Guiltyxz

Screw that, waste as much of their time as possible by sending them round endless loops of useless information.

Have you tried using the fan curve built into the Nvidia drivers? Sorry if there isnt any lol I have AMD

Keeping it running without leaks.

You're based in the UK, therefor you're not trustworthy.

Gotta use a VPN server in a not so well developed country (east europe, south America, Asia ...) because companies prefer sue in western countries.

PIA is owned and operated in the United States. There isn't anything else I need to say beyond that

Why people continue to torrent is beyond me. There are much better and more secure options that don't log like connecting to a swarm does.

This will be very interesting, especially if PIA gets subpoenaed which will ultimately say whether they log and what other info they keep.
 

Morgan Freeman is in every stereotypical patriotic B-movie now with the word Fallen in it, isn't he?
Morgan it's time to stop.

The makers of the film 'Angel Has Fallen' have filed a lawsuit against seventeen alleged pirates. According to the complaint, several defendants used the VPN service 'Private Internet Access,' which can expect to be subpoenaed. That effort will likely be fruitless as the VPN doesn't keep any logs. However, with help from information shared by torrent site YTS, users are still at risk.
TorrentFreak contacted PIA for a comment on the lawsuit. The company said that it hasn’t received a subpoena yet and reiterated that it can’t identify individual users.
“Private Internet Access has not received a subpoena in regards to this case. Even if we do, our response will be the same as always: PIA does not log VPN user activity,” a PIA spokesperson informed us.
That was also confirmed in more detail earlier this year in our annual VPN overview.
“There are no logs kept for any person or entity to match an IP address and a timestamp to a current or former user of our service,” PIA said at the time.
That said, defendants are still at risk, as their email addresses are known as well. That doesn’t prove anything, as YTS allowed members to sign up with a fake email, but it could lead to people being identified eventually, without PIA’s involvement.
If anything, this case shows that using a VPN only offers limited anonymity. When people use a VPN irregularly and leave other information behind, such as email addresses, they may eventually be exposed anyway.
 
So ether these guys didnt have there there VPN turned on or PIA is acting goofy again... will be interesting to see what happens seeing as I and I am sure others on this forum uses PIA.
 
Source:
https://torrentfreak.com/movie-company-sues-pirates-who-used-an-anonymous-vpn-201026/
 

Summary
Come December 2021, UK Mobile Phone networks will be banned from selling devices locked to their network. UK regulator Ofcom has ruled that current rules, which state that networks have to unlock phones when requested are still too complex, so locked handsets will be banned entirely in the UK. 
 
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My thoughts
Should have been this way from the start, really. Good news for the second hand market as you can buy any device and not have to worry about it being network locked. Think we have it pretty good in terms of mobile networks here in the UK, at least compared to the US. I constant hear horror stories from the US of phone networks being very anti-consumer and anti-competitive. Ofcom at least keeps ours somewhat in check. 
 
Also, on a political note, this comes along with a load of other changes that reflect new European rules. Hopefully this sort of thing isn't reversed when the UK officially leaves the EU.
 
New rules are coming in for making switching broadband easier as well, which is nice. 
 
Sources
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-news/mobile-firms-banned-from-selling-locked-handsets

The CM elite 110 is just an imitator, feast your eyes on the OG
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/WG2bt6/silverstone-sg13-v2-mini-itx-tower-case-sg13b-usa
a good choice if you want to be less constrained by GPU size in the future cause you can stuff a 270mm graphics card in there. 3070 founders edition and what have you.
 
If you choose either this case or the Elite 110, I do recommend a single 120mm fan as front intake. Also a small tweak to the parts list:
PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor $118.99 @ B&H Motherboard MSI B450I GAMING PLUS AC Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard $118.59 @ Amazon Memory Silicon Power XPOWER Turbine 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory $56.99 @ Newegg Video Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER 4 GB OC Video Card $159.99 @ Best Buy Case Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX Tower Case   Power Supply Gigabyte P-B 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply $49.99 @ Amazon   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total $504.55   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-10-26 18:41 EDT-0400    
better PSU and faster CPU for gaming (and little tweaks to GPU, mobo, and ram for small savings)

It's "Sexy Sexy" by Stephane Michel Huguenin.  Not sure you'll be able to find it anywhere except APM Music (service we use to get songs for videos).

Spotify is just about the best in music streaming, it allows you to download as many songs as you want for offline play as well

Pumpkin PC: Build inside a pumpkin, after you carve it. 

There's a big-ish story going around in the fighting game community that 50% of players are using WiFi. In discussions online most people defend their use of WiFi out of ignorance or perceived difficulty to run a cable. 
 
 
I think a LTT tutorial on just how easy it can be to run a cable would be a super useful resource to pass around to these people.
 
Some topics can be:
Examples of why wifi is bad for online gaming/how it manifests (here's a video with a fighting game dev going in depth on it   ) How to make an ethernet cable (since buying a box and making your own for you and your friends can be vastly cheaper than buying premade ones) How to get a cheap cable and run it across the floor How to neatly run an exposed cable, with clips and proper wire management How to run cables through the walls (maybe feature Brian the electrician for pro tips?) How to convince who you live with that their lives will be better wired too (wire up the parents' Roku for reliable streaming. Less things on wifi means the things that have to use wifi will work better.)

I suggest waiting for the new ryzen cpu's and big navi gpu's to arrive if you can since you'd be able to get better performance for the same amount of money. Additionally I wouldn't suggest doing crossfire or SLI since either standard have pretty bad support in modern titles. Also why get 2 x 500gb ssd's instead of one, 1TB?

The Vega 8 is much, much, more better than the GT 710. I personally would try looking for something like a used 750ti, GT 1030, GTX 950 or so to pair with the ryzen 3 3100. Pairing the ryzen 3 3100 with the 750ti will give you better performance than the 3200G.

imo if price is good 3400g

You ever just grow a plant and think to yourself "I could actually die from this"?
 
Me either. I'll stick with an Aloe plant 😂

Is going from a 3.5-year-old flagship, to a modern mid-range phone a downgrade?
 
This is going to be a unique style of review of a phone, as its going to be a review based on my experience with my outgoing phone. Rather than a true review. I personally feel like that’s a fairer way to review phones anyway, as most of the time us as consumers will compare our new phone to what we had before, and rarely to every other model out there in the market, that’s reserved for when you actually pick a new phone, not when you’ve already bought it. Nevertheless, I will still talk about the phone on its own as well.
 
Ive had my Galaxy S8 as my main device since June 2017. At the time of purchase, it cost roughly $900, which in todays money is closer to $960. So, on par with the $1000 price tag were used to seeing on flagship phones these days.
Therefore, its easy for anyone to think that going from a $900 phone to a $450 phone, will be a complete downgrade, and not even worth considering. Well, that is the beauty of how fast technology moves these days, and im here to discuss how it still ends up being a substantial upgrade for me.
 

 
Let us start with the basics, the look and feel of the phones, it is what you see every day. Both are slabs of glass, surrounding an alloy/plastic frame, with an 84% screen to body ratio, standard these days. Both use corning gorilla glass 5 front and back. The Realme suffers from the 2020 trend of “mo cameras babeh”, so it has a slightly uglier in my opinion, quad camera array,  and dual hole punch selfie cams, something that’s much more subtle on the S8, but that’s just an indicator of the times, not the phones themselves. So, when it comes to looks and feel, I would say you are not losing out on much. The plastic frame might be a no go for some, but personally, It doesn’t bother me at all as 99% of the time the phone is in a case anyway, and there’s hardly any flex or give in the plastic frame either.
 
Both phones come with a fingerprint scanner on the phone and not under glass like 99% of all phones these days, and I say thank god for that. I do not personally like under screen scanners, and its already been proven from a security standpoint, they are far worse too, as well as being less accurate and slower. I like to have a physical scanner, so to me this was a bonus in transitioning.
 
The one thing the 2020 trend did take away as well is my god damn headphone jack, like, I get it, people like buying shitty Bluetooth earphones and listen to music through a mud filter, but I actually like to enjoy my music, so this was hard to come to terms with, but the type-c to 3.5mm adapter Samsung sells, works perfectly with this phone, therefore, an annoyance, but can be worked around.
 
Thus far, the mid-range phone is holding its own against the flagship, so what about the main specs.
Galaxy S8
Realme X3 superzoom
2560x1440 AMOLED
2400x1080 IPS
60hz
120hz
4gb RAM
8gb/12gb RAM
64gb UFS 2.1 expandable
128gb/256gb UFS 3.0 non expandable
Exynos 8895
Snapdragon 855+
Mali G71
Adreno 640
3000mah
4200mah
IP68
Triple Layer coating
 

 
So how do we decode this. The S8 has a superior screen, in terms of resolution, and make. It has a 1440p AMOLED display, while the Realme must deal with a IPS 1080p panel. However, the refresh rate evens the playing field. For me personally, refresh rate > resolution, I know that is not everyone’s preference, but after using the Realme for over a week now, I knew I couldn’t go back to 60hz. In terms of quality. Yes there is obviously going to be a difference between a 1440p amoled panel with over 500ppi, and a 1080p IPS panel at 400ppi, however, unless you have these two phones side by side, or testing them using specialist equipment, your average consumer wont notice it. I know I haven’t noticed it anywhere where it matters. And to be honest, there have been some scenarios where I preferred the IPS panel over the amoled, for example, watching Netflix shows at night on low brightness. The S8 had a tendency of being waaaay too dark, like maxing out the shadows in lightroom kinda dark. A problem I didn’t have with the IPS display.
 
With everything else the realme absolutely destroys the S8, not only does it have more of everything, in terms of ram, storage, and battery capacity, it has the latest and greatest tech of that as well. If we put these into percentages, in AtTuTu benchmark the Realme is 59% faster, GFX Bench 63% faster, Geekbench 5 42% faster, RAM is 83% faster (yup its bad), and the storage is 53% faster.
 
Now, obviously, people will say that this is an unfair comparison, which I agree, tech moves so fast these days, that a phone released 6 months prior is already slower compared to the latest stuff, so comparing something nearly 4 years old is pointless. But, the S8 was a flagship, for more than double the price, you’d expect it to hold up better today, but it just doesn’t cut it anymore, and a mid-range device, absolutely destroys it in all performance oriented tasks.
So far so good, looks like me choosing the S8 to be my last Samsung, after years of only buying Samsung flagships, and switching to a smaller budget-oriented brand, is working out pretty well.
 
Cameras I will leave out, this is a very opinionated subject, everyone has their own preference, and posting them here won’t do the pics any justice anyway, but its safe to say that the S8s 12mp sensor, although still good, will probably struggle to keep up with the 64mp main behemoth, that the Realme uses, granted that is, the photo is taken with the same app, so that the built in phone camera app doesn’t skew the results. Ive already noticed that the Realme camera app is pretty terrible, with Samsungs camera app being far better, but when both use Gcam ports, the sensors on the Realme are far superior. If anyone is genuinely interested in this, I can do a more detailed follow up.
The inevitable question, how does a company like Realme, able to provide a phone, with flagship specs (because its specs are still flagship material today), but sell at more than half the price of the equivalent Samsung, iPhone or even their parent company OnePlus?
 

 
Well, first, its features. A lot of flagships will add, in most cases unnecessary in my opinion, but in some cases useful features, that these budget-oriented phones will never get. These include IP68 certification, stuff like iris scanners, heartrate monitors, barometers, SPo2 sensors, all these things, even though most are useless for someone like me, spike up the price tenfold. 3D touch for example, a feature Apple popularized, cool, completely useless to someone like me, but will definitely mark up the price of a phone by at least another $50-$100, the R&D for these features has to be paid of somehow.
 
Secondly, it’s the UI. As much as people give Samsung crap for One UI, and most prefer a stock android experience. I can tell you right now One UI, is a far better “skin” than RealmeUI is. Its far more fleshed out, it has far better features, it also allows for far more customizability and generally is extremely well optimized, and I rarely had any issues with it on my S8, only my aging hardware was letting it down. Now Realme UI, so far, hasn’t had any major hiccups or bugs, but you can definitely tell its “early stage” for someone like Realme, it feels more like a very well made ROM, than a fleshed out operating interface. Realme is already rolling out Realme UI 2.0, and my device should get it before the end of the year, and its meant to solve a lot of the issues such as lack of functionality and customization, as well as some performance tweaks, but I cant speak on how well that will go, and can only comment on what I have right now, and right now, One UI is just more refined. However, Realme UI, is still good enough for me not to regret my purchase decision.
 
But mainly the biggest price differentiator is the brand. Big brands have the name, they have market trust, people know what an iPhone is, what a Samsung Galaxy is, you go to the most remote places on earth, there will be a kid running around with a Samsung. They can easily mark up their prices because of this, they know, consumers will still buy them. Apple used to be the worst at this, basically adding a 25% mark up because of their name, however, Samsung has followed suit recently too, and it was the main reason I didn’t want to go back to a Samsung phone again, overpaying, for the brand, it just didn’t sit right. Of course there is other factors to consider like all the R&D the big companies do, whereas companies like Realme basically steal and copy paste, but if you as a consumer only care about what you get as a final product and not what the company had to invest to get there, then a phone like the Realme is for you.
 
In conclusion, I am more than happy with my purchase, in every aspect bar one, this is a complete upgrade for me, even though it’s a budget oriented device, and the entire experience, as well as composing this review, made me realize that I should have dropped my brand loyalty a few years ago, and started looking at products for what they offered, rather than the brand that was offering them.

Buying any capable GPU at this point seems like a waste of money. The new cards are hard to get indeed and probably won't be easy to get for few more  months. It's worst launch ever, but eventually you'll be able to get one. You just happened to build a new PC during this frustrating time. If you must get something to keep you going meantime, the only sensible solution seems to get something used.

Ban everybody who chose light theme.

Well, it IS basically the same game every year with minor changes and a roster update, this just sounds like the logical conclusion 😆

I started dating when I was 14. At that age I felt mature enough to do stuff properly and not be dumb. I would bet that a 12 year old could hold a serious relationship. It all depends on maturity. But like Benji said, an 8 year old cannot fathom a sexual relationship as their brain has not yet developed