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It's been awhile. I haven't been in here since late last
July after reviewing the first 4 episodes of Jashin-chan.
It was a damn good season 3, and now there is news of a
season 4! Season 3 had to be crowdfunded, so the fact th-
at there is a season 4 is nothing short of amazing. Also
consider the fact that most anime don't get more than 3
seasons. Bleach, Naruto and the like are the exceptions,
not the rule.
I wrote those review gemlogs on a 2012 Asus U56E. I got
a good 10.5 years out of that laptop before I had to fi-
nally discard it. Even gorilla glue would not stick the
plastic piece back where it belonged under the left
touchpad button (which I broke during an intense Dungeoneering
session on Runescape in 2014), and the laptop was over-
heating just from trying to stream videos. Replacing the
thermal paste is often more effort than it's worth. So
that is gone now. It will be missed.
I since switched to a 2014 Lenovo E440 ThinkPad which I
got for free from work awhile back. It runs really cool.
It's already 9 years old, and like my old U56E, it runs
MX Linux perfectly well. The oldest computer I currently
have is a 2003 Dell Dimension 2400. Interesting how in
2023 you can get plenty done w/ a 10-year-old computer,
but you couldn't say the same about a 10-year-old computer
in 2013. Well, I'm sure the 2400 would've been enough for
a small minority. It would still run CLI programs very well,
but I did not have good luck playing an episode of Cops
with mpv on a Dell Dimension 3000, let alone the 2400.
It's amazing how much people accomplished 20+ years ago
with the hardware constraints of the time. Memory amounts
and CPU frequencies that would be woefully inefficient for any
GUI today. But software was designed with those constr-
aints in mind, and I remember playing PC games on an HP
tower running Windows 98 as a kid, so is it really that
amazing? We're just so spoiled by our modern hardware
that we forget how we once got by on 64MB RAM and single-
core 566 MHz CPUs. Once humans get a taste of something
better, going back to the alternative they once lived
with seems unbearable.
I will try to post here more often. Good night.h