A heads up on the lack of formatting, I'm posting from mobile so apologies for that. I added before and after pics of our PCs for all those who wanted to see them before the fire.
Hi all, I posted the other day about a house fire that destroyed mine and my partner's PCs and nearly everything else we owned. I was hoping someone, somewhere out there would notice and grieve with me, understanding my pain. I fully expected that it would drown in user sub and go unnoticed and was surprised when I started getting a bunch of comments. The community came together and everyone was so very supportive, caring and understanding. I can't tell you how much I was crying while reading them. A few in particular really got to me when people started offering parts. It took a lot of time and money to build ours and yet here there were people offering to help me rebuild while asking for nothing in return. I've never cried over strangers on the internet before so it was a pretty wild feeling. So all in all this is an appreciation post.
To all of the community for their understanding and comradery and a very special thanks to to u/apcsniper40 u/relevant_grass9586 and u/_heracross who offered parts and more to help me rebuild. Because of these wonderful people, when we do have a place we already will have one COMPLETELY FINISHED PC and on the way to our second one being back ASAP. While I never thought that this was even a possibility, it touched me in relation to my life's dream.
As long as I can remember, I've been taking apart every electronic I've ever owned to find out how it all worked. It started with a Super Nintendo, then kept going as I got older. I loved learning and it was not always the best thing to be doing because I wasn't always able to put them back together in the beginning but I kept at it anyways. Now I can gladly say that everything I take apart I can put back together. I worked hard learning what I could about PCs because I wanted to build one eventually. Buying parts slowly, I managed to build one over the years for myself and one for my partner. It took a long time but I've never been so proud of anything I've made before. They were just things but they were our things and they were beautiful. I got really sidetracked there but the point is, buying prebuilts are rediculously expensive compared to the value of the parts used and the craftsmanship. Yeah they'll work but at the same time being more expensive than necessary also bars a lot of people who live paycheck to paycheck or are dealing with a debt of some sort (which statistically is the majority of my country) from being able to buy one for a while. My dream for as long as I've known about building PCs has been to open up a shop somewhere selling custom PCs at a hugely discounted price so I can help as many people as possible, like me that struggled getting one for years with the added bonus of ever so often when I can afford it, gifting someone one.
So with this dream in mind, seeing the community come together like that for just two of us durring the literal worst time of our lives was beautiful. Thank you all for your kind hearts and kind words. It meant more to me than I can ever put into enough words. I will never be able to express my gratitude in a way that shows how much it truly means to me. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
As an added note and as a nod to those that helped us, once our second pc is rebuilt, it will take awhile of course, but I plan on giving the next PC I build after to someone else who can't afford one. Thank you all for being wonderful people.
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Great update!! Always so nice to see a community come together like this.
wholesome 🙂
everyone posts from mobile now. No one cares. Stop asking for forgiveness for being impatient with formatting.
cool the flame drawn on the case
My condolences.
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Sorry bout the house, glad to see our community doing good shit.
I used to help anyone at the company I worked at years ago price and build pc’s for themselves or their kids/friends/fam. I’d invite them over when they got all their parts and walk them through everything while we all made dinner and got things set up. Was super rewarding for me as “service” in my local community.
You don’t need to give away stuff that you don’t have to pass it forward man, just do what you can for who you can when you can.
Good luck and good vibes!
What caused the fire
Why do we fall, sir?
This is a really wonderful community. I’m so glad you were able to find the best in humanity when you needed it most.