What it like being into computers but also being poor?

What it like being into computers but also being poor?

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computers aren't even expensive, even the most expensive computer costs much less than buying and running a shitty car which almost everybody has

Horrible

shit, my old amd pc broke so i'm using a mini-pc till I have enough cash, can't run games and is only ok for browsing

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you don't need to make youtube videos of expensive products to be ''into computers''' desu

You have a 2nd hand notebook for 50 bucks on ebay.
You have no excuse
Except if you suffer on a Ukraine or sth

I'm 30 and truth be told I've probably worked 2 years of my life in total.
I don't think I have much of a choice at this point.

truth be told

a basement dweller that can't afford or simply don't want a laptop would know more about computers than a normie with only a laptop who goes in public desu

1st worlder detected
Due to taxes + currency differences computers are an expensive hobby in many parts of the world.
Nowadays everyone has a smartphone and most of the world conduct their ''computing'' business of browsing facebook and youtube from there, but 10 years ago and before PCs were quite a niche in many places. I had some advantages and disadvantages

Disadvantages are obvious, pc's were expensive so not everyone had one. I know many people who played games, even mmos on internet cafes. If you had a high end pc you would try to stick to it until the end of the day, this was a real problem, given the fact that difference between a 2002 vs 2006 pc was quite a lot compared to say 2016 vs 2019 pc. Consoles were even expensive than pc's far rare. Many online services were not supported, and internet was also usually slower.

There were also advantages though. Firstly the bootleg market was great. Pirated games and movies were everywhere, warez was common and torrenting was and still today don't get authorities attention. The high barrier of entry also created a refined environment. Which reflected on the quality of communities.

>expensive hobby

I don't know which shitshole you came from but in my shithole, a somewhat useable netbook could be had for about USD150 which equal to one week of minimum wage

It's like this.
You're fucking retarded

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Rpi is like 10 bucks nigga

I was talking about 10-15 years ago, as I said today everyone uses smarthphones first and foremost not computers.

and average weekly minimum wage of world is less than $100, so you are above average.

when i want an upgrade i start money hounding and i typically get whatever im looking at within a few months at most
it really comes down to ambition and how much you actually care about computers
the people who care the most about this hobby are probably poor people with good setups
because it takes alot more work for us to have a good setup than someone who just decides to drop a few grand on a whim

I wish the 3rd world wasn't allowed on the internet, it was so much better without poor people

Have enough for the hardware just not for anything else.
Loonix lets me make more of what I've got.

Yeah what said, argentinian here, pcs aint cheap, but you can get old pcs for your hackery stuff, recently put to use 2 pentium ds with 1 gb of ram one and the other only having 256mb

>t. a 16 year old who reads boomers siprants about times that never actually existed

Based loonix, who is this man?

sent from my Netbook using an N270 Atom

>on a Ukraine
second hand market isn't half bad here

also, how do you fuck up sentence like this?

makes sense in various languages

>taking notes on a laptop
disgusting,you're likely watching porn

I'm 30

not cool

ah so your the one spreading this bullshit
stop

SeaMonkey here. Used PCs are fucking cheap here. And you don't need more than an i5 2500 anyway.

>Due to taxes + currency differences
Nigger, you can pick up shitty dual cores machines from the side of the road if you go outside once in a while and people will pay you to get rid off their CRTs.
You can also order stuff from china and hope your country is so shitty they only check packages at random.

it's true. the internet was better when only upper middle class 1st worlders and above had access. the poor and the 3rd world have lowered the quality of discourse an incredible amount.

if you can't afford an Apple computer you will not make it

that's literally never been the case
the internet was always accessible to those with the ambition to look for deals or people with older systems who don't mind either giving it away or selling at a discount
and still new systems were only around 1-2 grand all throughout the 90s

stop spreading your shit tier fantasies

rude user

It's fine. A lot harder to waste time on vidya.

Like watching bread being baked in soviet russia, of course.
>I want it
>I want it
>I want it
>You will never ever have it unless you seize the means of production