SuperSpruce

joined 2 years ago
[โ€“] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

My situation is interesting. I didn't know how to build a PC, but I wanted one even though I had a gaming laptop.

So I bought my friend's old PC (sans GPU) in 2023 for cheap when he upgraded. It was a fairly high-end prebuilt that he got right before the lockdowns in 2020. The PC then soon became dormant as the AIO water-cooling system broke down, and I just gamed on my laptop.

But then, in late 2025, the laptop's GPU crashed the entire system when pushed hard. I knew I could use that PC, so I got a 5060 (slightly better than that laptop GPU) for under MSRP, and put in a new AIO (with some help). Then I put Fedora on it and after way too much troubleshooting (mostly due to WiFi issues) it's became my primary gaming PC in 2026. Here's to lasting until Y2K38.

[โ€“] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is rage inducing.

Imagine if your car dealer was allowed to confiscate your car on a dubious claim such as "it doesn't meet the latest emissions standards," but not even telling you that.

Google needs to be fined twice the value of the apps that it stole from it's paying customers.