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Aaaaand spoke too soon
Made a post last night about how I think the computer is okay, came home from work this afternoon to find it did this again. I know, I know, I jinxed it.
No issues found! You didn’t find any issues the last four times, either! Why do you keep doing this.
Gaaaah. Should I even try to do a full reinstall? Contact Dell customer service and sit through however many hours of troubleshooting they’d want to do? Or just give up and live like this?
…and, in a completely unrelated bonus vent:
Chris Chan, long-time Webcomic Person and generally infamous Internet Personality, has been trending on Twitter for a bit. For entirely horrible reasons. If you don’t want to read about elder abuse and mental illness, don’t go digging.
But given that she has like a 20-year history of being egged/goaded/manipulated by trolls into doing awful things for their entertainment…my first thought on hearing bad news about her is “wonder which sociopath talked her into thinking this was ok.”
(For anyone who wants receipts, there’s a comprehensive documentary series on YouTube that goes through the trolling in detail. And by “comprehensive” I mean “59 parts so far, each about 40 minutes long, and it’s only caught up through 2017.” The creator just put it on hiatus, because they don’t want to seem like they’re taking advantage of a terrible situation for hits — which is a principled move, good for them — but here I am linking to the back catalog anyway.)
Seriously, in a better healthcare system Chris would’ve been taken into some kind of professional care at least a decade ago, for her own safety. Let alone anyone else’s.
And I hate how sure I am that the instigators are never gonna see any consequences ever.
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Never heard of Chris Chan before but checked the link and read some of the comments and now I'm intrigued and vaguely horrified. Just vaguely bc I don't know enough details to be fully horrified yet, I might start watching these videos tho. Thank you for sharing.
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"Intrigued and vaguely horrified" sounds like the right response when starting to learn things about Chris-chan!
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yesterday I watched the 2 first videos and half of the 3rd of the documentary and I already have no words ⚆_⚆
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Probably also gives heat time to dissipate? I feel like modern engineering should handle that with fans and vents anyway, but it's gotta vary from one device to the next, at least.
But with solid-state drives, they aren't moving, the thing that wears them down is "writing new data to the disk, then erasing it, then writing something new in that space, then erasing it, then..."
And hibernating a computer means "taking the current state of the memory and saving it onto the drive, then loading it from there when you boot back up." So every time you do it, it writes a new extra-large file onto the drive. Which is more stressful than just leaving it running, and letting all that data stay in the memory continuously.
...although now that I think about it, this computer came with a tiny hard drive and the premise that you want to keep most of your files in the cloud when you're not using them. So a lot of my process, by design, goes "download files to work on, make edits in the local copy, delete local files after they're re-uploaded to free up space, download new files..."
Which, if your work involves a lot of large files, might wear down the drive fast enough that "not hibernating" isn't saving all that much by comparison. Like ordering lots of greasy high-calorie fast food, then taking care to only get the low-fat dressing :/
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well, even if not hibernating doesn't do that much in the grand scheme of things, still might be better than nothing (?) ;; btw it's been a couple of days, is your computer still giving you trouble?
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