FWIW, KISS. I built an elaborate WC setup. It was fun, looks neat, and expensive. Super-quiet and cool running. That said, as the years have gone by the WC cost of time/maintenance has been a downside. Even AIO will need some care and have a higher potential cost of failure than air cooled. Fans are easily replaceable vs having to remove and replace a pump or cooling block, or deal with a leak. Most new fans are super-quiet (as long as you don’t have one of those absurd cases with 10 fans in it) so you can enjoy gaming with a cool-running setup and no sound of a server farm running by your desk.

Trump does something stupid.

Nah. Too easy.

Trump is no longer in office. Death, mental incapacity, whatever. There. That’s my guess.

Betty boop detective noir film. That would be good. Make her a badass like Ana de Armas in No Time To Die.

Wasn’t there a computer vision cheat setup that got some attention a while back?

Yep. and there might have been one before this, I just can’t find it.

Cannot stand reaction videos. We’re on the same page.

Rules for thee but not for me.

I’ve been hearing about re-growing teeth for 20 years. Still nothing. It’s right up there with nuclear fusion.

If we ant to get all analytical… this sign really does work but not for the obvious reasons. It’s interesting how it’s made up. If you’re ASD, you don’t even realize that a cue was given because you’re interested in the design.

Then, you figuratively realize “oh shit, that’s a cue…” and have to sort it all out while being irritated that someone couldn’t just make the design mean what it’s supposed to mean.

Or:

“What if we give it to people that aren’t like you?”

Tesla whined about it citing all the crap they’d have to work around in their design in order to make a normal mechanical linkage. Funny how no other upper tier manufacturer has trouble with all the power windows and window power pre-offsetting for interference fits. They manage to have mechanical linkages.

I didn’t come here to complain about linux, but the number of distros that give me a black screen after some hardware change or update is more than I can count on two hands. What this post is denying that both userbases have wildly different skill levels because linux generally requires a higher skill level. Windows is over a much more massive userbase that includes people who can’t set the time display on a microwave. And they don’t use linux.

Furthermore, pre-downloading the driver is completely unnecessary as the default windows driver would allow you to continue using the PC and download the correct driver after installation. No “series of misfortunes.”

The only thing reading something like this does for me is paint the linux community as completely inept and dishonest.

I swapped GPU in windows by downloading the new driver, shut down the pc, swap cards, boot pc that then loads a default windows driver, install the new driver I downloaded, done. If it asks for a reboot, that takes another 20 seconds.

Done.

Late to the party? A little slow? Where have you been, author?

Will they, though? I mean, the people who directly contract it might realize some regret and the error of their choices, some will be like smokers dying of emphysema that just keep smoking. Nothing will change them. The worst will be the kids that die, they never had a say in their medical treatment. There should be a lot of regret from the parents, but as we’ve seen, there’s plenty of stubbornness and mental gymnastics even then.

First they came for your music. Then they came for your movies. They came for your Games. Now they want your computers.

Create artificial scarcity to drive up prices thanks to foolish venture capitalists dumping money into GPU- and RAM-hungry AI vaporware. Free money.

Consumers get hosed due to high prices, major investors make bank on overinflated stock value, eventual crash, everyday consumers and investors get hosed, companies get bailouts while employees get laid off.

Aww man. One in a million. Tearjerker of a story.

To do the math;

$75 x 25 years at (a conservative) 5% = ~$253

@7% it’s over $400.

Probably not worth your time to wait 25 years for that.

However,

$10/mo at 7% is much more interesting: $8,200

And $10/week: $34,500

Over 25 years this isn’t huge, but it’s *something.”

I used a very conservative % because past gains do not guarantee future performance, and one should not put all their eggs on one basket…But VOO over 30 years averaged 10%, so $10/week with $75 start @ 10% for 25 years is just under $55,000. Double it to $20/wk and you’ve got $108,000.

IDK what’s in store for the world, but for now, people should invest early and regularly. If it all goes to shit even money under the mattress won’t help, so go for the % IMO.

I’m more concerned with PCI slots blocked by massive GPUs, especially on smaller form factor boards. You’ll need PCI/e extension cables to install an additional card.

The Turing Test has shown its weakness.