https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECM0in6zvsE

(I put off reinstalling the OS on account of the plan to acquire said SSD.)

But holy shit that bloatware on the preinstalled OS.

i took an os that was raided on ssds and put it on one drive .... but it was dead. seriously fucking dead.

but somehow i reanimated the fucker .. it was like having the power of all creation at hand

but have you ever seen that movie "pet semetary"

yeah basically the computer tried to kill me

like the movie 'old yella' and cujo
when you have to put down something you love .. its hard and it really makes you think

My Frankenstein was the first PC I built.. broke a pin on the CPU.. managed to shave down a pin from an old Pentium that we had floating around to the right (-ish) width and got it into the board.

Thing lasted me about 5 years and a cross country move.

you put ur own pin in the cpu?

you inserted ur pin like appendage into the socket?

ur a monster!

It was an AMD board.

and that makes it okay?

sacreligious

Magical, actually.

I said the various rites, and coaxed the machine spirit to life.

now u talking my language

by the power of electron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLj8mw-qsIA

part of your ghost is in the machine now

we are one

this was but a test
and you have passed with flying pigs
others have come and gone, failed with flying colors
but u my fren
ra immortalized for eternit e's

@Lucienne d'Anwyl

i want to say something just want to know you will show up

The cyber

Thing is, that as I said earlier, I'm a proto-tech priest. >.>

A what

Like a tech priest before they're a thing.. my tech role is what becomes a tech priest in the 40k universe.

He likes to read user manuals in 2019.

Nothing wrong with that!

Sure, mate. Keep away from me.

When someone says the Holocaust definitely happened

Understanding the underlying workings of the technology we imploy is most useful.

I also read the EULAs. >.>

Understanding the underlying working of the technology is not what tech priests do.

They read manuals and repeat it.

The actual explanations are lost to the ages.

Ergo the proto- part there.

We're in the age where the manuals of the manual's manual gets written.

I see....