YES, it's a prebuilt, BUT it was cheaper at the time to get the 3060Ti inside of a prebuilt than on its own, and it meets all of my requirements so the only thing I've needed to do to it was put in some more storage.

It's kind of the family PC for just Damien and I. Until the PowerEdge came around, it was the Emby server for our, uh, home movies. Now it has Plex so that we can spoof TV channels on an Amazon FireStick.

I originally dual booted with Linux Budgie instead of Mint. My choice came solely from the fact that budgies are my favorite animal; alas, I had experimented with a VM of Mac OSX11 before and hated the GUI with a burning passion, and although I gave Budgie a shot I just couldn't see myself get used to it.

Known issues:

• The 2TB HDD is from an old laptop and I don't have another 3.5in cage for the hard drive bay, so it's kind of just... hanging there.
• I don't dust it as much as I should.

Every time I use the Surface Pro, I feel like I'm getting to be involved in some really pivotal technological developments. It doesn't have the horrific heat damage problems or the clunkiness of the Wacom mobile solutions, and it doesn't have the software restrictions of an iPad. Dell even started mimicking the form with their Latitude Detachable family! That being said, a big issue with it is that they aren't future proofed in the slightest. Pretty much everything is soldered on to the motherboard with no good way to access it without removing the screen. The Latitudes have a much less brittle LCD and a thick, rubbery edge that is very easy to get a spudger underneath, while the Surface LCD is inlaid and I would definitely never try to remove it without a backup LCD. The keyboard fabric also peeled quickly on both my own and a friend's.

I mostly use it for drawing, with my software of choice being Clip Studio Pro.

Known issues:

• There is some slight pressure damage on the LCD on the left side. The first one that was shipped to me had nine different areas of pressure damage, and even though it was refurbished I did send it back that first time because it was quite noticeable. When they sent a better one out, they included another keyboard and charger, so it was kind of an all-around win for me.

Some forensic scientist gave this to me because it was 'too loud'. It does sound like a jet engine when you start it (or when the power cuts out for a second at four in the morning), but otherwise I really don't notice it. It was extremely exciting to get a free fucking server, although I was kind of a dumbass in front of him and I try not to think about that interaction every time I look at it, lol. I have it set up to be the main Emby server, and I've really dug how easy it was to manage things in the web interface. I'm in a bit of an in-between learning stage with Linux where I do need the handholding that OMV provides (especially since this is the first Debian distribution that I've used) but some things make more sense when I can use the CLI. Which would be great if I could remember where I put the SSH key.

Known issues:

• Something happens when I try to mount one of the drives that I haven't looked at yet because I use the other two drives anyway and it isn't set up for RAID.
• I lost the SSH key <3

Got this from a lady with no kitchen table and a very sweet pitbull. She lived in the middle of nowhere and didn't want to take it in to be recycled, so I removed her hard drive for her and took it to be recycled in a... different manner, huehuehueheuhueueI put Windows XP on it using PXE. The last time I remember seeing that OS was when I was practically unconscious in how young I was. Like, got-scared-when-the-screen-would-grey-out-hovering-over-the-power-down-button young. Vista was what the family computer had growing up, but I do quite like the appearance of XP and I'm a sucker for tech nostalgia, so I thought hey, why not? The keyboard has a wonderful feel to it, as well, so I wanted to do something fun with it.

The great thing is that this comes equipped with a DVD burner, and I came equipped with a monstrous stack of DVD-R that I found at Goodwill for two bucks. For those home movies.

Known issues:

• The interal battery isn't detected, so you do have to keep it plugged into the AC adapter.
• Because of the internal battery detection issue, the BIOS won't update (currently on A07, latest is A16). I've tried forcing it within the OS, I've tried forcing it in the USB MS-DOS environment, no luck. I try not to wonder if a BIOS update would fix the battery detection issue.
• I keep it offline for security reasons. This isn't really an issue, since I've tested the Wi-Fi drivers and it works, but I just keep forgetting and try to look stuff up on it.
• This model actually came out after XP, which goes to show how my naiive tech nostalgia gets time periods mixed up just as much as that one Gen Alpha kid who posted a picture of the 70s when talking about 2010 and consequently aged me 4580348950385 years. Because of this, a lot of the drivers were made for Windows 7 at the lowest. I've been able to find workarounds for everything except the USB PCI interface and the freaking audio drivers.

This was dropped off by Damien's dad because he didn't have anything to do with it. Apparently, there used to be these PC building events in Beaverton where people would try to set up a PC using a bunch of spare parts from old computers, and you got to keep it if you built it fast enough. This seems to be a stock build, so I think it was just bought at an event like that. The OS has some files from someone who was working on their Master's thesis in... healthcare... regulation? in 2013. Pretty cool!

Vista is peak OS to me, UI wise. It's quite nice to see the frutiger aero and glassy skeumorphic revival in these past few years because it's always been my favorite, but Vista seemed to be widely hated for a variety of reasons for the longest time. The Vista skins for Windows 10 are a pretty good intermediate point. I still want to put Spore on this but otherwise I don't really know what to do with it, it's just nice to poke around in. It feels frozen in time.

Known issues:

• Horifically dusty.