What You've Done Today - Always You Must Meddle, Looking For Trouble Where None Exists.

[melkathi]

There will even be a pig or two and probably a fox and horned owl for the observant viewer in the final piece.

[Azdeus]

I tried to watch the Aurora last night, but... low fog clouds

 

[melkathi]

Damn giants, always moving the clouds so they have the best view, not caring about anyone else view

Edited January 15, 2022 by melkathi

[Gfted1]

I would like to request two black/brown/white calicos named Lola and Evie.

[melkathi]

Layed out the hundred painted forks last night and figured they fill about one quarter of the 50x70cm space in the frame. Either I have to space them out, which leaves more gaps or I need to roll up me sleeves and accept that instead of two thirds done, I am maybe a quarter done.

[LadyCrimson]

On 1/14/2022 at 1:10 PM, melkathi said:

These look like they would work well as bookmarks. I would like to order two each of blue, orange, grey and black, plz. 

[melkathi]

I have one as a fridge magnet. Haven't tried them as bookmarks yet myself.

And am way behind on requests. A friend wants some for his vet practice. I was considering making him a clock, but those are tricky and it may not fit.

Edited January 16, 2022 by melkathi

[Malcador]

Demonstrated my lack of cardio fitness by trying to shovel 8 inches of snow. 

[melkathi]

You survived. That is something.

[LadyCrimson]

Finally figured out the best game map settings, made a few good (to me) maps. Now bored again.

All that map making etc. created a big fat file/folder mess on a couple drives tho. I should clean it up, but I probably won't. I used to care so much about keeping PC files super organized. I still do, but ... not quite as much. Or more accurately, it's more like:

"5TB storage across several drives ... it'd take hours/days... hey what's on TV."

[Gorth]

My 2x6tb are almost full. Looking at options atm

[Bartimaeus]

1 hour ago, Gorth said:

My 2x6tb are almost full. Looking at options atm

I ordered 4x14 TB like...8 or 9 months ago, and they finally just arrived about two weeks ago. It's nice to have space.

[majestic]

I have a one TB hard disk here, I kinda feel small.

Spoiler

Obligatory "small" joke incoming in 3-2-1...

 

[BruceVC]

22 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

I ordered 4x14 TB like...8 or 9 months ago, and they finally just arrived about two weeks ago. It's nice to have space.

Geez Barti you must stop downloading so much porn....then you wouldnt need  so such space  

[Gorth]

22 minutes ago, majestic said:

I have a one TB hard disk here, I kinda feel small.

  Reveal hidden contents

Obligatory "small" joke incoming in 3-2-1...

 

It's not the size of you hard disk that matters, it's how you use it

[Bartimaeus]

58 minutes ago, majestic said:

I have a one TB hard disk here, I kinda feel small.

Yeah, I wouldn't be able to survive on that. My own favorite movies and shows take up close to 3 TB in of themselves, which was the limit I was running up against and was what required the upgrade...especially because I also have half a terabyte of music, so I literally was just about out of room with my two 4 TB drives - mirrored drives, since I'm unwilling to accept any kind of data loss, . But then, I also had about 10 TB of movies and shows for other people (e.g. my nieces) across three other 4 TB drives (that I don't mirror, since I - selfishly - care significantly less about them, ). So space was becoming a bit of a problem...and I rather hate splitting up the contents of my own drives arbitrarily due to space constrictions (I have a bit of an OCD for hard drive organization - nothing gets put on those HDDs unless I'm "archiving" it, i.e. I do not plan to touch those files ever again...barring unforeseen circumstances), hence why I went straight for the 14 TB drives when I saw them on sale for $200 each. Difficult to turn that price down. Even with mirroring them, the 14 TBs should hold me over for some time to come given how rarely I add new shows or movies to them.

Though it doesn't help that I keep everything at absurd quality for myself...I have 51 favorite movies, and they take up just about 1 terabyte. This is, presumably, utterly ridiculous by most people's standards - there are plenty of people out there who encode standard length films down to 1-2 GB each at 1080p using the ultra-efficient (but definitely image quality-lossy) x265 encoder, meanwhile I sometimes don't encode my movies at all and leave them in the raw bluray state because I desire utterly perfect image quality. A single pixel changed in a nearly unobservable manner? No, I say!

Edited January 18, 2022 by Bartimaeus

[majestic]

1 hour ago, Bartimaeus said:

Though it doesn't help that I keep everything at absurd quality for myself...I have 51 favorite movies, and they take up just about 1 terabyte. This is, presumably, utterly ridiculous by most people's standards - there are plenty of people out there who encode standard length films down to 1-2 GB each at 1080p using the ultra-efficient (but definitely image quality-lossy) x265 encoder, meanwhile I sometimes don't encode my movies at all and leave them in the raw bluray state because I desire utterly perfect image quality. A single pixel changed in a nearly unobservable manner? No, I say!

I appreciate the sentiment. I used to be really similar in terms of organization of my hard disks, I had neat partitions dedicated to certain things, some with backups, some without. Always enough hard disk space. I also was much like LC and complained whenever Microsoft updated something and introduced a new tool or whatever, spent all the time in the world removing it again, editing the registry if necessary, and set up my own personal LFS so it only has what I want.

At some point, I just stopped bothering. If something new shows up after a reboot because update #123121 something installed a new image viewing tool I'm never going to use, then... whatever, really. If there's chaos on my hard disk, then yeah, that's just fine with me. In the same way, in this day and age, if I try some game or software and it doesn't work out of the box, then it doesn't work, end of story.

All the enthusiasm evaporated. If anyone told me 25 years ago that I'd eventually sit in front of 10 year old hardware I'd have laughed them off, yet here I am, writing this post on my trust old computer powered by a second generation i5. My last hardware upgrade was going from a 560 Ti to a 970 GTX... and I had the card for three months before I could muster the energy and motivation to actually install it. I'm also pretty sure I mentioned that before.

[Guard Dog]

On 1/15/2022 at 6:38 PM, LadyCrimson said:

These look like they would work well as bookmarks. I would like to order two each of blue, orange, grey and black, plz. 

That is a good idea

[LadyCrimson]

To be (unnecessarily) clear, I have 11TB of internal disk space and, uh ... 6TB of external storage space. The 5TB is the amount I'd have to sift through in order to try and "organize" it.    Organizing to me these days largely means trying to delete a bunch of stuff, but that means I have to look at every single file and figure out if I want to keep it or not. I know there's lots of stuff I don't care about anymore,  and it drives me crazy to waste space, but it drives me even crazier spending hours opening files/making decisions for days. Pffft.

Sifting through an old box of physical form photos to organize/toss? Kinda fun. Staring at a monitor opening/looking at files until I'm blind? Not so much.  -- Edit: I'd like more storage but what I want is more internal SSD storage now, not HDD. 4TB ssd's are pricey.

I suppose if the tech had been around in the early 90's, I might've created some huge digital movie/TV collection. I sure did like to VHS record (and buy) movies back then. These days I just don't care/only stream, and anything I like enough (rare) I just buy the bluray and play it from disc. I have no need for digital versions or digital portability.  Although I do have a lot of videos from YouTube on one external... Game videos on the other hand ... yeah. Those 4k game videos are enormous, like 4-5GB for 30-40 seconds. It gets redonkulous.
 

55 minutes ago, majestic said:

All the enthusiasm evaporated.

Aye. I get more like that all the time. For me it's time and energy. Even if I have the time, I don't have the energy (mentally or physically) for a lot of things I used to think were so vital to my existence. I just want to eat good food, take naps, giggle occasionally, and have a stable emotional contentment. That's it.

Edited January 18, 2022 by LadyCrimson

[Bartimaeus]

55 minutes ago, majestic said:

I appreciate the sentiment. I used to be really similar in terms of organization of my hard disks, I had neat partitions dedicated to certain things, some with backups, some without. Always enough hard disk space. I also was much like LC and complained whenever Microsoft updated something and introduced a new tool or whatever, spent all the time in the world removing it again, editing the registry if necessary, and set up my own personal LFS so it only has what I want.

At some point, I just stopped bothering. If something new shows up after a reboot because update #123121 something installed a new image viewing tool I'm never going to use, then... whatever, really. If there's chaos on my hard disk, then yeah, that's just fine with me. In the same way, in this day and age, if I try some game or software and it doesn't work out of the box, then it doesn't work, end of story.

All the enthusiasm evaporated. If anyone told me 25 years ago that I'd eventually sit in front of 10 year old hardware I'd have laughed them off, yet here I am, writing this post on my trust old computer powered by a second generation i5. My last hardware upgrade was going from a 560 Ti to a 970 GTX... and I had the card for three months before I could muster the energy and motivation to actually install it. I'm also pretty sure I mentioned that before.

Thankfully, I don't get that crazy about my non-storage drives. My C drive is a bit of a disaster (by my standards anyways), but I view C drives as being temporary, and therefore not worth worrying about. Eventually, it'll be reformatted sooner or later anyways, so why be concerned with it at all? My storage drives, on the other hand, are meant for permanent (possibly life-long!) storage, and so that's what I put my effort into - anything that's temporary means it doesn't matter, anything that's permanent means it does. At the very least, it's a good distinction so I never go too crazy with some of my obsessive compulsive behavior, . There's a limit to my insanity!

Edited January 18, 2022 by Bartimaeus

[Sarex]

2 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

Thankfully, I don't get that crazy about my non-storage drives. My C drive is a bit of a disaster (by my standards anyways), but I view C drives as being temporary, and therefore not worth worrying about. Eventually, it'll be reformatted sooner or later anyways, so why be concerned with it at all? My storage drives, on the other hand, are meant for permanent (possibly life-long!) storage, and so that's what I put my effort into - anything that's temporary means it doesn't matter, anything that's permanent means it does. At the very least, it's a good distinction so I never go too crazy with some of my obsessive compulsive behavior, . There's a limit to my insanity!

I like to put folders in my New Folder (123), eventually I forget what's in them and when I get bored I go exploring.

[Bartimaeus]

3 minutes ago, Sarex said:

I like to put folders in my New Folder (123), eventually I forget what's in them and when I get bored I go exploring.

You're walking the fence between legitimate insanity and silly cartoon villainy here, so I'm not sure whether Heath Ledger or The Animated Series Joker is more appropriate here.

[Azdeus]

I've been headbutting with the Social Insurance Agency about my reimbursement being pitifully low. It's supposed to be 80% of my wage of 24k SEK, but they're somehow only paying me 14k. That gap of 6k is really hurting.

Also need to get a second opinion from a doctor about my condition, the pain from my shoulder is stopping me from getting any meaningful rest, and I have to drive to work to drive an 11 tonne tractor with trailer behind it, a combination length of about 25 metres. I've been doing it for a good long time, and I'm fairly certain I can drive and reverse it in my sleep, but I'd rather not put this to test. In Sweden being sleep deprived while driving counts as driving under the influence, but my first doctor disregarded this as ludicrous. So technically speaking I drive drunk every single workday and that feels kind of bad, besides the point of risking falling asleep at the wheel.

An upside of the pain though is that it keeps me awake, but I doubt that it counterbalances the sleepdeprivation.

[Guard Dog]

I repaired a barn heater for one of G's patients Monday. It wasn't a big deal. It took 30 minutes. They wanted to pay me but I refused. Yesterday they brought us a big sweet potato pie to say thanks. I consider myself well compensated for the time! 

[ShadySands]

Sick as a dog. Took a rapid covid test just in case and it was negative so it's probably just the regular yuck.

Edited January 19, 2022 by ShadySands