The hardware arrives no problem the next morning

You giddily take the packages back to your basement office and get to work making the old desktop more powerful than any computer you've ever owned. You work from home on Friday and finished all your tasks for the next week so all you have to do is jiggle the mouse every hour or so to stay logged into work. It's been a while since you've put together a machine and what you originally thought would take only an hour has eaten up most of your work day cursing about ambiguous error messages and pins that can only be pushed into place with inhuman feats of dexterity.

finally with a huff you press the power button and the computer purrs to life.

You quickly install the software you need to get comfortable programming and are ready to get jamming.