I'd like to break the silence. It's been quite a lot of time passed since the last post.

Without details, 2024 been a tough year of drastic changes to overcome. And here I am, doing fine, just feel tired. Now I'm in a boring circle of work and resting from it as everyone else.

Speaking of this place, judging by my git, can't say I ever abandoned it. Been getting back on working on here from time to time to forget about difficulties for a while. Just didn't find the words to write here.

Hm, I just realised that there are only posts about bad things on diary. Hope it will change. :/

Хотелось бы прервать молчание. Много времени прошло с последнего поста.

Без подробностей, 2024 был тяжелым годом кардинальных изменений через которые пришлось пройти. И вот я здесь, всё нормально, просто уставший. Как и все, нахожусь в скучном круговороте работы и отдыха от неё.

Что на счет этого места, судя по моему гиту, не сказал бы, что когда-либо забрасывал его. Возвращался к работе над ним время от времени, дабы забыться. Просто не находил слов, чтобы сюда написать.

Хм, сейчас понял, что в дневнике записи только о плохом. Надеюсь, это изменится. :/

How to say it better... Alas, not good at english swearings.

Worst fucking year ever. Fucked it in a mouth and other suitable, and not so much, holes. And if there wasn't enough, then would make a new ones and fucked in them until there's nothing but a pile of shit will stay. Wew...

Year of disease and death. Fuck this chinese flu. We got illed with COVID-19 this spring and got over it in June. But aftermatch hit my grandpa in October. He got a stroke and died in 3 days unconscious because of cerebral edema.

Won't give too much details, just say we had a little to no, ghostly, hope for him to recover. His health was fucked badly and without this COVID-19. It just broke him completely, irrecoverably, touched every of his chronic illnessnes, all of them were related to blood, bones and brain, so shit was serious.

He was in chernobyl, was sent there very soon after catastrophe took place, and no matter what precautions he done radiation, obviously, fucked him up. Oh, he just turned 74 years old in September and that's what happened. Oh, if only not this shitty flu...

Well, I guess now you understand why I wasn't replying to anything. Just was doing minor updates to get distracted.

Thanks for your attention.

And wanna say a special thank to a guy that sent me in an email an easy fix for Gitea using nginx's sub_filter to replace domains on pages accordingly to what domain you access it with. Alas, your mail provider is using Spamhaus block lists, and I'm sitting on a dynamic residential connection, so getting instantly rejected. Hope you will see this post. Thank you.

Yesterday (19 Nov for me is it :)) I replaced a thermal compound on my PC, and, of course, it just couldn't be an ordinary procedure.

When I assembled everything back and turned on the PC it started swearing at me with 26 beeps and rebooting. I knew that it could be a problem with a RAM stick, but I didn't believe it. And I dissassembled it again and found that a few pins were bended and one missing (!). I fixed them all (around 5 didn't count) and was thinking what to do with that missing pin. I thought it was causing problem but searching led me to a pinout of the socket 1150 and that pin was doing something called VDDQ, and I found that it isn't a problem at all. There was a questionable pin SA_DQ57 (whatever it means), but I bended it a little and it's fine.

Oh, why I even took it from the socket? To clean it from an old thermal compound.

Well, I almost give in to a thought of taking a motherboard to a service and then I tried to put a RAM stick to the second slot and ... it worked! Shit, I don't know what happened. I've vacuumed the motherboard and was absolutely careful. No doubt I didn't break anything, yet, fuck. That vacuum cleaner isn't even powerful enough to suck in anything soldered.

But there's one breakage for sure. One of fixators of a cooler has broken. Shit. Now radiator isn't attached well to the CPU. Hopefully it led to the same temperatures as they was before at least. xD Don't want to whip up it with shit and bricks a zip tie, so I'd better get a new one. And I already ordered it, a little smaller, but supports socket AM4, so I will reuse it in the future, great.

What's next after all the stress I got? I'm going to replace a compound on my graphics card! Ahahahahaha! xDD

P.S.: I made a mindflow.html after I wrote this post.

Update: Okay, SA_DQ is a data bus for memory, so by bending that pin I lost first ram slot. Well, that's not because of cleaning at least.