Bert Visscher's Website

Home Love Letter Accessibility Blog Work RSS Feed Contact
Posted on: 2020-05-08

Catching Up, Cori, and More Memory

A friend of mine remarked that it's been quite some time since I've posted on my blog. So, here's a new post for your reading pleasure. Please note that the following may not be in chronological order.

I'm subscribed to quite a few YouTubers. Some time ago, one of them drew my attention to the replies to my comments that I've been missing. Since that time, I've been diligently handling the notifications. The nature of COVID-19 has caused many or all of the YouTubers I'm subscribed to, to suddenly have a lot more time to post videos. As of this blog post, I'm one week behind. Wait...is that how it's said? In my attempt to catch up, I have adapted a custom from my blind friends to my needs in that I'm viewing at least some of the videos at a faster speed. I really do watch every video in my notifications, but although some videos by NBC are about 12 hours long, they become repetitive after about an hour. So, I only watch those videos up until when I see something I've seen before.

After reading that I watch the YouTube videos published by NBC, at least some of you must be thinking back to when I said I don't follow public media. I generally don't, but what other way do I have of finding out about the developments surrounding COVID-19 in the United States, after losing contact with my beloved Cori? I do so hope that she's alright!

For those among you who don't know about Cori yet, I offer this blog post for you to read, but in short... Cori is the one I hope to spend the rest of my natural life with, and the reason why I'm defying the wish felt by some in my family not to have my computer assist in the search for a cure for COVID-19. OK, I'll be honest. That and the Vulcan teaching that says that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.

Another thing that's happened here at home, is that I've expanded the amount of memory in my computer. The reason being that I found it using swap memory at times. In case you don't know what swap memory is... Whenever a computer runs out of RAM (its usual Random Access Memory), it uses a file as an artificial memory expansion. The downside of this is that swap memory is never as fast as real RAM. This can be solved by either making your computer use less memory, or by expanding its memory. I've gone for the latter, which I almost gave up, because I had a hard time finding the kind of memory I needed.

If you're wondering how I'm letting my computer assist in finding a cure for COVID-19, please read this blog post.

As always, I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post. If you have any questions or comments, then please let me know in the form down below.


Comments

Please fill in all three fields or the form will not be sent. Your comment will not appear right away.