I’m not lol I’ve never even been on furaffinity, I’m just sad bc he seemed like a really good person who meant a lot to a whole ton of people and artists and it’s very sad to hear of his passing
I don’t know how many of my followers are furries but we just lost one of ours.
He died because the medical industry in the US refused to help. He was murdered in a million little ways, with a million automated systems.
He was on bluesky no more than five hours ago, now he’s gone.
Dragoneer ran FurAffinity, which is more or less the furry art site. It looks like its’ from the early aughts, has no native pdf support, and has zero discoverability or algorithmic function. It’s home to me, it’s always been home.
No matter how often I moved or how often my life radically changed, there was FA. I met my husband on the forums. Through the majority of its’ life, Dragoneer kept it running. He never sold us out, never tried to keep up with trends. It’s a community.
And there is something bitter about losing someone who was key to keeping one of the relics of the internet before corporations took over.
We have our home, but it’s lost its’ keeper.
Good night, Neer. You kept the lights on.
There’s a little ritual FA has. The dead aren’t forgotten or deleted, nor is the passing unmarked.
Normal, unbanned accounts are tagged with a tilde before the username, like this
In the event of a death, the symbol is changed to an infinity sign. My friend Anna passed three years ago
I guess it’s one more user added to the list
Here for a little time, remembered in the community forever.
it is genuinely bewildering to me that adult human beings do not know this but if you are mean to people they will not like you. like tbh they are probably also not going to like you if you are mean to other people but they are definitely not going to like you if you are mean to them. it doesn’t matter if you are funny or if you can use r/aita rules to prove that you are in the right. people simply so not enjoy being treated like shit.
the crowdstrike catastrophe is getting resolved but the intel 13th and 14th gen CPU nightmare is just beginning. damn
basically: a significant number of the past few years of intel CPUs are almost guaranteed to die due to a manufacturing error. it is just a matter of time. and then they will break.
how many are affected, you might ask? intel says shut up. how can you tell if your CPU is going to die? go mind your own business. is there a recall? absolutely not. what can you do about it when your shit breaks? go fuck yourself is what
to find out what gen intel cpu you have (on windows, idk how to do this for mac or linux, i’m sorry) go to your start or search menu and type in device manager:
In device manager, look up processor:
Mine is a 12th gen, so I am safe from this bug.
Now, I haven’t had a chance to watch the videos, so sorry if I am reiterating things here, but because some people learn better with text:
How to read intel CPU product labels for intel CORE processors (this is the most common intel cpu you are likely to find for home pc and laptop builds, their other cpu product lines are more for servers and ai and people who still use 32bit OSes, which are largely obsolete now):
the first letter number combo is always i and either no number, 3, 5, 7, or 9. The number refers to the amount of cores a cpu has. In general, more cores, faster cpu. (there are other things that affect cpu speed though, mostly clock speed. This is usually listed in ghz on the product page, but it’s not relevant here to determine if you have one of the unlucky broken cpu models.)
In this example, I have an i7, which has more cores than an i5, but less than an i9.
The first 2 numbers after the i number is usually what generation you have. Sometimes, depending on how old your cpu is, it’s only the first number. Mine is a 12, so I have a 12th generation cpu.
The numbers after that are the SKU numbers and largely are not important.
The letters determine if your cpu has onboard graphics or needs a discrete graphics card, and if it comes with a cooler/can be overclocked. (i personally do not recommend overclocking because a lot of software isn’t really designed to support it and it can cause problems) If it has an F, it means you need a separate graphics card. If it has a K, it means you can overclock it, and also that it does not come with its own cooling.
Laptop cpus almost always will come with their own cooling because laptops get really hot and cooling in laptops is kind of abysmal to begin with.
If you have a LAPTOP, and your intel cpu is 13 or 14, you will have to replace the ENTIRE LAPTOP. start making backups of all your important information ASAP. Due to how laptops are constructed, you cannot replace a single part, you have to replace the whole machine. If you have a PREBUILT desktop, if you can figure out what motherboard you have, you may be able to buy a replacement cpu. If you build your own desktop, you are definitely able to replace your cpu.
A cpu is attached to your motherboard - if the cpu fries, it can also damage your motherboard as well, so if it’s at all possible, and you’re ended up with one of the broken cpus, I would look into replacing the motherboard as well. (Again, if you have a laptop, you need to replace everything. Sorry.)
there ARE a few laptops where you can replace the CPU, like framework, but for 99%, yeah. SOL. if you do not already know whether the CPU can be replaced on your laptop, it almost definitely can not be replaced.
btw I took down the old version of Red Eyes, Moonlight from spotify and put the updated one up bc it was really bothering me that the demo was on there and not the vastly superior one lol. so now the nice version is up there. everyone can re-add it to your playlists and whatnot
btw I took down the old version of Red Eyes, Moonlight from spotify and put the updated one up bc it was really bothering me that the demo was on there and not the vastly superior one lol. so now the nice version is up there. everyone can re-add it to your playlists and whatnot
