X86 Is Good

The funeral for a graphics card is upon us. This meme captures that gut-wrenching moment when your trusty GPU—that beautiful NVIDIA GT 610 with its measly 2GB of VRAM—finally gives up the ghost after 5 years of loyal service. Now you're stuck with integrated Intel HD Graphics, the equivalent of downgrading from a sports car to a shopping cart with a wobbly wheel. The formal announcement by Sir Toad in his distinguished attire only makes the tragedy more dignified. Pour one out for the GT 610—it wasn't much, but it was honest work.

That moment when someone learns you're in "computer science" and immediately assumes you're tech support. Sure, I can reverse a binary tree, implement a neural network, and debug race conditions, but no, I have absolutely no idea why your laptop makes that weird clicking sound. I mean, I could look at it, but that would set a dangerous precedent where I become everyone's personal Geek Squad. My algorithm for handling these requests is simple: blank stare, slight smirk, change subject.

Nothing will drive you to the brink of madness faster than trying to install Nvidia drivers on Linux. What should be a simple task becomes a descent into dependency hell, kernel module nightmares, and cryptic error messages that make you question your life choices. The true origin story of every supervillain isn't childhood trauma—it's just a sysadmin who tried to get CUDA working on Ubuntu.

That awkward moment when the parking payment kiosk has better specs than your work computer. Someone clearly repurposed a gaming rig with RGB lighting to process your $5 parking fee. Meanwhile, developers everywhere are still waiting for IT to approve that 8GB RAM upgrade request from 2019. Bet this thing mines crypto in its spare time between printing receipts. Probably runs Crysis at 120fps while you're fumbling for quarters.

Ah, the elusive A: drive. For the younger devs who've never experienced the joy of floppy disks, the A: drive was the default letter for that ancient 3.5" data rectangle that stored a whopping 1.44MB. That's right—not GB, not even MB—just 1.44MB. You could fit approximately one-third of a modern JavaScript framework's readme file on there. These days, most computers don't even have physical drive letters anymore, just abstract mount points that hide in the shadows like well-documented code.

While the GPU market is having another meltdown (people literally fighting in the background), there's always that one person who's completely unbothered—just casually ordering a suspiciously cheap CPU from some sketchy international website. The 5700x for $100? That's either the deal of the century or a paperweight in disguise. Either way, absolute chad move ignoring the GPU chaos and focusing on the CPU bargain hunt. When RTX 4090s are being scalped for kidney prices, sometimes you gotta pivot to CPU upgrades from the digital equivalent of a back alley.