Getting old is a PITA

I signed up here in 2004, aged 25 and I feel old now at 46.

Basically, if you're not using TikTok, Snapchat or Instagram, then you're officially old.

My eyesight is shafted and so haven't built a desktop PC for over 10 years now. One of my mates recently received a new PC with a glass side so that I could see into it and its components. Like with the OP @DXP55 I'm surprised in how much has changed. The PSU seems to be at the bottom of the case and hidden from view. Kinda makes sense as it makes the case bottom-heavy instead of top-heavy. The motherboard is still where I expect to see it. The graphics card now takes up 3 expansion slots instead of 1! I couldn't see any hard drives though. Obviously they're not mechanical drives any more but I still expected to see NVMe chips or a 2.5" SSD. The friend reckons he has a 2.5" but it's on the other (reverse) side of the motherboard hidden away. The RAM chips are pretty much the same and recognisable.
 
31 here joined the forum when I was 17. After my first summer job, wanted to buy a PC to own noobs on counter strike source… good times.
 
Sorry mate we are child free. - If I have major problems I just go over the road to mate's lass - she is good at phones and PC's at 8/9 yr's old.
Failing that we have a old PC expert further down and he must be near 50.
As you get older it isn't what you know but who you know.
 
I’m rapidly approaching my 40’s and can see a future where I’ll want to get on TRT. It’s getting harder to cut for a shoot, I’m recovering less quickly from hard gym sessions or rounds, and I can’t do back to back club nights as well as I used to.

I’ve completely fallen off of keeping up with computers and video games, which 15 years ago I couldn’t ever have seen happening. I don’t even know which PlayStation or Xbox they are on now whereas teenage me loved to be excited for the next releases.

It’s funny how tastes and priorities change. Now I’ve got more money I don’t want to buy what I did when I didn’t have as much and had to pay off my mortgages and things.
 
Barry Smalley said:
What is your career history @DXP55 ? My mother is only a few years older than you and struggles to use an iPad. You're doing ok, fellah. :)
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Blue collar -Worked in rain and shine - The first works van I drove had a crash box. Only those that have driven one will know what I mean. But - When the ZX Spectrum (Still got it) came out I could see it was the future so went to night school but it was over my head. I was in my 40's
As a clay shooter in 80's I needed to see my score online so had one built by the company up norf - dial up net access - God wasn't that awfully slow.
Yes things have changed - at the moment I am getting the wife to take more notice so she can log into her bank instead of me doing it all the time. She now has a motive- My younger bro died a month ago and she realised it could have been me.
 
"Getting old is a PITA"

I don't know about it being a PITA but there is a realisation that my best years are now behind me. I'm closing in on 63 and the past few years have been awful. What's the saying, you know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than weddings. During the past couple of years I've lost 2 very close friends all within a few years of me. I grew-up with one of them and the other, has been a mate for 25+ years. I miss them very much; they were my sounding boards, someone to share life's ups and downs with and have a rant at all the usual calamities the world throws our way. On top of that my aunt died very suddenly which rocked the whole family to its core.

I’ve had pretty severe heart problems for over 25 years and it’s almost a feeling of guilt as to why I am still here and my mates cut short. I was diagnosed with worsening heart failure more than 12+ years ago, as it is progressive disease, I knew that things would inevitably become worse overtime. Over the past couple of years it has started to hit really hard. I’ve gone from tinkering about, to almost any physical activity knackering me to a standstill. Up to now I’ve spent 7 weeks in hospital this year with them pulling me back out of decompensated heart failure. I’ve just spent 3 weeks in the specialist heart failure ward being assessed and accepted as a suitable heart transplant recipient. Barely a week passes at the moment without a visit to one hospital or another. Blood tests to monitor me commencing warfarin are almost daily. It’s been exhausting both physically and mentally. Feel like I’m constantly running on empty at the moment.

It really has completely changed my outlook. There are tons of things that I miss. I used to love hill walking, and working on the car, even the dreaded DIY, but they are just beyond me now. Coughs and colds that I’d have simply dismissed in the past have the potential to put me straight back in hospital now.

Been mulling over building a new PC for months, faffing over this and that pointless details. 10 year back I’d have had it up and running in a day. I must have asked the same questions on the forums a dozen times. It’s weird building a PC has gone from being an enjoyable experience to what feels like a never-ending task. I will get it done but I wouldn’t like to put a time scale on it.

So 62 and feeling it. But still here to moan about it.
 
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