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Road trips in cars are extremely common in the U.S., I’ve driven over 800 miles in a day many times. I have been on the TGV a long time ago, I like train travel, but high-speed rail is unrealistic in the U.S. We do have long-distance trains here, but the tickets are expensive and it’s slow, they also have to use the freight line tracks so the travel stops are not always great.

Road trips in cars are extremely common in the U.S., I’ve driven over 800 miles in a day many times. I have been on the TGV a long time ago, I like train travel, but high-speed rail is unrealistic in the U.S. We do have long-distance trains here, but the tickets are expensive and it’s slow, they also have to use the freight line tracks so the travel stops are not always great.

We don’t have wars with countries that are major trading partners, purposefully so, and that’s something you’re skipping-over. Researching other incomparable situations doesn’t change the potential scenario I’m talking about. Some conflict would change our trade agreements with China instantly, and they would just not do business with us.
 
You don’t know what I do every day, part of my job is specifying products so I know plenty about the country of origin of things in my work environment. You keep trying to pigeonhole and discredit other people while you’re so out-of-touch on geopolitics and how important that is for trade agreements.
 
The tech products I use made in China are not designed there. There’s a big difference between manufacturing and design/engineering. The reason numerous Chinese cars have a tendency to fail testing and Chinese-produced Tesla Model 3’s don’t, is because the people designing the Tesla did it to an acceptable standard for the entire global market, and the Chinese manufacturers didn’t. That’s just reality, you cannot talk the discussion around that fact.
 
And stealing designs and ignoring patents isn’t the answer either. The answer is to not be in a position, where we’re buying cars from a country we have a strained relationship with. 

I know they are junk because nearly every time a Chinese car is submitted to a real safety testing institute, they fail miserably. Non-Chinese-media reviews also complain about their NVH, build quality, and features. 
 
And really a bunch of cars dependent on Chinese-sourced factory parts in a time where we don’t have the greatest relationship with the government there, is a potential disaster. Imagine if the market gets flooded with cheap Chinese cars that poorer working-class people bought, and they cannot source repair parts for them because of geopolitical strife; It’s a situation we should just avoid from the start.

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I'm going to assume you're shipping it with a carrier like UPS or FedEx.
 
I tinker with and trade old Macs, and the iMac G3 is one of the trickiest to ship and get to its destination in one piece. The inner plastic frame the picture tube attaches to is thin and brittle, so even if it's perfectly intact when it goes in the box there's a chance it will break or chip en route.
 
 
For the best chance of it getting to its destination in one piece, you need to overpack the crap out of it. Bubble wrap alone won't do, but wrap the whole thing in at least a couple layers just to keep stuff out of the vents. You need cornstarch packing peanuts and a box that's at least 6 inches larger than the iMac in all directions. Pack it tight enough so it jiggles a bit but won't work its way through the peanuts to an edge.
 
If you can, double box it. Wrap the iMac in bubble wrap, put that in a box, seal that box, then put that box inside of another box, surrounding it on all six sides with a few inches of packing peanuts. (Don't neglect the top and bottom. Too many people forget about them, leaving the item unprotected on that side.)
 
Insure the package through the courier.
 
None of this will be particularly cheap, but it will have the best chance of survival this way.
 
You could also have the courier pack it for you (at a FedEx Office or UPS Store), but they probably won't use enough padding.
 
Those two-part expanding foam pillow things don't have enough "give" to protect an iMac G3.
 

I bought a CD copy of Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, probably my favorite album of all time. The copy I bought is used, the 1992/1994 remastered version which is maybe the best general release of the CD. There was at some time a Mobile Fidelity release, but they’re going for $60+ on eBay and it’s hard to justify without a $10k+ stereo setup. The copy I purchased was $9 shipped, so I’m pleased.
 
 

I bought a CD copy of Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, probably my favorite album of all time. The copy I bought is used, the 1992/1994 remastered version which is maybe the best general release of the CD. There was at some time a Mobile Fidelity release, but they’re going for $60+ on eBay and it’s hard to justify without a $10k+ stereo setup. The copy I purchased was $9 shipped, so I’m pleased.
 
 

I bought a CD copy of Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, probably my favorite album of all time. The copy I bought is used, the 1992/1994 remastered version which is maybe the best general release of the CD. There was at some time a Mobile Fidelity release, but they’re going for $60+ on eBay and it’s hard to justify without a $10k+ stereo setup. The copy I purchased was $9 shipped, so I’m pleased.
 
 

I bought a CD copy of Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, probably my favorite album of all time. The copy I bought is used, the 1992/1994 remastered version which is maybe the best general release of the CD. There was at some time a Mobile Fidelity release, but they’re going for $60+ on eBay and it’s hard to justify without a $10k+ stereo setup. The copy I purchased was $9 shipped, so I’m pleased.
 
 

Most of those chips have been dropped off the compatibility list. When I updated the BIOS on my B450 board to support 5000 series, there was a list of mostly the Athlon chips that will no longer be supported. If you were in a place where you really wanted an AM4 chip with integrated graphics, something like a 3400g would be a huge step-up from any of the Athlon chips. It's quite likely that a B550 or A520 board will support the 3400g as well, but you'd have to check the list on the particular motherboard you're looking at.
 

Road trips in cars are extremely common in the U.S., I’ve driven over 800 miles in a day many times. I have been on the TGV a long time ago, I like train travel, but high-speed rail is unrealistic in the U.S. We do have long-distance trains here, but the tickets are expensive and it’s slow, they also have to use the freight line tracks so the travel stops are not always great.

I didn’t claim you said it, you quoted my response to someone else; They said they played one game Bethesda made and that made them hate all of their games. You inserted yourself into a conversation and then wondered why the discussion wasn’t about you.

And I don’t know what you expect from an open-world game with a large map, you will have to walk around in it, but that doesn’t make a game a “walking simulator” as there’s plenty to do. Perhaps open-world adventure games just are not a genre you enjoy.
 
Ozzy Osborne has one of the longest careers in music, whatever memo he could get about his comedy chops is surely irrelevant to him, and the people that listen to his music. 
 
 

Two people’s negative takes on a massively popular game series, are not going to change all the tens of millions of players opinions on it. I’ve never modded any Fallout or Elder Scrolls game, and I’ve played a lot of them. I understand there’s some subjective opinions about games, but someone calling-out a whole studio after only playing one game in one of a few massively popular series they’ve made is just ridiculous.
 
Also, Ozzy Osborne is a musician and not a comedian that has to be funny, so I’m not sure what is “cringe” about that. Again there are subjective takes on music but he is one of the more popular musicians.

Two people’s negative takes on a massively popular game series, are not going to change all the tens of millions of players opinions on it. I’ve never modded any Fallout or Elder Scrolls game, and I’ve played a lot of them. I understand there’s some subjective opinions about games, but someone calling-out a whole studio after only playing one game in one of a few massively popular series they’ve made is just ridiculous.
 
Also, Ozzy Osborne is a musician and not a comedian that has to be funny, so I’m not sure what is “cringe” about that. Again there are subjective takes on music but he is one of the more popular musicians.

There are DOT requirements here in the U.S., technically a lot of these conversions are not road-legal, but it’s not at all enforced. If the conversion assembly is DOT-certified then it will be close to a factory vehicle if aimed correctly.

The state I live in is supposed to check for DOT compliance for headlights, but I’ve been running LED replacements for a few years on two of my vehicles and no one ever checks it during the yearly inspection. Now, my housings are new and clear, and the pattern is good (also I aimed them correctly), so if you didn’t know the car shipped with halogen bulbs you’d never guess.
 

There are DOT requirements here in the U.S., technically a lot of these conversions are not road-legal, but it’s not at all enforced. If the conversion assembly is DOT-certified then it will be close to a factory vehicle if aimed correctly.

The state I live in is supposed to check for DOT compliance for headlights, but I’ve been running LED replacements for a few years on two of my vehicles and no one ever checks it during the yearly inspection. Now, my housings are new and clear, and the pattern is good (also I aimed them correctly), so if you didn’t know the car shipped with halogen bulbs you’d never guess.
 

You're basing your entire viewpoint of a game studio on one game? Fallout 4 isn't the strongest in the series, but 'utter piece of crap' is such a bad take. You're seemingly ignoring the entire Elder Scrolls series too, which has several incredibly popular titles; Skyrim is one of the most successful games of all time, over 60 million copies have been sold.
 
Also, who genuinely thinks Ozzy and his other associated acts suck? Wtf?

It can be really difficult, I have problems throwing things out or giving them away, because I rationalize keeping things like old computers because 'what if' there's a time I need it. Case in point: The server at my office nosedived some years back and I had to get something back in service over a weekend, and I had all the parts at home to make it happen. It's probably just reinforcing bad habits, but the way I see things is it saved my bacon many times, so in the back of my mind I always wonder if tossing something will put me in a jam later. It doesn't help that I'm the repair guy in my immediate family and for many of my friends in terms of computers, cars, motorcycles, and even bicycles, so I've accumulated so much stuff over the years it's ridiculous.
 
So the answer to the question of which stuff do I keep? Seemingly everything, haha.

Wait, Perri-Air is a real thing now?
 
 

My brother ran an MSI RX 480 for a long time, it was not a bad card performance-wise, but the cooler was extremely cheap-ish feeling. It wasn't high up their product stack so I guess that can be forgiven, but he moved to a rather basic MSI RTX 3050 and that card is so much 'cleaner' and feels much higher quality.
 
 

None of the above:  Spend 15-20 bucks on a 250gb SATA SSD, replace the hdd, and get 1000x better performance.

You're too far gone into the void dude, and not listening to important things like, 'game developers should not be required to release multiplayer code for old games as they may continue to use parts of it in the future.' If you put money into digital items there's a huge risk you will lose them in the future, but they're not your property and you're not owed a refund for digital subscriptions or items under any laws that exist or likely will exist, because companies are not going to zero-out their finances when they stop supporting a game.
 
I'm out.

Yeah, a lot of people want a lot of things that are not attainable. Questioning whether I 'understand' some completely unattainable utopia where game developers just hand you your subscription money back and refund you for stuff you willingly bought in-game, is honestly wild; You seemingly do not understand that developers don't have and should not have a responsibility to give you money back that they used for operating/payroll/marketing costs, nor do they have any compulsion to release the code to run servers when they deprecate an old game, especially when they may be using aspects of that programming in future titles.
 
I used to play on Quake III servers back in the day, and I even ran my own Minecraft server a few years back for some of my friends and family, I'm aware that private servers for certain games have existed. That doesn't mean every game is built that way or could run on consumer hardware, something like an MMORPG is going to be very expensive to upkeep, just one example like GTA V doesn't describe all online games.

I’d eat ramen for a month for that, that’s freaking nice. I’ve been running an older 1080p 240hz Dell monitor for a few years, it’s great. I have had such good luck with Dell monitors over the years I probably wouldn’t buy anything else.

Priciest PC component I've ever bought. But it's good.
Have to live off noodles for a few months I think. Just to recuperate.