art update: Hot (Patreon)

Hot... as in my cpu got hot! 

Hey people! Time for a little update. I'll almost immediately kick off with an prediction/estimation of when to expect the next build for FET since I think that's what a lot of you will be interested in.

But first...  the link to our hub page for other/older projects. The latest 18Titans version is available to all patrons now. It has been for some time, but you might not have noticed yet. 

So, my personal aim-for-date for the next FET version is around the 20th of next month. That would put us at a little over a month when taking the last release as the starting point and it's a time frame I generally like/prefer. 

I don't want to pin us down on it because, as the past has taught me, stuff can get "fluid" very fast, but I wanna do my best to get us at least somewhat close to that time frame. 

ps. Have you noticed we've been changing locations during this route after two builds? It'll be the same for the next one. One more build in Zaofu before we'll go somewhere else once again. 

And that's really about all I have to say about FET for now.

Okay, so I believe I promised to tell you what my cryptic gif which I showed in the last art update was all about.

I exaggerated for comedic effect and nothing died on me, but I feel like I wasn't far off.

I already told you I got an AC unit because I was sometimes fearing for the health of my pc with the summer temperatures rising. So after getting one, I noticed my pc(or rather the fan) was making very weird noises. like it had to work extra hard. I usually don't hear such noises because I work with my headphones on (and I like it loud!) but this time I did.  hearing this a-typical noise I figured it was perhaps time for me to remove some dust with compressed air.

When opening the computer case I didn't immediately notice, but when I did it was very clear why the fan had been going extra hard. The cpu heatsink was moving around like one of those saloon doors in a western movie. It turned out a few plastic tips had broken off somehow and the heat sink didn't make proper contact with the cpu anymore. That's not good.

The thermal paste was in pretty bad(dry) shape so I ordered some new paste and a cooler online. It took four days until it finally arrived. When you're aching to get going that feels like an eternity. 

In the meantime I started working using an older pc, but there's just so many small files and other things which you miss/have to reinstall when you move to another pc it was just one small annoyance after the other. Especially because I couldn't turn on the other.  I didn't want to risk it. 

Just getting my graphics tablet setup in a way which didn't make it feel like I was drunk while drawing took me a day and after that it STILL felt off.

Since it was the first time I've applied thermal past on a heat sink I was worried about applying too much and possibly mess up by having it spill over the edges when applying force. Apparently there's a thousand ways of applying the stuff, but in the end I just did it the way I saw someone else on youtube with the same kind of cooler do it and applied it evenly over the entire surface.

Looks like I did it right, because the cooler's fan is nice and quiet and the temperature below 50°C  

Success!

Oh and I finally got rid of some of my more ancient pc's which I hadn't touched in an eternity. Like I said in an older update, I've become more or less the place where family brings their pc when it's old and decrepit to die. It was time to get rid of the truly old ones since they had become nothing more than an oversized paper weight.

I don't think I have much else interesting to say.... so I'll add a pic instead! You can find a few bigger sized variations of it in the attachment.

Till next time! Peace!