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partner in crime --, died on August 6th, 2022, after nine years of extraordinary service.\n\nA trip to the laptop tech confirmed that the motherboard was gone, as well as the \"power supply\", and the GPU. Poni hopes the HDDs were spared, but for the time being, Poni cannot say for sure. [i](Poni will cross that bridge when he comes to it)[/i]\n\nThis laptop model was released in 2012, but Poni got his \"Raichu\" in 2013. Poni had a nice job back then and he could afford to get a nice laptop. 17.9 inch screen, i7 processor, dedicated GPU.\n\nRaichu is responsible for some of Poni's most iconic works. It was also Poni's companion during his harsh exile in the Amazon jungle, surviving those years with nary a scratch. Raichu survived a keyboard failure, a screen detachment, a nasty fall from an overhead compartment, a pandemic, a few business betrayals, and it even outlasted two Wacom tablets.\n\nLately, Raichu had been giving Poni signs that the long years were catching up at last. Failures to boot, random crashes, funky display effects. Thus, the end doesn't come as that much of a surprise to Poni, and it should be no surprise to you that Poni didn't plan accordingly.\n\n[i](To be fair, a few steps were being taken in case disaster struck -- such as external storage of passwords, and file cleanup and compression for later backup -- but Poni just didn't expect this to happen so soon.)[/i]\n\nThe photo above shows Raichu's screen in all its glory, just a few days ago. Someone close to Poni was being informed that Poni was streaming, and Poni took a quick snapshot to show her.\n\nIf you've ever received a picture from Poni, chances are it was made with Raichu. Raichu was a quirky beast to be sure, but it succeeded in being a capable tool for naughty arts. Yes, Poni had been wanting a hardware upgrade for a few years, but to the very end, Raichu did its best to enable Poni's meager skills.\n\nPoni will get a new computer [i](and yes, Poni will need your help with this!)[/i] but there will never be another Raichu. Typing all of this is very hard for Poni, partly because Poni's big hooves make it hard to type on a phone. But mostly because memories, and change,and growth, and things that even majestic little alicorns have trouble expressing with words.\n\nA machine, nothing more -- Raichu was just a few pounds of metal, plastic, and 10-year-old technology. And it was also the bearer of this hopeless old horse's struggles and his triumphs.\n\nLoyal Raichu: you've served your purpose brilliantly. May the pixels that you created live on the internet forever.\n\nThank you, old friend. Good-bye.","description_bbcode_parsed":"Poni's laptop, "Raichu" -- Poni's most loyal and dependable partner in crime --, died on August 6th, 2022, after nine years of extraordinary service.
A trip to the laptop tech confirmed that the motherboard was gone, as well as the "power supply", and the GPU. Poni hopes the HDDs were spared, but for the time being, Poni cannot say for sure. (Poni will cross that bridge when he comes to it)
This laptop model was released in 2012, but Poni got his "Raichu" in 2013. Poni had a nice job back then and he could afford to get a nice laptop. 17.9 inch screen, i7 processor, dedicated GPU.
Raichu is responsible for some of Poni's most iconic works. It was also Poni's companion during his harsh exile in the Amazon jungle, surviving those years with nary a scratch. Raichu survived a keyboard failure, a screen detachment, a nasty fall from an overhead compartment, a pandemic, a few business betrayals, and it even outlasted two Wacom tablets.
Lately, Raichu had been giving Poni signs that the long years were catching up at last. Failures to boot, random crashes, funky display effects. Thus, the end doesn't come as that much of a surprise to Poni, and it should be no surprise to you that Poni didn't plan accordingly.
(To be fair, a few steps were being taken in case disaster struck -- such as external storage of passwords, and file cleanup and compression for later backup -- but Poni just didn't expect this to happen so soon.)
The photo above shows Raichu's screen in all its glory, just a few days ago. Someone close to Poni was being informed that Poni was streaming, and Poni took a quick snapshot to show her.
If you've ever received a picture from Poni, chances are it was made with Raichu. Raichu was a quirky beast to be sure, but it succeeded in being a capable tool for naughty arts. Yes, Poni had been wanting a hardware upgrade for a few years, but to the very end, Raichu did its best to enable Poni's meager skills.
Poni will get a new computer (and yes, Poni will need your help with this!) but there will never be another Raichu. Typing all of this is very hard for Poni, partly because Poni's big hooves make it hard to type on a phone. But mostly because memories, and change,and growth, and things that even majestic little alicorns have trouble expressing with words.
A machine, nothing more -- Raichu was just a few pounds of metal, plastic, and 10-year-old technology. And it was also the bearer of this hopeless old horse's struggles and his triumphs.
Loyal Raichu: you've served your purpose brilliantly. May the pixels that you created live on the internet forever.
Thank you, old friend. Good-bye.","writing":"","writing_bbcode_parsed":"","pools_count":1,"title":"(an important if cheesy and overly long UPDATE -- tldr; dead laptop)","deleted":"f","public":"t","mimetype":"image/jpeg","pagecount":"1","rating_id":"0","rating_name":"General","ratings":[],"submission_type_id":"1","type_name":"Picture/Pinup","guest_block":"f","friends_only":"f","comments_count":"3","views":"95"}