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.

I believe her. It doesn’t change my extremely negative opinion of her, her positions, or her actions by even a single iota; but I believe her. Until proven otherwise.

FATAL HARDWARE ERROR: PROCESSOR CORE is generally not a transient error. Good for you that your old CPU is still going strong, but anecdata does not an argument make. This was my work machine and I can’t risk it going down.

To save you a click:

H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as “Red, White, and Blueland”.

From the desk of the insoluble Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (from the land of ragweed and humidity and hating pedestrians, Georgia), may God shit forever on his dumbass inbred face 🙄

Hell yeah, talk about collective action! I’m sure the reports from this thread weren’t the only ones, and it was probably already under review, but every pebble counts in a landslide. Thanks for letting all of us know 😊

Nice, thanks for you contribution! 🙌

edit edit: apparently they took it down because they were concerned he wouldn’t ship, not because they enforce their own guidelines. I’d say “suck a dick, Shopify” but that would give blowjobs a bad name

Edit: The store is gone, good work everyone!

Whaaaaaaaaat the fuck. That is a Shopify store, and their terms of service explicitly state

You can’t breach the social contract of commerce.
There are activities we don’t allow on the platform because they breach the social contract of commerce. This means you can’t call for, or threaten, violence against specific people or groups. And you can’t sell products that facilitate intentional self-harm.

~~https://www.shopify.com/legal/aup~~

~~Pretty sure this shirt calls for violence against Jewish people. Anyone who cares to join me in reporting it can do so here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/tools/report-an-issue/report-a-merchant~~

It is not massively popular. Don’t let yourself be fooled into thinking that. These mouth-breathing troglodytes are in the very slim minority as far as the whole population goes. A lot of the people voting for him actually did not know what they were voting for - I was just talking to one of my friends overseas and they had no idea about quite literally ANY of the things Trump and Musk are doing. I told them about the Department of Education, USAID, the Treasury access, and the concentration camps, and then they interrupted to offer to let me stay with them and seek asylum from the government here.

Many people in the US were in the same boat. The Fediverse gives the people on it a lot of information most people don’t ever see, and the more people learn about what’s actually going on the more people will start to oppose it.

You can get the Ryzen 5 7600X (6 core, 4.7GHz, AM5 socket) + Gigabyte B650m + 32GB DDR5-5200 RAM for US$382 here, which may or may not qualify as “a lot of money” to you: https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-7600x-ryzen-5-7000-series-raphael-zen-4-socket-am5/p/N82E16819113770?Item=N82E16819113770

Also includes a 1TB SSD (only PCIE4 though) at no charge, in case that matters. It’d make for a decent upgrade kit, in my estimation; you get more modern performance plus headroom for another AM5 upgrade down the track.

Also, anecdote time! My 3700X just blue-screened the other week with a fatal hardware error in one of the processor cores. I feel like I upgraded just in time. Don’t fall into the trap of believing your current hardware will run forever! You might not need an upgrade now, but far better to do it while you still have old hardware you can reinstall so you at least have a working system.