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"Doing Dandy, Y'Say?" Said Life, AKA: Pleasant Annoyances
6 years ago
TL;DR: Computer nearly dies, gets resurrected better than ever.
So, I made that little update journal a few days ago, right? "Doing dandy" were my words more or less. Well, apparently life took this as a sign to give me a mini panic attack and killed my computer later that day. Literally, I was just working on commissions when my computer randomly turned off. I charged it, it wouldn't turn on, I panicked and took it to a local computer shop.
Thankfully, 24 hours and $40 later my lap top comes back to me, clean and operational. Kinda. Computer guy said I was seriously behind on maintenance and updates, so I started doing that. A little CC Cleaner, a little defragment and, of course, the updates. But, uhh, my computer didn't want to complete them? And was super slow?
Looking at my desktop, I realized I had a lot of crap left over from over the years. A digital comic program here, Undertale there, a defunct file sharing tool, that sort of thing. And the thing about digital programs is that even if you don't use them or delete them, they leave little bits and pieces of themselves behind, which eventually clutter up your computer and make it slow and crash. Think of it like how you might clean your room, but there's always something you leave pushed to the side because, "you'll get to it later" or "I remember where it is". Meanwhile someone else comes into your room and sees a giant mess of hair product and pens on your dresser blocking their view of the clock. Defraging your computer gets rid of all these little left overs, but not entirely.
I know I have a cheap spare lap top in my closet somewhere for emergencies, and I knew I couldn't keep working under such sluggish conditions. So I took a chance, back-uped my pictures on a hard drive, and reset my computer.
All of it.
The computer completely wiped itself of all but its in built functions and rebuilt itself as if it had just come right off the assembly line. The desk top was an empty void of what it once was, but it was comforting in a way. My computer was fast, the letters didn't lag behind my typing, and it took me less than an hour to get my essentials back: FireFox, CC Cleaner, and SAI. My next big hurdle came when I tried to reinstall my Huion tablet.
Apparently SAI and Huion hate each other?
SAI + No Huion Driver= Tablet worked fine, but no pressure in SAI. A sketch program in Windows 10 let me know the tablet and its pressure worked fine without a driver, but I needed it to work in SAI.
SAI + Huion Driver = SAI refused to open.
I started raking through the internet trying to find a solution. Uninstalling and installing in different orders, version compatibility, messing with file settings, it wouldn't freaking work! Either I wasn't getting pen pressure in SAI or SAI just didn't want to open up and play with Huion! I was about to flip my shit when I was browsing Huion's Reddit board and a comment concerning SAI in their FAQ post mentioned SAI version 2.
Wait, there was a new version of SAI?
Sure enough I look it up and SAI 2.0 came out this year. Huh. And I had a license for SAI version 1.0, so I downloaded it. Sure enough, SAI 2.0 and Huion are working fine together, so problem solved!
But guys.
Guys.
SAI 2.0 has a text function.
"So what?" you might wonder. No, no, no, no! You don't understand! As a comic-major commission artist typing up word bubbles has always been a pain in my ass! I tried with FireAlpaca, but their userface was too cluttered for me to enjoy. I love SAI, but to get typed speech bubbles I had to make them in another free art program and it was just a big pain in the ass to type the bubbles up, copy and paste them into SAI, then alter the different layers to accommodate each other. It was actually why I decided to switch over to handwritten speech bubbles in recent months. But with this new type feature in SAI I can make and alter speech bubbles in comics way easier! And there's other stuff in 2.0, too! Gradients! Smudging! Shit I don't even know what it does!
So, yeah, Just wanted to share a pleasant story about how a near digital catastrophe actually led to a healthier computer and a better art program. :)
Also, UPDATE AND DEFRAG YOUR COMPUTER FOR FUCKS SAKE!
So, I made that little update journal a few days ago, right? "Doing dandy" were my words more or less. Well, apparently life took this as a sign to give me a mini panic attack and killed my computer later that day. Literally, I was just working on commissions when my computer randomly turned off. I charged it, it wouldn't turn on, I panicked and took it to a local computer shop.
Thankfully, 24 hours and $40 later my lap top comes back to me, clean and operational. Kinda. Computer guy said I was seriously behind on maintenance and updates, so I started doing that. A little CC Cleaner, a little defragment and, of course, the updates. But, uhh, my computer didn't want to complete them? And was super slow?
Looking at my desktop, I realized I had a lot of crap left over from over the years. A digital comic program here, Undertale there, a defunct file sharing tool, that sort of thing. And the thing about digital programs is that even if you don't use them or delete them, they leave little bits and pieces of themselves behind, which eventually clutter up your computer and make it slow and crash. Think of it like how you might clean your room, but there's always something you leave pushed to the side because, "you'll get to it later" or "I remember where it is". Meanwhile someone else comes into your room and sees a giant mess of hair product and pens on your dresser blocking their view of the clock. Defraging your computer gets rid of all these little left overs, but not entirely.
I know I have a cheap spare lap top in my closet somewhere for emergencies, and I knew I couldn't keep working under such sluggish conditions. So I took a chance, back-uped my pictures on a hard drive, and reset my computer.
All of it.
The computer completely wiped itself of all but its in built functions and rebuilt itself as if it had just come right off the assembly line. The desk top was an empty void of what it once was, but it was comforting in a way. My computer was fast, the letters didn't lag behind my typing, and it took me less than an hour to get my essentials back: FireFox, CC Cleaner, and SAI. My next big hurdle came when I tried to reinstall my Huion tablet.
Apparently SAI and Huion hate each other?
SAI + No Huion Driver= Tablet worked fine, but no pressure in SAI. A sketch program in Windows 10 let me know the tablet and its pressure worked fine without a driver, but I needed it to work in SAI.
SAI + Huion Driver = SAI refused to open.
I started raking through the internet trying to find a solution. Uninstalling and installing in different orders, version compatibility, messing with file settings, it wouldn't freaking work! Either I wasn't getting pen pressure in SAI or SAI just didn't want to open up and play with Huion! I was about to flip my shit when I was browsing Huion's Reddit board and a comment concerning SAI in their FAQ post mentioned SAI version 2.
Wait, there was a new version of SAI?
Sure enough I look it up and SAI 2.0 came out this year. Huh. And I had a license for SAI version 1.0, so I downloaded it. Sure enough, SAI 2.0 and Huion are working fine together, so problem solved!
But guys.
Guys.
SAI 2.0 has a text function.
"So what?" you might wonder. No, no, no, no! You don't understand! As a comic-major commission artist typing up word bubbles has always been a pain in my ass! I tried with FireAlpaca, but their userface was too cluttered for me to enjoy. I love SAI, but to get typed speech bubbles I had to make them in another free art program and it was just a big pain in the ass to type the bubbles up, copy and paste them into SAI, then alter the different layers to accommodate each other. It was actually why I decided to switch over to handwritten speech bubbles in recent months. But with this new type feature in SAI I can make and alter speech bubbles in comics way easier! And there's other stuff in 2.0, too! Gradients! Smudging! Shit I don't even know what it does!
So, yeah, Just wanted to share a pleasant story about how a near digital catastrophe actually led to a healthier computer and a better art program. :)
Also, UPDATE AND DEFRAG YOUR COMPUTER FOR FUCKS SAKE!
Reed
~reedman
Glad your laptop is running fine
