25 day mark...

Spent today building up at least one system to stream off of. I won't be using MY PC or laptop, nope!

Husband brought home two systems that his work was just discarding after pulling the hard drives. In bad news, I'm pretty sure the Lenovo is fried. In good news, the Acer is NOT, and that's a fairly nice i7 3.4 GHz system. I slapped in a "meh" video card (my stream won't be gaming), new power supply, and hard drive.

Since the Lenovo i5 is fried (I tried everything - just will not post to BIOS even when I reset the CMOS jumpers, swap memory, etc.), I'll have 1TB of SSD on the Acer then, which is cool. Can't get an optical drive into that case unless it's totally disassembled (no) so that's why it's sitting on top, just long enough for me to slam the OS in.

A great view do the work from in any case! Kind of a drizzly day, but knowing the hell that is summer is coming, I'm enjoying every second of this continued cool weather!

So later today after my first sleep (I sleep twice a day in 4 hour blocks), I'll get the OS into that Acer, then Streamlabs OBS, Discord, Twitch, blah blah. I've been assiduously watching many videos on OBS and I'm going to be very basic on that - I watch professional streamers with their amazing transitions and everything and I'm more impressed than ever - but I'm just me, and so I'm not going to be very fancy I don't think. I can't draw. LOL! Hell, my sub emotes and whatnot are free clipart (even for commercial use) for crying out loud. I think the most important thing is the content - cheerful and happy and calming (hopefully), and if it takes off, then maybe we'll get more fancy! Right now I just really want to get to the content, so quick and dirty is where we'll start, even with this lead time. I do other things in life, really ;)

Photos of the poor little discarded systems, my view, and then a favorite song to end the night!