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Back in the 60s, programmers were literally PUNCHING CODE into cards by hand! 🤯 The person in the image is holding up punch cards with the caption "COMPILERS TOOK MY JOB" - it's basically the original "robots are stealing our jobs" but for coding! Before compilers existed, humans had to manually convert code into machine-readable formats. Then BAM! Compilers showed up and were like "I got this" and an entire profession vanished faster than free pizza at a hackathon! Those punch card operators never saw it coming!

You know you've mastered distributed systems, can debug race conditions in your sleep, and understand the intricacies of memory management... but then someone's printer stops working and suddenly you're performing ancient rituals like unplugging it, waiting exactly 30 seconds, plugging it back in, and sacrificing a USB cable to the tech gods. The beautiful irony here is that fixing printers has absolutely nothing to do with programming logic. It's pure chaos theory mixed with hardware gremlins. Printers operate on a different plane of existence where drivers are perpetually outdated, paper jams defy physics, and "PC LOAD LETTER" is apparently a valid error message. Yet somehow, you will fix it. Not because you understand printer protocols or have any formal training in hardware troubleshooting, but because you've developed a sixth sense for turning things off and on again in the right sequence. You'll clear the print queue, reinstall drivers you don't understand, and somehow it'll work. Then when they ask what you did, you'll have no idea. That's when the superstitions begin.

The eternal laptop BIOS key guessing game—where every manufacturer picks a different magic button combination just to watch us suffer. Dell uses F2, HP prefers F10, Lenovo loves F1, and ASUS goes with Delete. Then there's that one guy suggesting "just use DEL" like we're all using the same hardware from 1998. Nothing says "standardization" like frantically mashing every F-key while your laptop boots. It's basically percussion practice for desperate sysadmins.

The eternal tech paradox captured in four panels: hardware prices skyrocketing while everyone's distracted by AI hype that never quite delivers. Left side: "GPU, RAM & SSD prices all going up" - the grim reality hitting your wallet. Right side: "A.I. bubble will pop any day now tho" followed by the sobering realization "A.I. bubble... pop?" That "Soon™" title is chef's kiss - the universal developer promise that's been keeping us waiting since the first sprint planning meeting. Just like that affordable RTX 5090 or the AI that was supposed to replace your job by now.

Oh look, someone's flexing their 32-core CPU and 2TB NVMe SSD like they're running a data center from their bedroom, but the moment you mention RAM? Suddenly they're broke. It's giving "I spent my entire budget on the fancy stuff and now I'm stuck with 4GB of RAM trying to open Chrome." The priorities are absolutely UNHINGED. You've got enough processing power to simulate the entire universe but can't afford enough memory to keep more than three browser tabs open without your system having a complete meltdown. Classic PC builder energy right here – all the horsepower, none of the fuel. At this rate, RAM prices are so ridiculous that we genuinely might start using them as currency. "That'll be 2 sticks of DDR5, please."

Remember when we thought GPU prices couldn't possibly get worse? Then AI showed up like Patrick Star, gleefully inflating Nvidia's market bubble to astronomical levels. Meanwhile, developers are just sitting there like SpongeBob, watching their dream build slip further away with each new AI model release. The sweet irony of wanting to build a gaming PC but discovering the hardware is too busy generating cat pictures and writing emails for tech bros. At this point, selling a kidney might not even cover the down payment on an RTX 4090.