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Back after almost a year

2023-7-9

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