As I write this, I have my desktop with a BIOS error that has sent computer into the future, as the system time is 31/25/25455.
I don’t think the future is that fun. The year has 25 months.
I’m looking at BIOS update. Nothing serious. Already changed the CMOS. Only need to fetch the BIOS from the manufacturer website and flash it.
But I didn’t - and I still don’t - feel like it and instead turned off the machine and walked way and went to join my family, pet the dogs and take care of dinner.
It felt… good.
And if I’m writing this now, here, is because I wanted to brag a bit.
I keep reading and listening to doomerism about people not being able to turn off from the screens. But it is this simple.
You just walk away.
I lack the energy to get ony machine because I work in one all day. Sucks. There’s games I want to play but instead I can’t be bothered and rather play with the dogs or watch old movies.
I will say, if you wanted to get back into gaming, in a healthy-ish way, a steamdeck got me back into casually gaming, and it was nice. Not in a ‘I’m addicted to screen time, staring at my phone, doom scrolling’ kind of way, it was nice to boot something, load a game for 30 min and turn it off when I was tired of playing, and it was nice to play in the livingroom or not be locked away in an office with a monitor in front of me.
I’ve been playing through the old Dungeon Siege game, 30-60 min at a time off and on the last few months.
I like to do this too. I really want to fix it today but often I find if I come back tomorrow I’ll have more success. And I wouldn’t miss dinner with the family to do it.
Unless it was a server that others rely on (of which I have two currently), where I would do my best to get it back up and running, if there is no real impact to not doing it now then it can wait.
Exactly
The thing is, not everyone have the luxury of family and a dog to walk.
We can still go outside and go for a walk. Perhaps on such walk we can even find the missing half of the family we’re missing. And if outside is raining or too hot, stay inside and read a book. Or, better yet, write your own. Or just get creative in any way, cave folk style.
If the year has 25 months, the moon must either be ridiculously huge and much closer to Earth, or something must have happened to blast a huge chunk of it off.
What are the tides like?
If the chain of events that have been affecting my computer is telling, I’d say the tides are high and unpredictable.
