Do Not Cite The Deep Magic To Me, Witch

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Remember when we actually needed DxDiag? That little Windows diagnostic tool was our sacred ritual before installing a new game. "Can I run Crysis?" wasn't a meme—it was a genuine existential crisis that required consulting the oracle of DirectX Diagnostics. These days, kids just download whatever 200GB monstrosity Steam is featuring without a second thought. Meanwhile, I still instinctively reach for Win+R and type "dxdiag" whenever something doesn't run right—like checking the oil in a Tesla.

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.

Five minutes on a different OS and suddenly you're curled up in the fetal position questioning all your life choices. That moment when you can't find the terminal, or the window controls are on the wrong side, or God forbid—you have to use a different package manager. The muscle memory betrayal is real . We've all been there, desperately crawling back to our comfort zone where we know exactly which arcane keyboard shortcuts will bend the machine to our will. The OS holy wars continue, but deep down we're all just creatures of habit who'd rather collapse dramatically than learn where they moved the settings menu.

The classic "have you tried turning it off and on again" advice gets a Windows makeover. Dad's suggesting running DISM and SFC commands—the digital equivalent of "walk it off" for your computer. These commands repair system files and check for corruption, basically telling your PC to stop whining about its problems and fix itself. Just like real dad advice, it's both annoyingly simple and surprisingly effective.

The moment you get that computer science degree, everyone suddenly thinks you're the designated IT support person for the entire extended family. Nothing says "I've made it as an engineer" quite like being handed a printer that hasn't worked since Windows XP and being told "you can fix this, right?" The girlfriend bringing home a friend's printer is the final boss of unpaid tech support. Six years of algorithms and data structures for this glorious moment.