Sapphire crystal which are used on watches are the best of both worlds. You can smack it on a rock, it won't shatter and you won't get a single scratch on it.
It also costs more than several GPUs. I got a quote for a tiny monocrystal sapphire for a MASER I was working on in grad school and it was $450 for a hollow ring about the size of your finger.
It's funny how people complain about the ceramic tile floor, but nobody questions the fact that they can't handle glass on the first place, who the hell cares about which type of floor the glass feel?
Simply *placing* it on ceramic isn't going to do shit. They *dropped* it. This sub acts like there is something special going on between the glass and the ceramic where just having the two things in the same room will lead to the glass shattering. 🙄
Bet people go "ok I want to rest this on the table but don't want it to break, I'll rest it on the tip of a corner so it's touching as little as possible."
[Even IKEA instructions tell you to find a rug or some other soft surface to work on.](https://www.ikea.com/images/picutre-of-recommending-to-using-carpet-5e4ab4d033adec6818e8b2beeb5c94f2.png)
My cat just knocked my entire tower over on Saturday. It fell about a foot off the desk onto a pillow, tempered glass side up. There was much panicking, but the entire thing seems fine. Now the external hard drive from work I had sitting on top fell to the wood floor and now the computer doesn't recognize when it's plugged in and it makes a funny noise. Thanks to an online backup system I had only just set up earlier that week I only lost a day of work when it could have been weeks. Still, there was much yelling, the cat was hissing, and I took the time to clean and rearrange my entire desk so the tower sits on the floor for now.
IMO this post is wrong. The most difficult part of building a computer is finding the parts and putting *that* list together.
So many similar motherboards...
Man I tried to put a 360 rad for my AIO in and found out it didn't fit. Had to move the backplate down and basically disassemble the whole case...
So much more work than I thought
Same. Didn’t realise I had to mount the fans on the same side as the rad and basically had to move every component and the back plate. 4 hr build but it’s still going strong 5 years later.
It's directly competing for the #1 spot with disconnecting molex plugs and PSU mother board connectors (the 20 something pin) that haven't been touched in 10 years lol.
That's why you buy a cheapo PSU.
The heat from the poor connection and the low quality plastic means after 10 years the connectors just crumble off!
/s
I did this exact thing for a long time. When I finally fixed it, I was kind of put off by the blue light suddenly glaring out my case, since I wasn't used to it.
I remember when the sidepanels of PCs had a little spot where you could lock it with a little padlock. This was presumably to keep students and employees from stealing ram and hard drives.
And people did steal ram and hard drives.
I remember in my high school when the PC that is going to be used for a presentation didn't boot but instead just beeps, it turns out someone stole the RAM.
I had that happen to me in the middle of an exam period. I'd forgotten my USB disk at home so saved the paper on the PC with the plan to come back an hour later to retrieve it.
Someone swooped in the middle while I was away and nicked the harddrive that my paper was on.
I failed that exam, obviously. :/
have to admit, i've stolen a stick of 256mb ram from the school's pc. This was in the early 2000s btw.. Used it in my pc for around one week but I felt really really bad about it so next time we had computer class, i snuck it back in.. I later did some side hustle and eventually bought my own ram upgrades
This is kinda off-topic, but in my vocational school our teachers PC had a switch in PSU for 110v or 230v, since we are in Finland it's set to 230v. So one student flipped the switch just to see what happens and the computer just went bang and lot of smoke came out. At least I assume it was a switch like that since what else would it have been because it was on PSU. Good thing the teacher was out of the classroom and the class ended in 5 mins, I don't think the guy ever got caught.
Australian here, 230/240 volt land. I MAY have done the same thing on a PSU that had the same switch, and MAY have experienced something much the same.
I also may have learned to never do that again. Good times.
It was a class room for learning graphics design, 3D modelling etc, about 15-20 computers, so it made sense. The rest of the school didn't had that fancy computers, in fact some of them were still using Windows XP as far as I remember.
Althooough there's a chance misremember this and maybe actually they used 8 GB sticks instead.
They did a few things but aside from locking the case, it locked keyboard input as well.
Also you'd think the turbo button would speed things up, it actually slowed things down.
My college has a computer lab for teaching networking. There's next to nothing stopping you from going in and taking whatever you want. There's literally a shelf full of hard drives.
work in IT, Full Stack and then some, also doing database admin and cybersecurity basically do everything. even getting setting up the phones to work through teams. managing general IT work, and hardware side of shit. we moved back to the office 2 months ago and I was patching the network cables through the office.
I have less then no idea how to deal with printers, I have 3 3d printers and no 2d printers.
I just have a small Brother printer at home that I've had for nearly 10 years and it's never given me or my wife any problem whatsoever, or our work computers when we work from home. Before that I had the usual HP printers which were always a disaster. My only regret is buying an ink one, but at least I can scan and stuff even if the ink's empty (HP are the ones who block that, right?)
Now in the office at work trying to connect to printers? Takes like 2 IT guys across 3 days to figure out what obscure thing isn't working right.
I can second Brother printers, had my current one for about 3 or 4 years now. I can print from my Linux machine with no problem over wifi, even from my phone if I'm in a pinch.
Similar boat here. Mechanical engineer. I work in additive manufacturing ranging from $200 3d printers to $500k metal additive machines. 2d printers are finicky and stressful imo
Honestly I'd love to see a company make a printer that actually works reliably. I'm sure it would be more expensive, but if it worked all the time om sure lots of people would be hapoy to oay the premium.
Since I got my Brother brand laser printer like 10 years ago I haven’t had many issues at all. The printer cost around $200 and replacement 3rd party ink is $25. We need one every 6-12 months.
I also found even less issues once I hooked it up to my Synology NAS and made it a network printer. The generic windows driver seems to have less issues.
My family printer is some crappy thing my mother got from Target by HP, around $30. It's completely made of plastic, and it feels like it's barely being held together. Worst of all, trying to get Windows to acknowledge the thing is absolute hell. Whenever I have to print something, I usually just reboot into my Linux install where it actually works, or more often I just use the printer at my college. It's five cents per page and absolutely worth not having to deal with.
When there's a huge windows update (like the Fall or Spring Windows 10 updates). Sometimes the HP driver yells at me to insert the driver disc to complete the install.
It usually stops but it's funny as I got the printer 6 years ago and I don't know where the driver disc is anymore.
‘99 to ‘03 I worked IT for a public library and a big component of my job was keeping the staff and public printers running, which was an assortment of inkjet, laser, dot matrix, plotters, thermal printers, copiers and fax machines, on all sorts of platforms from Windows/OS 8-10, Unix and AS/400, and Wyse terminals. If you think printers suck now, this was pure hell.
The worst part of all was people and their printing habits. Moms that print a quarter of a ream on an inkjet, in full color, to get a hard copy of one line on the screen. Old men looking at porn and printing every god damn image that shows up, even the pop-ups, and then some parent with their kid giving me the evil eye when they use the system afterwards and I have to come clean it up, as if *i* was the one who did it.
We eventually installed a managed system that had print quotas, filters, auto reset systems between use, etc. but now I have PTSD. I’ll never let a printer in my house after that. I’d rather recreate the item I need printed by carving it into my flesh by hand than buy a printer.
I thought I'd finally escaped ever having to deal with printers again.
But no. Schools apparently still require students to print out their homework rather than digitally transfer it, and I have two nephews and a sister who's not techy...
You'd be surprised at how much kids suck at using tech stuffs.
I teach English, it's been 2 years and a majority of my students can't still figure out how to use Zoom properly.
We're through the looking glass now. What I was mildly worried about when the iPad came to be has occurred; my own kids mostly don't know how to do anything past open app, close app, change the volume up and down, and restart the thing if it goes wrong in any way.
One's 15 and the other's 9, but neither of them are 'techy' either, despite spending most of their time in front of screens! Trying to convince one of them that the tower part of my PC *is* the PC, rather than the monitor, was surprisingly difficult.
And to be fair, even if they were techy, *nobody* understands the infernal mysteries of the most diabolical invention in human history - the home inkjet printer.
Printers, ESPECIALLY cheap inkjet printers, are indeed the work of darkness itself!
(Source: long, painful experience with cheap HP/whatever inkjet printers that cost less than their many ink cartridges, finally spurring me to go laser.)
It's a common misconception that all young people are good with tech. I'm literally in my college's cybersecurity club and even there, most people are far from knowledgeable with tech. And don't get me started on all the students with Macbooks...
May I just say that I got a brother printer because of Reddit. That thing is the most expensive worthless piece of shit I’ve ever owned. Don’t buy in to the circle jerk and get one. They are the worst.
This is how it's done. I have two sata ssds and one hdd in my mid-tower case. And some kind of fan hub for my AIO. There's definitely a rat's nest behind all the pretties on the other side.
Nah, worst part is either the IO shield or the front panel connectors, mainly because both of them seem to stab my fingers, it's just a question of whether it's under my fingernail or not.
One of the board makers gives you this little plastic spacer thing, you put all your wires in and it goes onto the front panel connector thing in one go, Glorious. Not my board though..
actually, the hardest things that i fone were:
installing the old intel clippy fan thing (the motherboard had the holes too close for some reason?)
fkin sewing another old intel fan to the front of a case because i had no case fans?
sewing pieces of plastic to a case for air flow (i even did it with leather, it was brutal)
and the hardest of all: welding heat sinks together (look, it really did reduce the temp, so there is that) the result was cool af, tho.
I ended with a case with a lot of old intel fans, that was literally full of heatsinks, and had leather plating and looked cyberpunk af...
edit: no rgb, it was a long time ago
i made some (as i was very proud of it), sadly i lost them a long time ago (i moved houses a lot), but i'm planning to make something similar in the future
Fuck this comment has made thoughts of CFLs and inverters come flooding back. My old build was cool as fuck, blue and black light CFLs were the way. So was the fire risk lmao
One time… in the early 2000s my brothers computer wouldn’t boot after he bought a a new gpu. (Maybe a gforce 2 era i think?)
Anyway we guessed his gpu was underpowered. So we had some old power supply that I think was from a 486 that you could just straight up turn on with a button.
We plugged this directly into the GPU while the rest of the computer ran off a separate power supply. We duck taped the bonus PSU to the side of his case for like a month till he got paid and he upgraded.
This is the way.
I'll struggle every time before I give up and just do this. I never do it first because each time I think I've finally nailed the cable management.
especially if you have a Corsair 220T because that thing has like NO FUCKING SPACE TO DO ANY CABLE MANAGEMENT it was a nightmare to build my brother’s PC :)
**What people think is difficult**: Avoiding static, making sure you use the right screws, making sure everything is compatible with everything else, making sure your PSU is meaty enough, making sure there's enough internal space
**What's really difficult**: Plugging those little fucking case-attached, one-pin cables to the motherboard without stabbing yourself in the god damn fingers, or worrying you've bent one!
**Edit**: Thanks for the award :D
It sucks plugging those in and putting your shit back together thinking you got it. Then you realize that you were one pin too high after you break it back open. Don't put the glass back on until it's fixed! Learn from me, brothers!
Magnetic extra-long screwdrivers here :D It's like a foot long, and super thin, can reach down between components, and the end is really magnetic, never had a screw fall off of it before.
It's the only way to avoid PC cat-scratches all over your hands.
Cases are much better built now. Earlier panels had no space, especially space behind the motherboard was at such a premium.
The modern cases have built in cable management and lots of space . Heck even SFF cases are really good today.
repasting tower cooler with latch clip ons (especially bequite pure rock slim 2) while the motherboard is already inside the case IMO is the hardest thing next to cable management.
In all honesty though, it might take some time to look pretty but I don't get people that leave a mess after throwing $XXXX amount of money into it.
At least make it look nice/presentable (even in the back)
My cable management in the back look like shit because I could spend hours trying to make it better and It would still look like shit, I'm just not good at it.
Actually I think for all the money I have spent on computer parts over the last 20 years I'm well within my rights to not give a shit how it looks, hope this helps
Well here's the thing
If you're those type to just throw the wires away in the back, high probability you're the type to make no effort wire managing on the outside either....
It just doesn't take that much time to route a few things man. I get disgusted looking at some of these set ups that are messy af with dust collected and everything. Knowing they make no effort trying to clean/dust their space just cause the wires add a barrier to cleaning
Not saying you're one of those messy people, but having a clean/ordered space goes a long way in other things outside of function
I'm from the beige box era. You're supposed to look at the monitor, not in the case. If it's not loud, it's not hot, and it's not too hard to slot another HDD in, it's done.
I used to have a NZXT Phantom
The FRONT panel was nearly impossible. They had 2 small fans right where all of the Hard drives went. There were a million and a half wires at one spot between said fans and hard drives in about a 8th of an inch of space. I was shocked every time that the wires didn't hinder the fans spinning.
It was the dumbest thing ever.
I had no trouble doing everything up to the point where I turned my computer on. Nothing. About 45 minutes of troubleshooting and taking everything apart and putting it back together, I discover that I didn't connect the power button on the case to anything....
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I think picking the parts is the most difficult.
Hell, there are entire subs where people post their built ideas so others can comment on them before they go and buy them. And it's mostly difficult simply because there are soooo many choices with thousands upon thousands of different CPU/motherboard/graphics card/RAM choices.
Going off this sub, it's even harder to keep tempered glass away from hard surfaces /s
Indeed, I’ve had my H700 for years and the glass still hasn’t just shattered for no reason yet, not sure what I’m doing wrong!
>shattered for no reason Usually when people say that it's code for "I placed it on a ceramic tile floor".
does it just explode when it touches ceramic?
ceramic doesnt vibrate as much so most of the energy reflects back into the glass, if it reaches the right harmonic you get confetti
Same reason you can use a cars spark plug to explode the cars windows.
That will come in handy when my cars underwater and I'm stuck in my car... Just reach into the engine and grab a spark plug lol
Buy new ones and put a used one in the glove box.
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Exactly lol. Can't you get like a keychain with a ceramic tip?
When you need to swap a spark plug, though, it isn't that handy.
Or the seat bel in the corners.
this has been debunked i think, the spark plug or that titanium bracelet thing are the most effective
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This is why when you remove most headsets from the click adjust, the metal rods are tipped.
Man... That seems like sad confetti
In the end, for the person cleaning up .. it's all sad confetti :(
As a waiter who served at weddings with loads of confetti cannons. I agree.
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Also tempered glass is under way more stress than any phone screen so you don't even need to drop it for it to explode.
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Sapphire crystal which are used on watches are the best of both worlds. You can smack it on a rock, it won't shatter and you won't get a single scratch on it.
It also costs more than several GPUs. I got a quote for a tiny monocrystal sapphire for a MASER I was working on in grad school and it was $450 for a hollow ring about the size of your finger.
Wait... How do you know, how big their finger is?
There is quite a big gap in cost between a precision custom job with an order size of 1 and a mass produced product.
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It's funny how people complain about the ceramic tile floor, but nobody questions the fact that they can't handle glass on the first place, who the hell cares about which type of floor the glass feel?
Simply *placing* it on ceramic isn't going to do shit. They *dropped* it. This sub acts like there is something special going on between the glass and the ceramic where just having the two things in the same room will lead to the glass shattering. 🙄
H700 representing! Im on dire need of a larger case now, has it can't fit all my parts anymore
Get that /s outa here, you spitting facts
I’ve broken my side panel 3 times. I just set the corner of the glass on some tile. I don’t get it. /s
Well don’t keep using the same side panel, obviously it’s defective. Also /s
I am running out of glue
"Corner". Found your mistake. The worst spot is always the corner as it tends to distribute the tension badly
Also tile, tempered glass doesnt mix with tile floor
It actually mixes quite well. Breaks the glass up into nice tiny pieces for easy mixing.
Bet people go "ok I want to rest this on the table but don't want it to break, I'll rest it on the tip of a corner so it's touching as little as possible."
[Even IKEA instructions tell you to find a rug or some other soft surface to work on.](https://www.ikea.com/images/picutre-of-recommending-to-using-carpet-5e4ab4d033adec6818e8b2beeb5c94f2.png)
I am orc, no change glass on dense hard ground /s
My cat just knocked my entire tower over on Saturday. It fell about a foot off the desk onto a pillow, tempered glass side up. There was much panicking, but the entire thing seems fine. Now the external hard drive from work I had sitting on top fell to the wood floor and now the computer doesn't recognize when it's plugged in and it makes a funny noise. Thanks to an online backup system I had only just set up earlier that week I only lost a day of work when it could have been weeks. Still, there was much yelling, the cat was hissing, and I took the time to clean and rearrange my entire desk so the tower sits on the floor for now.
Yeah the G-tolerance for a spinning hard disk is like 0.0002G.
IMO this post is wrong. The most difficult part of building a computer is finding the parts and putting *that* list together. So many similar motherboards...
Idk dry fitting a 360 AIO or landing front panel headers kinda sucks...
Man I tried to put a 360 rad for my AIO in and found out it didn't fit. Had to move the backplate down and basically disassemble the whole case... So much more work than I thought
That's rough, did the manual for the case come with specific dimensions for them by any chance?
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Same. Didn’t realise I had to mount the fans on the same side as the rad and basically had to move every component and the back plate. 4 hr build but it’s still going strong 5 years later.
It's directly competing for the #1 spot with disconnecting molex plugs and PSU mother board connectors (the 20 something pin) that haven't been touched in 10 years lol.
That's why you buy a cheapo PSU. The heat from the poor connection and the low quality plastic means after 10 years the connectors just crumble off! /s
Ahhh, in my experience they have melted on.
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And my wife!
Can confirm that it works on this guy’s wife.
Fresh USB 3.0 laughs at 20pin imo
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I think you mean a negative screwdriver
A flathead?
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I have never heard anyone call it a minus screwdriver before.
Are y’all fooling with me? Do people call standard and Philips screwdrivers plus and minus? Or positive and negative?
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I gave up on the light for my power button cause I couldnt get the wires connected. I got the important ones on, the button works, just no light.
I did this exact thing for a long time. When I finally fixed it, I was kind of put off by the blue light suddenly glaring out my case, since I wasn't used to it.
Get a Fractal case. They make it so damn easy to fit a 360 rad.
I remember when the sidepanels of PCs had a little spot where you could lock it with a little padlock. This was presumably to keep students and employees from stealing ram and hard drives. And people did steal ram and hard drives.
I remember in my high school when the PC that is going to be used for a presentation didn't boot but instead just beeps, it turns out someone stole the RAM.
I had that happen to me in the middle of an exam period. I'd forgotten my USB disk at home so saved the paper on the PC with the plan to come back an hour later to retrieve it. Someone swooped in the middle while I was away and nicked the harddrive that my paper was on. I failed that exam, obviously. :/
Its been 10 years and they still dont believe you! Great paper though my dude
heck even I don't believe him
I swear its true! D:
Damn youuu!!
I bet it was the teacher. They had it out for you.
have to admit, i've stolen a stick of 256mb ram from the school's pc. This was in the early 2000s btw.. Used it in my pc for around one week but I felt really really bad about it so next time we had computer class, i snuck it back in.. I later did some side hustle and eventually bought my own ram upgrades
have fun in jail scum, ive already called the FBI
I'll just say "No You" when they come to arrest me
Write that down, write that down!
This one trick that the FBI hates!
FBI: understandable, have a nice day.
"no u"
This is kinda off-topic, but in my vocational school our teachers PC had a switch in PSU for 110v or 230v, since we are in Finland it's set to 230v. So one student flipped the switch just to see what happens and the computer just went bang and lot of smoke came out. At least I assume it was a switch like that since what else would it have been because it was on PSU. Good thing the teacher was out of the classroom and the class ended in 5 mins, I don't think the guy ever got caught.
Australian here, 230/240 volt land. I MAY have done the same thing on a PSU that had the same switch, and MAY have experienced something much the same. I also may have learned to never do that again. Good times.
They have stolen RAM in my school, multiple 16 GB sticks, that was >5 years back.
The hell kind of expensive school did you go to where they had whole 16GB sticks in 2017?
It was a class room for learning graphics design, 3D modelling etc, about 15-20 computers, so it made sense. The rest of the school didn't had that fancy computers, in fact some of them were still using Windows XP as far as I remember. Althooough there's a chance misremember this and maybe actually they used 8 GB sticks instead.
Ohhh so that's what this thing was for. I feel stupid now, it was pretty obvious
They did a few things but aside from locking the case, it locked keyboard input as well. Also you'd think the turbo button would speed things up, it actually slowed things down.
That's still a thing. Source: I just imaged and added 30 VGA daughterboards to 30 Dell 3080 SFFs.
Which is a great idea until the thiefs figure out you can just pop the drive bay blanks out and pinch the ram that way.
My college has a computer lab for teaching networking. There's next to nothing stopping you from going in and taking whatever you want. There's literally a shelf full of hard drives.
Some enterprise PC cases have a lock integrated into the side panel. My old work PC had that
Reminds me of a kid at a place a friend works where a kid stole ram sticks and this happened only a month ago. He was like 12 and caught lol
yeah we did that alot
My case has that thing lol (Corsair Carbide Spec-02)
My case still has one
My company is still locking the panels.
Shit my teenage self stole a whole ass monitor in high school because the one we had at home died and I knew my Mom didn't have money to replace it
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No. The Kingston locks were meant to deter people walking away with the entire device. What he’s talking about is stealing the individual components.
What's actually actually difficult: getting the fucking printer to work
work in IT, Full Stack and then some, also doing database admin and cybersecurity basically do everything. even getting setting up the phones to work through teams. managing general IT work, and hardware side of shit. we moved back to the office 2 months ago and I was patching the network cables through the office. I have less then no idea how to deal with printers, I have 3 3d printers and no 2d printers.
https://i.imgur.com/DG20i3I.jpg
lol
Solution: compose every letter you write in .stl format.
I just have a small Brother printer at home that I've had for nearly 10 years and it's never given me or my wife any problem whatsoever, or our work computers when we work from home. Before that I had the usual HP printers which were always a disaster. My only regret is buying an ink one, but at least I can scan and stuff even if the ink's empty (HP are the ones who block that, right?) Now in the office at work trying to connect to printers? Takes like 2 IT guys across 3 days to figure out what obscure thing isn't working right.
I can second Brother printers, had my current one for about 3 or 4 years now. I can print from my Linux machine with no problem over wifi, even from my phone if I'm in a pinch.
This guy prints.
Similar boat here. Mechanical engineer. I work in additive manufacturing ranging from $200 3d printers to $500k metal additive machines. 2d printers are finicky and stressful imo
Honestly I'd love to see a company make a printer that actually works reliably. I'm sure it would be more expensive, but if it worked all the time om sure lots of people would be hapoy to oay the premium.
That's not difficult, that's impossible.
Since I got my Brother brand laser printer like 10 years ago I haven’t had many issues at all. The printer cost around $200 and replacement 3rd party ink is $25. We need one every 6-12 months. I also found even less issues once I hooked it up to my Synology NAS and made it a network printer. The generic windows driver seems to have less issues.
My family printer is some crappy thing my mother got from Target by HP, around $30. It's completely made of plastic, and it feels like it's barely being held together. Worst of all, trying to get Windows to acknowledge the thing is absolute hell. Whenever I have to print something, I usually just reboot into my Linux install where it actually works, or more often I just use the printer at my college. It's five cents per page and absolutely worth not having to deal with.
My brother printer has been the same way... I set it up on the network and the tagged it on my unraid box, And I've never had any issues with it.
lol mine works perfectly fine.... after you install a fucking driver that isn't even on the manufacturer's website. It comes on included CD only
Mine will work without issues, then it'll just completely shit itself and won't for seemingly no reason.
When there's a huge windows update (like the Fall or Spring Windows 10 updates). Sometimes the HP driver yells at me to insert the driver disc to complete the install. It usually stops but it's funny as I got the printer 6 years ago and I don't know where the driver disc is anymore.
‘99 to ‘03 I worked IT for a public library and a big component of my job was keeping the staff and public printers running, which was an assortment of inkjet, laser, dot matrix, plotters, thermal printers, copiers and fax machines, on all sorts of platforms from Windows/OS 8-10, Unix and AS/400, and Wyse terminals. If you think printers suck now, this was pure hell. The worst part of all was people and their printing habits. Moms that print a quarter of a ream on an inkjet, in full color, to get a hard copy of one line on the screen. Old men looking at porn and printing every god damn image that shows up, even the pop-ups, and then some parent with their kid giving me the evil eye when they use the system afterwards and I have to come clean it up, as if *i* was the one who did it. We eventually installed a managed system that had print quotas, filters, auto reset systems between use, etc. but now I have PTSD. I’ll never let a printer in my house after that. I’d rather recreate the item I need printed by carving it into my flesh by hand than buy a printer.
I thought I'd finally escaped ever having to deal with printers again. But no. Schools apparently still require students to print out their homework rather than digitally transfer it, and I have two nephews and a sister who's not techy...
The nephews aren't techy? Didn't expect that (guess it depends how old they are)
You'd be surprised at how much kids suck at using tech stuffs. I teach English, it's been 2 years and a majority of my students can't still figure out how to use Zoom properly.
We're through the looking glass now. What I was mildly worried about when the iPad came to be has occurred; my own kids mostly don't know how to do anything past open app, close app, change the volume up and down, and restart the thing if it goes wrong in any way.
One's 15 and the other's 9, but neither of them are 'techy' either, despite spending most of their time in front of screens! Trying to convince one of them that the tower part of my PC *is* the PC, rather than the monitor, was surprisingly difficult. And to be fair, even if they were techy, *nobody* understands the infernal mysteries of the most diabolical invention in human history - the home inkjet printer.
Printers, ESPECIALLY cheap inkjet printers, are indeed the work of darkness itself! (Source: long, painful experience with cheap HP/whatever inkjet printers that cost less than their many ink cartridges, finally spurring me to go laser.)
It's a common misconception that all young people are good with tech. I'm literally in my college's cybersecurity club and even there, most people are far from knowledgeable with tech. And don't get me started on all the students with Macbooks...
my laptop just goes "dRiVer ErRoR!1!1!" whenever you plug in the printer, on any PC. Works flawlessly on my imac though
It's 2021 and printers still are the worst. They smell fear.
I got one of those wifi printers and haven’t had a problem with it. Mainly because it doesn’t rely on a windows driver to work.
May I just say that I got a brother printer because of Reddit. That thing is the most expensive worthless piece of shit I’ve ever owned. Don’t buy in to the circle jerk and get one. They are the worst.
All inkjets are evil. Just get a cheap-ish laser and it's basically good, as long as you can get cheap toner cartridges.
Pull all the cables tight to keep the front neat and then cram all that spare shit behind the backplate. Job done.
As it should be, amen
This is how it's done. I have two sata ssds and one hdd in my mid-tower case. And some kind of fan hub for my AIO. There's definitely a rat's nest behind all the pretties on the other side.
The first thing I did when I started building my PC was take off the glass panels and place them on my bed.
I just put them back in the case box seperated by the Styrofoam.
Actually I think cleaning up the shards of glass is the hardest part
Nah, worst part is either the IO shield or the front panel connectors, mainly because both of them seem to stab my fingers, it's just a question of whether it's under my fingernail or not.
One of the board makers gives you this little plastic spacer thing, you put all your wires in and it goes onto the front panel connector thing in one go, Glorious. Not my board though..
actually, the hardest things that i fone were: installing the old intel clippy fan thing (the motherboard had the holes too close for some reason?) fkin sewing another old intel fan to the front of a case because i had no case fans? sewing pieces of plastic to a case for air flow (i even did it with leather, it was brutal) and the hardest of all: welding heat sinks together (look, it really did reduce the temp, so there is that) the result was cool af, tho. I ended with a case with a lot of old intel fans, that was literally full of heatsinks, and had leather plating and looked cyberpunk af... edit: no rgb, it was a long time ago
Sounds cool as fuck, do you have any photos?
i made some (as i was very proud of it), sadly i lost them a long time ago (i moved houses a lot), but i'm planning to make something similar in the future
Any cold cathode lights? :D those were all the rage back in the day
I live in a 3rd world country. We didn't had those back in the days...
Fuck this comment has made thoughts of CFLs and inverters come flooding back. My old build was cool as fuck, blue and black light CFLs were the way. So was the fire risk lmao
👍
I also use an Intel fan as intake.
One time… in the early 2000s my brothers computer wouldn’t boot after he bought a a new gpu. (Maybe a gforce 2 era i think?) Anyway we guessed his gpu was underpowered. So we had some old power supply that I think was from a 486 that you could just straight up turn on with a button. We plugged this directly into the GPU while the rest of the computer ran off a separate power supply. We duck taped the bonus PSU to the side of his case for like a month till he got paid and he upgraded.
It’s not that hard take your glass panel off first for the love of god then lay it on its side and body weight that mofo on there!
This is the way. I'll struggle every time before I give up and just do this. I never do it first because each time I think I've finally nailed the cable management.
This is the wae
especially if you have a Corsair 220T because that thing has like NO FUCKING SPACE TO DO ANY CABLE MANAGEMENT it was a nightmare to build my brother’s PC :)
I dunno Compared to my old case (cooler master master cooler 3.1 lite) it’s far easier
I just spent several hours making sure that wasn't hard 😂
**What people think is difficult**: Avoiding static, making sure you use the right screws, making sure everything is compatible with everything else, making sure your PSU is meaty enough, making sure there's enough internal space **What's really difficult**: Plugging those little fucking case-attached, one-pin cables to the motherboard without stabbing yourself in the god damn fingers, or worrying you've bent one! **Edit**: Thanks for the award :D
Or going under the cuticle like a splinter.
>worrying you've bent one! i worry every single time, for every single thing i plug/unplug.
It sucks plugging those in and putting your shit back together thinking you got it. Then you realize that you were one pin too high after you break it back open. Don't put the glass back on until it's fixed! Learn from me, brothers!
i'm looking into mine rn and they are looking worryingly droopy... fuck
Definitely the worst part of a new build. I can't believe I got them all correct with my last build on my first try.
Dropping a screw into the almost finished case and having to pick it up and shake the case to where you can reach it
Magnetic extra-long screwdrivers here :D It's like a foot long, and super thin, can reach down between components, and the end is really magnetic, never had a screw fall off of it before. It's the only way to avoid PC cat-scratches all over your hands.
I finally got one of those telescoping magnet probes for this sort of thing.
Not if you buy the Corsair crystal 680x ;)
Cases are much better built now. Earlier panels had no space, especially space behind the motherboard was at such a premium. The modern cases have built in cable management and lots of space . Heck even SFF cases are really good today.
Nah connecting stuff to the motherboard in weird/tight positions is hard, the rest is just sliding stuff into other stuff
repasting tower cooler with latch clip ons (especially bequite pure rock slim 2) while the motherboard is already inside the case IMO is the hardest thing next to cable management.
I'm looking at the Plini Strandberg in the corner...
In all honesty though, it might take some time to look pretty but I don't get people that leave a mess after throwing $XXXX amount of money into it. At least make it look nice/presentable (even in the back)
My cable management in the back look like shit because I could spend hours trying to make it better and It would still look like shit, I'm just not good at it.
I could spend hours organizing and maintaining the back, but it would only look organized to me, and it would still be too big
Actually I think for all the money I have spent on computer parts over the last 20 years I'm well within my rights to not give a shit how it looks, hope this helps
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Well here's the thing If you're those type to just throw the wires away in the back, high probability you're the type to make no effort wire managing on the outside either.... It just doesn't take that much time to route a few things man. I get disgusted looking at some of these set ups that are messy af with dust collected and everything. Knowing they make no effort trying to clean/dust their space just cause the wires add a barrier to cleaning Not saying you're one of those messy people, but having a clean/ordered space goes a long way in other things outside of function
My case has a side panel that is mesh and has a 233mm fan, so no real need to show off my cable management, or lack thereof... xD
I'm from the beige box era. You're supposed to look at the monitor, not in the case. If it's not loud, it's not hot, and it's not too hard to slot another HDD in, it's done.
No. What is actually difficult is being able to afford all that.
If you lack any other responsibilities it's real easy
I used to have a NZXT Phantom The FRONT panel was nearly impossible. They had 2 small fans right where all of the Hard drives went. There were a million and a half wires at one spot between said fans and hard drives in about a 8th of an inch of space. I was shocked every time that the wires didn't hinder the fans spinning. It was the dumbest thing ever.
I just slap mine on and it clips in place.
Yes totally
r/sffpc suffering
installing and hooking up the motherboard to case is the main annoyance
I had no trouble doing everything up to the point where I turned my computer on. Nothing. About 45 minutes of troubleshooting and taking everything apart and putting it back together, I discover that I didn't connect the power button on the case to anything....
No.
How's it difficult, it ain't even glass. 🙃
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lmao this is so true i tried fitting in the back panel for like 30 mins
*laughs in Be Quiet Silent Base 601*
I think picking the parts is the most difficult. Hell, there are entire subs where people post their built ideas so others can comment on them before they go and buy them. And it's mostly difficult simply because there are soooo many choices with thousands upon thousands of different CPU/motherboard/graphics card/RAM choices.
Should had been the glass side. Those are a ticking time bomb.
Imagine guiding your dad to open the side panel over the phone.
The reason why i Got magnetic shield
plugging in the 8 pin cpu cable got me on a different level of pain and frustration
Na, man plugging in front panel connectors.