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So much lost...
7 years ago
So, some of you may be wondering why I have not been posting lately.
Than again, it's not like I was posting regular updates to begin with! About three months ago, I lost my laptop. No kidding, it is sitting on the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Costa RIca right now. There was a drunken boating accident and our skiff(a small vessel for ferrying folks too and from a larger boat) sank. Fortunately nobody was hurt, but my laptop bag ended up on the bottom of the sea, along with my laptop and Kindle, and my cell phone, which was in my pocket, suffered salt water damage. I highly doubt it will be repairable. I currently have a low-end loaner phone and a Dell Chromebook 11($120 on Amazon!), and have managed to replace the Kindle.
Fortunately, I had backed up the Blender model file about a month before losing my laptop, so I think I only lost all of the tail work I had done. That said, ChromeOS is not Blender compatible, and the older model Chromebook will not run the latest version of ChromeOS, which is Wacom compatible. I have stripped out ChromeOS and given this poor thing the gift of Ubuntu, but it only has 4 gigs of memory, and cannot take a memory upgrade.
While I can do raster digital art using my Wacom and Krita, 3D is just beyond this poor thing. Ubuntu does this wonderful thing where if you need more memory than you physically have, it will write the Linux equivalent of page files and just keep going at a slower rate, and being a Chromebook, this thing does have a SSD, which means minimal slowdowns...but it's only 16 gigabytes. My huge high-poly-count 3D file is just too big!
Currently I am looking into replacing the SSD with something larger to see if that resolves the issue, but what I really need is something like the Acer Chromebook Spin 13, due to be released later this year. 16 gigs of memory, 128 gig SSD, Intel Core i3-8130U Processor, built in wacom technology and the software to run both Linux and Android apps out of the box. It will supposedly sell for less than $600.
Sooooo. I will be taking commissions if anyone wants to help me buy a new laptop and get some nice art as compensation. I'll probably post some comission advertisement art later tonight, but I thought I'd start things off with a journal. If you'd like a commission, please let me know!
Than again, it's not like I was posting regular updates to begin with! About three months ago, I lost my laptop. No kidding, it is sitting on the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Costa RIca right now. There was a drunken boating accident and our skiff(a small vessel for ferrying folks too and from a larger boat) sank. Fortunately nobody was hurt, but my laptop bag ended up on the bottom of the sea, along with my laptop and Kindle, and my cell phone, which was in my pocket, suffered salt water damage. I highly doubt it will be repairable. I currently have a low-end loaner phone and a Dell Chromebook 11($120 on Amazon!), and have managed to replace the Kindle.
Fortunately, I had backed up the Blender model file about a month before losing my laptop, so I think I only lost all of the tail work I had done. That said, ChromeOS is not Blender compatible, and the older model Chromebook will not run the latest version of ChromeOS, which is Wacom compatible. I have stripped out ChromeOS and given this poor thing the gift of Ubuntu, but it only has 4 gigs of memory, and cannot take a memory upgrade.
While I can do raster digital art using my Wacom and Krita, 3D is just beyond this poor thing. Ubuntu does this wonderful thing where if you need more memory than you physically have, it will write the Linux equivalent of page files and just keep going at a slower rate, and being a Chromebook, this thing does have a SSD, which means minimal slowdowns...but it's only 16 gigabytes. My huge high-poly-count 3D file is just too big!
Currently I am looking into replacing the SSD with something larger to see if that resolves the issue, but what I really need is something like the Acer Chromebook Spin 13, due to be released later this year. 16 gigs of memory, 128 gig SSD, Intel Core i3-8130U Processor, built in wacom technology and the software to run both Linux and Android apps out of the box. It will supposedly sell for less than $600.
Sooooo. I will be taking commissions if anyone wants to help me buy a new laptop and get some nice art as compensation. I'll probably post some comission advertisement art later tonight, but I thought I'd start things off with a journal. If you'd like a commission, please let me know!
Marissa
~marissa
Awwr D8 *huggles*
