I had all of that. Ran into intermittent random crashes about a year ago. After a year of not being able to find a cause I found a thread of other 5800x users running into the same problem. (For the record this was with a high quality PSU, a very very light overclock, and temps were fine throughout that time. Also while I’m not a true IT professional I do know my way around a computer, and the most in depth error logs I could find, which there were very few of, pointed to really low level calculation errors.)

After finally giving up and just buying a 9800x3d I gave the system to my friend for a huge discount, but after reinstalling everything the CPU never booted again.

While what you say is generally true, it is also sometimes the case that some parts are just slightly defective, and those defects might show with age. It’s the first CPU I’ve ever had that died on me (other than a 9800x3d but that was an MSI mobo that killed it,) so I don’t really hold it against them. And I’m very happy with the 9800x3d. Its amazing the difference it’s made in games.

Wish my 5800x had lasted :( It seems to have died after only 4 years.

Valve is allegedly working on a new headset to compete in the wireless VR space. I’m betting that’ll be worth it once it releases.

Yes I love it when a game can arbitrarily be made unplayable when the servers are taken down, even if someone didn’t want to use the multiplayer in the first place.

Better than offering literally no information at all, which you seem to enjoy.

You can buy one printer and make a labs worth of microscopes for a school or business.

Light cones aren’t exactly literal cones of time, they are an abstraction to help us understand the mathematics of time and space. (Assuming you are talking about Penrose diagrams.)

You might be waking up in a more ideal spot in your REM cycle. For me if I get 6 ½ hours I feel great but I feel like shit if I get a full 8. But if I sleep 9 I feel pretty good again. If you wake up and get interrupted during REM you’ll feel a lot more groggy and like shit for most of the day in my experience.