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Also 160 GB doesn't go a long way, even for me
You should be able to set it so that it doesn't do that, by installing the Seagate Dashboard application. Except the application that's on the drive says that it's not compatible with my OS (Win8.1) and the downloadable application from the Seagate site works...inconsistently.
As for 160 GB being "only" so big, that's partly me thinking back to my high school and early college days, when I had drives that were 12 GB, 15 GB, and 40 GB in size. Primary hard drives, on computers running Win98, Win98, and WinXP respectively.
So, yeah, I remember when PCs had 80 GB hard drives—in fact, I've got such a PC with me right here—but I no longer find that sufficient for my needs. That's why I've got a 1 TB drive now.
Thank you for the nice artwork, but you caught me right at the moment you're unusable.
Is this about the update that broke plugins?
Some time ago, my computer broke down. I tried to switch it on again, managed to get into diagnostics. Gave me one of those error messages, I wrote it down, googled from another computer. The idea was that RAM broke, and the way to fix it is to remove RAM memory cards one by one to see which one was faulty. Turned out it worked, so for a while my computer ran on half of initial RAM. Then I got a new RAM card to put in place of the one that broke.
Since then, I've had a few new problems. A video game I played began to hang up, you know, didn't crash, but suddenly you can do nothing but reset and the sound gets stuck on the last note ("beeeeeep"). Also once in a while, the view I have on my screen turns into something not unlike an old TV when the signal is bad, the cursor doesn't move and I can't do anything, and the computer turns off after a while.
The second problem looks like the time I had a broken graphics card, but all taken together, I've got a feeling it's a RAM issue. Drivers? Would be easier if I didn't have to replace hardware or spend two weeks without a computer while it's being fixed.
Specifically, if you go back, you don't ever get the same thing again.
EDIT: A bad interaction between the graphics card and Unity. Issue solved.
Also, my computer is doing fine, although I haven't yet got that new replacement piece of RAM.
>decides I can only close tabs when it lets me
Oh so this is one of those updates.
How to further misuse a spreadsheet
I mean, these two might be unrelated, but at the moment I prefer to assume my computer is not a spam zombie.
Meanwhile, Windows 10 is a terrifying lesson in all the secret weird processes that get your computer to do all the things Microsoft wants. It took me a week of trial and error to figure out how to stop it from secretly reinstalling Update "Helper" which in turn reactivated all my Update services.
I had to kill the Update service, obviously uninstall Update Helper like twice (before and after killing the update service like three times because I'd forgot to stop one of the secret triggers in the Update service that reinstalled it from a backup like immediately) and then kill a secret completely unrelated trigger that restated all of my Update services every three days.
Of course, during all this I ended up learning that Windows has two entire secret services that run literally all the time whose entire purpose is to send your data to Microsoft. Of course Microsoft says it's just to record crashes and "neutral" user activity but come on.
I didn't kill them, because the two services are made up of five and two different processes, some of which are actually linked to important things that could possibly break my Network drivers forever.
Plus, I let Google profile me anyways, why not let Microsoft have it's turn?
And yeah, the Updater thing sucks. I think I already posted in this thread that it'd cause the 'net to slow down to a crawl.
and pressing the spacebar means pausing it over and over until you remember that it also shifts all the control to the new tiny video window. It also plays over the comments, which are invariably why you're scrolling down in the first place.
Though if this is some sort of strategy to stop me reading terrible YouTube comments it's pretty brilliant.
Besides that, Krita is a wonderful in many ways, one of which isn't the animation editor, where it's extremely complicated to just move frames around, make a new animation out of multiple images, or basically anything that isn't making a new animation from scratch and in a linear fashion.
Edit: and crashes a lot.
>change region to JP by loopholing, hoping Apple never closes this loophole
>oh my gosh wth I should've studied kanji more
>installed iTunes from installer I had on hand so now it decides this is the absolute best time to update whilst I wonder if I can ever fix this
>everything in English now
>must reloop the loopholes
>kanjiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
>oh okay change language to English using Google Translate
That was way more stressful than any time I shopped at CDJapan but it'll be cheaper in the long term. Well, if the more indie acts I like even bother with iTunes. I was originally trying for Reccochoku, but that's way more specific about addresses and IDs which cost a bunch of money in and of themselves to fake properly.
I really don't get why Apple can't sell me all the music from every iTunes store.