- Well, I thought I was ready for Loki to come home. I wasn't.Sleep well my old friend. #stlloki - April 9, 2024
- Today my holly bushes that Loki used to lay under for hours are blooming and filled with honey bees. This makes me happy. #happymoments - April 7, 2024
- My heart is heavy. The seizures came back with a vengeance today and Loki was injuring himself in the process of each seizure. The meds stopped them for a time but then they came right back. At 4:45pm central time he crossed the rainbow bridge and is now at peace. I took this one last picture in the time when he was sleepy but lucid after the seizure meds had kicked in. He passed peacefully knowing he was loved.Goodnight #stlloki #siberianhusky #huskiesofinstagram - April 6, 2024
Recently shopping for new hardware… partly my new game PC but also an updated Plex server for home.
Can I just say that considering that Moore’s Law is long since dead, I continue to marvel at and be amazed by the fact that my 5 year old i7-based laptop is now handily matched (and in some ways beaten by) a brand new i3 in a NUC that burns about 1/6 of the power that the older i7 did… and all that in only 4 CPU generations.
AND… having upgraded said gaming PC, I am blown away by this new i7 being almost twice as fast as the 5 year old i7, burning about the same amount of electric (net) as it’s predecessor, but based on only marginally different transistor sizes.
Now, there are plenty of other factors that make my new PC faster; it’s water-cooled and a desktop-class chip instead of an air-cooled laptop, it has an NVMe primary hard drive instead of the SATA one in the old machine, it has a faster GPU… but man, this new computer is FAST! I’m liking.
But seriously, Alienware… why did I have to dig up a new SATA cable to wire in my 2.5″ SSD? Could you not have included that in the box??