Keeping Them In Case Prices Go Up

The Grim Reaper of PC building has arrived, and it's wearing an RTX 5090 as a crown. This masterpiece of dark humor captures that special moment when your $2000 GPU transforms into a paperweight because you connected the power cables wrong. Nothing says "I'm financially ruined" quite like the smell of burnt silicon at 3 AM. The skeleton isn't just coming for your components—it's coming for your wallet too. Remember kids: always triple-check your PSU connections, or you'll be eating ramen for the next six months while explaining to your partner why that "investment" is now decorative.

Nothing quite like the glacial pace of charging your phone from a laptop's USB port. That massive cargo plane refueling a tiny fighter jet? Yeah, that's your 16GB RAM development machine struggling to send a trickle charge to your power-hungry smartphone. Your laptop's basically saying "I'm already running VS Code, Chrome with 47 tabs, and three Docker containers... and now you want me to charge your phone too?!" Meanwhile your battery percentage creeps up 1% every 20 minutes. Classic power dynamic.

The ancient laptop with a new SSD is like an elderly superhero who suddenly remembers they have powers. Sure, Chrome still takes 5 minutes to load instead of 15, but that's a 66% improvement! Your decrepit machine is now slightly less embarrassing at coffee shops, where people mistake your boot-up sequence for performance art. It's the computing equivalent of putting racing stripes on your grandpa's mobility scooter—technically faster, still fundamentally slow.

The strongman pulling a truck represents your CPU - powerful but working alone, handling one big task at a time. Meanwhile, the GPU is like those dozens of people working together to pull an airplane - individually weaker but massively parallel. After 15 years in tech, I've watched countless developers throw CPU cores at problems that scream for GPU parallelization. It's like watching someone use a sledgehammer to hang a picture frame.

The perfect illustration of irony in its natural habitat. First post: "There are 2 types of stupid people - those who can't read and those who won't follow instructions." Second post: Someone who clearly didn't grasp that computers don't work through formal introductions. The reply is pure gold - introducing your printer to your webcam like they're at a networking event? Putting name tags on them? This is exactly what happens when someone takes "computer recognition" a bit too literally. And they wonder why tech support drinks heavily.

You installed 32GB of RAM thinking your Linux system would finally use it. Cute. Linux sits there consuming maybe 800MB at idle while the remaining 31.2GB just... exists. Meanwhile Windows would've already eaten half of it just to run the Start menu. The efficiency is almost insulting. You paid good money for that RAM and Linux refuses to acknowledge it exists. It's like buying a Ferrari and your OS insists on riding a bicycle to save gas. Sure, it's impressive, but also kind of a flex you didn't ask for. Fun fact: Linux actually uses available RAM for disk caching, but it releases it instantly when needed. So technically it IS using your RAM, just not in a way that makes you feel better about your purchasing decisions.