(Not sure if this belongs here! If there's a better subforum for it, please feel free to move it)
This is something I've always semi wondered, but probably been a bit embarrased to ask in a general forum. How do you all deal with FOMO when it comes to new hardware releases, etc?
Obviously this is very situational, but I feel like there must be a ton of people here that must pop on the OC forums, ask for advice, make their purchase and then disappear for 5 years, right? That's what I feel like I've been doing forever, but It doesn't come from a lack of interest in tech or the industry. For me, sometimes It's FOMO. Or not wanting to see the purchase I made 6 months ago be completely out performed by something new, even though this will always happen regardless as its the nature of the industry.
I'm not in a position to upgrade every GPU/CPU generation, as I'm sure a lot of us aren't and probably wouldn't be interested in doing so even if we could justify it. But for some reason I feel it's harder for me to regularly touch base on hardware developments knowing that it's going to be a long time before I feel those benefits. Then, as if almost to keep out of site out of mind and refrain from temptation, I just don't return very often.
I say this because I'd like to see if anyone else feels the same, and if you don't, how do you avoid feeling like everyone is getting the shiny new toy whilst you stand by and watch? I like these forums, and the general 'old school' feel of them. I'd like to not just pop up when something breaks or I'm ready to upgrade a component. So I'd like to see if there's any tips people have for enjoying the discourse without that feeling of fomo.
I'll bookend this with the fact I do have ADHD, so I think that plays it's part in the impulsiveness that I try to avoid. But definetely not all of it!
This is something I've always semi wondered, but probably been a bit embarrased to ask in a general forum. How do you all deal with FOMO when it comes to new hardware releases, etc?
Obviously this is very situational, but I feel like there must be a ton of people here that must pop on the OC forums, ask for advice, make their purchase and then disappear for 5 years, right? That's what I feel like I've been doing forever, but It doesn't come from a lack of interest in tech or the industry. For me, sometimes It's FOMO. Or not wanting to see the purchase I made 6 months ago be completely out performed by something new, even though this will always happen regardless as its the nature of the industry.
I'm not in a position to upgrade every GPU/CPU generation, as I'm sure a lot of us aren't and probably wouldn't be interested in doing so even if we could justify it. But for some reason I feel it's harder for me to regularly touch base on hardware developments knowing that it's going to be a long time before I feel those benefits. Then, as if almost to keep out of site out of mind and refrain from temptation, I just don't return very often.
I say this because I'd like to see if anyone else feels the same, and if you don't, how do you avoid feeling like everyone is getting the shiny new toy whilst you stand by and watch? I like these forums, and the general 'old school' feel of them. I'd like to not just pop up when something breaks or I'm ready to upgrade a component. So I'd like to see if there's any tips people have for enjoying the discourse without that feeling of fomo.
I'll bookend this with the fact I do have ADHD, so I think that plays it's part in the impulsiveness that I try to avoid. But definetely not all of it!
