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Cake day: 2023年10月25日

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  • First of all, yes, everyone using older technology “has bullets coming at them”, you clearly know as well as I do about wear and tear in electronic components so I don’t know why the tone of your reply implies that older hardware will run fine forever as long as “nothing is wrong”. It’s a balancing act; you can’t know if something’s gonna go wrong with your hardware until it does, but failure rates go up the older it gets, plain and simple.

    Secondly, yes, you completely misunderstood what I said. I upgraded before anything went wrong, for gaming and local AI primarily, and because I wanted to avoid the tariffs I knew were coming. I repurposed my old system in its entirety into a server, and not even a few months later it BSOD’d with the fatal hardware error. I know it can be a transient error, I said it’s generally not, because that’s my experience in the absence of overheating/overvolting. I had not overclocked at all, I don’t feel like risking it for a few extra percent performance when I’m running a system for long-term stability.

    Finally, I think you’ll find that I not only didn’t recommend an upgrade and just parted out an upgrade kit at what most would consider a reasonable price these days, but that I ALSO labeled my experience as an anecdote. Meanwhile, you gave your anecdote like it shows I’m an asshole or an idiot, or both, for upgrading when my PC wasn’t on literal fire. Fuck me for trying to help a buddy out on the Internet, I guess.















  • Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders that respect biological reality in areas from medicine to sports to intimate spaces, and protect the right to speak about the harms of gender ideology

    That was as far as I needed to read to know that the author doesn’t deserve credence in this or anything else. I bet if pressed in court this “Professor of Psychology” would deny ever claiming to be an educator. “No, I mean I profess to know about psychology, not that I have a degree in it!”

    An absolute and unmitigated wanker.




  • I think

    More voices make a difference, lend us yours!

    Or

    Help spread the word, if you can!

    Might read better, and they’re still short enough to post quickly.

    When I’m home, I’ll look into creating an account or two securely and joining in. I’m already telling everyone I know about Lemmy in meatspace, it’s remarkable how even my technically-adept friends are still largely on Reddit.

    Oh yes, and “sad to hear/that’s unfortunate” could use an endcap like “but no worries!” to soften them. Without the endcap and no further punctuation, they read negatively - maybe sarcastic, maybe passive-aggressive and uncaring, or something along those lines - I’m not really sure how to describe it at the moment beyond “negative”. Personally, I like to throw in a quick example of how I understand their position, but I think that’s optional.