Hey folks, it’s been a while. I’m doing ok but I must say the end of last week really tested my resilience. Kinda shook me up a little bit. But I’m having fun playing GTA Vice City again after so long. It’s a blast from the past with a fantastic soundtrack.
I am actually looking forward to working from home this week too. We’ll see if that novelty wears off before the end of the week.
@variablepulserate I have a similar backup routine when the new macOS is released each year and I do a clean install. I also have a bootable USB on hand for when I need it. Didn’t realise how useful they were until now.
// @matigo
@variablepulserate That’s true, but you also need a dedicated space for a desktop, which I don’t have. Unless I use my work from home space, not sure how I feel about that. There’s also a question of budget too and how much I’m willing to spend. More research is required.
I use my Mac for all my everyday stuff rather than for gaming. In terms of replaceable graphics cards I think that’s a hard no. I thought you could only add RAM to a laptop, unless that’s changed too in recent times. Been a long time since I bought a Windows PC. I think I worked out mine is at least 10 years old lol.
// @matigo
@matigo Agreed, it was a chore. But it was a challenge I was willing to keep going with. A mate I work with said it was easy, but it was because he didn’t want to deter me from keeping at it.
@variablepulserate Indeed, it was a very well informed response. As busy as @matigo gets, with the little person and the day job and such - its fair to say I appreciate the advice.
Update on the Windows PC situation:
I tried @matigo’s solution with the command prompt and that didn’t work. Tried some of the other solutions offered by several YouTube videos, system restore, system image recovery etc to no avail. So I’m thinking ‘it can’t be as simple as a clean install, right?’. I’d already tried to boot Windows 10 before and it didn’t work.
So at close to 11pm last night, I’m sitting on my bed installing Windows 10, waiting with anticipation as more errors come my way. Nope, no errors. Everything worked. I have a PC back now, for the moment. There’s a sale on at the moment and I’m looking at getting a gaming laptop. I haven’t fully decided yet but at least being able to fix this one has bought me some more time to really think about the upgrade.
I don’t know what to do about this old Windows PC of mine. I’d set it up to only play PC games (the ones it can handle of course). My experiment with trying to put Windows 10 on it didn’t work as planned so I left it for a bit while I researched what I could do next.
Then I got my new job and everything turned just plain busy (starting to sound like @matigo here). I went to play Among Us with my niece over this weekend just gone (me on the PC, her on my iPad) and discovered a much deeper problem that I believe is beyond my realm of expertise. An unmountable boot volume error.
So now I have to navigate fixing that in my spare time. Question is, where the heck do I start? By the time I finish work (I tend to finish later in my work from home weeks, cause I can), I’m that tired I can’t even begin to think about anything else, let alone look at more screens. Ugh.
@tomas I saw the blog post. Pretty major stuff happening. I’ve been ok for the most part but there have been some struggles over the last couple of years, from moving house and changing jobs to toxic friendships and other fun stuff in between. I still get my anxious moments but now I deal with them a little bit differently these days.
@joeo10 Been a fan on and off since “One More Time”. One of my best mates was a big fan of theirs but sadly, she’s no longer here.
@joeo10 I like being in this better place. I hope it lasts a while. I don’t ever want to go back there.