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The display isn't even supposed to stay on forever and yes, that's exactly how most UPSes work. Connect something to it and you'll see.

You can't, unless you have enough money and influence to cause its value to increase. Literally no way of predicting.

No. It's still just a file and the ransomware can still encrypt it again with its own keys. No. The encryption on SSDs is to prevent someone malicious from taking the SSD with them and then going through the data on it. The encryption also doesn't work per-file, but instead per block -- without unlocking the SSD, you can't even see what partitions there are on it.

The website is full of mistakes, there's no address-information, the only way of contacting them is some random email-address.....yeah, it is a scam.

You sure? You look like you might enjoy some light SM!

I often see UE used for recreating portions of old and/or visually....less-attractive games with modern, high-quality models, very latest in visual effects and all that. Some of the recreations from e.g. World of Warcraft look, quite frankly, stunningly good.

I... um... uhhh.......... The last time must have been like a decade ago or more. I can't quite frankly recall, it has been so long. I live in Finland and datacaps have never been a concern, so it's just always been much, much more convenient to download an ISO online and use a USB-stick. I also don't have anything stored on optical discs -- movies, shows, games etc. can all be obtained online as well, so even a decade ago there just wasn't any need for discs anymore.

Summary Epic Games, the owner of e.g. the popular online-game Fortnite, has bought the online-service for creative professionals called ArtStation. ArtStation is basically THE service for professionals to show off and promote their work and to sell their work -- a catalogue of highly-skilled talent and an attractive source for talent-finders from any industry in need of high-quality art. Quotes My thoughts Seems to me like a pretty good fit for Epic's overall strategy of getting Unreal Engine into even more hands and to promote it. The engine is already used for a lot of visual works, including in some actual movies and TV-shows (e.g. The Mandalorian!), so buying one of the biggest services centered around such works allows them to more prominently showcase things that have been done with the engine. Sources https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/artstation-is-now-part-of-epic-games

If they are running on the same IP, then yes. Using CNAMEs is a good idea when running multiple services on a single IP simply because you then only need to update one, single entry, if the IP changed, in order to point them all to the new one. Seems kind of a weird thing to warn about, since there are a lot of servers out there with dual-stack IPs.

This sounds very much like the drive has failed. I would suggest making a bootable Ubuntu Linux USB -stick (download Ubunut ISO, use Rufus to write it to a USB - stick and make it bootable) and seeing if the drive can be formatted there with e.g. GParted. If it can't, the drive is certainly a goner.

No idea, since I have no idea what service you're using or what their wizard is supposed to do. You'd typically just define the base domain and then www.yourdomainwhatever and such would be CNAME-records, ie. A-name mydomain.xyz would point to e.g. 1.2.3.4 and CNAME www would point to mydomain.xyz Not entirely sure what you mean with "overwite", but yes, if you have both an IPv4 and IPv6 address, it would be a good idea to add both. If someone had e.g. temporarily issues with IPv4-connectivity, they could still query for and access your IP via IPv6.

Your ISP has no say in what IP-address you get from a VPN, it doesn't work like that. That TOS-clause seems to be poorly formed. I don't really know how to explain it off-the-bat to someone with little understanding of networking, but suffice it to say that the clause is not relevant wrt. proxies, VPNs and the likes. It's only relevant if you go and manually assign a static IP-address to the WAN-interface of your modem.

The issue is that the plastic itself is damaged. There is no residue or whatever to remove -- it needs to be covered. Your brother could paint the thing or buy a skin for it on e.g. https://www.skinit.com/

This reads a lot like you've misunderstood something. An ISP has no say in whether you can use VPNs or proxies and an ISP definitely has no say in what IP-addresses you use for your LAN. They only have a say in what IP-address(es) you get on WAN-side, but they do not get to dictate anything LAN-side.

Exactly. I mean, if you don't have a very complex project that deliberately compiles into multiple dynamically-loadable files, then all the code in the separate files will still end up in the same executable.

You're still grinding that axe and throwing around baseless projections. Well, okay then.

You can't SLI GTX1650, so you wouldn't gain any performance at all with two 1650's over a single 1650.

On your display?? If so, I'd rather recommend you stay and eat in the kitchen. That said, I don't get such stains on my LCD and thus I just simply use a wool duster, similar to the one in the following picture: Don't have a desk mat, can't comment there.

As far as I know, for Chia capacity is king, not read/write speed. Secondly, you'd get far more capacity for far less money if you just bought an Epyc and hundreds of gigabytes of RAM. You'd have to pay ten times the money if you went with a bunch of 3090's.

That's up to the developers/publishers. If they want to allow you to unlock the game on multiple platforms, they can do that already. That said, yes, I also wish it wasn't up to them, but at the same time, I wonder what unintended consequences there would be if something like that was mandated by a law; wouldn't be the first time a law that was intended to strengthen consumer-rights ended up doing more harm than good.

You keep referring to rabid fanboys and similar things, you keep bashing Steam/Valve, and it all seems like you just have an axe to grind. It's hard to take anything you say seriously with such an attitude. For one, why are rabid fanboys and such even relevant? Literally everything attracts those kinds, including the other storefronts, but they're all in tiny minority and not a driving force here. Secondly, you seem to be insinuating that people are boycotting EGS just simply because it's a competitor to Steam. Sure, for the most rabid fanboys that may be true, but for the rest of us that's not the reason. I mean, if that was the reason, then why would many of us still support e.g. GOG, which is also a competitor? No, there's more to it, but I'm not sure if you just don't want to see it or if you don't even understand it.

That's not how it works. Frame-interpolation has nothing to do with how fast or slow decoding of the video is. That said, if you want to try, go ahead: https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/SVP:VLC

The only way to be fluid 4K 60FPS with those specs would be to pre-render the video and watch it only after that step is done. You're not going to get fluid 4K 60FPS motion-interpolation on-the-fly with that CPU.

Nope. It might simply be Virtualbox itself which causes things to run rather slow. I don't use Virtualbox myself as I use VMware instead, but under VMware all USB-devices work just the same as they would on the host, with no choppiness or the likes. Give VMware a try and see if it works better?