If it was made by Nintendo (not Gamefreak) it would actually be optimized

Yeah, I’m adding about 500 songs to my spotify library every year. If I paid 1€ for every single one it would be more than 10x the cost of the 3€ per month for a Spotify Family slot

Not yet. I run it as a daily driver on my Thinkpad.

But Apple is killing support for x86 Macs soon, which will also be the end of hackintosh

Yeah, anyone that has ever used Hackintosh, especially on a Laptop, knows that MacOS is much less resource intensive than Windows

And even that basic protection is optional. There are a few games on Steam that have no DRM at all, Witcher 3 (but for some reason not the remaster) and Baldurs Gate 3 for example.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

The SSD has been soldered to the motherboard on previous models as well. The nvme slot is for adding a second SSD, it’s not populated from the factory

Well, they did tease half life 3 at the end of Half life alyx, but it would most likely be another VR exclusive. And it’s not like that was the first time valve teased half life 3 without following up on it 🫤

I agree with your observations about the hairy or hairless part, but thin or muscular are not the only 2 body types men can have. You can be fat and not muscular, I heard it’s a pretty common body type in America

Increasing resolution but keeping the same bitrate still improves the image quality, unless the bitrate was extremely low in the first place. Especially with modern codecs

20mbps 4k looks a lot better than 20mbps 1080p with AV1

Software based emulators always have a bit of input latency. If you want the native experience you need an FPGA system.

Yes, but flagging usually happens automatically and is not always your fault

It’s spelled that way, but it’s pronounced “dihmenshuh”

You’re telling on yourself

Have you ever tried to set up a printer on Windows?

On Linux (and MacOS) they just work. No driver installation, no nothing. Just plug and play

If someone breaks their arm doing a skateboard trick, do you blame the seller of the skateboard?

Consenting adults know the risk of taking drugs, if someone gets addicted the blame doesn’t fall on the dealer.

Not to mention that the vast majority of drug users dont become addicted or have their lives ruined. Rather they have their lives significantly improved

We have all been conditioned by the media to think of drug dealers as bad people, but if you aren’t violent and only selling to consenting adults there is nothing inherently wrong or evil about it, other than braking the law. You are providing a valuable service to your community, like every other job.

where a 30ms difference in reaction time is noticeable (this is less than 1 frame in a fighting game, for example)

You have some pretty bad understanding of how netcode works if you think a 30ms ping in an online multi-player game means your game or input is delayed by 30ms. It’s a lot more complicated than that, and especially in games with bad netcode you will absolutely notice a difference between 10ms or 30ms ping

The connector itself costs like 8 bucks

What? Even if you buy them as a consumer they are less than a dollar each, when you buy them wholesale on a reel for a pick and place machine they are $0.20 each

Is it because latency does not scale in that way?

Yes, your understanding is fundamentally flawed. Starlink adds a fixed latency on top, if you ping to a server was 2ms with fiber and 52ms with starlink, then your ping to a server that would be 100ms with fiber would be 150ms with starlink

I live near DE-CIX and have fiber. So a decent chunk of web services I use is available with a latency of under 5ms. And everything else hosted in a European datacenter with under 20ms.

So almost all of my internet traffic has a lower latency than starlink has under ideal conditions

The heaters for the cabin air probably couldn’t keep up.

This made me curious if planes use “free” excess heat from the jet engines, same as a car would, or if they need to burn fuel to heat the cabin. And it turns out the latter is the case, so not only could the heaters probably not keep up, attempting to even do so would have wasted a ton of fuel.