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Weekend Dinners, New Gadgets
Jul. 11th, 2022 01:50 pmThe weekend was a very social one, because every so often even I have to have a little recharge of this sort. Friday night was an excellent Wild Arts Social Club "slow friending" dinner at Platform 28, where I had an unexpected encounter with the most excellent Fiona P, who was among the forty or so guests. The following night Liana F., took me to the Brunswick Winter Ball and we took the opportunity to frock up even more than usual. There was a jazz band present (The Pearly Shells), with the usual saxophone and trumpet farts (I really don't like jazz), but I could certainly appreciate the competence of many of the dancers present. The following day I dropped off Sabre cat to Mel S's place where she'll be staying for a week as I go to Darwin for the Fringe Festival. Sabre settled in really well, for someone who is usually such a grumpy cat. Finally, that evening hosted a brunch-styled dinner and drinkes for Ayna and Ryan H., with our often-typical conversation on matters concerning music and particular neurodivergence issues.
It took a bloody long time, as in over a year, but work finally managed to get a new laptop to me. That is just as well, as the CPU fan on the old one was sounding like a washing machine on start-up and the right hinge for the screen has come quite loose. Setting up the new system simply involved rsync-ing the home directory, and getting a few additional packages installed. Quite happy with the new system, a Thinkpad X1. Whilst it has the same amount of RAM (16G), it also has twice the storage (500GB) and whilst the CPU is of the same generation (Intel i-7), with a much better maximum performance (4.7GHz), and twice as many cores (8). It's also much lighter. I also have a new mobile 'phone, a little present for myself. It's an Oppo A64, replacing my rather suboptimal LG K9. Transferring all the data from one to the other was not nearly as simple, but I managed to get everything done. I am still getting some service issues, but otherwise, I'm pretty happy with the performance, new camera, and much-improved storage.
It took a bloody long time, as in over a year, but work finally managed to get a new laptop to me. That is just as well, as the CPU fan on the old one was sounding like a washing machine on start-up and the right hinge for the screen has come quite loose. Setting up the new system simply involved rsync-ing the home directory, and getting a few additional packages installed. Quite happy with the new system, a Thinkpad X1. Whilst it has the same amount of RAM (16G), it also has twice the storage (500GB) and whilst the CPU is of the same generation (Intel i-7), with a much better maximum performance (4.7GHz), and twice as many cores (8). It's also much lighter. I also have a new mobile 'phone, a little present for myself. It's an Oppo A64, replacing my rather suboptimal LG K9. Transferring all the data from one to the other was not nearly as simple, but I managed to get everything done. I am still getting some service issues, but otherwise, I'm pretty happy with the performance, new camera, and much-improved storage.
