Sucks, huh. The power button just did nothing. So I found this mini PC
on Amazon for about $200 with an offer to pay in installments, and it
turns out it actually comes with Win11 *Pro*, not Home.
Friday beginning in my time zone. But it was still hot enough, this
time of year, and I was wearing a t-shirt instead of going bare-chested,
and I have really long hair that I didn't bother to tie back behind my
neck, and the body heat produced by laboring with the computer hardware
made me sweat profusely, and sweat killed my motherboard.
On 8/24/2025 12:58 AM, CtrlAltDel wrote:
Friday beginning in my time zone. But it was still hot enough, this
time of year, and I was wearing a t-shirt instead of going
bare-chested,
and I have really long hair that I didn't bother to tie back behind my
neck, and the body heat produced by laboring with the computer
hardware made me sweat profusely, and sweat killed my motherboard.
Seems like the absorbent hair from the thick and crusty neck-beard
would have prevented any perspiration from dropping on the motherboard.
Also, the extremely long nose hairs intertwined with your handlebar
mustache and ear hair should have formed another layer of protective
barrier against sweat dripping down onto the computer.
I don't believe you are telling the truth about what happened. What
really happened? Did you spill a can of Milwaukee's Best on it? Maybe
some tobacco juice from your spit cup turned over? The solo cup you
piss in to save time going back and forth to the back porch to piss
spilled onto it?
Just tell the truth instead of coming up with all these elaborate
scenarios.
I've had enough of dumbass Satan puppets trying to tell me what's
happening in my fucking house, with my possessions. Fuck off. I told
you what I did and what happened. Enough with your retarded replies questioning it. Drop dead, asshole.
On 8/24/2025 12:58 AM, CtrlAltDel wrote:
Friday beginning in my time zone. But it was still hot enough, this
time of year, and I was wearing a t-shirt instead of going
bare-chested,
and I have really long hair that I didn't bother to tie back behind my
neck, and the body heat produced by laboring with the computer
hardware made me sweat profusely, and sweat killed my motherboard.
Seems like the absorbent hair from the thick and crusty neck-beard
would have prevented any perspiration from dropping on the motherboard.
Also, the extremely long nose hairs intertwined with your handlebar
mustache and ear hair should have formed another layer of protective
barrier against sweat dripping down onto the computer.
I don't believe you are telling the truth about what happened. What
really happened? Did you spill a can of Milwaukee's Best on it? Maybe
some tobacco juice from your spit cup turned over? The solo cup you
piss in to save time going back and forth to the back porch to piss
spilled onto it?
Just tell the truth instead of coming up with all these elaborate
scenarios.
I've had enough of dumbass Satan puppets trying to tell me what's
happening in my fucking house, with my possessions. Fuck off. I told
you what I did and what happened. Enough with your retarded replies questioning it. Drop dead, asshole.
So, you might've wondered where I was yesterday, well, I had no way to
post, because I have an Android phone in which there is no usable app
for NNTP.
So, you might've wondered where I was yesterday, well, I had no way to
post, because I have an Android phone in which there is no usable app
for NNTP. Here's how it went down, I got the new GPU delivered, and got around to trying to install it during the night as Thursday was ending
and Friday beginning in my time zone. But it was still hot enough, this
time of year, and I was wearing a t-shirt instead of going bare-chested,
and I have really long hair that I didn't bother to tie back behind my
neck, and the body heat produced by laboring with the computer hardware
made me sweat profusely, and sweat killed my motherboard.
Sucks, huh. The power button just did nothing. So I found this mini PC
on Amazon for about $200 with an offer to pay in installments, and it
turns out it actually comes with Win11 *Pro*, not Home. Interesting.
I'm probably going to replace it with Debian 13, like I had on the Aorus self-assembled PC that I destroyed, but I wanted to experiment with
Win11, first, to see how bad it would be on a low-end CPU (it's four
core four thread, I think, Intel). Interestingly, it says it has a Gb
NIC but the speed with a cable was only 100 Mb/s, it's faster with its
WiFi, if I'd known that it wouldn't have taken such an eternity to do
the updates, but oh well, that's all done now.
So, you might've wondered where I was yesterday, well, I had no way to
post, because I have an Android phone in which there is no usable app
for NNTP. Here's how it went down, I got the new GPU delivered, and got around to trying to install it ...
... So I found this mini PC
on Amazon for about $200 with an offer to pay in installments, and it
turns out it actually comes with Win11 *Pro*, not Home....
On 8/24/2025 1:43 AM, vallor wrote:
Sorry to hear about your computer. It's possible that hosing the
motherboard down with alcohol or contact cleaner might
recover it.
Possible, yes, but I'm not that skilled with hardware to be honest, I
can work with it, but it's a pain. This mini PC was easy, just plug in
the HDMI and USB and audio cables, boom. Updating Win11 took forever
but it worked. Probably will go to Linux, though, because I don't
really believe I'm getting maximum performance from Windows. Who knows, though. I'm experimenting with it for the moment.
Presumably this China-based "OEM" is selling WinPro licenses not
obtained from Microsoft but from resellers, as the cheapskates who self-assemble tend to use (rather than paying $200 retail or the System Builder price from Newegg et al).
On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:54:32 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:
Presumably this China-based "OEM" is selling WinPro licenses not
obtained from Microsoft but from resellers, as the cheapskates who
self-assemble tend to use (rather than paying $200 retail or the System
Builder price from Newegg et al).
I've never bought a Windows license directly so I don't know how that
goes. My builds were always used Linux.
On 25 Aug 2025 01:03:21 GMT, rbowman wrote:
On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:54:32 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:
Presumably this China-based "OEM" is selling WinPro licenses not
obtained from Microsoft but from resellers, as the cheapskates who
self-assemble tend to use (rather than paying $200 retail or the
System Builder price from Newegg et al).
I've never bought a Windows license directly so I don't know how that
goes. My builds were always used Linux.
I didn't realize people still used Windows.
Joel W. Crump wrote:
... So I found this mini PC
on Amazon for about $200 with an offer to pay in installments, and it
turns out it actually comes with Win11 *Pro*, not Home....
Which is the "Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness" in action...
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