Probably a square rectangle of plastic you’d add to your PC, like a CD player, but with a USB connector. And wires/card towards the mobo. Cases always had like 2-4 emplacements for those kind of things on the front.

My money because I always pirated.

Yeah usb came with 98-SP2 IIRC

Well compated to others it did kind of just work. Plug&play, USB, most simple peripherics didn’t need a driver to be manually installed and configured.

Windows 98 I guess.

And license to kill is far too hard to obtain.

Lets play Quiddlich!

The problem is the N+2 is in on it too. And so on. “It just works!”

???

So what’s the problem with those protocols?

Can’t have Rust on Linux? Just do it in C/C++!

Incredible even!

The 5600X is a beast IMO, I had a 2600X IIRC that my kid now has, very good CPU, I understand why you’d like to compile with it 😁.

I also remember mobos were kind of bad, like 2 RAM lanes and few connectics compared to how it usually was “before”.

Because the kitchen isn’t always wall to wall with the bathroom?

What’s the spare CPU?

Maybe an old mobo with 6 sata can be found for cheap.

I totally agree with the sata (or raid) cards.

Time to get a little homelab :-) ! Like it can encode stuff for days without getting in the way and keep those drives accessible. Nowadays any tiny pc comes with an ethernet port so usually its just plug & play too.

But, but, it’s worth nothing!!

That’s not how you compile fast. I mean they exist but better buy a second PC for the price. Or optimise your project, or get a build cache.

What about that 365 bullshit?

Free for me, not for thee!

Actually 1200 but still eh!

E8400 for the win! Q6600 is soo out!