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5800X3D anniversary edition is shell shocker today.

That is the point. They don't want anyone owning anything. Everything will be in the cloud and be 100% controlled and will pay for that privilege.

new Res/Pump today :D looks better(imo)

The tables have turned, and there's no going back. The AI nut jobs are the ones who need to be separated from their employment.

This is like a telescreen straight out of 1984.

DLSS5 seems like a sham.... the Unreal engine 5 can light up en entire cityscape with a single light source... all based on reflections. We don't need "AI" to "make it pretty" for us. The whole point of a game is to create a virtual environment...

Past time. Never understand why some people pay money to surveil themselves! Get a CCTV camera, burglar alarm and a gun if you are so afraid for your life! Stolen Amazon package? Just tell them it was stolen! They don't care about your photo...

These cops act like somehow it is impossible to do their job without the ability to track citizens all day, every day. Somehow, the only way to catch criminals now is via machine-learning and cameras. I guess tracking down leads and questioning...

Professional business applications traditionally have a purchase price + annual maintenance (upgrades & security patches). In the era of A.I. vulnerability finding, global hackers, and countless breaches of PII, security patches are a...

I would swear most "subscriptions" make money on the fact that normies forget about them until they check why their bank account is zero and the latest Amazon order is on hold due to funds. Good luck canceling once they take your money.

I think Intel left the GPU market at the worst possible time.... NVIDIA price gouging everyone... Means even a 3rd place company, selling at the right price becomes very competitive. I almost bought a B580 until I found a lightly-used 5070.

Steam (and by extension, some games) has long been the primary reason many desktop users have maintained a multilib install over the past 5 years or so; many beginning or intermediate desktop users have been sticking to solely 64-bit utils...

I would say he should marry her but he already did.

Oh, I also used them as barriers to keep the kittens from wandering around the garage,

I checked all of the options. quite a few were sold with systems in them, and a few I put older systems in and sold them as cheap machines. My oldest case is a Yeong Yang YY-0221 cube case that I bought in 2003 or 2005, ended up trading it to...

200kWh / month? Wow that is low. In the southern USA, it's closer to 1.5MWh in summer. Total of all my computers per month is only 15 kWh / month, so I dunno what you're doing with those PC's.

I got into Raspberry Pi computers, as PC's are just too expensive these days. One of them displays "holiday lights" depending on which holiday is next (e.g., pumpkin for Halloween, cornucopia for Thanksgiving).

Last summer, I found enough old parts (i7-9700, 32GB, 2TB, 1080tI) in my attic to assemble a nice PC for my grandmother's assisted living facility. Took a few weeks to teach the residents how -- and why -- to use a computer, but most of them got...

Have you looked at Open Media Vault?

After a 3 year hiatus, I figured it was time to resume my role as the unofficial [H] new year workstation thread starter. (y)