I love how the fact that I've had a really bad track record with unreliable electronics and having a computer setup that is legimitately screwy from top to bottom makes it kind of impossible for me to really be able to tell what is causing a computer issue at any given time and I give few fucks about it anymore.
@dzuk this is actually what happens even in "professional" parts of the industry (such as business critical software); only about 85% of it actually works correctly at any one time and endusers and sysadmins have to try and work round the flaky 15% (other external issues such as poor quality mains power and/or British Telecom and others doing strange things can also cause wierd intermittent problems)
@vfrmedia that makes sense. I'm used to having hardware break on me at a rate which seems higher than what other people get, but you know, confirmation bias and all 😓
@dzuk if you play graphics intensive games everything is being run harder (than friends who just uses their PC for social media, college/uni work etc), and in some areas UK Power Networks are only slowly replacing infrastructure that is older than any of us (power sags and other faults in local distribution network that are enough to stress power supplies and cause computers to glitch are not uncommon).
A UPS with surge protection is a good thing if you can afford one..
