Yes, this individual inconvenience is small. Yes, dem big companies be screwing us over, one thing at a time. The inconvenience to the manufacturer to use the way that they did before and just have a threaded insert on the board along with a standoff and screw is also minimal. I'd rather them take the inconvenience than myself, seeing as how they're ripping us off in the first place.
I could also bitch about how they put the CPU fan header is in a weird place so now the Intel sticker on the fan looks retarded rotated 90 degrees. Now it looks like it has down syndrome.
There are lots of things that suck in this industry, and I'm pissed that everyone keeps taking steps backwards.
Isaac Gonzalez
What am I even looking at?
Camden Nguyen
When you get manufacturers to stop using the world's shittiest variety of screw, the Eternal Phillips, then you get to bitch about how a plastic pin ought to be replaced with a screw.
Isaiah Rogers
Screws are technology. This is now a fastener "thread".
Why do they still use Philips screws? Don't they get annoyed by them themselves? Seems like they could cut a lot of costs by using more machine friendly screws.
Carter White
>remove my motherboard from the chassis to move the plastic insert
What?
Clearly you just pull the ring and push it in a different hole? I'll bet it's faster than using a screw.
Nicholas Campbell
Autistic shrieking.
Camden Young
Plastic M.2 locking pin
I'll bet it's comfy to use though, OP hates because it's not metal but metal isn't always better.
Caleb Barnes
I think its just a matter of "this is what everyone does and the way its always been". Nobody even remembers that the purpose of phillips heads was to save ancient electric drills decades ago that would burn out their motors if the bit seized. It's just spread everywhere like a physical urban legend, a superstition that everyone believes but nobody can say why.
Grayson Ward
No you can't. It's one of those pieces of plastic that you have to pinch on the other side of the board to be able to make it fit through the hole. Hard to describe, don't know if there's a word for it. Maybe "one-way peg"?
