Fri 10 Apr 2026

I havent been programming at all today. Ive just been looking at the news and writing with people. Currently with a headache. So I slept for long today, but thinking about going back to bed. My brother found a Commodore PC20-III with a 1402 monitor the other day, and he cant get it to work. I do want to help him, but he found it in the trash so its a little hard for me to go to his place and look at it without a car. He did ask me if he could use the monitor with one of his older computers, since it was a VGA like cable, but the 1402 monitor uses a DB9 connector. Which looks like a VGA connector, but not with as many pins. So he cant use it with other computers. He said that the monitor lights up, but the PC20-III doesnt start at all. That could mean its the power supply or the motherboard being dead. After he got this at home he asked if I had some floppy discs laying around. So I found some of the ones I have, but since I didnt know if any worked. I had to plug in an older computer that had an floppy drive. The computer was one I got from an old boss which brother had passed, might have been a year or 2 ago. I had formatted it some months ago to get it fresh, and it was a computer with Windows XP, so I just formatted it with that aswell. Some of the mails that were on the computer when I got it, was from 2006, so the computer was about that age. And the previous time it was started was in 2022, so it had been in use for quite a while. Like it has a Intel Core2 CPU and 2GB of ram. Which is plenty fine for Windows XP. Anyway it has a floppy disc drive, so I tried to use it with the formatted Windows XP, but there was some drivers missing, so I first thought that was the reason why it didnt want to load what was on the discs. It just didnt see anything, and it didnt see any of the floppy discs I tried to use. It didnt even list the floppy drive on the list of devices. Then I looked up what the reason could be, since Windows XP does have built in floppy drive support, and shouldnt need drivers. But the reason could also be a cable that is disconnected or loose, since I didnt check if it worked before I got the computer a few years ago. It was too late for me to start making noise at the apartment so I didnt do anything and just shut off the computer. So thats something on my to do list, because I do also want to get the stuff on the floppies, if they work, ripped of them and sent to the archive, that being either the Internet Archive, or my own archive I’ve made. But Im pretty sure nobody would use the stuff on my own archive since I dont have it on a public server, and Im not satisfied with how its currently working. On a completely different note, I do kind of want to get a radio license. Honestly Im not sure if anyone nearby even have radios like that, but I just think the tech is nice to fiddle with. I just have too many ideas in general. Alot of stuff I want to do, but with the way Im feeling its hard to do anything. I did switch to Windows a few months ago because some people I know wanted to play Warcraft 3, which didnt work on Linux. Battlenet didnt want to load when you launched it through Wine, or any of those programs that emulate a Windows system. With that switch I havent really had that many bluescreens, and my computer has been on 24/7 since then. But my memory usage has been very high. I keep struggling to close programs, and stuff like that to keep it at a reasonable limit. Like now with Firefox (5 tabs), Discord, Outlook and Windows Media Player running I’m using 9.5GB of RAM. And when I then look at the taskmanager for Firefox it shows the tabs I have open uses less than 2GB of RAM. So I think its just something with the way it keeps the cache. Now that I remember it, I did do some changes to this website, but I never uploaded it to the server it should be running on, so everything I’ve written in April as of this post aswell, has been on my local computer. I do also guess this page is some kind of diary for me. I dont write everything in my life on here, but I do post stuff I’ve done and things that could be interesting.