Farewell to Winamp, hello to Starlink
Mar. 17th, 2026 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat_sochoWork has actually been picking up lately, which is nice because I was getting pretty depressed about not carrying my weight on the team. Been finishing roughly one return a day since Friday, a pace which I'm sure will pick up as we get into April.
Winamp had been acting more and more flaky of late, and today I decided I'd just delete it, download a fresh file, and reinstall. Well, that didn't work - it refuses to install except with Administrator permissions - but I have those! There are apparently ways to get around this problem, but they may as well be written in Chinese for all the sense they make to me. Fortunately, Windows Media Player still works, and I'll just have to fiddle with the playlists until I get them right.
In other technical matters, I'm giving up on Frontier's wretched DSL service and ordered a Starlink setup. I'll have to set it up in the bedroom looking out the window, I guess, since there's no good way to set it up otherwise.
Also looked at how much house I can afford given what I'm paying in rent, and it doesn't look too good. May have to wait until next year, pay down the credit cards, and put money away towards a down payment.
Winamp had been acting more and more flaky of late, and today I decided I'd just delete it, download a fresh file, and reinstall. Well, that didn't work - it refuses to install except with Administrator permissions - but I have those! There are apparently ways to get around this problem, but they may as well be written in Chinese for all the sense they make to me. Fortunately, Windows Media Player still works, and I'll just have to fiddle with the playlists until I get them right.
In other technical matters, I'm giving up on Frontier's wretched DSL service and ordered a Starlink setup. I'll have to set it up in the bedroom looking out the window, I guess, since there's no good way to set it up otherwise.
Also looked at how much house I can afford given what I'm paying in rent, and it doesn't look too good. May have to wait until next year, pay down the credit cards, and put money away towards a down payment.
