Two months ago, I upgraded almost all my computer components except for the SSD, PSU and monitors, because I was getting tired of how it was beginning to show sluggishness. I could choose to step down the heavy usage a bit, but also felt a little bit money could do the trick. One thing led to another and it ended up being a bit more than what I originally planned to do.. but we are here now.

Tonight, I pushed the computer pretty close to its limits, and satisfied to see that it still hustles around without breaking much of a sweat

• Ubuntu server running on VirtualBox to run nginx RMTP repeater that copies the livestream to both Twitch and YouTube
• OBS streaming
• a voice transcriber webapp for the livestream
• Voicemeeter (virtual sound mixer program)
• BlueStack creating a virtual instance of Android on whcih I’m running HelloTalk (a Language learning partner app)
• HelloTalk messages webapp
• WhatsApp webapp
• Hangouts Webapp
• A dozen Google Docs/Spreadsheet windows open for document cross-reference and taking notes
• A dozen WordPress tabs open in editor mode
• A dozen chrome webpage tabs open for research
• YouTube
• Slack, Signal, Discord, KakaoTalk
• A dozen File Explorer windows for design assets
• Dropbox
• Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop all open with no open documents, because they take a long time to load

while searching for photo shots with asians latinx and black students in Adobe Stock Images, I see plenty of white students or white+black students but barely any latinx or asians. And like 99% of Asians I saw were women. Lol what decade is this stock library from? I even tried searching “California classroom”