Personal question: How old is your computer?

[vteco]

I still have my Amiga 2000. and an original IBM PC.

[Xist]

It has glass, lights, and kazoos or something.
I plan on putting contact paper on the glass if I ever have the chance... to protect it...
The first Dell is rated 4.5/5, but they must not have wanted to upgrade anything: https://www.costco.com/dell-inspiron...000260048.html
The first negative review I saw for the Cyberpower complained that you can't add actual drives to this: https://www.costco.com/cyberpowerpc-...000251820.html

I guess that is the thing about the glass, it is a monument to man's ignorance.
There isn't anywhere to mount drives, not that I want to, but that's the point of a tower!
There are two PCI slots.
I have one card for one m.2 drive and another for 2.
It already has graphics, so what else would I add?
Oh, it already had 3 USB-C ports.
I have a card somewhere to add those.
I have a small stack of SATA drives and one 3.5" HD, but I don't have any intention of installing them.
Unfortunately, I kept seeing reviews about blue screens of death.
Aww man!

[redpoint5]

I'm building a tower because I don't see the point of having a NAS and a PC when you can simply combine both functions into a single unit. Store bought towers won't have much, if any space for 3.5" drives. Finding motherboards with enough SATA connections is getting difficult too.

The PC deals were all around Black Friday, which is when I purchased most of my components.

[Xist]

Someone told me “Considering you don’t follow the tick tock of the yearly upgrade regime for this kind of product, you just paid full price for parts that will be obsolete by Q2-3 next year with the generation.”
All of these have been on sale and I keep saying that I don’t game.
Honestly, I hope to finally figure out what was wrong with my XPS and return to the warm embrace of win10.
I keep diving into Linux trying to pull the last passwords from my laptop and the commands aren’t self-explanatory.
I haven’t searched and destroyed all of the options so Windows doesn’t wake up and\or reboot whenever it wants to update Notepad, I just put it to sleep, and Windows woke it during the night.
All of a sudden, our room looked like Las Vegas.
My wife woke first, with a migraine.
She said even the bathroom was all lit up, so she slept on the closet floor, with the door closed.
Since it rebooted, all of my stuff was closed, so I just told it to shut down.

[Isaac Zachary]

Why is it I'm still using an old Microsoft Intellimouse 1.1A with serial port (yes, my desktop computer also has a serial port) and it works just fine including the scroll wheel, but my new Surface Bluetooth mouse has some serious scroll wheel problems?

[redpoint5]

Intellimouse is the best. I've never owned a serial port mouse (ps/2 was for mouse and keyboard back when I got into computers), but they are the only mice I've found to fit a larger hand.

They were the first ball-less mice I came across, also. Amazing that balls didn't disappear immediately once the optical ones were available. Then there were those folk who put up with clunky operation due to accumulated debris on the scroll wheels.

[Piotrsko]

The optical mice were available way back in the mid '80s. Expensive, not very sensitive, and required a lined or patternized surface. Only draftsmen used them, lotus users got by handsomely with the keypad. They ended up being serial because the parallel ports were 32 pin bi directional and huge. You typically had only one, just for the printer or scanner. My state of the then art XP machine had 10 serial 1parallel.

[Isaac Zachary]

My ball operated serial Intellimouse works just fine. Every once in a while I have to take the ball out and clean the roller bars. Other than that, it's fine, better than my bluetooth Microsoft Surface mouse.

[vteco]

Originally Posted by Xist

I keep diving into Linux trying to pull the last passwords from my laptop and the commands aren’t self-explanatory.
I haven’t searched and destroyed all of the options so Windows doesn’t wake up and\or reboot whenever it wants to update Notepad, I just put it to sleep, and Windows woke it during the night.
All of a sudden, our room looked like Las Vegas.
My wife woke first, with a migraine.
She said even the bathroom was all lit up, so she slept on the closet floor, with the door closed.
Since it rebooted, all of my stuff was closed, so I just told it to shut down.

Thank heavens I switched to Puppy Linux 15 years ago. I like it when I shut something off, it's actually off. I like not having to constantly update. I like not crashing. I like seeing what the computer is actually doing and running, and that it's open source. I like running an OS until I decide it's time to change it, rather than being subjected to forced obsolescence. I like spending probably a tenth of what I would, to do the same things Windows programs do. I like an OS that runs faster on older equipment than new commercial OSs do on new equipment. I like not being sold to constantly. I like not being bugged to put every aspect of my life up on somebody else's server. I like living on earth and not in "the cloud".

[vteco]

BTW, you can put Puppy Linux on a thumbdrive, run it from that drive, and if you want, even put your data on that drive. The OS is incredibly compact.

You can also remove that thumbdrive, and plug it into another computer, and be running with all your programs and data on that other computer.

In other words, your computer is now the size of your thumbdrive.