Monday, November 6, 2023
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Ruins of time
For so long
we are not,
That when underground gods
grind the continents together,
our names do not figure
in the lists of missing.
we are not,
That when underground gods
grind the continents together,
our names do not figure
in the lists of missing.
We are missing
in the ruins of time.
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Sky, memory
Memory of a sky,
other planet's sky
with flowers and rivers
impurity included,
chases me.
A memory of sky,
pure and clear
with stars shining, twinkling,
planets stalking them,
haunts me.
A sky of memory,
blue and vivid
with clouds dancing
and birds balancing,
kills me.
*
Bern runs
Bern is an essential Swiss city: expensive not only for Eastern Europeans, kind of polished, kind of not boring, kind of full of relaxed locals, svimming in the fast white-green waters of Aare river.
Bern turns out to be a kind of depressive city for me, still have to understand why. Both times I visited it, it made this impression. And it should not, so many young people, students, around, so lively and lovely, no irony. Must be just so different from my Eastern Europe experience that it is unfathomable?
To add some novelty and try to break the depressive air, this time I gave myself experience of running along the river, between two pedestrian bridges, from one side of the city to the other. Highly recommendable!
It gives you an excellent view to the city. The red one was 12 km of pure pleasure, the blue one a bit shorter, 10km. Make certain you find the exit to the river and just enjoy! The path is good and you can divert to the city at many interesting places, if you feel so.
Walking the streets and seeing the views later, with them already in your legs, gives another perspective.
Bern turns out to be a kind of depressive city for me, still have to understand why. Both times I visited it, it made this impression. And it should not, so many young people, students, around, so lively and lovely, no irony. Must be just so different from my Eastern Europe experience that it is unfathomable?
To add some novelty and try to break the depressive air, this time I gave myself experience of running along the river, between two pedestrian bridges, from one side of the city to the other. Highly recommendable!
Walking the streets and seeing the views later, with them already in your legs, gives another perspective.
Friday, December 10, 2021
Digital arf
***
Ah my dear
analog doggie,
Ah my dear
analog doggie,
you are the last
I am walking alive.
The next longtail
will be digital.
Says St. Greta
of Dirty Air
you are really bad
to the world balance,
gassing out of
front and behind!
One day,
my digital I
will walk
analog dog
to keep the balance
of air and metal.
***
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Air and water
From all the sides of the world,
their world,
they are trying to convince us
that the air we breathe
and water we drink
are expensive,
really expensive,
that they, just they,
have even better brand
made in America
made in Switzerland
Made in Luxembourg
Made in Heavenly Heights,
and that we, yes, we!, have to
pay pay pay to
breathe
drink
live.
Go to hell, bastards, my
air
and
water
are there where
you, yes, you!,
can not
even dream.
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Gigabyte P34 screen repair
This Taiwan made machine is great tool not only for gaming, but also for my professional use-as a numericist I do numerical simulations of stars.
Mine is quite ancient, 2013 machine with i7-4700HQ processor and very decent GTX 760M graphics. Ultra-slim, 1.4kg weight and Dual Thermal module for sufficient (but loud!) cooling-even in Taipei heats it holds the machine cool. In difference to similar MAC machines, it has a decent number of USB and external monitor/projector slots, and also features ethernet slot.
The only minuses I found with this machine are loud cooling fans, and risky screen hinges.
Loud fans I got used to, but hinges... destroyed it. The first sign of trouble was this:
One side of the screen just went wrong. Very wrong. First there were coloured stripes, and then just nothing. Matrix entered my life.
It was really a bad idea to put 14'' screen on two poor thin metal connections supporting the thin plastic part-yes, those two small squares at the bottom left and right, with two small holes, are the main construction elements of the screen connection to the lid!:
I really do not know what the RD was thinking when doing it. It had to break at any time, especially if one would handle it a bit harsher. With mine, it broke after 5 years, so it was not so bad. But then, I was really careful opening/closing the lid. Also, I was not using the machine every day, as I had a decent workhorse desktop at work.
Since otherwise I was very happy with this machine, I decided to extend its life as a laptop, not use it only in the desktop mode with the monitor.
I detached the plastic cover-be careful with wires, not to break any when un-sticking the front cover (use e.g. old credit card to get below it-and got to the screen itself.
I tried to press the plastic bar with electronics in the powering of the screen to see if the problem is there-yes, something inside got broken obviously. At this point the only what remains is to find exactly the same screen. Information found online told me that this sticker on the screen has all needed to buy the new one:
Just in case, when ordering, make certain to mention to the seller the number of pins on the main connector (30 or 40, mine was 30). The new screen, found online from a private provider, costed of the order of 100USD-not so bad, when the new machine would cost above 1000 USD. I think it pays off to make a repair if the cost is of the order of 20% of the price of the new one. Sure, the professional latop repair thought different, and they would not improvise, so I had to do it myself.
Next task is to find a way to attach the new screen so that it would not be so poorly attached as the original one. The original frame was a bad idea even when new. Now, broken in pieces, it needed serious refurbishing. I did not want to waste time on obtaining the complete new lid or parts, because I found the original construction seriously botched.
My son is a magician of making and repairing things, so he helped: a robust aluminium frame, 2 screws through the each corner of the original metal cover of the latop. Luckily, hinges were strong, so he could put screws through them. Now the LCD was just inserted into such prepared frame, and fixed into its original position with the original screws, but not working as a construction element any more.
He also made the frame little extended towards the keyboard at the front, so my keyboard does not remain imprinted on the screen when I close the lid (this was another annoying thing, but not unusual for extra-slims, and I was preventing it inserting a piece of material always when closing a lid).
Now this initially gently looking ultra-slim became a heavy-metal looking laptop:
It weights maybe 20 gr more, because of the additional frame and a bit of plastic, but I think it was worth doing. One should respect electronics, and not dispose of it just because of the mechanical failure of the badly constructed box. ps.28.11.2020: the left corner near the screen hinge broke, again, bad plastic. I could not close the lid without supporting it carefully, and had to temporarily install U-shaped metal brace that it would not go apart. Gigabyte, invest in better plastic and more robust construction, your R&D really failed here. So, laptop had to go again into the son's hands. To fill in the gap after broken screw holder he put some plastic and two new screws:
With a bit of simplest cosmetics it became useable laptop again:
Mine is quite ancient, 2013 machine with i7-4700HQ processor and very decent GTX 760M graphics. Ultra-slim, 1.4kg weight and Dual Thermal module for sufficient (but loud!) cooling-even in Taipei heats it holds the machine cool. In difference to similar MAC machines, it has a decent number of USB and external monitor/projector slots, and also features ethernet slot.
The only minuses I found with this machine are loud cooling fans, and risky screen hinges.
Loud fans I got used to, but hinges... destroyed it. The first sign of trouble was this:
One side of the screen just went wrong. Very wrong. First there were coloured stripes, and then just nothing. Matrix entered my life.
It was really a bad idea to put 14'' screen on two poor thin metal connections supporting the thin plastic part-yes, those two small squares at the bottom left and right, with two small holes, are the main construction elements of the screen connection to the lid!:
I really do not know what the RD was thinking when doing it. It had to break at any time, especially if one would handle it a bit harsher. With mine, it broke after 5 years, so it was not so bad. But then, I was really careful opening/closing the lid. Also, I was not using the machine every day, as I had a decent workhorse desktop at work.
Since otherwise I was very happy with this machine, I decided to extend its life as a laptop, not use it only in the desktop mode with the monitor.
I detached the plastic cover-be careful with wires, not to break any when un-sticking the front cover (use e.g. old credit card to get below it-and got to the screen itself.
I tried to press the plastic bar with electronics in the powering of the screen to see if the problem is there-yes, something inside got broken obviously. At this point the only what remains is to find exactly the same screen. Information found online told me that this sticker on the screen has all needed to buy the new one:
Just in case, when ordering, make certain to mention to the seller the number of pins on the main connector (30 or 40, mine was 30). The new screen, found online from a private provider, costed of the order of 100USD-not so bad, when the new machine would cost above 1000 USD. I think it pays off to make a repair if the cost is of the order of 20% of the price of the new one. Sure, the professional latop repair thought different, and they would not improvise, so I had to do it myself.
Next task is to find a way to attach the new screen so that it would not be so poorly attached as the original one. The original frame was a bad idea even when new. Now, broken in pieces, it needed serious refurbishing. I did not want to waste time on obtaining the complete new lid or parts, because I found the original construction seriously botched.
My son is a magician of making and repairing things, so he helped: a robust aluminium frame, 2 screws through the each corner of the original metal cover of the latop. Luckily, hinges were strong, so he could put screws through them. Now the LCD was just inserted into such prepared frame, and fixed into its original position with the original screws, but not working as a construction element any more.
He also made the frame little extended towards the keyboard at the front, so my keyboard does not remain imprinted on the screen when I close the lid (this was another annoying thing, but not unusual for extra-slims, and I was preventing it inserting a piece of material always when closing a lid).
Now this initially gently looking ultra-slim became a heavy-metal looking laptop:
It weights maybe 20 gr more, because of the additional frame and a bit of plastic, but I think it was worth doing. One should respect electronics, and not dispose of it just because of the mechanical failure of the badly constructed box. ps.28.11.2020: the left corner near the screen hinge broke, again, bad plastic. I could not close the lid without supporting it carefully, and had to temporarily install U-shaped metal brace that it would not go apart. Gigabyte, invest in better plastic and more robust construction, your R&D really failed here. So, laptop had to go again into the son's hands. To fill in the gap after broken screw holder he put some plastic and two new screws:
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