It's a six year old system. Optimistically you'll be able to salvage the PSU, case and storage. Whether you should salvage the PSU and case is up to you, prebuilts aren't known for picking the best of these.
Personally I'd use the machine for something else (or sell it to someone for $300-400) and build what you want. (Edit: I've had good results moving the core system components into a USFF or NAS case and repurposing as a home server. That's a pretty typical end of lifecycle role for an aging gaming desktop.)
It took me years to find gaming buddies who aren't racist shitbags and we still have to punt the occasional edgelord who decides to get up in someone's face with that shit. Not a single one of my remaining discord communities is gaming focused, those all ended up being Superfund levels of toxic. Hobby and tech communities though? Plenty of good friends there that I play games with occasionally.
Why are we tolerating this criminal behavior by corporations?
Because it's done in the open and it's accepted as part of the cost of the device. This is an expected consequence of our adtech surveillance economy where devices are now subsidized because they can harvest data about you, your usage and your behavior to sell on an ongoing basis. We've been screaming about these sorts of practices since the late 90s and consumers have just blithered right along with every new and creepy intrusion because they get cheap things and don't think about the real costs or consequences. And so ... Here we are.
Even being able to generate enough lift to send a payload into orbit would be an amazing advancement. We can solve propelling craft out of the solar system later, first we need an economical way to get off planet that isn't just burning fuel to lift fuel.
Provided you paid your tribute and obeyed the Khan's laws they were cool with just about everyone. Fail to do either of those things and you're in for a bad time.
Interesting that the one has such large capacitors in it. I imagine that is as last-ditch effort to keep the board powered long enough to finish flushing all of its caches in the event of a power failure.
That's exactly the point of power loss protection (aka PLP.) As a side effect of not needing to wait for a flush after a write synchronous write workloads are dramatically faster on enterprise drives with PLP.
Edit: To add a bit of detail - you don't need to wait for a flush after a synchronous write with PLP because the drive firmware can lie and immediately return from a flush call because there's enough backup power to complete that flush if the power were cut.
They're engagement fodder designed to elicit human responses to provide a larger training dataset for future LLMs. That and to drive up Reddit usage and engagement numbers.
They'll also start paring features out of the device as soon as it's convenient for them, like they did with the OnHub as soon as Google Home devices launched. I'm still salty about the OnHub, they flat out neutered a multifunction device down to a big WiFi AP because they just didn't want people using any of the smart home or speaker functionality once they had other products to sell.
It's a six year old system. Optimistically you'll be able to salvage the PSU, case and storage. Whether you should salvage the PSU and case is up to you, prebuilts aren't known for picking the best of these.
Personally I'd use the machine for something else (or sell it to someone for $300-400) and build what you want. (Edit: I've had good results moving the core system components into a USFF or NAS case and repurposing as a home server. That's a pretty typical end of lifecycle role for an aging gaming desktop.)