DarkBlade2117

if your psu has made a knocking sound for a year be happy it hasn't fried your system or even caught fire or something. 

Nah it's just the fan
Only starts doing it the moment the fan kicks on which isn't often

Well at first I thought you parents are just toxic and don't want you to succeed if that's the case just talk with them, and explain yourself. Bonus points, they will understand that you can think

Ya talking with my parents hasn't been a thing for a good year now, I don't even live with them and she still collects the $300 child support check. Who knows what it goes towards, not life insurance, clothes, bills, food, phones or anything. I mean my car insurance they thankfully still pay which is only about 20% of the child support check either way, which is about the only amount that even comes close to me. Don't think they plan on buying me anything for my Birthday or Christmas only as that was the "stipulation" to pay for the car insurance so I guess none of it really comes my way. They almost took the car from me... not because of anything really meaningful, just because my Step Dad had it that way and I'm pretty sure my Mother only really delayed that until I graduate. Oh well, can't work 40 hours a week and go to school full time.

oh...I'm sad to hear that, I see a couple more situations like yours on this forum, I don't understand how there could be mothers like this...
I wish everything best for you !! If you need to talk with someone about something hit me up

Stop getting shitty cables. 

Oops 

I experienced this with the PS3 a long time ago. I had a second cable about 1' longer and when I tried to use it as soon as I pressed a button it'd disconnect/not work. I can only assume the small block on the supplied cable is to blame.

Inside the block is a ferrite core. It's used for mitigating EMI. I assume this means the cable acts kind of like an antenna. Without the ferrite core it may pick up stray signals and cause data to become messed up. I could be wrong though I'm not an expert on these things.

My favourite is BoBaFET

Ah why not, my big issue is applying what we do in class to real world scenarios which is maybe why I want to go into Civil engineering.

you need better glasses

but I know how that goes, reading stuff on stuff

Bought some $12 3.50's today, glass broke off when i took label off.

I should have known better.

Bread board ah yess

What until you see surface mount components

LOLOLOL

Try to solder them too

LOLOL

Try to read the lettering on them too

LOL

Magnifying glass

Jewelers Magnifier

This bad boy right here for a good $9 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014R8HY2M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I don't repair phones or work on small things like this to warrant a nice kit, just need to stop using flat heads and pliers for adhesive and I've got a heat gun.

Nice! I didn't even know they made a kit like that for that little.

It should work well for you the handful of times you need to use it.

If I use it enough over the course of a few months to wear out most of the tools and or break them, then I'll get a better one. Boss for lawn care does the same thing, we kept upgrading shovels after we broke them until we got one that didn't break lmao

The CompTIA A+ certs have actually not been all that well regarded. There are better certs that look better on resumes. I've been told Lenovo or Dell.

I'm also currently taking a testout course called PC pro. So far myself and 3/4ths the class think it's absolute trash so I can't imagine the cert is worth anything at all.