End of Year PC Build

My ears are always, always ringing....There's never a time when they don't ring.  I even have to sleep with the ringing and often am woken up because the ringing spikes and becomes so loud that it is actually painful (like a knife stabbing my ear drums).  But even on days when the ringing is at a tolerable level, there are certain things, certain sounds that not only make me physically cringe and cover my ears....But whatever the sound is, drives me absolutely bonkers and it actually serves to aggravate my tinnitus.  This is partly because at this point in time, my hearing loss-- though it is still a loss, can fluctuate, so some days I have okay days....bearable days, but then even on okay days the Tinnitus can go through the roof to the point where that pure tone of 7000 hz is all I hear.   three times in the last 2 years I have come very close (especiually in Winter when snow is covering the ground, or when it is raining) to being hit by a car because my ears are ringing so badly, so intensely, I don't hear the car approaching.     

Even the slightest touch can send me for a loop and I'm doing everything I can to remain calm and sane.     That picture above of Jeremy Renner.......that is me, struggling to cope with the sound in my ears, and also to remain vertical.  Once the ringing gets really bad.....I often get vertigo right after that.....And then I have a Meniere's attack which can last from 30 mionutes to 8 hours.


And that's not even mentioning the struggle to lip-read and follow conversation.......Damn these masks. 

It helps with the lip-reading....But they don't offer much in the way of COVID pertection.

This must be one of the worst sounds in the universe. When I load the dishwasher, I try to do it as quietly as I can.

Thank you!    When my mom loads/unloads the dishwasher-- I'd swear she purposefully tries to make as much noise as possible!   Then when she sees me cringing in pain.....she's like, "what???   Oh, come on!  It's not that loud.  Besides, you're in the kitchen and kitchen's can be noisy."      OR when we are finishing dinner....she always tries to scrape as much food off her plate as humanly possible, and she does this by pressing the fork into the plate and dragging it along the surface to the point where it squeaks like nails down a chalk board.  And even when the plate is virtually clean of food particles....she continues adnauseum.  The only way she stops is when I tell you, "you've clean your plate of food.  But you don't have to scrape the finish off the plate too.  Please stop, it's making the plate squeak."

why can't they leave things the way they are with Windows 10? After all they did say "Windows 10 will be the last OS we build" or something to that effect


Hey Vanguard....check out my 30 year collectibles thread, I added something I think you will like

Here is something for Energizer Bunny 211 bmwcrazy rewindbutton if you want the XP theme back:

Unicephalon 40-D How's your build going? Any shortages or price gouging?

Same here. There's no rush, so I'll wait. I only bought stuff that doesn't become obsolete soon.
Yeah, I noticed. Ryzens have gotten tad cheaper lately.