There's Discord, and then there's... Discord.

Random Fact: Before the rise of smartphones, Qualcomm was a small-time chip maufacturer. Now they're an up and coming rival to Intel and AMD.

Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As per usual, daily internet outages are back with the school year in full-swing.

Today pretty much all but confirmed that I'll be leading a sizable chunk of the school robotics team.

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Once again, I repeat myself: Screw Comcast.

Random Fact: Comcast and Centurylink, as well as a smattering of smaller ISP's, were recently hit with a massive, rolling set of internet outages caused by technical issues on Centurylink's behalf. Ironically, this is due to Centurylink having scooped up an ISP called "Level-3" that provides access to other ISPs. Including itself and Comcast. Unfortunately, I'm still feeling the brunt of that.

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Random Fact: It's indeed still possible to use a 56k modem to load modern websites. It's just painfully slow.

Now that I'm practically a full quarter into the school year, you can probably tell that I've gotten comfortable by the massive load of productivity that I've pretty much slapped down wherever I've gone.

Somehow, in Angry Birds 2 in the Arena, I beat someone with nearly 100 ranking points more than me.

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Let's get this thing back on track, shall we?

Random Fact: in most devices, if adequate cooling isn't provided, than the CPU and other components may begin to "thermal throttle"-- that is, slow down in order to prevent overheating.

Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Honestly, it actually kinda feels weird doing actual writing again after around a month-long hiatus.

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Honestly, my avatar looks a bit... off.

Random Fact: While most dogs shed, there's a class of dogs that are typically known to by "hypoallergenic", and usually won't shed their fur. These dogs are usually very good pets for people with allergies to dog fur, since their fur isn't going to stick to everything.

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Here’s an interesting thing regarding Trench. I’m noticing that a lot of my readers like it, and I’m glad. About every 7 people that visit the story drop a like.

Anyways, I’m here to tell you that I might not follow the album exactly, I said it was loosely based off Trench, and I can tell you why.

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I did not build my PC to get hundreds of frames per second only to have the freakin' server lag instead.

Random Fact: Mineplex probably runs its servers off of a potato rack. Probably. Either way, they're pretty much one of the laggiest (and biggest) Minecraft server to exist.

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Well golly-gee, it's been quite a while, hasn't it?

Random Fact: For the first time in nearly a decade, AMD is actually beginning to see a higher market share than Intel in certain areas of the world.

Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Never take what you think you know for granted. 10th grade is certainly telling me that.

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Internet's playing nice for once this school year.

Random Fact: Bronze and Brass have natural antibacterial properties related to the chemistry of their metals, making them ideal for commonly used surfaces such as doorknobs. While they are useful in such cases, jewelry made from such alloys will not grant any sort of mystic powers or boost one's health. Don't forget that. It's not magic, it's SCIENCE!

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Time travel solves everything. Except when it doesn't.

Random Fact: The headphone jack and its cable have literally existed for almost a century, if not more.

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Boy, I haven't written this much in a single day for months.

Random Fact: While still quite a bit underpowered compared to many phones and tablets, the Raspberry Pi's third revision is capable of running full Android Nougat.

Seriously, I don't even remember when the last time I did a triple-update was.

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Oh boy, midterm tests!

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As per usual, my weekend is much busier than my weekdays.

Random Fact: So apparently a Frisbee spinning at high RPMs will quickly and easily cut your finger if you catch it at an angle in which it perfectly digs under your fingernail. Don't worry. The bleeding stopped already.

Probably no updates or anything today. Sorry. :P

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When you try so hard but you don't succeed...

Random Fact: Not all motherboards are built the same, even if the CPU physically fits, that doesn't guarantee a working system! I learned this the hard way...

Welp. The CPU upgrade arrived today. I am now the proud owner of a fancy box with a CPU upgrade kit inside. Why? Because the mobo isn't compatible.

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Turns out that I overestimated what to expect when it came to the practice SAT. Also, for some reason, even though the universities in my area use the ACT test, the high schools give out practice SAT exams.

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Welp. About half a week with my new phone so far, and I've got some good and bad news. But first, here's the usual.

Random Fact: I find it more comfortable occasionally to just kinda sit in my office chair backwards, leaning on top of the back rest. It's an old chair, but it's still comfy enough to sleep in.

Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Alrighty, let's get on with what's on my mind.

Good:

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Nothin' like a good ol' hunk o' words to getcha outta that writer's block, amirite?

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Haha. I have another test tomorrow even though the term just started...

Random Fact: The Pentium 2 and early Pentium 3 models were based on a cartridge design to allow for external cache chips to be included at a cheaper manufacturing cost. However, later Pentium 3 chips came with cache integrated into the die instead of populating the surrounding board, as manufacturing technology had sufficiently improved to allow sufficient yields.

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So, if you've been keeping up with the blog, you'd know that I tried installing the Windows 10 Creator's Update, only for it to fail spectacularly, taking out most of my computer's functionality with it.

BUT NOW...

Many hours, two failed backups, a long and tedious manual backup, and a system reset using the original install media later...

I LIVE! LIIIVEEE, I TELL YOU!

Tomorrow, I'm gonna have to reinstall quite a few lost programs though...

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Windows 98 was famously known for bundling Internet Explorer 4.0 and its "desktop update" package, which essentially overhauled the UI of computers running it, much to the expense of the user in certain cases.

Windows 98 was a 16/32 bit hybrid kernel, meaning that at the maximum, up to four gigs of RAM were usable, but only through patches, due to a lack of proper support for over one gigabyte of RAM.

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