Talk:3233: Make It Myself - Revision history

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These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For: Confessions

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Confessions

Jacobus-nl at 17:44, 17 April 2026

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82.13.184.33 at 16:12, 17 April 2026

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82.13.184.33 at 15:54, 17 April 2026

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82.132.236.33 at 15:35, 17 April 2026

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165.225.124.227 at 15:06, 17 April 2026

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DollarStoreBa'al at 14:01, 17 April 2026

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	This comic has me wondering where Randall has hidden all the cameras he has spying on my life. Yes, I have built my own PC from scratch several times. I have also spent weeks regularly going to thrift shops, hoping to snare specialized items for my collecting activities, or things to use as makeshift solutions. In my old age, my current PC is an out-of-the-box Lenovo that has been happily running unmodified (except for upgraded fans) for the last 5 years. And I have realized it is better to just buy the correct thing I need and be done with it. But I still love thrifting. :) [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For\|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For\|talk]]) 01:06, 26 April 2026 (UTC)		This comic has me wondering where Randall has hidden all the cameras he has spying on my life. Yes, I have built my own PC from scratch several times. I have also spent weeks regularly going to thrift shops, hoping to snare specialized items for my collecting activities, or things to use as makeshift solutions. In my old age, my current PC is an out-of-the-box Lenovo that has been happily running unmodified (except for upgraded fans) for the last 5 years. And I have realized it is better to just buy the correct thing I need and be done with it. But I still love thrifting. :) [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For\|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For\|talk]]) 01:06, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

−	"I'll have to make a better myself, by myself. You see that i have a mess of tubes, pistons, wires, and gears where my innards originally were? That's result of my previous improvement of myself" - early Homo Technologicus, 2040's. --[[User:User 8496351\|User 8496351]] ([[User talk:User 8496351\|talk]]) 15:27, 30 April 2026 (UTC)	+	"I'll have to make a better myself, by myself. You see that i have a mess of tubes, pistons, wires, and gears where my innards originally were? That's result of my previous improvement of myself" - early Homo Technologicus Rudis, 2040's. --[[User:User 8496351\|User 8496351]] ([[User talk:User 8496351\|talk]]) 15:27, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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	This comic has me wondering where Randall has hidden all the cameras he has spying on my life. Yes, I have built my own PC from scratch several times. I have also spent weeks regularly going to thrift shops, hoping to snare specialized items for my collecting activities, or things to use as makeshift solutions. In my old age, my current PC is an out-of-the-box Lenovo that has been happily running unmodified (except for upgraded fans) for the last 5 years. And I have realized it is better to just buy the correct thing I need and be done with it. But I still love thrifting. :) [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For\|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For\|talk]]) 01:06, 26 April 2026 (UTC)		This comic has me wondering where Randall has hidden all the cameras he has spying on my life. Yes, I have built my own PC from scratch several times. I have also spent weeks regularly going to thrift shops, hoping to snare specialized items for my collecting activities, or things to use as makeshift solutions. In my old age, my current PC is an out-of-the-box Lenovo that has been happily running unmodified (except for upgraded fans) for the last 5 years. And I have realized it is better to just buy the correct thing I need and be done with it. But I still love thrifting. :) [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For\|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For\|talk]]) 01:06, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
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		+	"I'll have to make a better myself, by myself. You see that i have a mess of tubes, pistons, wires, and gears where my innards originally were? That's result of my previous improvement of myself" - early Homo Technologicus, 2040's. --[[User:User 8496351\|User 8496351]] ([[User talk:User 8496351\|talk]]) 15:27, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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	I suspect that this comic is also targetting the SaaS-pocalypse vibe coders who build their own replacements for popular apps, and then spend inordinate amounts of GenAI compute or other hosting/related costs to keep it running [[Special:Contributions/165.225.124.227\|165.225.124.227]] 15:06, 17 April 2026 (UTC)		I suspect that this comic is also targetting the SaaS-pocalypse vibe coders who build their own replacements for popular apps, and then spend inordinate amounts of GenAI compute or other hosting/related costs to keep it running [[Special:Contributions/165.225.124.227\|165.225.124.227]] 15:06, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
	: Seems a little bit of a stretch to me. For starters, the comic doesn't make any mention of ongoing maintenance costs (in fact, Cueball didn't bother - he gave up and bought the off-the-shelf one when his broke). Plus I'd say that's not mostly a question of balking at cost, but a problem of not bothering to research the existing market to find out that the thing you want already exists. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 15:56, 17 April 2026 (UTC)		: Seems a little bit of a stretch to me. For starters, the comic doesn't make any mention of ongoing maintenance costs (in fact, Cueball didn't bother - he gave up and bought the off-the-shelf one when his broke). Plus I'd say that's not mostly a question of balking at cost, but a problem of not bothering to research the existing market to find out that the thing you want already exists. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 15:56, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
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		+	This comic has me wondering where Randall has hidden all the cameras he has spying on my life. Yes, I have built my own PC from scratch several times. I have also spent weeks regularly going to thrift shops, hoping to snare specialized items for my collecting activities, or things to use as makeshift solutions. In my old age, my current PC is an out-of-the-box Lenovo that has been happily running unmodified (except for upgraded fans) for the last 5 years. And I have realized it is better to just buy the correct thing I need and be done with it. But I still love thrifting. :) [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For\|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For\|talk]]) 01:06, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

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	: There is a sort of typo in the alt-text too: “have have”. I hope it’s not intentional, ‘cause if it is I don’t get it. [[User:Jacobus-nl\|Jacobus-nl]] ([[User talk:Jacobus-nl\|talk]]) 11:27, 16 April 2026 (UTC)		: There is a sort of typo in the alt-text too: “have have”. I hope it’s not intentional, ‘cause if it is I don’t get it. [[User:Jacobus-nl\|Jacobus-nl]] ([[User talk:Jacobus-nl\|talk]]) 11:27, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
		+	: Aaand scratch that. This typo has been fixed. [[User:Jacobus-nl\|Jacobus-nl]] ([[User talk:Jacobus-nl\|talk]]) 17:44, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

	Given gas prices at the moment, depending on the mileage and distance to the hardware store - that remaining $20 is probably only like 100 miles. Not to mention how much time you'd spend - if Cueball's hardware store is 4 miles away and his time is worth $25/h then he is $110 in the red before even buying the second unit. He could do 1 trip to the store, $50 in parts and an hour of labor for less than $80 (or if it was only $10 in parts, 2.5 hours). [[User:Sameldacamel34\|Sameldacamel34]] ([[User talk:Sameldacamel34\|talk]]) 09:20, 16 April 2026 (UTC)		Given gas prices at the moment, depending on the mileage and distance to the hardware store - that remaining $20 is probably only like 100 miles. Not to mention how much time you'd spend - if Cueball's hardware store is 4 miles away and his time is worth $25/h then he is $110 in the red before even buying the second unit. He could do 1 trip to the store, $50 in parts and an hour of labor for less than $80 (or if it was only $10 in parts, 2.5 hours). [[User:Sameldacamel34\|Sameldacamel34]] ([[User talk:Sameldacamel34\|talk]]) 09:20, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

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	I suspect that this comic is also targetting the SaaS-pocalypse vibe coders who build their own replacements for popular apps, and then spend inordinate amounts of GenAI compute or other hosting/related costs to keep it running [[Special:Contributions/165.225.124.227\|165.225.124.227]] 15:06, 17 April 2026 (UTC)		I suspect that this comic is also targetting the SaaS-pocalypse vibe coders who build their own replacements for popular apps, and then spend inordinate amounts of GenAI compute or other hosting/related costs to keep it running [[Special:Contributions/165.225.124.227\|165.225.124.227]] 15:06, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
−	: Seems a little bit of a stretch to me. For starters, the comic doesn't make any mention of ongoing maintenance costs (in fact, Cueball didn't bother - he gave up and bought the off-the-shelf one when his broke). [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 15:56, 17 April 2026 (UTC)	+	: Seems a little bit of a stretch to me. For starters, the comic doesn't make any mention of ongoing maintenance costs (in fact, Cueball didn't bother - he gave up and bought the off-the-shelf one when his broke). Plus I'd say that's not mostly a question of balking at cost, but a problem of not bothering to research the existing market to find out that the thing you want already exists. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 15:56, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

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	I suspect that this comic is also targetting the SaaS-pocalypse vibe coders who build their own replacements for popular apps, and then spend inordinate amounts of GenAI compute or other hosting/related costs to keep it running [[Special:Contributions/165.225.124.227\|165.225.124.227]] 15:06, 17 April 2026 (UTC)		I suspect that this comic is also targetting the SaaS-pocalypse vibe coders who build their own replacements for popular apps, and then spend inordinate amounts of GenAI compute or other hosting/related costs to keep it running [[Special:Contributions/165.225.124.227\|165.225.124.227]] 15:06, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
		+	: Seems a little bit of a stretch to me. For starters, the comic doesn't make any mention of ongoing maintenance costs (in fact, Cueball didn't bother - he gave up and bought the off-the-shelf one when his broke). [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 15:56, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

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 : Well, it was long before newegg.com, and I didn't actually buy ''everything'' as components, only a few things that I used to upgrade the first full system I then bought for myself. (Deciding to skip the more fiddly bits, that I'd done for others already.)
 : But that got me a PC with a shopping ''40MB'' of RAM, plus ''two'' 1GB HDDs, which helped make my top-of-the-range P133 into a veritable ''powerhouse'' (also it could run two monitors, one 3D-accelerated and the other (eventually) could show live TV). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.33|82.132.236.33]] 15:35, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
 I suspect that this comic is also targetting the SaaS-pocalypse vibe coders who build their own replacements for popular apps, and then spend inordinate amounts of GenAI compute or other hosting/related costs to keep it running [[Special:Contributions/165.225.124.227|165.225.124.227]] 15:06, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

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 : Never bought anything from newegg.com, but also never homebuilt components. I buy prebuilt components from established vendors (I haven't heard of Dell making those, except maybe server ones?) and use them. Though it would be a "fun" thing to do, I think building a computer from scratch is waaaaaay too expensive, difficult and time-consuming that regular DIY stuff. [[User:BytEfLUSh|BytEfLUSh]] ([[User talk:BytEfLUSh|talk]]) 01:54, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
 : I wish I got the chance. But riiiight as I thought I would be able to do it, 16GB of DDR5 reached $1k.--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="font-family:Times; color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al|<span style="font-family:Times; color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 14:01, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
 I suspect that this comic is also targetting the SaaS-pocalypse vibe coders who build their own replacements for popular apps, and then spend inordinate amounts of GenAI compute or other hosting/related costs to keep it running [[Special:Contributions/165.225.124.227|165.225.124.227]] 15:06, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

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	: Never bought anything from newegg.com, but also never homebuilt components. I buy prebuilt components from established vendors (I haven't heard of Dell making those, except maybe server ones?) and use them. Though it would be a "fun" thing to do, I think building a computer from scratch is waaaaaay too expensive, difficult and time-consuming that regular DIY stuff. [[User:BytEfLUSh\|BytEfLUSh]] ([[User talk:BytEfLUSh\|talk]]) 01:54, 17 April 2026 (UTC)		: Never bought anything from newegg.com, but also never homebuilt components. I buy prebuilt components from established vendors (I haven't heard of Dell making those, except maybe server ones?) and use them. Though it would be a "fun" thing to do, I think building a computer from scratch is waaaaaay too expensive, difficult and time-consuming that regular DIY stuff. [[User:BytEfLUSh\|BytEfLUSh]] ([[User talk:BytEfLUSh\|talk]]) 01:54, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
	: I wish I got the chance. But riiiight as I thought I would be able to do it, 16GB of DDR5 reached $1k.--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="font-family:Times; color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="font-family:Times; color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 14:01, 17 April 2026 (UTC)		: I wish I got the chance. But riiiight as I thought I would be able to do it, 16GB of DDR5 reached $1k.--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="font-family:Times; color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="font-family:Times; color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 14:01, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
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		+	I suspect that this comic is also targetting the SaaS-pocalypse vibe coders who build their own replacements for popular apps, and then spend inordinate amounts of GenAI compute or other hosting/related costs to keep it running [[Special:Contributions/165.225.124.227\|165.225.124.227]] 15:06, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

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	Calling all computer geeks. Raise your hand if you built your own customized work station or gaming platform by purchasing your very own hand-picked collection of parts from Newegg.com. And tell us why you preferred what you built versus what you could get cheaper from Dell or any other vendor. {{unsigned\|Rtanenbaum\|00:59, 17 April 2026 (UTC)}}		Calling all computer geeks. Raise your hand if you built your own customized work station or gaming platform by purchasing your very own hand-picked collection of parts from Newegg.com. And tell us why you preferred what you built versus what you could get cheaper from Dell or any other vendor. {{unsigned\|Rtanenbaum\|00:59, 17 April 2026 (UTC)}}
	: Never bought anything from newegg.com, but also never homebuilt components. I buy prebuilt components from established vendors (I haven't heard of Dell making those, except maybe server ones?) and use them. Though it would be a "fun" thing to do, I think building a computer from scratch is waaaaaay too expensive, difficult and time-consuming that regular DIY stuff. [[User:BytEfLUSh\|BytEfLUSh]] ([[User talk:BytEfLUSh\|talk]]) 01:54, 17 April 2026 (UTC)		: Never bought anything from newegg.com, but also never homebuilt components. I buy prebuilt components from established vendors (I haven't heard of Dell making those, except maybe server ones?) and use them. Though it would be a "fun" thing to do, I think building a computer from scratch is waaaaaay too expensive, difficult and time-consuming that regular DIY stuff. [[User:BytEfLUSh\|BytEfLUSh]] ([[User talk:BytEfLUSh\|talk]]) 01:54, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
		+	: I wish I got the chance. But riiiight as I thought I would be able to do it, 16GB of DDR5 reached $1k.--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="font-family:Times; color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="font-family:Times; color:#000080">'''''converse'''''</span>]]</sup> 14:01, 17 April 2026 (UTC)