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Yea, the 2012 build was a 3770k with 16 gb ram, multiple SSDs, a GTX680, etc. So it was a pretty fast machine back in the day.

I upgraded the video card and SSD drives several times, just didn't have the budget to replace it all at once for a long time.

Minus the case and video card, I have an entire 3rd gen i7 machine sitting in a box that would actually make a pretty good machine for a lot of different uses.

Same .. I hadn't upgraded since 2012, and had some extra cash, so rebuilt in August. Feeling pretty lucky to have done it then, and really glad I went ahead and put 64GB RAM in it.

So much this. I actually pulled all of our servers from Azure and went back to a regular provider. Way cheaper as well.

I feel much of this, especially the installer situation right now.

I've setup and maintained a number of Linux servers from scratch, and I'm used to installing / updating / maintaining server software (via bash / SSH), but desktop kills me.

I didn't think my Windows setup would be that crazy to get working, but VMWare Workstation, and Splashtop have both been killers (and good triple monitor support to some degree). Steam has been 50/50 for games for me, but I'm running an older NVidia card, so that's probably my issue.

I started with Open Suse, and liked the OS quite well, but could never get past the errors installing and configuring VMWare (I develop in Windows inside a couple of VMWare images, and will for the next decade at least), so fast / stable VMWare support is key to moving off of Windows.

I also couldn't get Splashtop running: I need remote access to my machine when outside of the house, and to client machines quite often, so need two different apps installed. There's also no LogMeIn desktop app for Linux, so that becomes very painful (one of our dealers uses LMI instead of Splashtop).

After a week of that, I paved the disk and loaded Kubuntu, figuring that the better support for those packages would help. I did manage to get VMWare and Splashtop Business installed but everything feels unstable, and there have been lots of issues (third monitor is often black, had to disable 3d acceleration in VMWare, Solarr never seems to see my mouse, can't browse shared NTFS drives), and have to re-sign VMWare modules every time the OS updates.

I've been using Windows for decades, largely without any issue, and would like to move, but it's been problematic enough for me to put the entire thing on pause, knowing that I'm going to have to start all over again and burn several more days trying to get a base setup working.

Had the same thing happen on one of my servers. Got up one day a few weeks ago and the server was suspended (luckily the hosting provider unsuspended it for me quickly).

It's mostly business sites, but we do have an old personal blog on there with a lot of travel pictures on it, and 4 or 5 AI bots were just pounding it. Went from 300GB per month average to 5TB on August, and 10/11 TB in September and October.

We were driving somewhere and suddenly decided to order some chicken on the way home (figured it would be done when we got there and we wouldn't have to wait).

They required an app: my wife downloaded it, set up an account, picked the store that was on the way home (but not closest to where we were) and put the order into the app, only to have it fail sending it to the location.

Several times.

By the third try we were in the parking lot and I just went in and ordered.

Oh true, I forget I am on mobile usually for YouTube.

On Android the same combo of Firefox / uBlock works quite well, but of course the experience isn't quite the same as it is in the app.

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uBlock Origin on Firefox certainly works. There was a short period of about 5 days (a couple of months ago) where they were blocking playback with uBlock enabled, but it didn't last long.