Well, I guess I did [computers]
Jan. 12th, 2022 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterBought a new Linux laptop machine, which is probably going to take about a week to arrive. Neither cheap nor exorbitantly expensive; hopefully I can get a solid decade out of it. Yeah, right. Two years ago I sent the dead Fruit computer to a computer repair shop in NYC, which fixed some bad soldering on the logic board for ~$350; I'm tempted to send the machine back to them again, but that can wait.
The semester is starting in 1.5 weeks, so I'd like to have a functional setup going so I can get ready without being too stressed out and scrambling. Today was supposed to be a day of putting together the schedule for Animal Phys, but that definitely didn't happen, although I at least got some work done on my calendar.
My work desktop computer is pretty great, so it will likely return to being my main work machine, but I'd really prefer to not put too many personal files on it.
It's occasionally good to think about how I'd feel if everything burned up in a fire (or drowned in a flood). I've been putting meaningful photos on Flickr for years, now, and annotating them there. I could pick up the pieces for the courses I teach, if I had to. It would be a nontrivial amount of work, but not impossible. I should do another recipe update to my website. I did put copies of all the music files I own onto my work computer. Fruit Company likes to act as if it owns those. Research data are all backed up.
It's going to take me a little while to sort out computers now. I hate all of this toggling between devices. I also ordered a case for the failed laptop's hard drive so I can get files off it. I'd backed up to an external hard drive at home, right before I left to travel, so there have only been a small number of relatively inconsequential changes since then. I guess tomorrow I'll haul in the backup drive and shuffle contents back over to the work desktop.
Bleah.
The semester is starting in 1.5 weeks, so I'd like to have a functional setup going so I can get ready without being too stressed out and scrambling. Today was supposed to be a day of putting together the schedule for Animal Phys, but that definitely didn't happen, although I at least got some work done on my calendar.
My work desktop computer is pretty great, so it will likely return to being my main work machine, but I'd really prefer to not put too many personal files on it.
It's occasionally good to think about how I'd feel if everything burned up in a fire (or drowned in a flood). I've been putting meaningful photos on Flickr for years, now, and annotating them there. I could pick up the pieces for the courses I teach, if I had to. It would be a nontrivial amount of work, but not impossible. I should do another recipe update to my website. I did put copies of all the music files I own onto my work computer. Fruit Company likes to act as if it owns those. Research data are all backed up.
It's going to take me a little while to sort out computers now. I hate all of this toggling between devices. I also ordered a case for the failed laptop's hard drive so I can get files off it. I'd backed up to an external hard drive at home, right before I left to travel, so there have only been a small number of relatively inconsequential changes since then. I guess tomorrow I'll haul in the backup drive and shuffle contents back over to the work desktop.
Bleah.
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Date: 2022-01-14 12:38 am (UTC)My non-fruit laptop decided recently that my external back up drive is actually an internal drive, somehow, so it won’t let me use it for backups. I tried yelling all of the standard expletives, made a couple of threats, and even made uncouth suggestions about it being the unlikely progeny of a Betamax and a pop-up toaster. Alas, No Siri to voice any indignation.
So much for my computer troubleshooting skills.