Three years ago bought the same mobo, same cpu, 16gb corsair, 256 gb Samsung ssd, gtx 3080 Ti, plus everything else to build it and the cost was $1200. You got a deal.

To be honest that 550 mobo sucked until 2023, when they finally released firmware that allowed for us to set the language. For some weird reason the mobo defaulted into Chinese and was impossible to make changes to it. Lived with a non configured mobo for a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The ones that wear one boot inside another. Only a single boot on each foot suffices.

Try it in your terminal and come back here to tell us the results

Damn right it is!

There is always an alternate reality

They are soft material artifacts that protect and warm up the programmer’s feet.

It’s the name of a famous novel:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(novel)

Touché! I was thinking Information Technology, but you win with Pennywise twist.

Which one is it?

“Ask me anything about it and I’ll try to answer”

OR

“Ask me anything about IT and I’ll try to answer”

Also makes cute sounds and blinks on special occasions

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Arc

The age component is absolutely a reason and so is the leverage of the community and friends like you said. No doubt about it. It’s herd mentality and FOMO. Finally it is also how easy to get in and stay sucked in. These other platforms have the dopamine trigger game figured out on their apps. Fediverse doesn’t have that so much, other than the organic “did someone reply to me?” feeling. If you don’t engage then fediverse is not pulling you in.

LinkedIn is a “need” for the ones wanting a job and trying to tell their new job /company is the best. Once these needs are satisfied they forget about it and only come back when the need arises again.

Different generations choosing different platforms I guess: >40 using facebook and <25 joined Snapchat.

Xitter

It creates searchable PDFs, so no weird format locked to paperless-ngx