Veney

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I have never heard of this before. And despite the comparison to chess, just a brief read through the rules makes it feel very different than any other board game I’ve heard of.

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Ugh. So there’s committing to the move on an intellectual level, and committing to the move on an emotional level.

It sounds like you’ll need to do some digging to find out what’s really bothering your partner about all this.

From what I’ve seen in the past, one frequent issue is moving away from family. (Or moving closer to family, sometimes that’s not great.)

If you want to talk to an Internet stranger who knows absolutely nothing about you beyond Garnet, feel free to send me a PM.

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I’m not sure what I will be doing. Maybe meeting the parents-in-law for lunch. Maybe seeing one or more of the nephews and SIL. Probably cleaning the fish tank for our 17 year old goldfish. Cleaning is good, and never ends, not really.

But I can tell a short story about what I was doing.

I had decided to replace my secondary desktop (for $WORK) with something smaller and less power-consuming. I have a few different choices laying around the IT storage area.

My first choice was an old Acer mini-desktop with 8G of RAM, 4th gen Intel i5. Plenty for the secondary desktop, which is really just to act as a jump host and for note-taking. Along with being too old to run Windows 11, it was showing a little instability, in that it would not always recognize a boot drive. But it booted most of the time, so that was probably fine for my needs.

I transplant the SSD from the other system to this one, and no matter what I try, it won’t recognize the drive. I do the usual stuff, resetting the BIOS, disabling secure boot, etc… I had previously installed Debian on another SSD, that that worked most of the time, so I don’t think it was something to do with secure boot. (*) Eventually I give up on it and it goes into the electronics recycling pile. (The pile is probably big enough to make another run.)

My next choice is a Acer mini-desktop (i3-8100) that is just barely new enough to run Windows 11… poorly. Since no one else is going to need it, I put my SSD in there, and have the same kind of problems as the previous one. But after disabling secure boot, it seems to be fine. I scavenge 8GB of PC4 memory for it (slower than what it originally had) but it seems to run OK.

I just have this fascination / desire to make use of slightly broken things, and putting them to good use. Given no constraints on time / space / money, you would probably find me surrounded with all manner of devices that have some quirks, and probably been repaired at least once, but can still be put to good use. I’m not quite sure why I am like that.

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(*) Though, maybe it does have something to do with secure boot after all. If the CMOS battery was flaky… It may have been reverting to secure boot, even after that was disabled. Meh. It is in the junk pile now, there’s really no need to rescue it. What you have now runs and is stable, don’t mess around further in search of answers you don’t really need! (This is me talking to myself.)

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You’ve already committed to moving, but don’t agree on the process?

You haven’t come to a consensus on moving? Or where to move?

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Good Night Oppy is definitely worth a watch if you haven’t already.

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We’re at the point that major investment is needed for the Deep Space Network (large radio transceivers spread around the world) to support more missions. They are already rationing bandwidth for the various active missions.

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