taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

@mavica_again i think no thanks

whatever i end up getting i want it to last a while so i'm gonna try to get something like.. recent mid-range i guess. i have not done much research on it yet

thanks for the offer though

argh this is so frustrating to debug, it happens so rarely and unpredictably
it's PROBABLY the igpu & hopefully the drivers but it COULD be a HW fault but it's so hard to confirm

i could just bite the bullet & buy a dedicated gpu (which i was gonna do eventually) & sweep all this under the rug.....

after a full day of no crashes & even failing to trigger one by stressing the gpu (3d benchmark + streaming video + many browser tabs at the same time) it again randomly happened while web browsing tonight... but it actually recovered (w/display drivers disabled) without a sleep/wake cycle this time

@vikxin i'm hoping it won't come to that & we can get it resolved before the next rent is due (on the 1st) but we will see I guess

@vikxin yeah i hate that kind of half arsed shit. if they were TOTALLY absent it'd be like okay fuck it whatever I'll take things into my own hands. but they are still involved and everything still has to go through them, it just takes fucking ages to get them to do something that would only take 5 minutes to actually resolve. its so frustrating

i messaged him again asking hey what's going on do you still want to meet and he just said can we do it tomorrow instead
okay!!!!! thanks for wasting my evening dickhead!!!!!

guess what happened!!!!! i hate this shit it just fucks my entire evening because i'm just sat here waiting to hear from the prick

update i messaged him about it & he replied asking if i was free this evening to which i replied yes anytime & you would think that would mean things are moving and we're going to meet and resolve this. but with this guy there's a 50/50 chance he will just ghost me for the rest of the day

once again I am having landlord problems!!!!!
my flat and the one above are on a shared electricity meter, previously we'd each pay half to the landlord who would pay the bill
the new landlord seems to be incapable of sorting this out and i'm now getting overdue notices through my door

@Rib right yeah I didn't get one. my SSD is on gen 5 but i don't think there's a problem with that

i have reinstalled and updated the graphics drivers though & haven't had any crashes in a couple hours so we'll see...

updated the bios on friday and after no problems yesterday it happened again today
but i realised that in the "crashed" state it is still responsive to some things & i was able to sleep & wake it which brought it back to windows with the display drivers disabled. so that might be the problem area

i've got monday off work, at least, so i will try to have a chill next couple of days
apart from the one thing i still have to deal with. but i'm not thinking about that for now

today didn't go well

maybe the last couple of months have finally caught up with me

@mavica_again depends what you want to do with it tbh, i'm not sure how much the small one was but the 2 controllers one was £25 which seems a bit much for what it is

they are purely famiclones w/ multigame rom on internal flash so if you wanted to convert it into an emu box you'd prob only be keeping the shell and maybe controller pcbs and replacing the rest