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Here in Ohio it is common to give distance in time. Especially south/east Ohio in the hills.

There are also congested areas in Col/Cle/Cin where it might take 20min to go three miles so distance is also time there.

Pro tip: Assemble the cpu/heatsink/ram/nve on the table surface then put the whole thing in the case. No flexing :)

I wish they would drop the Trackpoint and the physical mouse buttons and make the touchpad bigger. I carry a usb trackball for that.

My beater laptop that I carry everywhere is a Thinkpad 11e. I deal with the terrible screen so I can have the wonderful keyboard and trackpad. A faster cpu and a 1920x1200 IPS screen would make the little 11e my perfect laptop...

Yes I read his original article and he should have bought a assembled and shipped gaming machine.

Kinda like complaining it's difficult to build a fast car with zero domain knowledge and looking up a few websites. Either put in the time to learn or just go buy a performance package Mustang GT/Camaro/Challenger/etc.

Excellent comment! Graphics card naming schemes are the worst of the lot. Without being an enthusiast and keeping up with benchmark reporting it's impossible to tell say, if an AMD RX560 is faster than an RX480. I mean 560 is a bigger number which means it's faster, right?

A lot of it is RTFM. If someone won't read the manual for their lawn mower or car they sure aren't going to bother for their computer.

I disagree on being 10x harder. Bicycles are the same concept just older. There is a frame (computer case/mobo) and you bolt on compatible parts like brakes, cranks, forks, wheels, etc. (cpu/memory/gpu/psu)

I'm sure if you talk to someone working at a bike shop they could take your comment, flip it, and still have it be accurate:

Two of my friends build PCs from scratch, but they find building a bicycle difficult. I argue that their hobby is ten times more complex than building a bicycle nowadays, as everything is mostly plug-in-play and idiot-proof. Truing your wheel or overhaul a hub is a walk-in-the-park compared to installing the CPU.

I used to think this way until recently. I literally have an engineering degree in electronics and it takes me hours to research a compatible set of components. A lay person stands no chance!

A couple of examples off the top of my head: AMD RX480 power draw exceeds the pci-express current limit specification and bricked motherboards, hence I bought/overclocked an RX470 instead. Intel 6700k overclocking. Wow. Reading and understanding the thermal and power envelopes described in the 300 page datasheet difficult for me, it would be impossible for a lay person to comprehend.

Being one of those "EE persons" specialized in semiconductors seeing lack of ESD protection drives me insane. I used to work on an electronics factory production floor where it was required of me to take a certification course of proper handling procedures and in the use of ESD arresting equipment.

Your PC build didn't boot? Probably shocked it. It's blue screening or kernel panicking? Probably shocked it.

Good thing the author of the article didn't buy that Apple he kept saying was better than assembling his own computer.

I have the same problem where I work. If someone messes up it starts a long game of passive aggressiveness. I'd much rather people come right out and tell me I'm causing an issue. In this way I can change course or work on convincing the other party this is what needs to change.

I interpreted the post as meaning when a company is given millions of dollars in tax breaks, i.e., build your new factory here and your income tax is abated for X years, then they should be on the hook for when they let go of employees.

In theory I agree and the company should be on the hook to provide training or assistance.

I bought several indie game bundles when they were for Linux and/or DRM free. Sadly I had trouble getting most of the Linux games running, at least on Debian (thanks multiarch). I have also bought a few titles off their web store, all you get there is a Steam key. However, I have bought games from the store specificaly hoping that Valve gets less of the cut (PUBG being the latest).

However, I just bought two book bundles over the past month. They are still fantastic. 10-15 books DRM free for about dollar or so each, and a portion of that money I specified to be donated to FSF.

Hopefully post IGN aquisition the book bundles will continue.

PS. I bought Cuphead week of release on GOG to show my support. It may be Windows only but it was DRM free at launch.

As a resident of the Columbus Ohio area for many years the equivalent to East Cleveland would be Whitehall. Whitehall is an inner-belt suburb that has nothing but [now] dirt cheap housing with a high crime rate. Meanwhile a 20 minute drive to the north is one of the fastest growing areas in the country, Delaware County. All suburb with upper six figure homes, retail, medical, and a near zero crime rate. One can use Columbus as the perfect example of what happens when affluent people keep moving further away from the city core. Far flung suburbs are building like crazy, like Dublin and Westerville in Deleware County. Gahanna is getting swallowed by Columbus annexing, New Albany's aggressive annexing may save part of the city from going "ghetto" in 25-30 years. Reynoldsburg, Pickerington, and Pataskala all annexed to block Columbus from swallowing them whole too.

Inner suburbia like Whitehall is not coming back. Highway infrastructue shuffles more traffic between suburbs around Columbus and many other citys rather than traffic into the city core. Poor people displaced from hip new downtown building are moving into these abandoned inner burbs and bringing all the crime with them.