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    From Tiny@618:618/12 to All on Thu Jan 23 17:42:59 2025
    On my way home from work today I picked up a "bundle" from a computer store which had a CPU, MB and RAM in it.

    I asked the kid "Do I need anything else?" he said Nope.

    Came home ripped apart the case, removed the video card, the MB etc. Install the new CPU what's missing? No thermal paste or a CPU fan.

    I haven't upgraded this computer in 17 years.... I assumed the giant box the CPU came in would have the CPU fan in it.

    Sigh.

    Besides none of the parts look like they belong in a desktop so I'm just gonna give it all to my kid let her upgrade her computer and I'll throw my HDD's in the lake.

    I now embrace the throw away lifestyle. Buy cheap use it a year throw it in the lake and buy a new one.

    ... I'm not tense, just terribly alert!
    --- timEd 1.10.y2k+
    * Origin: Dirty ole' Town (618:618/12)
  • From Kurt Weiske@618:300/16 to Tiny on Fri Jan 24 07:06:00 2025
    Tiny wrote to All <=-

    I now embrace the throw away lifestyle. Buy cheap use it a year throw
    it in the lake and buy a new one.

    Buy an off-lease Dell desktop and you could probably get more than a
    year out of it. I don't do much excep retro games and some photoshop on
    mine, and they've lasted 5+ years - and this is after a 3 year lease and return.



    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (618:300/16)
  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Tiny on Sat Feb 1 09:34:00 2025
    Hello Tiny!

    ** On Thursday 23.01.25 - 17:42, Tiny wrote to All:

    I asked the kid "Do I need anything else?" he said Nope.

    Came home ripped apart the case, removed the video card, the MB etc. Install the new CPU what's missing? No thermal paste or a CPU fan.

    From my experience, the cpu fan is associated [comes with] the
    mobo or case.


    I now embrace the throw away lifestyle. Buy cheap use it a
    year throw it in the lake and buy a new one.

    What is the lucky lake that is the recipient of your data? :D

    --
    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.58
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointface (618:250/1.9)
  • From Shawn Highfield@618:618/12 to August Abolins on Sat Feb 1 19:25:55 2025
    August Abolins wrote in a message to Tiny:

    What is the lucky lake that is the recipient of your data? :D

    Gas is expensive as you know, so I just threw it in lake Ontario with the rest of the used needles.

    Shawn

    ... Unzip, expand, inflate, explode... What pervert came up with this?
    --- timEd 1.10.y2k+
    * Origin: Dirty ole' Town (618:618/12)