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Well, quite a bit, you might say. I've been almost exclusively working on my Youtube Author Life Channel. Of course, it's under my name. I'm an author, and it's about my life trying to make it as an author and freelance writer. It's not pretty. It's real. I talk about how I am really treated every day. What I do to get my groceries. The challenges this job causes. And pretty much everything else.
Here's a video. I was trying to get the Youtube to embed, but they are using a bad technology for embedding. It's iframes, and it's highly susceptible to scammers, fraudsters and criminals as far as what I have read about it. SO, you can visit my Youtube channel. Here is the intro video.
And this was awful to try and get in here. I have a hosting provider that is stuck in 1995. Oh, except they implemented an unhelpful AI bot to answer questions on the weekend.
My question was - Where is the INTERNAL FTP? It gave me directions for EXTERNAL. *sigh* I may have to change hosting providers as horrible as that is to do.
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock or miraculously, you have everything you need, including water, electric and gas, for the next several years, you are probably getting hammered by stupidly high prices. I can tell you that I am completely fed up with this PAY PAY PAY society. And as fiction and freelance writers, its our job to write about these atrocities. However, it might be more difficult if you’re a fiction writer. There’s just a lot to unpack for a fiction plot.
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Well, I figured I'd continue this computer drama story. I got the adapter today around 10 AM. I disconnected the old adapter/splitter, rearranged some wires and turned on the machine. None of the monitors were seen. That was irritating. Turns out that the graphics card in the machine is rather finicky. I did get all 3 monitors seen, except I got 3 exact duplicates of the screen. With the new DSP to HDMI adapter, I got one monitor. Fucking fantastic. Am I surprised? Of course, NOT! This is my luck all day every day. Nothing ever works the way it's supposed to or the way I want it to. I ended up cleaning up the other splitter/adapter and plugging it back in. I figure since it was off the machine, it should be degrimed.
What the next step? At a bare minimum, I need a new graphics card that supports three monitors. If I happen to have spare money beyond that, I should double the RAM. I could also buy a new HP420, but that wouldn't solve the monitor problem either.
At least, I'm no worse off than I was before. I have 2 working monitors. It's just proving to be a challenge to get that 3rd monitor to display correctly.
In other news, I have finally started the audio for Little Bitey 22.
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Slow shipping really makes me mad. I was nice enough to the delivery lady, but she thought she was going to drop it on the porch. Oh, nononononono. Not with it being 3 days late. Unfortunately, I think, because of the type of splitter I have, my computer is only seeing 2 monitors, and it's mirroring the 2 Phillips monitors. BTW, these are not 22", like they are advertised. They are 21". You can see the size difference in the image. The monitor that is lit next to the wall is a real 22". I'm not very pleased about that. I am pleased that they both came with HDMI cables. I was not expecting that. the HDMI cables are not listed as being included. they also come with power cords. You will need them. I went to plug one in with my old cord, and these are nonstandard power cables. So, I ordered the other adapter. It's a DSP to HDMI, which means that I can connect all 3 monitors to the HDMI splitter I just got. That could also be the problem, but it's also possible that this computer just can't do 3 monitors. It'd be odd, since it was refurbed in 2020, but stranger things have happened. So, I should have the new adapter Sunday. We'll see.
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They should have been here at some point Wednesday.
They should have been here Thursday at 11AM.
They should have been here today at 11:15 AM
It is now Thursday at 11:30AM.
It's like pulling teeth. they just can't get these monitors to me. If you can think of something worse than teeth, feel free to sub the thing. It's really worse than that.
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