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I dont know if this counts, but it was my first build about 10-11 years ago. Still runs and works but outdated, I just finished my new build this month.

As one of this forum's grumpy old men, it is my duty to point out that you young'uns don't know how easy you have it. When I was a lad, we had to make PCs out of coal and our own tears...
 
A lot of the complaints centred around aesthetics. Firstly that's optional. Secondly, if you do decide to pursue it will cost time and money, as it does with cars, clothes, houses and loads of other things.
 
Cable management is easier than ever. Look at old case reviews, cable management was an afterthought, or really old, it was non-existent (anyone else remember tucking IDE ribbon cables behind the motherboard?). Plus no more cables for optical drives, and for a quite a lot of us now, no cables for SSDs either. Faults occur less than in the past, things setup themselves. Overclocking and fine-tuning gives such tiny gains these days, it's entirely optional.
 
I will concede GPU price inflation, that has been brutal over the past 4 years. Other than that, I's say it's no harder than 10 years ago, and a lot easier than 20 years ago.

The phrase "Glass is glass and glass breaks" is a catchphrase for JerryRigEverything. It isn't going to be inside any phones. And unlike other copyright traps, like fake trivia or fake towns on a map, Dbrand and JRE did not try to claim that these were real features or facts. They were advertised as Easter eggs.

I have had ads on Facebook try to give me malware. So yes in my eyes all ads are bad because these dumb fucks refuse to verify who they are selling ads to.

I believe this is ASUS P5Q board...I used to have Core2 Quad 9550 on that board...but...inside is some Intel Celeron...I don't know which one...it is hard to see....

The highschool I used to go to was still using Windows XP laptops with Celeron M and 512MB RAM in 2013...so 10 years of use isn't out of the question, not with modern low-end hardware and Chrome OS being lightweight.

The highschool I used to go to was still using Windows XP laptops with Celeron M and 512MB RAM in 2013...so 10 years of use isn't out of the question, not with modern low-end hardware and Chrome OS being lightweight.

Yeah the lost revenue was always a joke.  When I used to pirate as a teen it was because we were poor and all my money went into paying for Internet access (it was WAY more expensive back then).  There's quite a few games I pirated first (eg The Elder Scrolls Oblivion), then bought them when I discovered I liked them, as I couldn't afford the loss to buy something I ended up hating.  I literally would never have gotten into gaming at all without piracy and now I have literally thousands of bought games.
 
I also knew someone who just pirated everything because he could.  I very much doubt he would have bought any of it as he wasn't THAT bothered about the content, it was more a case of "why not if I can?".
 
I mean you see the same with a lot of people on streaming services.  They watch what is available and it never even occurs to them to actually buy stuff that isn't.  They're just not passionate about the content like those of us still buying physical media for the absolute best image and sound quality.

Honestly this name makes it feel really really low end 😛

Logical.  Not sure why this is a Tech News post though.
 
For your first post, I have to wonder by porn is your topic.
 
Then again, porn 🙂
 
Good call!
 
 

People keep saying, "oh your 8 year old card won't run it quit bitching" when my 6700XT I purchased SPECIFICALLY because my gpu was 8 years old can't run it either. That's poor optimization if a 2 year old mid-range GPU can't run the game at 60 without running it at 540p.

It really wouldn't be a properly playable experience on my 6700XT despite supporting DX12 ultimate, considering I expect to be able to play games at 1440p on it, and the devs recommend 1080P Med/w FSR Performance - AKA 540P.

Brand new friend, fresh out of the factory box

Welp, I now have a smol 1999 PC. Albeit with only the ODD not being year perfect (2004 Liteon) or the Sound card, FDD, NIC being early to mid 90's.

A bit of jank was required to get my GA-5AA's PS/2 mouse bracket working.
 

I think i win, PC from ~1975 original intel 8080, processor works fine but recently one of the memory modules got rusty so the video output is messed up. 

I have a laptop that was manufactured in 2011, with a first gen i5. The stylus that came with it has multiple levels of pressure sensitivity. But this is Apple, and they know that people will be suckered into buying a pencil without the features simply due to the brand.

I have a laptop that was manufactured in 2011, with a first gen i5. The stylus that came with it has multiple levels of pressure sensitivity. But this is Apple, and they know that people will be suckered into buying a pencil without the features simply due to the brand.

My brother now has it showing on his laptop. While it doesn't on either of our desktops. Needless to say, I will be finding a way to block the adblock blocker.

It's not AMD's fault. These "anti-cheat" modules are hacks, and in some cases rootkits.

I'm not a dev, but why hasn't an anti-cheat system been built into the latest DirectX API? I think it's long overdue. At least have a separate API that's an industry standard for this function if at all possible.

Virtually every single CPU launch has leaks of some kind regarding supply chain. Not everyone buys things online 😉

In some countries they just don't give a shit about embargos. This really does happen nearly every launch. 

This will do nothing, those data brokers will just go offshore by the time this law goes into effect.

Now you are obligated to run them in RAID 0.

Apparently I never posted it here but I got these two broskis the other day. Seems like they're in near-perfect, if not perfect, health which is super awesome.