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That compute figure for graphics is roughly equivalent to a 7700 XT, so either that console is going to be hella expensive, or that’s an incredibly optimistic guess by whoever is making that claim. The 7700 XT is also 245w by itself, so the cooling solution would need to be huge.

That’s weird, I can attest that Yamaha service manuals and Honda service manuals have a listed torque for almost every fastener. Is this a factory manual or a 3rd party? I have had some 3rd party manuals over the years that left a lot to be desired in the case of those torque values. A Bentley manual for a VW I had years ago said things like, ‘adjust the bearing retainer nut until a minimal amount of play can be felt using a flat-blade screwdriver as a lever’. It would be less sketchy if that were not the instructions for the rear axle hub retainer hardware… On the other end of the spectrum, many of the fasteners with listed torque values were torque-to-yield and single use. Go VW!

The 4790k is such a legendary chip, an absolute unit. I used one in my workstation for years and it was a champ, a needed sizable ram upgrade and wanting to move to an NVMe-native platform got me into an 11600k, but aside from those things I probably would have been on that 4790k until Win 10 support ended.

A lot of brisket really is overrated, but good brisket is on another level. Also, the ends are the best part as far as I’m concerned and quite a bit drier than the middle, I tend to ask for the ends when I have the option.

I’m stating my experience of where I live and what I drive, you have no bearing on it. The world doesn’t revolve around you and your experiences alone. You claiming it’s my ignorance is laughable, when you’re acting like because my situation is different from yours that I’m lying or unknowledgeable. You’re getting ignored just like the other person, because like them you seemingly cannot grasp there are people that exist in a different environment than you do, so there’s no need to continue the discussion on my end.

Whatever car you drive that the mirror goes out of adjustment all the time, and wherever you live that mirrors are frequently ripped-off of cars, both suck. These things don’t represent everyone’s experience, so stop claiming everyone else is wrong because your scenario is terrible; It has nothing to do with anyone else sticking their head in the sand. Just like the other person I was arguing with, I’ll repeat this again: Your situation/laws you have to follow/experiences are not representative of everyone’s on the entire planet, so don’t say other people are wrong when it’s actually you that doesn’t understand the differences between different locations. Also, you saying ‘just Google it and see the results’ is just pushing a confirmation bias.

25% of people not checking their mirror is 25% of people not checking their mirror, the only point of making that statement would be to show that 1/4 of drivers don’t use a side view mirror. If someone doesn’t look to see if their mirror still exists when they get in a car, they’re not using it when driving. Side-view mirrors do not just spontaneously fail, nor is there some rampant destruction of them where I live. If these two things are true of where you live that sucks, but it isn’t the reality here and so I’m not convinced it’s a problem where I live. I’ve never had to re-adjust my side mirrors in the almost twenty years I’ve driven my car, they’re exactly where I set them the day I bought it. Also, the same Rain-X water repellent for windows works just fine on a mirror. I’ve never had mud splash all over my car, but it would just slide off my mirror like any liquid does.

There’s no law where I live that says you cannot drive a car that has one broken mirror, it also wouldn’t nullify car insurance coverage either. I don’t even care if that’s a law where you live, it isn’t one most places and it shouldn’t be either. My standard in this discussion is that a car shouldn’t disable itself if one of the side view devices is broken, and electronics and cameras are more complicated and less reliable than a mirror, that is what I originally commented, but you and other people have turned it into some shitshow. You’re now completely making things up like trying to claim my standard is, ‘drunk-driving some death trap car’, that’s as disingenuous as it gets. You mentioned having a conversation “like a grown man”, you’ve never done that as you’ve fabricated bullshit about what I’ve said and about my character from the very moment you first quoted me; Do not bother responding as I’m just going to ignore list you and be done with this conversation.

There wasn’t any hardware upgrades, I’m talking about upgrading an existing system with Windows 10 directly. I even installed Windows 10 on a machine and then upgraded it to Windows 11 two months later; No bloat on there, it’s actually a faster OS. I understand why people are annoyed their builds from 2016 cannot be upgraded, the hardware security is what it is, but Windows 11 is not a huge resource hog.

A camera system that if it fails disables a car is what was talked about, and that’s not the same thing as a broken mirror. You can choose to not drive your car if the mirror is broken, but a camera system being in place that forces you to stop driving if it breaks should never exist. An entire electronic system with camera, control board, wiring, power management, a screen, and cabling, will never be just as or more reliable than a simple piece of laminated glass or plastic, regardless of how low the rate of failure is of the electronics. These are just facts, there is no argument for you to make to the contrary. Since there’s no improved safety, it’s more expensive to implement and repair, and beyond everything it won’t ‘mind control’ people that already don’t care about checking their mirrors to actually check a screen instead, so there’s no reason to have them. You and others are far-off in another dimension about these cameras, realistically vehicle owners gain nothing from them, they would only make a vehicle more complicated, expensive to purchase, and expensive to repair; No benefits to be found.

Cars being un-drivable because a camera system is broken, is ridiculous and totally unnecessary. Mirrors don’t just spontaneously fail, that’s one of the biggest benefits to simple systems is their reliability. And as far as driver error goes, all the safety features in the world cannot fix bad drivers. Raising the threshold of who is licensed is a better way to deal with this problem, rather than implementing a bunch of overly-complex and failure-prone systems that bad drivers won’t use anyway.

It has platform requirements, you could run a 2-core/4-thread Pentium chip on its integrated graphics with Windows 11, as long as it has the security components necessary. Microsoft offloading some security duties to hardware instead of extra software overhead is better. Every machine I’ve directly upgraded to Windows 11 from 10 is noticeably faster to boot and use after the upgrade, even systems with fairly recent Windows 10 installs.

I’ll run a cheaper case and a cheaper cooler to cut a budget, because except for limited circumstances that contributes very little or none to a loss in performance. I’ve run $40 cases for years without issue, and even low-cost processor coolers have gotten really compelling unless you’re on a higher-TDP chip. The PSU is something I will only ever buy a reputable brand/model of, GPU-binning is a thing so I won’t go with a funky brand there even for a deal. Processor you get what you pay for, and while I won’t buy crazy expensive boards I do have a few brands I predominantly go with; ASRock, MSI, and Gigabyte.

Back in 1994 when I was still in elementary school, I really wanted to be able to do school work and learn computing on my own machine, so I pieced-together an IBM XT from pieces in a relative’s basement. I enjoyed it so much I’ve been doing it ever since.

I was super confused looking at the first picture; I was thinking to myself, “what the heck has a Honda J-series engine but is recoil-start?” Then I looked more closely.

I’m not sure how unpopular this opinion is, but the humble potato is so versatile and delicious that it’s the best vegetable, root or otherwise.

In 2024 with RAM priced how it is, even if 32GB is likely more than is needed right now, it's cheap (enough) to get into a 2x16GB kit if you're building a new machine. It's certainly worth a little more up-front to not be buying a whole new kit later since your board only has 2 slots. I cannot recall seeing any consumer software or game that recommends 32GB yet, but they'll be here soon enough.

Are you? Those 25% already don’t check their mirrors, that’s the statistic you brought up. Now, tell me why those 25% will check it when it’s a screen but not a mirror. If they don’t care already, why would they care if it’s a screen instead? They obviously won’t, it’s bad driving habits not an inability to check the mirror, because checking a mirror and doing a shoulder check are both easy. Your expectation that it will change their habits and they’ll start checking, is completely unfounded and ridiculous. Better driving instruction and more stringent licensing requirements make more sense than cramming tech into cars that bad drivers still won’t use; This won’t be some epiphany moment for these bad drivers.

The cameras are not going to get the other 25% to check the screen rather than a mirror, so how can you or anyone else claim they’re beneficial for safety? They’re not mind-control, which is why they’re unnecessary complication since they don’t fix a bad driver problem. If you actually believe adding cameras and screens will make that 25% suddenly care to check before they change lanes, then you’re hilariously naive.

Clearly they offer no benefit or alleviate safety problems, because the drivers that already won’t use mirrors will continue to not use mirrors or a camera system. This solves nothing but creates future repair issues, so there’s no purpose. This idea that they’d fix a problem has been pulled from thin air, there’s zero proof it will change driving habits of checking before a lane change. You going off on some tangent about rear view mirrors is just grasping. You’re not going to convince me that a tech device can make a bad driver a good driver, so now you’ve gone into non-sequitur arguments.

My argument is fine and logical, because if those people are not checking mirrors anyway, what makes you believe they'd check a screen? That again points to these additions being unnecessary, because the people using mirrors would continue to use mirrors, and the ones that don't won't check a screen either. No matter how you look at it, it's unnecessary complication. "according to your reasoning..." I've never made any sort of leap that would suggest a rearview mirror has no purpose. There are vehicles without them like box trucks and whatnot, but you should absolutely use your rearview mirror in certain circumstances. And you know what? I don't get beside one of those goobers that's merging and hasn't checked their mirror. There's obviously an extra level of vigilance that's required when operating a motorcycle, but really much of that vigilance is good practice while driving a car as well, it's just that your 'oops' factor if you misjudge a situation is typically less self-detrimental while in a metal box.

The last infraction I was cited for was a parking ticket back in 2006, so…that probably means something. I cannot remember the last time I saw a mirror ripped off of a car, and on a motorcycle I’m checking mirrors of merging cars all the time to see if the person in the car has seen me. I think a few of you are just over-hyping that, it isn’t that common. ‘You think mirrors are good so let’s remove some of them’ What type of logic is that? My vehicle mirrors always stay in place, but I’d know the second I got in the seat because I do look at them. That’s normal, I use them.

If you’re happy with vehicles being made more expensive to purchase and repair to compensate for bad drivers, I guess that is what it is. I’m not however, I like my vehicle being simple and easily repairable by me the owner, so I will continue to drive my old car with none of the superfluous equipment on it.

It would here though, someone poor couldn’t afford to get licensed at that cost. I still think it’s over $1,000 US to get through the course, but nowhere near equivalent cost. I went through motorcycle licensing about a decade ago, that’s not one-on-one training but much closer. It was about $300 US and took almost twenty hours. That course builds on a standard driver’s license, they’re teaching you vehicle control rather than what signage is, the idea is that you already have a driver’s license before you take the class. i very much preferred the motorcycle class to driver’s ed, at least learning vehicle control was the main focus.

It’s been over twenty years since I originally got licensed, but there is some obviously. Driving is much more of a necessity here, it couldn’t cost that much to get licensed because even poor people in most places have to drive to work.