a somewhat productive-ish day today. the rain kept me from weedwacking the yard again, oh well, i'll get to it this week. i finally finished selling my old hard drives. i had various 4tb, 6tb, and 8tb drives that i removed from my nas setup recently to replace with 16tb drives. i was able to sell them for about $1,200 in three lots, only took 2 months. the last set, the 6tb drives are what i sold today. the buyer was an a guy around my age interested in setting up his first home nas. i let him test the disks in person at my house. he was surprisingly thorough in examining the disks before agreeing to buy them. i showed him the disk throughput, and he spent a full 2-3 minutes reading all of the SMART stats for each disk in detail via Scrutiny I had setup before his arrival. he seemed a bit paranoid, like he really didn't trust people selling used electronics, which I guess is somewhat understandable with how shitty so many people. He was worried I was trying to sell him SED bricked disks with the PSID removed from the label (even though he had the model number and could have looked it up to find they use BDE instead of SED), can't say i've ever heard of that happening someone. I can't say I wasn't mildly offended by his suspicion, especially since I have nothing but perfect seller feedback on the platform. I was a bit worried he would freak out when he saw the CRC errors on one disk that logged when I had a faulty midplane on the server they were in, but surprisingly he actually knew CRC errors were not actually disk errors. So after 10 minutes I had my $500 and he was on his way, and i could finally put away all the crap that had been sitting on my 3D printer table taking up space the whole time this listing was up.

right now, i'm typing on my surface book. and this is probably the first time i've done a notable amount of typing on it since i got my asus falcata rog keyboard a month ago. this new keyboard forces me to do hands on home row typing, ordinarily i type using just my middle and index fingers, plus left thumb for space. i've always typed like that since i was a small child, and thanks to runescape and IRC i could type absurly fast like that, around 150wpm+ without punctuation. anyways, i'm finding it quite easy to type on this laptop keyboard now using hands on home row instead of my usual method. oddly it seems to feel even easier to type accurately on here instead of my rog falcata, i guess it's the tenting+split that throws me off. especially since i can't keep the keyboard in the same place on my desk for more than half an hour. i'm always moving it for some reason or another.

not much else happened today, i slept in to 1pm and felt like shit when i woke up, in hindsight maybe i should have just gotten up at 10 when i first woke up. i ate my leftover cracker barrel pancakes at 3pm, set up the hard drive demo then sold the disks, did my laundry, ran the dishwasher, vacuumed. the usual sunday stuff. i got wingstop tenders for dinner, original buffalo and garlic parmesan with ranch and fries. i don't know how it's possible for fast food to taste this good. i'm looking forward to the leftovers tomorrow. didn't play any games, watched a few more episodes of gundam zeta, don't really know whats happening because i haven't been paying full attention, oh well. i really need to finish my kh2 playthrough and the higurashi console arcs. they're just sitting there on my steam deck begging me to play. the night is not yet over, i may finally get to watch conan movie 7 tonight. there should be lots of aliexpress junk arriving in the mail this week, i'm looking forward to it.

i may post about some previous electronics stuff i've done recently this coming week. don't expect any high effort posting though. i'm strictly a low effort person. speaking of electronics, i've been eyeing (is that how you spell that?) the m5 cardputer adv. it looks more useful to me than the flipper zero, and at a fraction of the cost. anyways, i suppose that's enough rambling for tonight, maybe i'll go work on this rei ayanami puzzle i got from japan last year that has just been sitting aroung until i can go watch conan. my stomach has been very unhappy from the wingstop and i've been writing this blogpost as a way to kill time while it calms down.

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