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RIP, random battlestation, you served the prime directive:
For a gamer to game, they must actually be alive, above all else.
o7
May Theseus grant you new life.
Well said.
Oh my. I never thought of it that way. Decades of random component upgrades. New ram here. Upgraded (ram compatible, other compatible part) motherboard there. Changed video card. Replaced burnt harddrive/ssd.... Its always been the same PC, while being a completely replaced one.
Always bring something over, power supply, case, RAM, hard drive, in a pinch, data, it's good luck. Think of it as changing the flag. Pretty sure mine is over 30...
just be cautious with power supply, a failure could crater the whole system.
Valid, always over-engineer the power supply, it should be mostly in the middle of its rating. Worth it for general longevity.
Look at the manual and spec sheets of your supply. It should provide a load chart that has its efficiency at various points. You want your system wattage at full load to sit at the same number as the supplies highest efficiency. The percentage of power lost to conversion comes out as heat, and heat is what kills components.
A few percent at something like 500w can be the difference of 10-15w of extra heat for the supply to deal with. 75% efficiency from a cheaper 850w supply run at the same 500w would leave you with ~125w of power to cool, most of it concentrated on a few components in the supply.
hugs my oldest game machine’s 13-year-old 550w PSU that’s now powering a 2070s and still kickin
Lil champion! I put a kilowatt in my main machine now just because I wanted to, but that old machine is now a VR music game machine and still works perfectly!
A modern upgrade to the ancient metaphor/philosophical quandary.
Still as apt, but probably more broadly relatable, at least to us veteran navigators that sail the digital seas.
... Maybe a good name for a repair shop or right to repair advocacy org, something with Theseus in it somewhere.
Mine has tended to spawn descendants along the way, random bits and parts being assembled for others in and out of the household.
Some people got phrases
Here's an attempt at another one.
If you have a short sentence that tells a tale, but has been through a few rounds of 'telephone'...
... perhaps what you have is a quip of Theseus.
Gold. I love it
If one is said to 'wax lyrical', would this not carry forward to 'wane gibbous', meaning to gibber as an ape?
I think the inverse of waxing lyrical would be to wane prosaic.
According to your user name, you mainly got vibes
Vibes and diatribes.
My neighbor would be upgrading my computer for me if this happened