ Forget about coffee buy me a cup noodle.
very, very, very experimental fic continues its slow progress as the deadline for bicyclette's sci-fi contest draws near. these chapters are about on-par with what if in terms of length, but oh boy have they been an interesting experience to write.
yeah so anyway here is my webbed site lol. there's an MC Classic server for building whatever, and an MC Beta 1.7.3 server for playing survival. I might eventually also put up a modern vanilla server as well, though given how I'm hosting a bunch of servers already for friends and a couple of discord servers, idk if the little slab of a PC I'm using to host 'em all would be able to manage lol.
basically got one week left lol. got an experimental fic in the works that's a sort-of direct sequel picking off right where Splintershard ended. no prior reading is necessary.
MAN it's been a while since I've toyed with writing styles.
i said "nuh uh".
(and then i suffered.)
walked into a wall or something idk. never was able to get past 800k words with the fic based on the "the bride and the ugly-ass groom" meme
Even though SD cards are pretty low-speed by today's standards, compared to an old 40-gig IBM deskstar drive they're pretty zippy.
-Me while trying to format an 8 gig partition for Windows 98 SE on my old computer
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Can you boot from an SD card on the computer? Maybe you could run straight off an sd card or usb stick and have more space.
--Sweetie Belle
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I used an SD-to-IDE adapter to have it be recognized as a fixed disk.
5029473
I bet you could just use the sd card as the main hard drive, then, though I'd imagine the card would eventually die somewhere down the road. People use sd cards for the main hard drive for a Raspberry Pi, though, so they must last for a good while.
I actually had a usb stick I was using to hack my Playstation Classic die on me yesterday. Unfortunately, it didn't die so much in a sense of stopping being readable as died as in broke into three pieces. Now I'll need a new large usb stick the Playstation Classic recognises, because the usb stick is what turns it from being kinda sucky to pretty neat...
--Sweetie Belle
5029485
I actually did use SD cards as the main drive for quite some time on the system, more out of the need to easily swap out drives and load software from my main PC for testing. Now that I'm retiring the computer as my testbench machine, I've decided to give it something more period-correct.
5029487
Okay, that makes sense.
And in case you're curious, this usb stick of mine had one regular usb end and one micro usb end, and then had a piece that rotated so it was either a regular usb stick or a micro usb stick.
Trouble was that the piece that rotated broke, causing the actual stick to come out of it, and while it still worked at that point, when pulling it out of a usb port, the part of the stick with the micro port broke off. It might still work, but I'm afraid to plug it into a port, because I probably wouldn't be able to get it out...
--Sweetie Belle
5029493
Oi. That sounds painful. The same thing actually happened recently with a wireless mouse my little brother was using. The entire casing of the USB dongle just kinda... died. It's just a bare board now.
5029494
Yeah, it was pretty irritating seeing this 32 GB usb stick totally break into pieces like that. Though as these things happen, I was pulling it out of a usb hub when it died because I had just copied the entire contents to a 64 GB usb stick to see if that one would work for what I was doing, so I have everything that was on it. The Playstation Classic didn't boot up1 from that one, though.
That does sound similar. I'm starting to not like usb dongles on wireless mice, actually. I keep finding that I can turn up mice and I can turn up dongles, but have a lot of trouble figuring out what goes to what. In some ways I really like this standard, generic, two button and a wheel mouse I have around because it is wired, and just works without batteries or dongles. I've been using that on a laptop a fair amount recently.
--Sweetie Belle
5029507
Dongle-less Bluetooth mice tend to be much more expensive than regular wireless mice.
5029519
Yeah, though if I remember, mice with dongles are actually using bluetooth technology, just kinda messed with enough to not comply with the standard, to only work with the dongle, and for them not to have to pay money to the bluetooth people. It's been a while, so I don't really remember the details, though.
--Sweetie Belle
5029528
They work using their own proprietary RF band, not bluetooth.
Also, I botched the entire Win98se install while trying to get a driver for USB mass storage working. I gotta reinstall and try again with a different driver now.
5029546
Maybe I'm misremembering, then.
And that sucks. No way to reverse things?
I did just figure out that one usb dongle sitting around belongs to the kinda grimy mouse with the mouse wheel messed up. And I should probably do something with the two Raspberry PI's and the mini touch screen I found in the closet1...
--Sweetie Belle
5029557
I've tried it before. Dongles for other wireless mice don't work with anything but the one specific mouse they came with.
5029559
I think they are on the same band but a different protocol. I thought I remembered hearing that the protocol on one(it may have been Logitech specifically, even) was based on the other, but just changed as much as they needed to be incompatable, but I'm trying to remember something I read online years ago that might not even be accurate, if you know what I mean.
Logitech does do universal receivers on their newer dongles, so if you are lucky, you might be able to use one logitech dongle with a different mouse, but only if it's one of the ones that used those...
--Sweetie Belle
5029567
The mouse I got as a replacement for the one that has a broken receiver actually has one such "universal receivers". It's just that the older mouse doesn't support using it.
5029605
Yeah, I tend towards Logitech mice, and I have more Logitech devices that don't have a universal receiver then do. It's irritating.
--Sweetie Belle
5029612
I was hoping I could find a cheaper Bluetooth mouse just for the sake of never having to deal with dongles again. Cheapest one I came across at Walmart was nearly $40, so I just settled with the dongled Logitech for $18 instead.
5029485
And that's why you don't buy PlayStation brand stuff that isn't PlayStation 2
Crankiness aside, yeah, installing Secchan without the proper drives is annoying...
5029614
That's kinda why I keep using this one wired mouse a bunch. No dongles or batteries to deal with. Bluetooth is an idea, but I'm not sure how many of my computers have built in Bluetooth.
5029620
Well, the usb stick isn't by Sony, just the Playstation Classic. And I bought it knowing it sucks, but on sale for $40 instead of $99. Thing is that one of the things that sucks about the Playstation Classic is the security on it, making it easy for hackers to hack it, and impossible for Sony to stop them without changing the hardware. Autobleem just has to be on the usb stick, and nothing on the console itself gets touched.
I was actually pretty happy with it while hacked for the price, and once I get a new usb stick that works with it, I'll have some fun with it. And I can play Wild Arms on it right now, at least. It does mean I can't use it to play Alundra, tho'.
--Sweetie Belle
Not sure if this is at all interesting, but...
--Sweetie Belle