Old-ass PC problems

Recently, I've been having an issue where my computer, during boot up, has been intermittently misinforming me that a "new CPU" was installed and that I needed to go into the BIOS settings to set everything up (or else bypass that and just go with the default settings). It has only happened twice so far in the past week or so, but that's two more times than it should have happened, so I had to ask Google what the problem might be.

Turns out that the most likely culprit is that the CMOS battery is probably on the way out. Given how old this motherboard is, that's not all that surprising. So, now I have to figure out what battery is in there now, then I have to figure out the best way to get a new battery of the same or similar enough type, and then I have to figure out how to go about replacing it on the motherboard, as that's not a thing I've ever had to do on this computer (or any other, for that matter). From what I've seen online, it seems like it would be pretty simple fix, but... well, we'll see, I guess.

Of course, given that I essentially just run with the default settings anyway, I suppose I could just not bother doing any of that and simply live with the "new CPU" thing on boot, but I think I'd rather actually get the new battery, if I can do so cheaply and easily enough.

Honestly, at this point, I think if/when I encounter a problem with this computer that will require "too much" money to adequately fix, I'll probably just give up on this one altogether and start looking into buying a new computer or the parts to build a new computer. *weary sigh* At least I could most likely salvage the SSDs and graphics card out of this one, as they're still fairly new. I'd be rather irritated if I couldn't do that.

"Our Fake Thanksgiving - SOME MORE NEWS"

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Ben Shapiro alone was more than enough to warrant the middle-finger-worthy tag on this one, but Rick Santorum really put it over the top. There were also enough still images of Fucker Carlson and Dumbshit Jackass Trump and other such dingleberries that I probably would have included it just based on those.

(Yeah... this was one of those videos where the shitty, non sequitur attempts at "humor" actively detracted from the video. They could have entirely left out Katy Stoll talking about eating batteries, or all the "title monkey" jokes, or Warmbo... being Warmbo... and the video would have improved immensely, in my opinion. And it would have been probably at least 10-15 minutes shorter than it was. I was fine with Cody's jokes that actually tied into the subject matter he was talking about, but all that other shit was just... meh. But then, most of the asinine comments seem to be about Cody eating batteries or Warmbo with teeth or whatever, so... they know their audience, I guess? *weary sigh + eye roll*)

A difference between Democrats and Republicans...

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