An Actual Surprise

Spent $300 on 32GB of RAM just to run a PlayStation 2 emulator that originally worked on a console with 32MB. That's the tech equivalent of buying a Ferrari to drive to the mailbox. But hey, at least Chrome can finally handle more than three tabs without having an existential crisis.

The difference between regular running and running with admin privileges is apparently a suit, briefcase, and the unmistakable aura of someone who's about to break production. Normal running is just exercise, but "Run as Administrator" means you're sprinting to fix the server that crashed because someone pushed directly to main. The wind in your hair isn't from speed—it's from the collective sighs of your entire dev team watching you race to implement a hotfix with godlike permissions.

Content One Devloper Army OneDevloperArmy Plugged that external hard drive you've been used for years into a different USB port Windows: Never heard of it, let's reinstall the drivers 4:07 AM 05 Aug 18 I View Tweet activity 29 Retweets 138 Likes 17

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.

Content Me: Programs a fun little game on USB to give to my brothers for Christmas Windows Firewall: I'm gonna stop you right there

Content PROGRAMMING SKILL 00 02 04 06 08 10 12 M 16 13 30 22 24 26 BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION () CALLED THE BALLMER PEAK, IT WAS DISCOVERED BY MICROSOFT IN THE LATE 80's. THE CAUSE IS UNKNOWN, BUT SOMEHOW A BAC. BETWEEN 0.129x AND 0.138 CONFERS SUPERHUMAN PROGRAMMING ABILITY. HOWEVER, IT'S A DELICATE EFFECT REQUIRING CAREFULCALIBRATION- YOU CAN'T JUST GIE A TEAM OF CODERS A YEAR'S SUPPLY OF WHISKEY AND TELL THEM TO GET CRACKING, HAS THAT EVER HAPPENED? REMEMBER WINDOWS ME? I KNEW IT! Procrammersumori