Sep 22

 Another half back step today. Still doing better than I was. Possibly my fault as I neglected most of my meds last night. Too tired. Just slept. And then got up halfway to at least take an anti histamine.

Today despite the exhaustion dogging my heels I have finished off setting up the mini server and getting at least email running on it. I am back online with emails. They've been out since June. To be honest I hate emails nowadays. They have become a swamp of spam and advertising and the actual bona fide messages I get through are so rare as to be statistically a non event. A bit like landline phones. From useful. To non useful. To a burden of fake callers. Email has gone the same way. I can't be arsed with it anymore.

Oddly enough, in the 3 months my email has been down, *nothing of any import was sent to it*. A few hundred adverts. Jolly good.

And yes, my mini server finally arrived. A wonder of modern tech, it sits in the palm of my hand, makes no noise, and is approximately the same kind of oomph as a hefty PC of 10 years ago. In other words it does just fine for everything from emails, to playing videos. I am not about to testing gaming on it, but apparently it does fairly ok at that too.

About 10 minutes after unpacking my new mini wonder, I lost it.

Ah.

The PCs have reduced in size to a point where they now fall foul of my ADHD where did it go brain.

Yikes.

I found it eventually. But. Made me laugh. I can't say I've ever lost a computer before.

The new PC setups get ever slicker. No drivers. No prompts. Shit just works. I plugged in the mini croissant, gave it a network cable, a bluetooth dongle and a TV output, and without a single prompt had the network running, accessed the internet for updates, had the wireless keyboard, mouse and display all bang on. No configuration at all. It wasn't too long ago where I would have to kick it network wise to get it on the right IP, the right gateway et al. These days they just seem to find it out themselves - not an unimpressive trick.

So there it sits. Gobbling up all of 7 watts of power and watching over my emails and my source code repo. My gaming rig on the other hand has an 800w psu. Over 100 times more energy gobbly. Uh huh.

The things you can do with all the different PC form factors and power ratings and remoting is amazing. Enable RDP on the machine, and it turns into a silent box in the corner doing its thing. Whatever that may be. Everyone and adam as some kind of computer now. Whether it's a mobile phone in their hands, a laptop, a tablet or something. And yet. All those users are miles away from the really cool things you can do with a bunch of them. Not to mention redundancy. If one goes bang. The others are all there.

Today I also sorted out getting back onto the charity server, tweaking the network that had got bitrot, and getting myself in a position to start back up on that again.

So. Despite my exhausted self. I guess I had a somewhat productive day.

I'm trying hard to stave off the exhaustion. But. Eh. Really. I can't do much about it. It will do what it does. I hope I have some energy over the weekend to do shit.

Going to start playing Baldurs Gate 3 next week with a bunch of people. Not a super fan of Bladders Gate. But it's been getting a lot of praise. And. It's an ideal game to play sessions with a group of people with, actual D & D style. Plus. I'm doing it with half on eye on cheering my brother up. And getting him some co-operative goofing around time.

Should be cool.

One of my favourite gaming experiences was getting a bunch of people together regularly once a week for a Neverwinter Nights session. We'd play through different campaigns and scenarios all pulled from the official books. And it was awesome.

Shame they buggered NWN up in the end. But whilst it lasted. It was amazing.