Mentaiko

I found the deal of deals to be my new workhorse:

  • i5 14400 with AIO
  • 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 5200MHz
  • Galaxy RTX 4070
  • WD Black 1TB NVME

I bought it off a nearby uni student flipping it on FB Marketplace. When I saw the ad, I asked them to hold it and went to check it out that night. For the new price of the graphics card only, I got the whole system.

But why?

When I found time to go through the system properly, I found the previous owner had added an RGB controller almost as an afterthought and wired it incorrectly, possibly frying the AIO LCD and causing other power problems. Trying to fix the rat king of RGB cables, I caused the controller to emit magic smoke as it said goodbye to this cruel world and blinked off forever. I ordered another $3 controller and a couple of intake fans off of Shopee and waited a few days for them to arrive. One of the new fans was faulty, so I had to wait another week… Finally, I had everything together and I finished it off with a GPU support and some of my treasured Pantone action figures.

It’s running Ollama now, and I did some test edits with Premiere.

I played the BF6 beta this past weekend, and it was really very nice, averaging 130+ fps at pretty high settings (I actually can’t remember them) and no frame generation enabled.

What takes too much time every damn time I put together a new (used) system is naming it. So here’s to you and me, Mentaiko.

Went on our yearly Pattaya trip

Me and T have been going there every year to visit interns or attend conferences and the like. I took a lot of food photos to add to Maps in hopes of reaching level 10 as a Guide. The trip started out with a great bowl of pork blood noodles for lunch on the way to Borabu, the next town over. Unless otherwise indicated, all of the many bowls of noodles consumed on this trip were yellow bami noodles, which I crave when I’m on keto (I’m off due to uni trips at the moment, so game on!).

What made this bowl stand out were the type of noodles used (thin and perfectly textured), the clear and tasty soup, and the giant chunks of braised pork tendon served in each bowl.