Hello from Eastern Mass

**IamTheGreatest** · 11-23-2020, 12:39 PM

A little conversation is wonderful, such as "is taking heat sinks off motherboards that important?". Or "does seperating wire into different grades make a big difference?"

If you ask each question exactly as you put it, to the internet, you'll get the same answers we do. It frustrates me because if you truly are in IT, this is what you everyday. Any IT problems you ask Google. ANY. Would you like me to give you my stock picks also? How about which horse in the 3rd race?

I wish more had/or would listen to Bruce Williams. Some of the older folks know who he is. I learned to answer questions by listening to him. It was a straightforward answer. No fluff in the story, this is how it is. And so many people that called he knew would not take his advice, simply because they thought they knew better. And it wasn't so much advice as it was the answer.

**Kevin99Johnson** · 11-23-2020, 03:19 PM

I did put my questions into google, majority of my searches led me here, so I said "well maybe I should join and I can learn a bit more to what is specific to MA since there seem to be some MA people on there."

Additionally, my questions weren't directed questions, in fact, they wasn't a single actual non-rhetorical question in my OP. There were comments about what I do and what I want to do and a couple minor issues I was trying to sort out(NPI) and wasn't having a lot of luck finding the answers as I googled my questions. I would completely agree with you if I had actually come in here, not done a basic introduction and had dropped a list of questions expecting answers from people to just do everything for me, but that's not what I did, not even remotely my intention either.

Fixing a problem on a server or something else IT is much different than this, because there is generally only one answer and it doesn't matter where you live as to whether it applies to you or not. Additionally, some of the best resources I have for fixing strange problems are actually on websites exactly like this, groups of people with interests in common.

Telling your story and where you are in the scrap journey helps people get to know you, and understand your background, so they can understand the circumstances around what you say or ask, it can also give a first impression, same as responses to them can give one off. I am sure you have some witty retort, but I don't care and won't engage you further which is really what you are looking for with this line of unprompted attacks and insults.

**mthomasdev** · 11-27-2020, 01:24 PM

If the place you are going to now doesn't work out, I'm out in western Mass. I don't have a buyers thread on here, but do have a bunch of places that I currently buy from.