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)_/¯

Well, had to read the last line as well to be able to come up with a witty cheeky response ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, some truck drivers carry their empty beer and malt cans, rolling about on the bed of their trucks…

True that too. It is a knee jerk reaction against who is there on the administration today. Same knee jerk reaction that got a person incapable of forming a coherent sentence elected because he was not black or not a woman.

3rd party has as much chance this election as any other in the past. Consider that when casting you’re vote and pick one of the two parties.

I hate that you are likely right about it.

I wanted you to be so wrong, but yet it pains me: I believe you to be so right about it.

You are right, it is not a gun control issue, it is a gun culture problem.

Remember: “Alternate reality”

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