I haven’t read all the prior comments but I would suggest to learn the basic of electricity. Despite the biggest part of electronics is low voltage you may meet some parts with higher voltage. Learn the dangers what to look out for and what to avoid at any cost. Safety at first no matter what!!!

If you can get some technic beginner books or PDFs from middle schools your good to go. After that you can look for broken electronic at your local Craigslist or what ever it’s called in your area/country and start to dismantle them and source for parts.

And trust me about the security and dangers at this one. Working as a certified industrial electronic technician in Germany since 2011…

Check inside your BIOS if you can add a delay to the startup or disable skips for a faster boot. Sounds like the drive need some time to wake up.

The bearings of the OG case-fans started to fail so I reconfigured them to kick in when the CPU got hot. One after another I ended with only 1 left working all the time…

Had them all replaced last month, 4 fans on max are quieter than the last at 50%…

Imo, nothing and if asked: blame others.

I don’t use Linux but I assume you’re the kind of person typing sudo before every command ^^

First of all hey and welcome to lemmy^^ As some people already stated, there’s a big “which app to use” wave because of the whole “Reddit shut down 3rd party apps” and since lemmy is growing pretty fast a lot of apps are popping up. You don’t have to use them but for my experience, it’s less clunky and feels smoother than any website. On Desktop I still prefer to website.

Who the hell uses magnets? It may fall down and break, use pins!