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Thanks. AI has ruined searched results, the 6700 is an easy upgrade and just ordered one. GPU is harder - I think a 1050Ti low profile seems to be the best bet, but there are not many in Australia. Though given its Linux, AMD is probably what I want.

Budget (including currency): 300-500AUD Country: Australia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Batocera OS, emulation including Wii, Wii U and maybe PS3 Other details I have acquired a small old Lenovo “small” PC, ex-office. I have decided to repurpose it for emulation on my TV. It contains an Intel 6400 - which is both GPU and CPU. It emulates Wii U fine at 720p, but does not emulate Wii very well at all - needing to run at the Wii’s native resolution. I am used to Dolphin running all my Wii games upscaled to 4K on my main PC - so I want to be able to run at least 1080p. I also may want to dip my toe into PS3 emulation and maybe some very old PC games if I can get Batocera to do it. Else I will be emulating GBA, SNES…all the classics, which all work fine. I do have a spare PCI-E slot, but it is a half-height case and low-profile GPUs do not seem to be much of a thing any more. I’d welcome any GPU recommendations. Also considering an upgrade to CPU but I’m not sure what would be the upgrade path there as I’m unfamiliar with the generation. any recommendations and personal experience welcome - thank you.

La Belle Patate for Poutine. You can even order one with Canadian bacon and maple syrup for that stereotypical Canadian experience.

The compromised data was just released today.

I can see that changing in the foreseeable future. Merchandise has gone from 15% of their revenue to 32% - in fact it’s their largest source of revenue - (https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1486918784401088515/photo/1) Obviously it’s not as profitable being an extremely high cost outlay, but if they sell say 50000 backpacks (Linus confirmed an order of “tens of thousands”) at $300 each, that’s $15 million revenue off of one product run. Plus add the screwdriver and the rest of the existing lines and intense growth of new products, and it’s easy to see how the business could become majority merchandise. @LinusTech Noctua fans need to be in the core tech lines. Though I guess they do their own black ones now

Different things. Devices can still be updated to the latest version of iOS for ~5 years. The operating systems themselves have a shorter lifespan

Preventative measures. Air filters and keeping the case pressure right will stop basically all dust ingress.

It was phenomenal for app launching I thought - it could display all my games, all of the Office Suite, all of Creative Cloud, all of my development tools. Everything was in easy reach. It was the thing I loved most about Windows 8 and I used it on Windows 10. In fact, its removal in Windows 11 (that and forced grouped task buttons) is what’s making me consider switching. I am running Xubuntu at work with no issues and loving it, but since at home I’d need Adobe CC I’d likely have to switch to Mac, and no Mac can currently match my PC spec for spec (though the M1 Max might make this moot). Since Windows 11 is basically crappy MacOS at this point there’s not much point staying on Windows,

It will be fairly competitive I think. I have a Bellroy backpack which is a fair bit cheaper and high quality with some tech consideration, but nowhere near as smartly laid out and compartmentalised nor designed solely for tech carry. My biggest problems have always been laptop/tablet sleeves in a fully loaded backpack bending a tablet (especially new iPads) when I arch my back or otherwise move funny. So I’ve switched to a tote for travel with my tablet and will probably be getting an LTT backpack once the full layout is shown.

While I’ve long since ditched the garbage keyboard, you couldn’t use a 3rd party tool with it because the G keys are detected as F keys (e.g if you press G1, it registers as F1). So you have to use the Logitech software to map them to other keys and then still have the 3rd party automation software to run the macro. and the mappings only apply while the Logitech software is running, so if you switch computers (e.g laptop to desktop or to someone else’s computer to help them out), the whole thing stops working.

Recently did the switch to a Xubuntu at work and while I’ve now been using Linux on and off for over a decade, it still has enough quirks to make me want to kill myself over very simple things sometimes. But for general purpose use I think Xubuntu is a great option, is familiar to anybody who’s used older Windows and it feels a lot quicker than anything running KDE and is a lot less buggy too. For gaming, not sure I’d even bother trying haha.

Actually, yes they do. The law is that the product is covered during its “reasonable lifetime”. For example if a fridge has a warranty of 2 years, but breaks after 10 years, then it is still covered under Australian Consumer law because the reasonable expected lifetime of a fridge is 20 years plus. Manufacturers or retailers are required to replace and will usually do so the instant you mention the ACL. A GPU or gaming console that fails after 2 or 3 years is definitely covered.

They had a Dailymotion. Not sure if they still do.

That’s not really a mistake, it has no relevance to the video. It’s just personal notes.