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I could probably go through this and answer these directly, but you're way far off-base and impassioned to points that are not realistic. Bottom line: You do not own any game assets, ever. It's nothing like a bank holding your money, and it's not like repair parts for a physical electronic device you can hold in your hand; With a few exceptions in an in-game market, once you buy something in a game for real money it becomes intrinsically valuable but none of it has a real-world value, nor is any of it deeded/titled to you. Companies don't have to run servers forever for any game, if you spend a bunch of money on a game subscription or items then you've paid upkeep and to purchase servers, pay employees, and marketing costs; Once that money stream goes away the company isn't going to dump money down a hole to keep an old game server running, support for everything ends sometime. And the DRM is copy-protection and anti-cheat, but it's there because of piracy, so blame them for making software companies put things in nightmare-mode for everyone else. These are all just facts, and there's no legal standing for anything you're striving for in this discussion; Don't pay for in-game purchases or get into subscription-based software if you want to keep your money, it's that simple.

Probably, my only concern would be that there are some A320 boards that have 5000 series support, but they have a lot fewer features and I/O than other chipsets. The price difference between a budget A320 and a better A520 is not much, and while the A520 may not have VRM heatsinks it would be significantly better.

No company would willfully make a product that they have to support indefinitely. While that would be a boon for gamers, it's untenable and unreasonable. There's an argument to be made about how nice it would be if they released the code to other people that wanted to keep them up, but if the game isn't being sold, or a subscription isn't being paid for upkeep, that infrastructure is just a massive money-sink so no one is going to take it on anyway. The EULA you agree to says that in-game items are not your property, and it doesn't technically reside on hardware you own anyway if it's online-only. Those microtransactions are what pay the bills, any online game or 'cheap upfront' game with microtransactions has a profit model based on those microtransactions running the servers. As far as online-connected single-player games, that is almost always for DRM purposes, so if you want to blame someone for that point it at software pirates; They've made companies protect their income stream by putting DRM into games. It sucks but piracy hurts businesses, and they're finding ways to deal with it. Even VHS tapes had copy-protection on them, for decades media creators have taken great strides to limit piracy. Also, safety recalls are completely different, it is an inconvenience that a video game goes offline but it won't cause a safety problem like a PSU or battery failing spectacularly.

By design, any AM4 motherboard should run any AM4 chip the BIOS supports. Really though, the difference in cost between a board with and without VRM heatsinks is typically small. What board are you looking at that doesn't have the heatsinks on it?

It's so funny to me just how far vehicle performance has come in the last few decades. I remember back in about 2003 driving an LT1 C4 Corvette for the first time, and being absolutely shocked at what 300hp felt like; It was like a rocket ship compared to anything else I'd driven at the time. That was a vehicle Road & Track tested when new at 5.7 second 0-60mph, and a 14~ish second 1/4 mile; A new V6 Camry will do that, with similar braking and skidpad performance as well.

Jay’s video is illuminating; EK pre-paying for content and basically ghosting creators is crazy stuff. EK clearly mismanages funds. Edit: To be clear it’s much worse that they are currently not paying invoices and employees they owe, though that is a much more common scenario. They’re seemingly unreliable in all aspects of business relations.

Hopefully there will be a toggle, most laptops don’t support AV1 and will get their batteries roasted if they cannot use more common decoding as an option.

Sounds like having many dozens of bespoke designs for custom supplier GPUs and high-end motherboards, things that will be low-volume sales, yet EK has to have larger production runs of each SKU made to keep production costs down, is an unsustainable practice.

I have been really happy watching Mac Address; It’s not just well-produced like I expect from Linus Media content, Jonathan is a great host and doesn’t pull punches when a product or service has issues and problems. Objective, Apple-centric content is quite difficult to find on the internet.

CoD has really not been all that interesting to me the last several years, I happily get World at War going from time to time as I think it’s the newest one I truly enjoy. Gran Turismo is a great series, but the licensing rigmarole got obnoxious at a certain level and I stopped bothering with them. WoW consumed a large part of my life for a few years, I free-played it last year and it didn’t take a hold so I didn’t subscribe again.

My late-2008-vintage, head-bunting, household deity. His favorite activities include lording over everyone, reminding us he deserves cheese, and weighting-down laps for extended periods of time. He had to go get his vaccinations this last weekend, and has finally forgiven me.

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.