Re: Son's Computer Build Woes

On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:53:20 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:

I think I've got it all working now.
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TL;DR:
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1. Don't buy cases with GLASS panels (I didn't even realize it was
glass, the one I bought for me is plexiglass)

Don't buy cases with windows, period, if you've an option. It's
stupid, ridiculous bling and it's a trend I wish would die in a fire.

Unfortunately, if you're buying a 'gaming PC' these days (rather than
building your own from scratch), not having a window is almost never
an option (or it costs a ridiculous premium over the windowed models).

I don't hate glass panels really anymore than I dislike plexiglass;
they both are equally distasteful to me. Handling glass windows always
makes me nervous when working on the PC due to their fragility, but
the plexiglass windows scratch more easily and the plastic doesn't age
as well.

2. F Google keeping your bookmarks in the cloud.  (I've actually had it
lose them all for people a couple times at work too!)  Export them to
back them up.

Fuck the cloud in general. I've never seen the need to store stuff on
somebody else's servers. Especially for something as inconsequential
as bookmarks. If I really need, I just sync them up locally. The fact
that they might be days (or weeks... or years) out of sync has never
been that much of an issue for me.

3. F Onedrive taking over your filesystem (It's been working pretty well
at work, but it was an unmitigated disaster on my son's personal PC)

Well, there's always Linux ;-)

But if you insist -quite reasonably- on sticking with Windows, just
don't use OneDrive. It uninstalls quite easily.

4. Don't buy a CPU with built in GPU if you can avoid it and you're
planning to use discrete.

I actually disagree with this last one. I actually like that
capability. Not that I generally /use/ the thing, but it comes in
really handy if you're troubleshooting hardware. You can yank the
video-card and still have video-output.

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Somewhere in all taking the front panel off and on repeatedly the GLASS
panel shattered into a million pieces when I placed it on the floor all
of 1 inch below where I took it off. 

Oooh. Ouch. I now understand your frustration with the glass panels.
Was it tempered glass? Shattering like that, it certainly should fall
under warranty, if you really wanted to stick with the case.

Personally, given the current case is busted, I'd just buy a
third-party chassis and transfer everything into that. One without a
bloody window.