hummingbird ☆ﾐ

After over a year of putting it off, I finally cleaned the inside of my PC.

(Please don't judge me. Executive dysfunction really kicks my butt.)

It was so dusty in there... I hope it helps it function a little better and last for longer.

I took the whole afternoon to take everything apart, clean it, and put it back together, mostly because I had to re-familiarize myself with the inside of my PC, haha. The last time I opened it was when I first got it and installed a 1TB SSD in it. It's a secondhand PC I got from a friend, which was top of the line in... 2018. Haha! But it's been serving my needs okay, barring games too intensive to play while streaming live.

I did, however, forget to buy thermal paste beforehand, so I'll have to re-open it in the next week or so to replace the thermal paste, haha. Hopefully the next time will go by quicker, since I kinda remember what goes where not from like... more than a year ago.

I'm looking through my programs right now to check if there's any bloatware hanging around too. I haven't really poked around much since I'd been so busy with printshop orders... I didn't want to mess with my PC, only to potentially break it and be unable to fulfill orders. So since I haven't gotten any new orders due this week, I'm taking the time to do maintenance!

Note to self: remember to document all the documents and videos you referred to while cleaning the PC. Those schematics (?) came in handy when I accidentally unplugged the panel light stuff willy-nilly!