(no offense, OP)

None taken. I am absolutely a rando. Selling the stuff seems like the smartest idea. 8gb ram is so old and “small” anyways :)

Couldn’t post the picture here, sso I posted it to cats. My cat and my PC nvm. idk why i can’t upload my pic. another time :)

I definitely know. I already made myself a small form factor case. My cat is bigger than my computer ;)

I like these niche hobbies and the silliness that can go into it. I think I spent $250 on this case and (k, due to covid) it took more than a year to ship. Now its smallness is so large!

Worth it :D

It’s not vital to keep the ram since it is definitely bulky when it comes to a mini pc.

I also don’t necessarily need a “normal” case. Could I make something weird? Could I make a shoe-computer?

Dang, look at that. I would spend way more that $170 fitting my own PC probably.

Sucks that everything is so disposable these days.

I learned that lesson recently about RAM. I have DDR4. I don’t care for gaming. I think it could be fun to have a dorky little mini-PC that can do all the PC stuff that I can tote around to show off :P

Thankfullfy just her and myself in the car, and the first time I used the phrase aloud : I once excitedly exclaimed how I loved my friend’s “thunder thighs”.

Totally thought it meant powerful thighs, like in nice and physically fit shape.

🤡

(Not long-term use, but felt the same vibe)

Once talked to the real estate agent that helped my mom buy in 2008 about buying a place for me around 2020. I found a decent-enough property for about 250k that i could put a house on.

A part of their advice to me was to wait for a home around $80,000 like my mom got in 2008.

Thanks.

Edit: that 80k is now 460k btw

I recently upgraded my RAM because it was wild how much was being used. I have to eat the cost of more RAM because sites don’t seem to minimize it at all.

So what about fish and sea life?

I can’t talk with a professional on the fly. I can’t even talk to a professional more than once a month if I’m lucky.

Yeah, same. I’ve accepted I just don’t have a family 😪

Now it’s all me… mostly. I’m working on it 😌

despite me explaining it over and over again.

I keep telling myself it’s useless, they refuse to understand.

… then I keep trying … T_T … in vain (15+ years of trying)… but then I try again. I just want to feel understood. I long for the family connection they’ve told me is so important my whole life .

I have bent my words over backwards and reworded them in every way possible. I’ve used articles, videos, and infographics. I have made dozens of analogies and comparisons to their own lives. I have handed them literal scripts of things they could say. I’ve ve tried everything I’ve heard of so far to try and get my family to understand me. It very much feels like I am solidly in a box to them because I see them be understanding to others, to their own family, but never receive the same compassion.

I resonate with this quote:

“Once everyone sees you as a villain, that’s what you are. They only see you one way, no matter how hard you try.”- Nimona

It’s unintentional the first times. Speak up and help them know better. If they keep doing it, ask again. If they keep doing it…

I’d be upset if my partners family was racist and insulting to people not like them. I’d be pretty frustrated that my partner lets it slide.

The Razr flip phone was my first phone. It was such a cool phone to have. Now its back, and with a lot more!

What does that mean? I don’t understand. Apps have full access to what that websites don’t?

That would be all apps then. Apps are legitimately great. Websites do the same scummy things.

Ok so I am so unknowledgable about keyboards. They exist all over the place. How cool :D Guess that could’ve been a google >.>

Two come to mind:

If you can’t pay the property taxes every year.

If you don’t pay HOA fees or follow their rules (they have way too much power)

This is my parents.

Showing them they defend every single critique… is a critique. I’ve emphasized in so many ways how what they did wasn’t a big deal, how I’m not mad, how it’s ok and it’s a nothing-burger. I’ve given them literal scripts of what they could say. I’ve sent articles, videos, infographics that could help them understand and ways to be able to accept that what they did was a mistake an that it won’t make them a pariah. Telling them dozens of examples of times when I or anyone else has made a mistake and then apologized and fixed it when it was pointed out and everything was fine… nothing.

They don’t change. Like you said, the critique is the problem, it’s not the problem that’s the problem to them.

Just own it, make it right, and let some time heal any embarrassment that’s felt.

Just had to vent.