I'm PS/2 Ports Old

The eternal struggle of every CS graduate - spending four years learning algorithms, data structures, and computational theory only to be reduced to "the tech person" who can supposedly fix any electronic device within a 50-mile radius. That smug little smirk in the final panel says it all. It's the universal "I could write you a sorting algorithm that would make Donald Knuth weep with joy, but diagnosing why your laptop makes that weird clicking noise? Yeah... I'm suddenly very busy with important computer science things." The cognitive dissonance is exquisite. We're simultaneously expected to understand the deepest mysteries of computation AND why your printer only works when Mercury isn't in retrograde.

A dumpster full of RTX 5090 GPUs? That's not garbage—that's my retirement plan. After spending three years trying to buy a single card at MSRP while crypto miners hoarded them all, seeing this feels like stumbling across El Dorado. Would I dumpster dive? I'd rent a U-Haul and bring snacks for an overnight operation. That's roughly $50,000 of hardware or exactly one mortgage payment in today's economy.

Looks like someone took "burn your bridges" a bit too literally! This poor Dell laptop has clearly been through what IT departments call "aggressive user testing" – or what the rest of us call "setting company property on fire before returning it." Nothing says "I quit" quite like returning a laptop that looks like it was used to debug code in the actual fires of hell. The screen is charred, the keyboard is melted, and that trackpad has seen things no trackpad should ever see. The best part? Some exec is definitely asking if it can be refurbished for the next hire. "Just reinstall Windows, it'll be fine."

The harsh reality that keeps computer scientists up at night—using an entire byte (8 bits) to store a single boolean value that only needs 1 bit. It's like buying a mansion just to store a single sock. Memory efficiency purists are shedding tears right now, while the rest of us just keep allocating more RAM because "hardware is cheap." Meanwhile, embedded systems developers are having actual nightmares about this wasteful behavior. The true tragedy isn't just the 7 wasted bits—it's that we've all collectively agreed to ignore this digital environmental crime.

Spending $150 on a "premium" gaming mouse only to discover it comes with its own special flavor of hell. Logitech mice randomly decide that one click means two, while Razer mice transform scrolling into an extreme sport where your page jumps around like it's on a trampoline. Meanwhile, you're caught in the middle, desperately trying not to fall into the abyss of tech support forums where thousands of others share your pain. The real kicker? That $10 office mouse from 2003 sitting in your drawer would work perfectly fine.

Windows mistaking the image of a processor for actual hardware is peak operating system intelligence. Like when your friend says they know computers because they once changed their desktop background. This is basically Windows getting excited about finding a JPEG of a CPU and planning the parade. Next up: discovering RAM by opening a memory.png file.