"Sister Kathaliynnry, you made a simple error, you only reset the Mirror of Many Pixels, not the Tower of Processing. My Millennial Master Father Steve taught me such, may the Omnissiah watch over his soul."

"I pray for the birth of the Star Millennial to usher in the new golden age of tech!"

Edit: I was kinda hoping the response to this post would more be people joking about my Warhammer reference, but instead y'all be posting serious analysis here. Real buzzkill.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

i don't even really conceptualize myself as a computer person. i just tinker. i like to fix things rather than replace them. i like to understand how things work and tweak them to suit my needs/wants. i love to show people what i've learned, but far too many people (including my family) couldn't give half a fuck. just buy new and by the time its all set up with pretty colors, you'll forget what you were even getting frustrated about with the old one you returned.

The good thing is if it's not too hard to repair, you can get a lot of free shit from the "trash" that you've graciously offer to dispose for them.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago

that would be cool, but so much shit is designed to be fragile and unrepairable or at least repair-hostile, plus many companies offer to provide credit towards a replacement when the user sends the old device back to them.

so its hard with the type of e-shit they buy, but i admittedly drive a 25+ year old little gas-sipping car that my sibling dumped as "old" over 12 years ago. ive replaced headlights, tail lights, interior lights, fixed some wiring, regular maintenance, console shit, and had more done by the local mechanic over the decade but the thing is so reliable. theyve totaled and replaced 2 cars in that time.

and thats the problem. they don't know anything about this stuff, so they treat it like shit, and increasingly stuff is made crappier now so it doesn't survive their use.

so i save up and try to find "buy it once" type of items or just try to stretch the life of things until maybe something in this trash paradigm shifts enough for me to make it to being able to buy a BYD or some other grey market item that will last forever but doesn't hold my hand to help me get it.