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Forced out of a Hiatus Again (June Update)

NothanyTPM — 3 weeks ago

Time to drag myself kicking and screaming back into my drawing habit. As much as I want to keep coding, I also want to do my Christmas Special in a timely manner instead of crunching for two month straight

As always, scroll past any topics you're not interested in. I put those headers there for convenience since I know not everyone is a nerd like me

Linux Stuff

Good news! I got dwm up and running on my main machine!

Bad news is that it's practically the same as the last time I showed it off. Very basic, and with a bunch of missing features.

Thought that implementing the network and volume indicators would be easy, but even looking at other people's code I still couldn't figure it out on time.

But hey, it works, and does everything I need to do with it. And that's all that matters. The rest can be added when I get bored of drawing.

Might show an updated pic once it starts looking good

Steam Deck Stuff

Part of me regrets buying the Steam Deck. No, not because it's a bad machine. It's amazing! The problem is I'm addicted to customizing the crap out of it, and finally playing games that have been in my bucket list for ages.

It's too good! I don't get any work done with it because I just wanna see if it can play all my games...and 9 times out of 10 it does! Heck, I even set this thing up so I can draw portably with it. You might even see something from it this month too!

Better that Switch 2 in every way (minus accessibility if you're doing non-steam games)

Life Stuff

Not really much went down last month, but the end of that month was jammed packed. I went to my parent's cottage where I helped find what was wrong with the fridge my mom brought over, I then improved the cellphone booster a little by shoving tin foil in the connector (the better antenna had a smaller connector, and the adapters I bought didn't fit).

Lastly, I decided to make a home-made NAS (Network Attached Storage) for a cousin of mine using a PC he found in the dump. Setting it up was pretty easy, but putting the thousands of games on there took forever, and it didn't help that a few of them got corrupted.

I had to scramble and find a way to redownload them, but the new versions came in a different format, so I had to figure-out how to convert them to work on the Wii I hacked for my cousin at around the same time.

Whole thing was wild and nearly took a week, but it's done now.

Though, now I have to double-check my Wii game collection now since I thought all those games were fine.

Photography Stuff

So while I was waiting for a few things to transfer over to my cousin's little NAS box I decided to go outside a little and take a few pictures for fun. Beats having to wait a solid 4 hours in a house with no fresh air coming in.

Unfortunately, some of them came-out ever so slightly blurry. It's hard taking night time shots without a tripod since you have to stay perfectly still for at minimum 1 second. By the end of my shoot my arms were too tired to keep a steady shot. It would take me 10 snaps just to get a single decent one while before it would take me like 3 snaps.

Might try doing more of these photo shoots if I ever end-up feeling too demotivated from drawing.

Conclusion

If I had to describe my time in May in a single word it would be: exhausting.

I don't know how this always happens, but things almost always go wrong when I tinker around with tech.

The good thing is this month I won't need to touch anything tech related, so it should be smooth sailing...maybe...probably...hopefully...dear god, let this be a calm month, I don't think I can take much more of this.

Regardless, see you all next post!