NEET Computers

Jade was gifted her first PC on one condition: that in addition to her audio engineering and video editing, she would use the computer to play Counter-Strike. CS is a competitive tactical shooter notorious for being the most latency-sensitive, neurosis-inducing esport in the world. Consequently, this gift sent Jade down the rabbit hole of mastering overclocking, network management, and operating system optimization to eliminate any external variables to her play.

Jade chased her dreams of becoming a Counter-Strike pro, upgrading and tuning both her own PC and network and those of her teammates to ensure that the only limiting reagent was the player. This philosophy carries through to all of her custom builds and commissions, with the goal of removing any restricting factors that may prevent the user from achieving their full potential.

After working for a GPU mining firm, Jade began sniping every good deal on the used market, combining them with snags from the University IT surplus shop to deploy her own small farm at home. Jade hosted and configured servers for her teammates while mastering Linux, LUA, and implementing operational security measures against bad actors. To further fund her endeavors, any excess inventory was used to sell gaming PC’s on the local market. The extra hustle finding the best deals and the additional time tweaking the hardware results in flips possessing unparalleled price-to-performance, an approach that carries through to the present.

Seven years of building hundreds of systems at every price point gives Jade a photographic memory of every CPU and GPU skew from the past two decades, the techniques to unlock their full performance, and the knowledge of how they perform in modern applications.

Aria is a purebred gamer and creative, eager to master any skill that bolsters her in-game experience or is useful to her friends. She mastered Cinema4D to produce realistic three-dimensional YouTube intros with Turbulence FD, V-Ray, and Octane. She learned PAC3 to make custom characters, textures, and animations in GMOD. Autodesk Maya was utilized for more complex models and textures, which combined with her Java expertise to create Minecraft animations. In the Adobe Suite, After Effects and Photoshop were used to decorate her friends’ steam profiles with custom, moving artwork. This was all done in spite of her relatively low-spec, budget hardware, necessitating optimization on every level. Aria’s familiarity with an expanse of creative and workstation applications ensures that every commission is tuned and validated for peak performance in its specific use case.

With a technical degree in economics and business administration, Aria worked for her city’s Stadtverwaltung, handling local taxes ranging from property and sales to the fee you have to pay for owning a dog. Now finally across the pond, Aria has fallen in love with America and American values. In fact, she’s gone so far as to learn the tax codes of Boulder City, Boulder County, Colorado, and the federal government, all to take care of the accounting.

In short, Aria is the software expert, keeping everything in order behind the scenes, with her impeccable intuition and acute pattern recognition finding solutions at otherwise dead ends. She is a CompTIA Secure Infrastructure Specialist (CSIS) and a CompTIA IT Operations Specialist (CIOS) with a Level 4 Black Belt in Microsoft Access (McGraw Hill). Aria’s earning her Associates of Applied Science in Programming (Spring 2025), a Certificate in Programming from Front Range Community College (C++, C, C#, Python, Java), and is CompTIA Certified in A+, Network+, and Security+.