Id prioritize GPU above all the other parts. That is going to be the single biggest price hike IMO.

Any CPU you can drop in your existing motherboard is likely already in your country and shouldn’t be affected by any tarriffs, AM4 CPUs are no longer being manufactured AFAIK.

DDR4 RAM is fairly cheap at this point, adding another 16GB would be good, more than 32GB total isn’t really gonna improve performance much.

Going to full NVME storage (if you are using a SATA SSD/HDD) is also a pretty big upgrade.

Rub your hands with a bit of cooking oil, then wash with soap. It helps a bit.

Its owned by Facebook. I don’t know what anybody expected differently.

Ill donate another word: Masculinititties.

I got mine on a Thursday FWIW. The employees didn’t even know they had them in stock, they had to pull it out of a case in the back; had to have been an afternoon truck delivery

Also it is goddamned wonderful as a GPU 😍 ive been replaying Far Cry 6 with maxed out… everything. At 4k, and I’ve got roughly 100 FPS stable. Its absolutely gorgeous

I had luck with Microcenter last week (if you have one near you); checked their website at my preferred location and they had 9070 XTs in stock, went after work and I got one.

Half the recruitment is deeply ingrained multi generational “patriotism” (nationalism), the other half is desperation; the lack of social programs in the US is by design, to draw people to the benefits they’ll get from the military (education, healthcare, housing, etc).

Bad Batch got so close to delving into Palpatines force clone experiments, and went some dark places.

I would add Rebels. First season is a liiiiittle more kid friendly and toned down than it really needed to be, the rest of it is fantastic and finished the story of Darth Maul.

o7

I opted to do the second one, except i actually went (and arrived early. Military brat upbringing yay, “early is on time, on time is late, late is unforgivable”) and then completely failed at coherently expressing the symptoms that make me feel like i have ADHD. Mind went completely blank and i spaced out.

I’m writing notes on my thoughts as i think of them now, its easier to compile my thoughts that way and if its written down i wont have forgotten absolutely everything like it’s the day of a test in school.

Once I’ve got enough notes I’m going to try another appointment and just… hand the psychologist the list of notes.

Tbh chromebooks are amazing as a concept for people like this. Barring proprietary junk like adobe, if they need more than that, they should be able to develop the skills to do basic things in linux without too much difficulty. Likely wont even need to touch any command line stuff.

Similarly, the word “Humane”; if a human does something, it is human-like behavior. It is not synonymous with “good” or “ethical”.

Sodium to you as well, fellow nerd.

Por que no los dos?

Leg cramps usually hit me if i don’t eat for long enough, doesn’t necessarily stop the hyperfocus tho

I have in fact been to an optometrists office that had office kittens.

Thank you!! I could not for the life of me put into words the vibe i got from that appointment.

“You made it this far, you seem fine”

Once I stopped taking Ritalin in grade six because my mom decided I didn’t need it anymore, I started to just receive constant ableist abuse from everyone in my life. I was always made to feel that it was my fault I was this way, my personal fault that I couldn’t do group projects or get homework or projects done. I’d score poorly on everything I did in school despite being smart and capable of learning well on my own. This was always made out to be a personal failing of my own, and not a direct consequence of my untreated ADHD combined with a system wholly unsympathetic to my experience.

Perfectly summed up my experience. Parents took me off meds (straterra in my case) due to concerns about not eating enough, everything downhill from there for the exact same reasons.

Trying to get re-diagnosed as an adult (parents lost/shredded childhood records…) and got hit with a variation of “since you’re not trying, you must be happy as you are” from a psychologist that listed ADHD as a specialty…

Did “long periods of time” define itself as “it was daylight last i looked up from my book” hyperfocus? That’s what it was for me 😜