a_little_red_rat [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: January 22nd, 2024

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  • I literally have an engineering degree and I find building PCs annoying bc there are so many small annoying steps that are usually glossed over, and I don’t do it regularly enough to learn it all - I haven’t done it in over 5 years by now and I bet a lot of stuff has changed. It is extremely delicate too, and since processes change every 5-10 years, you never know if the RAM die should already have clicked in or if you beed to push harder or if you’re about to break it bc you’re actually pushing it the wrong way. GPU power connectors are weird and honestly badly designed, why not actually feed the power from the mobo directly, redesign that standard so you can skip the extra connectors.

    There is also always some shitty esoteric step that nobody mentions, like attaching the small speaker the correct way or the front panel hijinks, or back in the day setting the disk jumpers right, but it’s still stuff you need to do. Prefabs suck but I understand why people buy them when the self-build community is hostile towards people who don’t already know what to do.

    And that’s beside the issue of the hardware parts themselves. Spending hours researching the best combinations of components, having to learn the latest advances and compatibilities, I just don’t feel like it anymore. I liked “tech” shit like this but actually working in tech sapped it all out, I want shit to simply work already lol. Oh, also good luck with compatibility on linux, enjoy spending a few days trying to set up the drivers right.

    It’s just easier with laptops, and I honestly can do without newer games