Then I showed him how to straighten out a paper clip and find the small hole on the front of the drive ....
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That's hilarious!
I agree though, I enjoy it, almost a zen thing for me, though it's almost boring with how easy it's become. Except for the USB sticks, that's probably the most difficult part these days. Some systems are suuuuper fickle about how it needs to be setup.
if it is too easy, build a dual socket, gaming HTPC and try to keep the temps and noise in checks and have decent performance, i tried and it is not meant to be (dual AMD opteron 6cores 2.6GHz, 64GB DDR3 ECC, AMD Nano, in a Lian-LI PC-C33, had to watercool and the Asus motherboard died on me... was fun to play with while it lasted, slow but fun :))