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So when i was younger, early to mid 20's say 05-13/14 i was super active on forums, i followed the latest news, could quote fixes, hardware specs ect, but as I've gotten older I've become less active, I don't try to learn all the new stuff, there was a time I knew the specs of every new card, but i can't even tell you the basics of the newest RTX cards, i just don't pay attention anymore. Is this just a general burn out slowly over the last few years, is it the nature of getting older, or is the nature of family+busy career giving me no time. I've honestly been disinterested in even going back and learning, and I'm only 33, it seems to young to reach this point. Anyone else ever come across this, or is this unique to me
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/18 18:24:53
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I’m 36 and still very much love reading about all this stuff and participating is various forums but I don’t have the family+busy career thing so that’s probably what it is.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
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☄ Helpfulby candle_86 2021/04/18 18:41:57
I have you by over 2 decades. I still read voraciously about technology and my work industry, but I have gone in and out with regards to forums. I spend a few years active and then not active. Not sure if it’s time, work, family or just the ebb and flow of life. I tend to think it’s just the ebb and flow of life.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
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Grey_Beard I have you by over 2 decades. I still read voraciously about technology and my work industry, but I have gone in and out with regards to forums. I spend a few years active and then not active. Not sure if it’s time, work, family or just the ebb and flow of life. I tend to think it’s just the ebb and flow of life.
See I've stopped enjoying it, it dawned on me when a friend asked me what I'd recommend him build earlier today, and i realized I don't have a clue, the last video card review i read was for the GTX 1080Ti, and the last CPU review i read was the R5 3600x. I spend all day working on computers at my job, im a systems admin now, and i manage our windows deployment environment, I know about the windows update cycle, i know about recent vulnerabilities that are a danger to our computers and i know which updates to push, but consumer hardware i couldn't tell you anything anymore, and when I get home I honestly just zone out watching youtube or playing wow with my wife.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
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☄ Helpfulby candle_86 2021/04/18 18:41:50
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Grey_Beard I have you by over 2 decades. I still read voraciously about technology and my work industry, but I have gone in and out with regards to forums. I spend a few years active and then not active. Not sure if it’s time, work, family or just the ebb and flow of life. I tend to think it’s just the ebb and flow of life.
See I've stopped enjoying it, it dawned on me when a friend asked me what I'd recommend him build earlier today, and i realized I don't have a clue, the last video card review i read was for the GTX 1080Ti, and the last CPU review i read was the R5 3600x. I spend all day working on computers at my job, im a systems admin now, and i manage our windows deployment environment, I know about the windows update cycle, i know about recent vulnerabilities that are a danger to our computers and i know which updates to push, but consumer hardware i couldn't tell you anything anymore, and when I get home I honestly just zone out watching youtube or playing wow with my wife.
That is actually why I never went into computers for work. I knew I would get burned out and computers were the only hobby I had.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/18 18:54:09
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I do not work in technology, but technology has an impact on my work. Computers are my hobby, but I usually only research when I want an upgrade or when a friend asks for counsel. I give my opinion, but because I do not involve myself with it for a paycheck, I do not get burned out, but I do allow myself a respite from time to time.
On a side note, just read a great article from NPR about the Solarwinds hack. I bet you are very versed on that. This impacts hardware and software. That event will have long lasting implications that will circle around at various time when least expected.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/18 19:02:53
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As you get older you will find that learning newer things take a bit of a mind flux. In order to take in something new you will need to delete some older files. If you happen to be tired at the time you will fear that the older files may include some precious memories and tell yourself that you will look into this some other time but never do. It is human nature. Not sayin this is good advice but it truly is the nature of things. I say take in anything and everything you can at any time of day or night. If it is something you are interested in, learn it. Never give up, never surrender! edit 52, nearly hitting 53
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/18 19:10:25
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STR1D3R_2 As you get older you will find that learning newer things take a bit of a mind flux. In order to take in something new you will need to delete some older files. If you happen to be tired at the time you will fear that the older files may include some precious memories and tell yourself that you will look into this some other time but never do. It is human nature. Not sayin this is good advice but it truly is the nature of things. I say take in anything and everything you can at any time of day or night. If it is something you are interested in, learn it. Never give up, never surrender! edit 52, nearly hitting 53
not a bad idea, my heads full of useless information these days, i can tell you the specs for a Riva TNT2, or a Geforce 8800GTX, not relevant anymore lol
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/18 19:25:51
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Im in the same age group as GreyBeard and Strider.
I've always been more of a forum lurker than a very active participant. But in the early days I too was hoovering up all the pertinent information. Nowadays? Im just kind of blasé' about the whole thing. Current situation isn't helping. But right about the 1xxx series, I just kind of stepped back and gave up on trying to keep up with all the changes. I still love to build PC's and the like, but I only really do heavy research when Im about to do a major upgrade. And like Strider mentioned, I kind of hit the information overload. Especially now when every new "upgrade" is incremental and somewhat marginal.
And I can totally understand how a chosen profession can affect your desire for a particular thing. Thanks to my job, I'm not interested in traveling much these days.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
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haha 51yo here and in the tech industry, just got back into gaming during Covid, "back in my day" I started on 8086 processors in IBM PC's that cost $20k... recently I've built a couple of decent machines, but seriously lacking in the GPU are (second hand GPU's) once I get interested, I tend to get into things in a big way - read up everything, get on youtube
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/25 09:51:36
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52 now and totally with you. Also seems a lot harder to learn these days than the younger years.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/25 13:05:05
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It is harder as you get older, I'm 68. It also seems that you are correct that it takes longer for my brain to fire up to the learning mode. I started with the forums in '09 when I started building with EVGA components. I come and go as far as participation in the forums, but do read them. I started in '79 or '80 with the Trash-80 and the usual progression. I decided I could build my own systems the way I wanted them in the mid '80s and have been doing that ever since. I got into custom loop water cooling about 10+ years ago. In our household, when I build a new system I must build two (my wife tells me what she wants in her system).
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/25 15:23:25
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Not so related to age but rather your lifestyle.
You'll likely get into it again when you have a strong reason to do so.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
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Dendra Not so related to age but rather your lifestyle.
You'll likely get into it again when you have a strong reason to do so.
I think this is one of the main reasons. I haven't bought any new computer parts in a long time -minus a monitor upgrade cause bigger is better when getting older and eyes are not what they used to be. I dont overclock anymore... hell I dont even watercool. No reason to upgrade as I haven't really played any new games. If you are into it at one point, you still have the interest... you just dont "need" to until you require a reason. Upgrading just for the sake of it was never my thing (Cause family and all) but what I could afford I pushed it to the limit. Also there became a point where GPU's sort of went off the deep end and never looked back. To the point where you could buy a used beater car for the price of a single video card. That has thwarted my upgrades. I am not at the point in my life where I have legit disposable income. I do OK and can afford my Astronomy habit (which seems to be the main hobby which ties into a camping/boondocking hobby) but I really do miss the tech stuff. I miss designing waterblocks and all that stuff.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/27 05:54:41
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More real life - less (virtual) forum time. Lonely and bored people hang out on forums in general. Trust me, I'm 65 now.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/27 06:13:28
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I'm near 60 years old...and I find I dislike tech more and more the more intrusive it becomes. It's supposed to be a tool to help, not be a tool to spy (imo).....it's become the latter, rather than the former. So I rail against it quite a bit more than I used to...
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/27 07:25:12
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43 here, I am not nearly as technically savvy as I was in my 20s but I still enjoy building and tweaking my gaming pc
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/27 07:29:18
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I think forum software is dated, reddit has a better setup for threads
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Re: Anyone else or just me
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38 here. I kind of feel the same way; I skim the headlines in my newsfeed, maybe read a few article that interest me, but otherwise there's way more noise than critically important content. On the other hand, when I need to build a new system or replace a part I'll obsessively research until I can cover all of the angles, so... maybe it's just an attention span issue. :P
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/27 10:16:41
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I started reading the forums again in the early morning prior to going out to catch golden hour, photography, landscape and nature, is another passion. The forums used to have a lot of good info, and still do, some of the above posters were significant contributors. It seems that since I started reading the forums again, there is a plethora of complaints about GPU shortages, distribution, etc., which none of us can do anything about (anyone checked the availability and pricing of good hardwood, e.g., walnut, cherry, maple lately?) might as well get your TS card stamped by the chaplain and keeping going. Other than upgrades, I've been doing complete new builds on a three to four year cycle for my wife and I and I still enjoy it. What I don't enjoy is that I have to clear brush and mow this afternoon.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/27 10:23:18
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def an attn span thing - at least for me. so many things happening these days...
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/27 17:33:33
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I used to be so active on the bungie.net forums when I was younger. Almost everyday I was on checking out the goings-ons. As we age our time becomes more valuable so we tend to prioritize, though what we prioritize and focus on changes all the time.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/27 17:38:39
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Life comes at you fast and interests can change or get adjusted based on your work and/or personal life. I read, watch, and listen to more game related stuff than I actually play games. I have plenty of time to play any game I want as I do not have kids or other duties, but just thinking about what to play out of the 100s of games I bought on steam on the cheap, I end up watching youtube video or something else instead. As for pc hardware, I keep somewhat up to date to know what the good parts are to get for price/performance.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/27 17:42:43
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You start forgetting how old you are once you hit a certain age.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/27 23:16:33
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Interests change over time and it's impossible to stay abreast of everything. Now I'm interested in learning about deer and hunting them. Who knows what's next.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/28 07:16:15
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It feels like there's not as much good content out there anymore tbh. Anandtech is basically dead now. I miss reading their super in-depth articles.
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/28 07:30:07
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Interesting thread! I'm sure most of us ( in 30's & 40's) are faced with the usual work and family aspects of life that can feel draining. But, wouldn't that make your passion burn even stronger? Like, thank god work is done and the kids are done, let's dissect this new 3080 it's supposed specs! ! What about the growing bot/scspler/availability/ price of these cards? I mean, the inability to get something after wanting it for so long, could have a negative effect, right? I'm just speaking for myself I suppose. But, my interest quickly declined after release of the 30 seeies and has slowly gone done since. Hopefully the passion comes bsck!
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/28 07:59:44
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i think life and available time changes.. same for me use to always read new posts/articles about newly released hardware(10years ago in school)..vs now not as often.. cause life.. work etc...
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Re: Anyone else or just me
2021/04/28 11:30:44
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Demanding your attention to stay on something will lead to actual burnout. Enjoy it when you do, don't when you don't. It doesn't make you any less valuable a contributor if you take a break.
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