Companion Piece For Coffee Time: Mistaken

I’m pretty sure I left a few things out of that last Coffee Time video that I’d wanted to talk about, so I’ll try to get to them here.

First things first, though, here’s the video itself:

The term I was looking for at the end there was production value. I don’t really have much of that in… any of what I do, really. I’m hoping to change that to some degree going forward, since I may very well have a little more free time on my hands for the foreseeable future.

Figuring out what I want to do and how might take a minute, and while I work on that, I’m sure the PC I’m on now will suffice for my needs at present.

The laptops I’ve got at present are not exactly cut out for that sort of work anyway. The one that prompted all this to begin with is running Windows XP, which ended its life cycle in 2014, I believe. In addition, the battery on that particular unit is shot and the display needs to be replaced. The other one I have is badged for Windows 7, runs Windows 10, and is slow as hell most of the time. Those are just the issues I know about, of course. There are almost certainly more that I have no idea how to find, let alone fix.

One suggestion I got when I mentioned some of this in a stream chat I was in after I’d resolved the power issue with the XP unit was installing Linux on one of the laptops. While it’s a nice enough idea, it doesn’t really resolve any of the other issues the devices have. On top of that, I’m really not technically proficient enough to do something like that, and I’m not in a situation where I’d need a multi-system setup even if I was, nor do I see that changing any time soon.

Far as getting the hard drive from the XP one pulled, I might try myself once I get what I think I want off it, but if I cant, I might see what Best Buy can do for me. As for the Windows 10 one, I might just have Best Buy back it up to an external drive and pull the internal one before recycling I as well.

While I’m working on all this, I’ll probably be looking at YouTube channels like LGR and 8-Bit Guy to see if they might have insights, too.

I also did manage to get my list of ideas written and put up on my fridge. I’ve got a copy made for my laundry bag, too, for just in case.

So that’s where I am with all of this. Things are moving forward at least a little bit. Hopefully, anyway. Only time will tell how all this really works out.

See you soon.