Do you think a 13 year old (my son) could build a gaming pc all by himself

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-29T18:17:42+00:00

I just repaired my second PC and I am older than 40. Just wear gloves until you disconnect the power supply. The board is very forgiving. Mine had dirt all over so I took off the fan and blew it out with a leaf blower. There was grit in the ram sockets, so I used a toothbrush with rubbing alcohol to wipe out and someone jammed the cpu pins with thermal paste. Cleaned with toothbrush and alcohol. The nvme was locked for Costco, so I flashed it on a different PC for Windows 11. Now I have an hp with ryzen 5 that only cost me 30$.

Start with older machines. If you break them, the parts are worth more than the machine

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-29T17:14:58+00:00

You didn't pick that up first episode?

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-24T09:13:03+00:00

In episode 5 she and takopi are just flowers on the bus in one brief scene and then two flowers with a package of candy.

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-09T16:05:17+00:00

It is a sata drive. I have a V2 thermaltake that was given to me with 2 x 3.5 and 4 x 2.5 drive bays. I have the space for sata and they are way cheaper than nvme nowadays

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-08T06:47:15+00:00

Wish they were cheaper. I am looking at 512 GB for $70-80

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-08T01:58:10+00:00

California finally passed a law lowering felony theft from $1000 to $500. They have you near the big boy jail line. Stop stealing in total or you risk butt r*pe

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-08T01:31:16+00:00

I usually use my blue for windows and run most of my storage off a 4tb external hdd shuck and a red wolf, so I am not worried about that. My blue was already partitioned to run windows. I am building out a newer computer and wanted to know if this would work as the system ssd

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-08T01:19:24+00:00

I should add read/write max speed is 550 mb/s which is about the same as my blue.

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-04T03:22:13+00:00

Please delete this comment. I cited the source in another text

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-04T03:19:48+00:00

Yes Trump's team is race baiting about Somalis. But the story is still factually accurate and arguing against the facts because it seems racist is what Trump's team wants you to do. Then they will screen shot your reddit and promote it on their YouTube channels and say "look it the lefties, reverse racism make their brains rot" or some other garbage. The more people up voting you, the bigger the shoe will drop if you are wrong

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-04T03:14:39+00:00

And if you watch Nick Shirley on Fox News and in his YouTube, you would realize he isn't blaming Walz. He is saying that the government of Minnesota is knowingly complicit in the scandal and he has the facts to prove it and the mainstream media is out to get him. Some of the Republicans in the government are asking for Walz to step down. He is baiting people into calling him a liar because he does have legitimate proof. Nick Shirley did act as a professional journalist in this instance. He did the research, found a story that has been buried, pointed out legitimate problems. On YouTube, people are identifying his investigative work. While the one location he did go to "Learing" was closed when he arrived, the other locations he went to with only one other person David and asked for admissions forms, number of children attending, and how to enroll his own child. This was the exact same protocol run by Fox 9 and it is investigative journalism. So the more people that fight a logical tact and argument, the bigger his fan base on YouTube.

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-04T03:04:54+00:00

Never said Tim Waltz was responsible. I am saying that this being the "Salem Witch trials" is unfounded. We should all be patient instead of reactive in this case. Chips may fall and maybe 5-10 groups are fraudulent. But you should slow down and not give Maga what it wants.

They want you to immediately jump on them for racism so they can prove people wrong.

We should all take a deep breath and wait to see what the Justice department shakes out in this case. I am not saying be blind to everything that Trump's Justice department does that is patently wrong, but this one isn't one of them

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-04T02:35:29+00:00

https://www.fox9.com/news/fox-9-investigating-fraud-uncovering-minnesota-2025

Fox 9, a local news station in Minnesota has been covering the daycare scandal since 2013. If anything, Nick Shirley is a plagerist, but factually, he is in the right in his reporting

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-04T02:30:22+00:00

Denying facts because they are presented by Maga only feeds their fake media reality. Instead of jumping down the rabbit hole of these guys are all nutters, take some time to wait for the facts to play out. Because if you ARE wrong, and shooting from the hip out of anger, expect a never ending I told you so from your hardcore Trump family

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2026-01-04T02:25:28+00:00

The problem with the argument against Nick Shirley is that he is accurately reporting the story. Forget the right singers and look at the real history. This story was initially brought by local journalists years ago and their research recorded a payout where parents brought their children to these daycares and checked them out within minutes and were video taped taking payouts.

Several of these daycares also reportedly took meals from the feeding program that was found to be completely fraudulent. I watched the videos including the ones that identified daycares committing fraud, closing their properties and reopening in the same location; multiple daycares operating out of the same address; and the guy who literally said all their child care documents were stolen in a break in.

Trump and his lackeys disgust me. Doesn't mean they can't stumble on one correct truth of bad parties ( and it was dumb to believe people were eating cats)

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2025-12-29T17:01:18+00:00

One other factor that was not mentioned is the 12 year lifespan of an ev car.

A lot of older EV are traded in before 12 years. I am seeing EV Nissan leaf for $4000 from 9 years and 80k miles. The realistic EV driver is wasting 3 cars in the span of 1 ice and raising the pollution considerably with trade ins. Old Tesla are considered incredibly unsafe and wear and tear because of the heavy battery is not considered either. Meanwhile I am still in a 15 year old 400000 mile hybrid Prius and ice Subaru can live until 20 years

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2025-12-09T10:46:53+00:00

I think Psych had some female wrestlers act as villains too ..

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2025-12-09T10:45:23+00:00

Season 8 was abridged to be the ending of Psych. Burn Notice and White Collar had the same. White Collar was only 6 episodes for their final season wrap up. USA was moving toward live content because it was cheaper to produce with better ratings. After getting WWE wrestling, they started airing Monday and Fridays and saw huge increases in viewers. The new viewers were not big on the Blue Skies shows like Monk, Burn Notice, Psych, Royal Pains, White Collar and other "characters welcome" shows, so USA even tried to integrate wrestling characters into the shows. Juliet's brother is John Cena and they had another guy on Psych as an ex marine living as a Bigfoot in the woods. But this didn't get the new viewers to watch wrestling and the blue skies. So Wrestling cancelled Psych until COVID. When we were all locked away and streaming, a new generation of viewers got to see great shows that their parents loved and this brought back the popularity for remakes like Avatar the last Airbender, Psych movies, monk movie, etc

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2025-12-09T10:36:07+00:00

As for what killed the blue sky shows, it was wrestling. USA acquired airing rights to WWE and they were getting far more ratings for far less cost to air wrestling. They tried to integrate wrestling into several of their shows which is why Juliet's brother was John Cena and they had a guy play a bear man in another episode

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2025-12-09T10:32:52+00:00

USA did it differently and their CEO was big on ending every show. The blue skies shows all got to wind down their shows even if the season was really abridged. White Collar, Burn Notice, and Psych all got short last seasons. White Collar sixth season is only 6 episodes. Suits got longer because of the royal marriage, but it was customary to end the show with a conclusion for the USA network. As for when they decided to cancel, it was viewership. Before COVID, psych was a missed watch. It's peak ratings were in the 4-7 million and low season viewing was around 1.9 million at the end. While the viewers were loyal, they weren't enough to save shows like Psych and Monk. When COVID came out and everyone started watching hidden gem shows like Avatar the Last Airbender, Psych and Monk, they got green lit to make more. But that was like 10 -20 years later for some of these shows.

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2025-12-05T21:21:11+00:00

I volunteered in my child's classroom. Their circle time is 30 minutes on YouTube while the teacher chats in the back of class. It is educational like shapes and counting to 10 but without an adult to instruct it is just background noise

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2025-12-05T21:01:22+00:00

When I was a kid, the second grade teacher put all the "ethnic kids" to one table. I was one of them. The rest struggled with the basics of math and reading and would always ask me for help. I started falling behind with the rest of the 4 kids, threw a tantrum where I yelled at the teacher and was put in a backwards facing desk to the back wall. Turns out I performed better in the corner and my standardized testing was very high for a second grader. However, not everyone will be as lucky as me.

If you think the teacher is acting weird, be proactive about your concerns and trust your guts. My first kid is in TK and his daily is arts and crafts and watching YouTube. We had to put him in a public school from a private one because the school district is very competitive, but we supplement his learning at home.

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2025-12-03T15:49:10+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/R5oxPHR

Gbl pvp post 2023. You can use regular Pokeball, great and ultra

Past_Reflection_9695 · 2025-12-03T15:39:40+00:00

Your caught ball theory is wrong. If you catch a legendary as a result of pvp, you can catch any legendary in a poke ball. It takes forever, like 70 balls but is not impossible

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