Crucial and Samsung have good reputations.

Dawid Does Tech Stuff is as least as entertaining as LLT but without the inaccuracies or the drama: https://youtube.com/@DawidDoesTechStuff

Dave2D is great for laptop and mobile phone coverage: https://youtube.com/@Dave2D

Paul’s Hardware is good for tech news and build guides: https://youtube.com/@paulshardware

Kit Guru has consistently good hardware reviews: https://youtube.com/@KitGuruTech

Sara Dietschy has probably my favorite general tech channel on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@saradietschy

Every time I mentioned Trump on Reddit’s world news sub, I got shouted down for talking about “irrelevant” US politics. I tried to explain his potential impact on the politics of other countries, but they didn’t want to hear it.

“Very well regarded in the piracy community” isn’t a phrase I thought I’d see today 🤣

Running files you downloaded from a Russian website, what could possibly go wrong

It also would have been perfectly fine to name the company in the headline. There is plenty of room for it. But that’s Business Insider for you.

However, I have a strong suspicion that video game subscription services will end up following a similar trajectory to TV/movie streaming services at some point… Gamepass doesn’t really have any major competitors, and has been priced very aggressively in order to build market share, and it reminds me a lot of Netflix in its early digital stages.

Netflix pricing has always had a lot of pressure on it because the company has no product diversity. All Netflix offers is Netflix, so all of its revenue comes from there. Meanwhile, MS has Office as the world’s default productivity suite, and it rakes in billions from corporate Windows licensing and cloud services. As of about a year ago, gaming was actually less than 10% of their annual revenue. So they can support narrow margins on Game Pass pretty much indefinitely. And they are motivated to do so as the heavy underdog to Sony, whose consoles consistently outsell theirs by a ratio of about 2:1.

The issue with the donation has multiple stages. Stage 1 was the donation itself. Stage 2 was the intellectually insulting way that Brendan Eich defended his actions. Stage 3 is the negative impact that Proposition 8 had on California for many years, during which time millions of dollars in taxpayer money was wasted on legal proceedings to walk back the amendment banning marriage for people who dared to be of the same gender.

And we did actually hear a lot about the people who donated millions to Proposition 8. There was a lot of coverage of the millions that Mormons donated to get this type of marriage banned. It was a political decision that haunted the LDS church for years. Example 1, five years later. Here’s some more coverage from just last year. We’ve been hearing about those people for years. Because California remembers the damage that they wrought.

No one is saying that it should be free. The issue is that $50 for a straight port of a 13 year-old game is ridiculous when Sony’s competitor offers free backwards compatibility—and 4K upscaling. Microsoft absorbed their expenses for that as the cost of doing business, and it would be a blip on Rockstar’s balance sheet as well, since they make a perpetual avalanche of money from GTA Online. There’s really no credible justification for a price this high.

But the name of the website is “Alternative To,” not “Related To.” For example, if I’m looking for an alternative to Photoshop, I don’t want to see recommended video editors or 3D modeling apps. That is wasting my time with auto-generated page filler.

Earlier today, I heard someone refer to the Star Wars sequel trilogy as “woke.” I’m still scratching my head.

Unless I’m missing something here, this website does not provide a link to the original source and adds little to the discussion. They don’t even refer to them by their full name.

This is the original source: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sources-nintendo-switch-2-targets-2024-with-next-gen-console/

This is considered to be very scummy behavior not just in games journalism, but in journalism in general. If you can’t do your own coverage, at least have basic respect for the people who can.

Clearly a coincidence.

Happened quite often in the past…over the course of thousands of years. Man-made global warming is a very different animal.

Won’t someone think of the children???

Blocking ad blockers has to be the real reason behind this convoluted bullshit. Google gets the lion’s share of its revenue from ads. The whole thing is a Trojan horse destined to make things better for them at our expense. The mere proposal is already accelerating my shift away from their products.

Something like 80% of Google’s revenue is from ads, even with that 30% cut they get from everything on their app store. So their core existence deeply conflicts with a free and open web. And it’s particularly unsettling because their web browser dominates the market, so they have the leverage to force us into their vision of the future. And this domination would be very difficult to counter. It’s the default browser on Android phones, and it is constantly flogged on Google.com, which is one of the most popular web portals in the world.

Looks like they’re using a bullshit excuse to funnel people into their mobile app.

”Don’t be daft. We’re in a warming phase.”

Yeah, here’s what you tell them. Temperatures were at baseline when the industrial revolution began. That’s just a handful of generations. We’ve now seen an increase of, what 2 degrees C since then? I don’t know the exact number. The point is, this sort of increase is not present anywhere else in the geological record. It takes thousands of years for average global temperatures to naturally increase to a point like this one. There are literally no hard spikes–until the industrial revolution began. The only credible takeaway is that humans are the problem.

That looks like a solid build. A few things to be aware of, though. Since you’ve chosen a large air cooler, you’ll need low-profile RAM. Corsair, Mushkin and G-Skill are popular choices. You also won’t need extra thermal paste. The tube that comes with the AK620 will be fine.

Also, the 13700K is at the upper limit of CPUs where I would use air cooling, as it can pull up to 250 watts from the board. You may want to consider a 7800X3D because it uses about half the power, without sacrificing gaming performance. And AM5 boards are supposed to be compatible with the future 8000 series chips, or whatever AMD ends up calling those. I say this as the owner of a 13600K whose chip regularly pulls up to 200 watts when gaming.

Lastly, 3D rendering. Depending on how deep you get into that, you may actually need 64GB of RAM – or more. The good news is that you have two more slots on that board, so you can always get more later. And I highly advise that you try to get an identical pair, for maximum compatibility. At the least, make sure that all four sticks are rated for the same voltage when set to their XMP speed. Also be aware that Intel memory controllers tend to be more robust, so if you do need to populate all four slots, the AMD option may not be able to handle the same clock speeds.