Blogs on Unknown Group 13

A Sudden Return

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Well, that was longer than I hoped. I had to take some leave because my life got very busy. I was still active elsewhere, but this website was certainly neglected in the meantime. Don’t want to get whining like I did in past posts, but as usual, things aren’t looking fantastic. The AI craze has erradicated any hope of good work in an already oversaturated field, it made the prospect of self-employment refurbishing hardware economically infeasible due to the horrifically inflated prices of RAM and storage, and generally the cost of living as risen considerably in such a short amount of time. I’m frankly lucky to still have a home for the time being and not roaming the streets.

Tough Times

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I haven’t been updating these like I wanted, I feel silly about the whole thing. It just seems like everything is getting worse. Maybe part of it is my fault for not taking action when I could’ve, instead I’ve just been procrastinating about it all. What am I supposed to do though? Turn off my emotions? Give up on university when I’m so close to finishing? Everything has been blurring together, if it weren’t for the seasonal change, I couldn’t tell that it was April and not November of last year. Can I even get a job after university? Is anyone hiring? Should I just drop my standards and get stuck in some minimum wage, dead-end job just so I don’t starve or go homeless? Alright, enough feeling sorry for myself and ranting to the void.

Hardware Luck

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been thinking back about how I seem to have the worst luck when it comes to hardware. Just some strange happenings with stuff I get or try to work with.

Problematic PC

It all started with my main PC build, I was excited to finally get a workstation computer that I could do all my tasks on, from light gaming to heavy coding projects. I’ve been stuck with an old laptop for a while and I was desperate to upgrade. After the CPU finally arrived, I happily slotted it in, and tried to boot it up. Fans turned on, some LED status lights, but the graphics card was silent. Since the CPU didn’t have integrated graphics, the discrete card was a requirement. I worried that the card was dead, it got warm, so it was receiving power, but maybe the PSU was faulty and not delivering enough power. Maybe it was the CPU, maybe the motherboard.

Work for Nothing

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A feeling that I’ve been having for a while about a several things I’m involved in. The feeling you get where you put a lot of time, effort, and money into something for naught. Try to set something up, only for nobody to use it because they can’t understand how to change over to it from what already exists. Am I making any sense? Probably not. I just feel like I’m doing a lot of work for nothing, they don’t actually need me to be around, they can do fine on their own. If anything, it seems like sometimes my presence is undesirable, I just overcomplicate things with the way I do things. Facebook this, Gmail that, we need X amount of smart TVs, etc. etc., yet you want to do all your accounting and paperwork on actual paper? Then why am I here?

Fumo Zone and Moving Forward

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Probably a bit out of left field compared to my last post, but I wanted to talk about it anyway. Just yesterday my order of bootleg fumos arrived early to my delight. Maybe not the wisest financial decision, but they just look so funny. They’re not as squishy as I’ve imagined, but that’s probably just the different type of stuffing they used. I got two Yuuka fumos (don’t ask), so I can tell the slight differences in the crafting defects, so I guess you can say each bootleg fumbo is personalized in some way.

The Long Road of Life

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As it seems with any time I think things are going to get better, things get so much worse. It’s been a pretty rough year, worst of my life so far, but I’m still here and I’m not planning to go anywhere soon. I kind of wanted to start a blog here at some point, mostly to just jot down some of my thoughts, since nobody is going to be reading these, just never got around to doing it. I suppose starting on the anniversary day of my website is something of a special occasion.