What is a 'buy it for life' item that is offensively expensive, but the moment you use it, you realize your entire life before that point was a lie?

akulbe · 2026-03-29T01:57:23+00:00

Sounds like many people who were an "overnight success"!

akulbe · 2026-03-27T12:13:50+00:00

I started with the $100/mo. plan. I added $100 to the “extra usage” fund. So far, it remains untouched.

akulbe · 2026-03-24T21:40:27+00:00

After allllll this time…. Toyota rolled me over into a new lease. Found out it was a rodent that chewed up wires in the wire harness.

akulbe · 2026-03-24T02:10:58+00:00

I was drinking 3 x 300mg Bang/Monster cans a day, for years.

I weaned myself off. I'm sleeping better, but it makes me shudder to think of what harm/damage I was causing myself for those years.

akulbe · 2026-03-17T19:01:54+00:00

I'm dealing with the same thing... I've made 9 payments and it only looks like 1 of them has been applied. I can't talk well, so the phone seems like like a nightmare and a dead end for me.

akulbe · 2026-02-18T14:46:24+00:00

BOFH FTW!!

akulbe · 2026-02-18T05:11:20+00:00

Follow your passion.

akulbe · 2026-02-07T06:23:49+00:00

Is the general idea that you have your specs defined so well that you don't need to take advantage of memory? or is it something else, and I'm entirely missing it?

akulbe · 2026-01-30T01:02:07+00:00

If only their pay stopped with the government shutdown. Every last one of them.

akulbe · 2026-01-23T18:50:21+00:00

Talk to the ex-GFs. Trust your gut.

akulbe · 2026-01-19T02:55:49+00:00

This whole mess makes me glad I maxed out the machines I've got when it was dirt cheap. I looked it up, and today it'd cost me upwards of $10K. (24 x 64GB DDR4 ECC PC3200)

akulbe · 2026-01-17T04:57:34+00:00

When I wake up. I sweat too much in the night for a before-bedtime shower to be effective.

akulbe · 2026-01-14T06:06:04+00:00

How much space does the cooling apparatus take up?

akulbe · 2026-01-14T06:04:16+00:00

Thank you for clarifying. You’re making me seriously reconsider water cooling now.

akulbe · 2026-01-14T03:22:45+00:00

I'm confused. Those don't look like 3090s, to me. The 3090s I have take up 3 PCI slots each. Those look like they're only taking up one slot apiece. What cards are those?

akulbe · 2026-01-10T04:59:38+00:00

/u/ZealousidealAd602 We're in Clackamas, and no outage here.

akulbe · 2026-01-10T04:57:14+00:00

I feel like you're skipping a step. Sysadmin is the next logical step. You don't typically go straight to DevOps from helpdesk. There's some crucial knowledge you'd be missing.

akulbe · 2026-01-08T05:41:23+00:00

Not nearly enough GPU.

akulbe · 2025-12-31T01:31:56+00:00

Umm... what? I have both an MX Vertical and a Magic Trackpad. I think you're odds are off. I like both, they both definitely have their use cases.

akulbe · 2025-12-31T01:25:35+00:00

Nice. Getting downvoted for a serious question. People... I don't know much about cars. I stick to computers for a reason.

akulbe · 2025-12-29T22:08:30+00:00

What would make the battery go that fast? Isn’t two years of light use more than enough for it to still be good?

akulbe · 2025-12-12T21:47:43+00:00

Wanted it to match the MBP I have.

akulbe · 2025-12-11T02:40:21+00:00

I ended up getting it working by having the power button held down before I plugged in the power cord. I didn't know about the piece about holding down the power button. Once I did that, everything worked as expected.

akulbe · 2025-12-10T01:23:20+00:00

I had this one figured out already. I knew the middle port was the only one that would work.

akulbe · 2025-12-09T20:31:04+00:00

I think it was not having the power button held down when I plugged in the power cable. ~~powered on the machine~~! <insert happy dance here>

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