After five faithful years of service, it seems my laptop has finally entered the last stages of its life. Got the infamous "click of death" last night.

I've already picked out a new one, but it'll be about two weeks before I get it, so I'm afraid my latest fic will be delayed for a while. Sorry about that. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait.

RIP Shamrock95's laptop
May 2013 - January 2018

I've only set up a limited number of pages so far, but feel free to check it out over at https://museum.themajortechie.com/!

Right now, clicking on the description text for the images only gives you a 404 error, but when I get around to it, we'll be seeing detail pages with even more hi-res photos!

It's there. Believe me, like a third world nation, they have tech of almost 21st century level in many places of Equestria distributed sporadically and seemingly at random, side by side with elements of the past, or what we would consider "the past."

Now to the point, I have a theory - well, two theories rather that coexist with one another - as to why we do not see power lines and the like throughout Equestria. I shall let pictures do the initial introduction to them!

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So I got the access codes on Friday from my family, returned yesterday to find my internet was completely functional, even without me having to do anything. I just walked into my apartment and it worked. And what happens the next morning?

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So, my dad got a notification this morning on his iPhone 7 Plus to update to iOS 13. He decided to go ahead and update, naturally. Neither of us saw any harm in a simple software upgrade, after all.

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Here is the mission.

My old Work Computer, on which I do most of my developing, website managerial tasks, and other things related to my employment, was showing its age.

So I pulled some of its guts out. I left the HDD, disk drives, FDD, and other things inside, because those are irrelevant.

Here are its guts. Note the old NVidia GPU and the old Athlon 64.

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The only thing that gets me more excited than MLP is a new Tech N9ne album!

I downloaded the deluxe edition of "Strangeulation vol II" last night and listened to the entire thing; let me tell ya'; it is absolutely amazing!

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My blogs are always about computer problems, aren't they?

The computer most of them have been about is fine. I've got several computers, though. The one that had all the motherboard issues was the main desktop.

The other personal computer I use a lot is a laptop. It's a thinkpad that has in it not only a 240 GB SSD, but a 1 TB hard drive and a 500 GB hard drive.

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*screams in agony*

In today's explanation of some of the higher-end stuff seen in Equestria's Schizo Tech, specifically electronics...

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I don't usually do a custom title for these anymore, but I figured this one was worth emphasizing. I've mentioned before about the very old laptop I use for basically everything. Well, it's so old that I can't upgrade my browser or download a new one. This means I lost the ability to watch Dailymotion last Fall (doubly annoying because I had been watching the episodes of Classic Who that weren't on Netflix). If the powers that be continue the Youtube crackdown, then I won't be able to

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Well, when I woke up this morning, a new hard drive was on my doorstep.

Stuck it in my laptop during lunch, and started working with it after work. This hard drive works fine, and I got it set up as my new home folder relatively easily.

I hooked the old hard drive up to usb, and tried to see what I could get from it.

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doubt it's gonna catch as much interest. this one's about floppy drive head alignment, so unless you've got a clunky ol' floppy drive sitting around that's got trouble reading disks, this probably ain't for you. :P

I have almost the exact same PC, but with original hardware.

So Mr Tech was making some free artwork for OC in one of the art groups, and so I asked if he would do Euresia and this is what he made. Personally I think he did a good job.

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Here are the pics and specs!

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I was rocking vampire Jubilee from the X-Men forever, so it was time for a change.

My lock screen.

My home screen.

I was surprised how well the icon pack matched the wallpaper!