#computer hell

In artfight?? LETS GET COMEDY AND MYSTERY!! YAY

I have a feeling AM does not really have food, at all. It's been made clear that they can make holograms that are very convincing, which leads me to believe that the reason why the survivors never feel full or satiated when they eat something is that the food itself is a hologram.

It sticks around long enough to be held, tasted, eaten, but once it gets down into the stomach is where the ruse ends. It cannot be digested, it cannot be metabolized. I think it makes sense, since AM was never designed with any inclination towards preservation of anything in mind- so far as anyone knows, the computer was never meant to be a survival bunker, so why would it have actual food or water?

Follow-up idea: Rose doesn't know she's dead. That's because she wasn't supposed to be, since she was dragged there through a portal, but Antivirus was pissed off from witnessing the tail end of the fight and was rougher with her than he needed to be (or probably should've been) and she died in transit. Her current form is affected by her belief that she's still alive, so it changes in a way that almost but not quite perfectly emulates the rate she should be ageing, acts as though she needs to sleep, eat, breathe, and go to the bathroom, and simulates a heart beating and the resulting activity in the circulatory system (so she has a pulse). Given how much control she's exerting over her "body," even if it's currently all subconscious, things could get interesting when she inevitably learns the truth.

Antivirus knows she'd dead, and that she thinks she isn't. He just doesn't think it matters enough to correct her.

Yesterday my laptop refused to connect to the Internet, even though my Wi-Fi was working. I decided I would devote Saturday morning to trying to figure out what the problem was. 

So today I was going to get online using my phone to find a solution to my laptop problem and discovered the phone battery was almost drained and I had left the charger to my phone at work! (It is a new phone and of course they changed the shape of the charge connector; consequently, the numerous chargers I have at home don’t work with it! 😳) 

So I had to hook up an old tablet that has a keyboard so I could get on the Internet and try to find a solution to my problem. And of course since I hadn’t used that tablet in a long time, I had to wait for all the updates to install before I could use it. 

(I hate all those little spinning circles from hell that appear on your screen as you are waiting for the updates to install! 😡)

After I was finally online, I looked up various solutions to my problem, and tried a number of them including restoring my system to an earlier time but nothing worked.

So I finally had to reinstall Windows, which pretty much wiped out all my settings and many of my apps (although the reinstall preserved my personal files). 

I’m still downloading applications but I thought I’d pause the purgatory of download/setup (which is not quite as bad as troubleshooting hell) and bitch about this whole process.

On the positive side, reinstalling Windows probably cleaned up my registry and any malware that my virus protection programs might have missed. So hopefully everything will run smoother now. 

Still, I really hate it when the whole operating system has to be reinstalled!