I would have done the same right now as an adult.

Since OP didn’t link a picture.

I’d argue phone design peaked at the iPhone 13 pro in that amazing blue color. The polished stainless steel feels amazing in the hand. Apple switching to titanium was a mistake. It has sharp edges, but unlike other phones, it felt nice in my hand. Plus it was the first iPhone with mmWave 5g, and the last (in the US) with a physical sim card slot. If only it had USB C I’d still be using it as my main phone. I keep mine around purely because I like to fondle it.

Apple sometimes takes a day to publish them. Kinda annoying.

There is nothing of value in iOS 26. If your device has AI then there’s some things.

In fact I would argue it’s almost universally worse in almost every single way. I wholesale regret updating.

Namecheap has random number only xyz domains for like a dollar so I have one of those.

3rd party batteries are rarely dangerous. They usually just kinda suck. They lie about their capacity, they degrade quicker than OEM.

Your battery is at the point where I’d start to consider getting a replacement. Just know that if you sort by price low to high you could get a battery worse than your current one. But buying expensive doesn’t mean you’ll get a good one either. They’re kinda just hit or miss.

This meme gets crustier and crustier every time I see it. It’s amazing after all these years people still post this.

Are there any other cases you can think of where a custom-printed item is better than the myriad of mass-produced plastic items?

None at all. 3D prints are almost always worse than injection moulded plastic. Only if you need a very specific custom thing. Or it’s just convenient/fun to make your own.

I’ve gone through an FX8120, 4560k, 4790k, 1800x, 3700x, 5800x3d, and finally 9800x3d all on the same cooler. Even if I do a big upgrade why would I want to change it if it’s working fine?

Finally this weekend it’s getting demoted to my server and I’m upgrading to a D15 G2. But that’s only because I’m upgrading my server and it’s 10 year old heatsink doesn’t work on AM5.

No it’s not. 95c is the target temperature on anything 7000 series and newer. Google says the 5700x throttles at 90.

9800x3d is fine on air as lon as you get a nice cooler. I’m personally anti AIO because I don’t want to deal with the maintenance. I’m still using my NH-D14 after 15 years. Under absolute full load the CPU gets hot, but I only game on the computer so it never stays hot for long. An actually modern cooler would be plenty.

At work we have a 9950x running of a Thermalright Peerless Assassin 140 and under 100% load it cant maintain full boost speeds, but it hovers around its base clock speed.

That’s the other thing. My new computer is a Mac Studio which takes up almost no space, and uses like 10-15 watts. Because I can just turn off my gaming computer when I’m not using it I’m saving significantly more power. Like just your CPU at idle uses more than the entire Mac actually doing things.

AMDs dual CCD CPUs tend to perform worse than their single ccd models in games. You can “fix” that by running the game only on one, and push everything else to the second. But I’d much rather not deal with that. A second computer is much easier.

Plus I can fuck with computer A when computer B is still doing other things without interrupting. That alone is worth it.

Also if you’re in a game and you have a video running that taking GPU horsepower. I’m not going to have a second GPU just to avoid that.

Performance. I’m a heavy multi tasker and I want nothing to get in the way of my frame rate.

For context my old second machine was a 2018 Mac mini with an 8th Gen. i5 and 32 gigs of ram. It wasn’t enough.

I have two computers at my main desk at home. One is exclusively used for gaming, the other is used for everything else. In theory Bazzite is perfect for me.

Ok. But this this is a post in a Linux community. So one might assume it’s targeted towards Linux users.

Kids these days….

1st Gen. Ryzen had the worst memory controller known to man. What made it worse is that memory speed dramatically affected performance on those CPUs. Anything over 2133 was a blessing.

There’s no reason why a 32 gig stick of ram should be less stable than an 8. Your ram is defective. Ask for a replacement.

There’s plenty of garbage M.2 ssds out there with only 1 nand chip for 1TB. Pretty much any time you sort by price low to high you’ll see some of the most dire SSDs you’ve ever seen in your life. They suck too, quad chip ones are almost guaranteed to be lightyears faster.