NOTE: My mind is rather hazy on certain things now and I can not find any material on what I am stating but I think I saw it in the Tech industry in one form or another.
Long ago, is the vastness of primordial stage of computer hardware, strange and esoteric things were made. Like Ram adaptors so a previous ram could work on a newer mother board. Sony FM Radio (Sony Viao). Additional Cache that you can add on the mother board to help the CPU go faster...
And I think someone created a CPU adapter back in the 1990's. BUT....
Would it be nice if someone was able to try to bring back/create Ram and CPU adapters. Back then the mother boards I repaired were between 8 and 16 hundred dollars new. Repairing them when possible saved businesses money in the processes.
In a away I think the high cost of components now might bring back some of the ideas from the past.
From 2014 to 2019 an average person could afford to upgrade/buy new a computer. I upgraded every year and bought a fully new computer (DIYing it) ever 2 years. I certainly did and it was fun to do and it did not cost that much money to do so. I built a top of the line computer with top of the line components for $1500 or less. I built the "Bang for the Buck PC" that Beat out LTT's 2019 build terribly in 2019.
However starting in 2020 PC building has swung to be more expensive now and it feels just like the industry was back in the Days were RAM corporations were caught manipulating the market. Intel was Caught trying to Freeze out AMD and everything was f$%^^^^NG Expensive. To think my Motherboard could be dead/expired in a few short years because of the quality of material being used on components.
THIS IS WHY I AM ANAL ABOUT MY VOLTAGE, THE HEAT BEING GENERATED AND THE QUALITY OF COMPUTER CASES BEING USED TODAY. I SPECALIZED IN AIRFLOW MANAGEMENT AND HAVE POSTED WHAT I USE TO KEEP MY PC RUNNING COOL. THIS IS THE REAL DEAL AND A LOST ART BECAUSE OF PEOPLE IMHO, ARE BEING CONNED ABOUT A PRETTY SHINY THAN THE CARE OF THE EQUIPMENT YOU BUILD.
By the way my AMD 5900OEM is running beautifully with no issues what so ever. It is a power house that now Runs under 290 watts all day long. So these days it is Incredibly important to keep your equipment as fresh as possible. I will be doing a 3 year tear down on my rig soon and will be posting on how I do it in the future so people can get an idea on how this is done.
I do believe the silver age of computing has come to an as prices drive the DIYer's out of the market and/or make decisions to cut costs for their budget. What cost me $900 back in 2019 will cost me over $1500 to get the same performance ratio. I have always stated that the world does not run on bleeding edge technology as corporate marketing wants you to believe. But my concerns have been proven valid and is indeed correct.
If this trend continues, I feel we are going back to the pre 2014 days where people will purchase a new PC every 5 to 7 years, and slowly upgrade due to the cost for the average person. The costs are just too damned high.
This is why I made my upgrades like I did, so I hope I am wrong, but after 33+ years in the tech industry, I'm more often right than wrong.
So... I save when I need to save and I spend when I need to spend. I love DIY projects as it keeps me busy, but I am not stupid enough to just buy "Eye Candy" because it is there.
NOTE: The number of rigs I built for myself. One in 1992. One in 2001. One in 2008. One in 2014. One in 2017. One in 2019. Updated my computer fully in 2022.
Budget is $50 per month that is set aside in a account. And even though I am a VERY wealthy man and I can buy a F*&#$%NG tech site with no issues (just saying... heh
) I stay within my budget because of my beliefs. I'm too old and tired to do another business unless it is something that I am passionate about ("cough" Anime/Manga "cough"), such as cooking.
When I was homeless I had to learn how to cook with what I had on hand. Dumpster Diving was the norm so I had to make up things along the way. Being homeless or Dirtbag poor never leaves you. Regardless of what status you live in now, it just never leaves you so I learned the hard way to cook and I'm not bad at it as I get people nagging me to make stuff for them. The Hard Bread I make was easy to carry and lasted a long time and very filling.
The bread shown is a Sweet style of French bead. This is a Heavy Bread that has little yeast in this. It's over 10 pounds of bread with a heavy crust. This is made with what you have and makes you full when you have nothing to eat. You cook it in a fire pit and hope for the best and try to get the yeast naturally. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not, but you have to eat for survival.
Over the years this type of bread I make (and yes I can make it fluffy like traditional bread but that is not the point) I added just a little to the recipe.
So now it has a lot of Sugar, Nutmeg, and Cinnamon, and I use it as a Soup Bread and a dessert type of bread. You can also use it to make French toast or in my case just heat it up with some butter.
So the reason for the bread comment is that I stay within my beliefs and because of that yea anyone can be successful just as long as they remember where they came from.
And my beliefs are to live within your means, believe in yourself in life, learn how to do many different things and bingo not only you will succeed, you get people nagging at you when are you going to cook the next big meal!...
The old man signing off.
