{"id":347,"date":"2007-12-01T20:39:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T01:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/01\/the-spare-box\/"},"modified":"2007-12-01T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T01:39:13","slug":"the-spare-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/01\/the-spare-box\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spare Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t blame the OS directly, but life in Windows-land <em>always<\/em> involves me sitting around twiddling my thumbs.<\/p>\n<p>So I brought back an ancient laptop with me. 512MB RAM (I think&#8211;it might be 256), a slow processor, a tiny hard drive, and a battery that doesn&#8217;t hold a charge. It&#8217;s running Ubuntu, and its two duties are as a web browsing machine and an IM machine.<\/p>\n<p>So now while the system is unusable, I can get stuff done over here.<\/p>\n<p>(Psst: Steam, when your game is so hard to start that I lose interest before it&#8217;s launched, you&#8217;ve failed miserably. Go get stuck in a lift. A burning lift.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t blame the OS directly, but life in Windows-land always involves me sitting around twiddling my thumbs. So I brought back an ancient laptop with me. 512MB RAM (I think&#8211;it might be 256), a slow processor, a tiny hard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/01\/the-spare-box\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,15,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-hero-of-the-day","category-living","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}