• Tar_Alcaran
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    112 days ago

    But the time I was ~11 I had built my own computer. Mother was kind enough to take a leap of faith and set a budget for the project. My parents are absolutely not tech people. So they had no idea what I was doing and could offer no assistance other than monetary. It worked out in the end though.

    Same here, I learned by fucking it up and doing it until it worked.

      • Tar_Alcaran
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        212 days ago

        Ah, I once literally burned a motherboard with an overheated CPU, as in the machine turned off when the mobo was black, smelly and bendy and something finally came loose.

        That day, I learned the important lesson of having the store install the CPU for me, got a complete replacement for it too.