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Feb. 15th, 2026 12:38 pmThis morning I started the day the way I have most days since the beginning of this month, by turning on the old computer and working a certain amount on the Conclave montage I've been working on the past half a year or so, with plans after breakfast to likewise work on the ambitiously long Shadowgast podfic I've been editing for literally years. They're the last two projects left on that computer, since neither is easy to move. My plan was to finish the latter this month and the former next month, before I retire the computer, which continues to occasionally not connect to the internet, though it actually has more often than not.
I came back from breakfast and discovered said computer had suddenly set its screen resolution to 640x480. When, after considerable struggle though apps not at all set up to deal with such an old resolution, I got to the display settings to change it, it offered no choices for anything bigger. I tried restarting, giving in and installing the updates I'd been refusing to do before then, to no change. My computer has decided to make itself nearly unusable at a time when making the effort to fix it is least worth it, but I still had these two projects.
I eventually made Audacity usable again by hiding most of the toolbars. I had less than five minutes left to edit on the podfic, so it is now completed and exported to mp3. I had a bit of a scare when I tried to look it up while setting the metadata and couldn't find it on AO3. I feared it had been deleted, with no indication on whether it was ethical for me to post the podfic or not. Then it turned out I just needed to be logged in. I've called it a day after that. Cover art, full metadata, and posting can wait until tomorrow.
I'm also letting the computer problem sit overnight. The way these things are, it's perfectly possible it'll be back to its old resolution tomorrow. If not, I think I'm just going to move the last of my files over and officially retire it. I was halfway done with the montage, but I think I'm just going to have to do it over.
I came back from breakfast and discovered said computer had suddenly set its screen resolution to 640x480. When, after considerable struggle though apps not at all set up to deal with such an old resolution, I got to the display settings to change it, it offered no choices for anything bigger. I tried restarting, giving in and installing the updates I'd been refusing to do before then, to no change. My computer has decided to make itself nearly unusable at a time when making the effort to fix it is least worth it, but I still had these two projects.
I eventually made Audacity usable again by hiding most of the toolbars. I had less than five minutes left to edit on the podfic, so it is now completed and exported to mp3. I had a bit of a scare when I tried to look it up while setting the metadata and couldn't find it on AO3. I feared it had been deleted, with no indication on whether it was ethical for me to post the podfic or not. Then it turned out I just needed to be logged in. I've called it a day after that. Cover art, full metadata, and posting can wait until tomorrow.
I'm also letting the computer problem sit overnight. The way these things are, it's perfectly possible it'll be back to its old resolution tomorrow. If not, I think I'm just going to move the last of my files over and officially retire it. I was halfway done with the montage, but I think I'm just going to have to do it over.
