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1. Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:15:23 JST Machismo
   >at Christmas, receive most of a computer for free
   >today begin assembly
   >apparently power supply's probably boned
   >purple+unicorn sticker case I purchased comes with power supply and mobo (and ram, for the price of what the tip shop usually sells an empty case for!)
   >it's 430w vs 600w maybe dead one
   >figure I should check graphics card's draw
   >first need to figure out what kind of card it is...
   >suddenly remember nvidia is hell on linux
   >I hope it's not nvidia
   >it's not, it's amd
   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:15:40 JST Machismo

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     >System power supply requirement: 500W
     salt
   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:22:35 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman You mentioned 430w v 600w which one is the power supply for that system. 430?

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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:22:49 JST Machismo

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     @anonymous 600 came with the graphics card, 430 came with case.
   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:25:04 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman A PSU came with the GPU? I must admit to being pretty assblasted about that.

     Also the wattage requirements for most electronics is max draw. I’d look online (or just underclock) to get more realistic numbers. Unless you planned to game on it or something like that.

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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:25:23 JST Machismo

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     @anonymous It also came with a motherboard, ram, basically everything but case and disks.
   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:25:40 JST Machismo

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     @anonymous And I have no idea what I'm going to use it for yet.
   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:25:47 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman You’re making me saltier with each post rn

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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:27:09 JST Machismo

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     @anonymous Like it's obviously a card for Serious Business™ but I can game just fine on this PC.
     And I have no idea - nor care - if it's better than what I'm already running.
   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:27:39 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman Well you could use it for browsing or as a small server. Or just buy a new PSU tbh.

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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:27:54 JST Machismo

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     @anonymous Write my own OS for it.
   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:28:55 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman Write your own BIOS tbh then you won’t have to worry about anything.

     Graft it to your forehead so it can use your own body’s power as it’s own.

   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:29:03 JST Machismo

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     @anonymous Cyberpunk 2077
   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:29:47 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman If you don’t care I’d just use it as a server, backup, or browsing computer. You could also resell it.

     Just some suggestions.

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   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:30:03 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman Cyberthunk 2024

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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:30:11 JST Machismo

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     @anonymous >backup
     That takes disk space, which it specifically does not include.
   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:30:40 JST Machismo

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     @anonymous Most likely I will just install some random OS on it. Maybe I will try reactos on a disk.
   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:31:12 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman Oh I didn’t read enough.

     But you could just use a flash with like minux on it or puppy or something.

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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:32:26 JST Machismo

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     @anonymous Puppy is very good. But that would not be useful for backups.
     Anyway, right now I have a use for it, which is trying to boot another disk. I already know I've fucked it, but I couldn't read the error message clearly enough on the projector, so I am going to do it here with a screen and then fix it, test it, and return that disk.
   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:32:30 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman ReactOS is shit. There’s this one I installed forever ago that I am forgetting now. Very comfy UI, low on resource usage. Was great.

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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:32:39 JST Machismo

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     • anonymous
     @anonymous Define shit.
   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:32:51 JST Machismo

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     @anonymous (And I don't need a graphics card in it to do this much.)
   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:33:30 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman The UI is dogshit and I dropped it in a week. I honestly don’t know more about it than that.

     But that was admittedly over a decade ago now. Maybe it’s better now.

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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:33:41 JST Machismo

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     @anonymous I never even got it to boot lol
   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 17:34:11 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman Apparently it’s just as bad as I remember.

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   • anonymous (anonymous@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 10:46:47 JST anonymous

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     @Zerglingman BTW the OS I was thinking of was Q4OS. It sucks in quite a few different ways, but it’s default UI and program suite were, at least when last I installed, incredibly comfy.