Moments of Permanence - Computer/life update

From: willow Date: August 15th, 2009 02:21 am (UTC) (Link)

Wait a minute. Didn't you get an Asus laptop because your desktop went wonky and needed fixing? Has the Asus bitten the big one now as well?

In which case I need to ask you if you acclimatize your tech before you start using it.

IE - Having it near you, without using it, so it can get used to your electromagnetic field.

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From: sami Date: August 15th, 2009 02:59 am (UTC) (Link)

No, my desktop is perfectly functional - or at least, it was when it was last plugged in, about six months ago. It's at my parents' house. I have nowhere to put it, here, and my laptop is faster/better in pretty much every way.

I don't acclimatise my tech, but as a rule, my tech actually works fine - this is the first time I've had major hardware failings on a computer.

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From: willow Date: August 15th, 2009 03:01 am (UTC) (Link)

Didn't you -just- buy a notebook mini Asus?

Anyway, if this is the first time your tech's gone haywire it's probably just a run of ill luck. I, on the other hand, have to get all my tech used to my wonky body electro-thingies. So they don't break.

It's odd, I'll grant you. But so far, it works.

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From: sami Date: August 15th, 2009 03:17 am (UTC) (Link)

Right, yes. The notebook mini-Asus is because my proper Asus laptop is broken. I now have two computers (excluding the ancient and unregarded desktop): an Asus 17" widescreen laptop, and an Asus EEE PC.

Both Asus, just different scales of smallness. (My regular laptop, by laptop standards, is actually huge, but it is *awesome*. When it's not broken.)

If it works, go with it, but my personal EM field seems pretty limited. (Unlike, say, Chas, who has a tremendous ability to generate static electricity, if nothing else.) My laptop's borkenness mostly seems to be the result of a dying motherboard, and dodgy mobos happen now and then.

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From: willow Date: August 15th, 2009 03:33 am (UTC) (Link)

That is true about the motherboards. My initial wtf, was because i thought you'd meant that the new mini you'd just bought had borked too. And I was all WTF Asus Australia?

I have static electricity issues too. It's at its worse, however, whenever I'm near my mother. Thus it is one of the reasons she has for refusing to hug me - fear I'll shock her.

I like to think of it as my own personal defense system :)

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