After putting off researching building/ buying/ rebuilding my studio computer for much of the last year, I finally decided that getting one of the locally assembled brands was the most straight forward. Unlike Sydney, there aren't build PC stores run by Chinese guys with all the parts you might need, local.
PCs aren't all over the place in Japan. Most just use a Smart Phone or a small laptop.
So I customized a GAMER PC option. I have bought just an i7, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, DVD R/W and fancy graphics card in a box. Lots of DisplayPorts and an HDMI. No Display, keyboard, mouse or HDDs, as I have these in my existing system.
It will arrive next week, giving me 2 months to install, move things to it and be able to switch over before the October Windows 10 end of support. Moving stuff over, installing, registering, deregistering the old machine, etc, etc takes many weeks. Mostly just waiting for things to copy and install.
My existing machine has 16GB ram and the new will have 32GB, but that is about the only real difference. My existing machine is completely fine, as it was running XP, before I move it to Win10.
The only thing I have that pushed the memory of my existing system is the GRITONE DRUM vst, and don't use that very often.
Everything I have read just shows Windows 11 to be a step backwards, allowing advertising in the system widgets. The requirement that Windows11 needs TMP2.0 is just an excuse for an Intel cash grab. I was at a LAB in the 1990s when Intel released some special version of the 386 and then they came looking for any software that "required those new features".
Same old strategy.
And keeping with this blogs theme of PAIN, today is the 10th anniversary of my kidney stone trip to the ER.
Kidney Stones hurt like hell, but with drugs for the pain and flushing out the trouble makers, that will be all fine again in a few hours.
What is REALLY painful is an extensive hemorrhoidectomy that means you have the same or worse pain for 8 hours after pooping each day for 2 to 4 weeks, and no painkillers available to you help at all. Recovering from that took me over 12 months. For most of the last 10 months of that time, I wasn't in pain, but the intense extended pain seems to have caused a "depression". I wasn't sad or have the blues, but everything that I had done for fun, wasn't interesting to me at all for 10 months. Was like being a different person.
But I was looking at interesting 1967 manga speech balloons this morning...
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