#sobs as computer specs circle around her head like loony tunes concussion birdies

[spoonyglitteraunt]

If anyone wonders where I've been the past few days, I've been researching a new PC. The last time I did this was nearly ten years ago and I remember it not being fun then, but now it's just so. much. worse.

Back then it was easier to find decent information, now it's an ocean of articles that read like [company] sponsored up to tell you how their stuff definitely is the best on the market right now and please please please buy from them with our affiliate link so we get paid. Or articles that are so clearly AI CEO optimised bullshit that the start of a sentence doesn't know what end of it is saying. So I've spent the past few days alternating between

and

also fun fact, apparently if you look up a cry gif but not sob or sobbing for some reason tumblr goes Are you ok fam? Do you need a please don't do something drastic phone line?

No tumblr, I'm not ok, I'm definitely not ok. Also you do realise a lot of your users are not in the US, right?

Anyway thanks to the help of some very sweet and lovely people I now have some things figured out. But definitely not out of the woods yet.

I'm so tired.

Remind me why I'm doing this again?

... ok, fiiiine.

#sobs as computer specs circle around her head like loony tunes concussion birdies #I just want someone to go here this one just get this one and you'll be set for the next decade and don't break the bank #I know that's unrealistic but it's a crime against spoonies to make this so difficult #and it's so much money that I can't not agonise over it to the point of torture #also since I need to find one for both me and my dad it's double the problem #without the help of the lovely server people keeping me from just giving up I'd not even gotten this far #and yet the finish line is still very much beyond the horizon #gif warning