Cooler didn’t arrive until after dinner. If I were twenty years younger I’d have stayed up all night. 😆

As I suspect a lot of people are doing, I’m going to keep using my existing graphics card until RTX 5000 series drops in January. Everything else is new, though. First build in seven years.

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    My first computer didn’t have hard drive at all. 5.25" floppy drives.

    My first PC with a hard drive used an ST-506 interface w/molex and data and control cables. 40MB. I couldn’t imagine ever filling the whole thing.

    It’s all so much easier now.

    Damn, I’m old.

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      Oh yeah, I meant the first computer I built myself from scratch. My actual first computer was a Commodore 64, and then an IBM clone 386, and eventually a powerhouse 486. It’s mind-blowing how far things have advanced, especially if you consider things like ChatGPT, which is essentially the Star Trek computer actualized in the real world.

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        I would trust an answer that The Enterprise, DS9 or even Voyager’s cranky computer, gave me. I don’t trust LLMs not to lie to me.