Musings of some guy on vacation
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So I'm burning through some vacation time right now. I decided to revive my "old" gaming machine, which I had repurposed for hosting VMs about 2 years ago. Then within the last year, I got myself an Intel NUC that can handle 32GB of RAM, and I've since moved all my VMs to it. So this still relatively beefy machine had gone unused for the better part of the last year. So I decided to reinstall GTA5 on it. 7 DVDs worth of content to copy. Then an 18GB update. Over my 5mbps connection. This'll take 8 hours, according to the installer. For the update, that is; the game's installed, but I can't launch it until it has updated itself. According to an article that came out nearly 3 years ago, 25mbps is now considered "broadband", whereas according to the previous definition, 4mbps used to be enough to qualify. My provider really has some catching up to do... Clearly I'm not going to be playing GTA5 today, so I decided to catch up with some Channel 9 videos I had been meaning to watch for a while. So I fired up a browser...and the video stutters all over the place. I paused the GTA5 update download, downloaded the Channel 9 video instead of streaming it, and then resumed the game update. Start watching the video...and I promptly fell asleep on it. I can't help but feel like I'm not exactly making the most of my first day of vacation.
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So I'm burning through some vacation time right now. I decided to revive my "old" gaming machine, which I had repurposed for hosting VMs about 2 years ago. Then within the last year, I got myself an Intel NUC that can handle 32GB of RAM, and I've since moved all my VMs to it. So this still relatively beefy machine had gone unused for the better part of the last year. So I decided to reinstall GTA5 on it. 7 DVDs worth of content to copy. Then an 18GB update. Over my 5mbps connection. This'll take 8 hours, according to the installer. For the update, that is; the game's installed, but I can't launch it until it has updated itself. According to an article that came out nearly 3 years ago, 25mbps is now considered "broadband", whereas according to the previous definition, 4mbps used to be enough to qualify. My provider really has some catching up to do... Clearly I'm not going to be playing GTA5 today, so I decided to catch up with some Channel 9 videos I had been meaning to watch for a while. So I fired up a browser...and the video stutters all over the place. I paused the GTA5 update download, downloaded the Channel 9 video instead of streaming it, and then resumed the game update. Start watching the video...and I promptly fell asleep on it. I can't help but feel like I'm not exactly making the most of my first day of vacation.
dandy72 wrote:
So I'm burning through some vacation time right now.
dandy72 wrote:
I promptly fell asleep
dandy72 wrote:
I can't help but feel like I'm not exactly making the most of my first day of vacation.
I don't know... it sounds about like what I would do for my vacation.