Jack of Harts

I’ve been operating a home for wayward electronics for a very long time. If people don’t want their old junk, I take it and make it useful. I’ve got a line of old computers I run for image generation and games and stuff like that. Pretty much all of them are old corporate rigs that were retired, and they are all in the 10 to 15 to 20 year old range. That makes them too old to run Windows 11 at all. Microsoft told me to buy something new or pay for extended support. Little do they know that I play chicken really well. I’m one of the people who waited them out for the free extended support and got it. Because I’m not getting new computers right now.

But I have been upgrading the ones I have. I just upgraded one of my Lenova M series slim desktops up to 32 gigs of ram and an old GeForce 1030 video card. Old and cheap by modern standards, but a real robust system when tweaked right. I just managed to log into Guild Wars 2 with most of the options on high or medium, and played the game without a hiccup through several big events and some roller beetle racing across the map. That was pretty awesome.

And yes, that means my Battle of the Line continues, as I seek to boost all of the machines on my line to the best I can get out of them. For writing, image generation, and web browsing, gaming… and yes…. AI is on my list of things I want to do.