Being a Derp

Also I don’t give a fuck, I named the Deercat Fluffy.

I want one.

And he would be my Fluffy.

I’ve got an AirFlo EX controller (since I don’t have a usb xbox controller, which would make my life much easier with some things) so I’ve got a lot of buttons to work with. I’ve got 3 different configs that I can switch between, although one of them just turns off all the translations so I can use it like a regular controller for some games, and the other just moves the mouse faster. It’s really handy for running through tumblr in paged mode and catching up with everything pretty quick, since I have page scrolling set to the right analog stick.

I’ve also got it optimized for working with youtube and my own mkv player, since I have digital copies of my own movies (which isn’t illegal since I’m not sharing them with anyone, they’re backups) and I don’t want to keep leaning forward over my keyboard like I am now. Below is a list of what all the different buttons on my controller do. I’ll use Playstation layout (triangle, circle, square, x) for reference, and I’ll include a link to their website if you want to take a look.

Bit of a warning, you can make it start when your computer does (which I need it to) but figuring out how to do that is annoying, and if you want help you can either look it up or ask me, I’ll be happy to help. Other warning, when it’s doing a system message or asking for permision to run a program, it won’t register input from anything other than a, actual keyboard or mouse. That’s annoying, especially if you have semi-regular system restarts because you’re running windows 8.1 cause you haven’t upgraded.

But that doesn’t mean I’ve been doing nothing. I’ve been taking a python programming class at the local college, working (making dat money), and planning.

Work’s a pain right now, because it’s raining so much and I have to be outside potting up plants most of the day. But I make $10 an hour, which is about 50ish cents above minimum wage. I still live at home, so all I have to pay for is food occasionally and gas for the car. The rest goes into savings and holy crap I have almost $4k in there. That’s the most money I’ve ever owned. But most of that’s gonna be for when I get a bigger workload in college. Which is coming next quarter.

My college class is going well, I have an A in it, I think the extra credit from the midterm has bumped me above 100% actually. So there’s that. I can keep up pretty well, since it’s an intro class and I’ve gotten to an intermediate course in Java before. Most of this is old stuff for me, but in a new language. So there’s all sorts of differences, and a lot of them I like. Java is like you’re trying to speak computer, whereas Python is like having a conversation with it. Much nicer.

I’ve been working bit by bit on my art, and it’s going really slowly. I haven’t posted anything, because most of them are either rubbish or they’re just swirls on paper. Yeah, those bored little swirly doodles you sometimes do in a notebook? Been doing a lot of those. A few sketches for things I’ve been planning out.

My planning has mostly been centered around my room, really. I’ve got an idea for a physically small server which can run 16 virtual machines at 1gb of ram each, but I’d probably cut that in half and give everything 2gb of ram. They’d be servers, so I wouldn’t expect to give them a crap load of random access memory anyway. I want to have one virtual machine be a NAS, which I can pull off because of all the data I can store on it. I already have a 2TB external Hard drive, and I’d be throwing a 1TB NAS rated 2.5 inch hard drive in it, because it only takes 2.5 inch drives. so it’s gonna have a total of 3TB of space, and if I use a Xen server, I can trick everything into thinking I have more space (even though I probably won’t). I want another virtual server to rip movies and transcode them into a smaller, cinema-worthy .mkv file (which I can do, if you want to know more about any of this go ahead and send me an ask) and store it on a Plex media server, so I can play it on my computer, xbox, phone, whatever. It’d be like a personal Netflix (but better, because I’d have harry potter ;P). The only other servers I’d want would be one Minecraft server (modded, so it needs more ram than usual) and a server that will auto-backup my pc. So I don’t need to worry about it. This server, in total cost (without taxes and shipping) will cost me $505 and be extremely easy to put together.

The other plan was for a projector system in my room, so I could have a massive screen for games and my general PC usage. AND so I wouldn’t have to get out of my bed in the winter. That would be nice. But I’ve had to do a lot of measuring, and looking at the prices of things I could pull it off now, if I wanted. it’ll cost a little under $300 w/o shipping/taxes and seems really easy to set up. I already have spaces for my game consoles, printer and pc next to my bed, so that’s handy. And I’d be running cables up the wall next to a window, so it’s neat and would look good :) If anyone wants to see them, I have sketches of what I’ll be doing.