Ditto. 7800X3D is a beast for games and I don’t give half a shit about productivity performance on my gaming machine. I got mine for around $350 early this year and I’m absolutely floored that it’s now over $400. That’s not the direction things are supposed to go.

I think we may be in the last generations of x86’s desktop and laptop dominance. All phones and now all Macs run on ARM-based chips and they do just fine while sipping watts, compared to x86’s two big proponents both having faltering launches on their latest generations with ever higher TDPs where you only get more processing power by using more electrical power.

Fantastic choices. Outer Wilds for me.

It’s hard to believe that it would have taken 25 years for the many SD card builders out there to figure out that a heat spreader could solve the degradation problems.

I feel like dealing with SD cards’ inevitable demise is more important than armoring them. What good is a stainless SD card that no longer functions after 2 years of use?

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I like Nile Red’s content, but his style is a little too wooden for me. Explosions and Fire / Extractions and Ire scratch my chemistry itch.

Dumping the stock as soon as possible was always the plan, this is just money laundering through an acquisition company.

I’m sure there will be another batch of Fiskers in there somewhere, made by a new Fisker that’s totally different than those other two Fiskers that failed.

Do you think a cat could eat it?

The real big deal is that the emissions are localized to the area power generation, instead of the air around neighborhoods, parks and generally large groups of people. It’s much easier to trap emissions from one source compared to many millions of sources.

Women are hiring for a car battery.

6. Sometimes you’re getting it from all sides and all you can really do is sigh and let it happen.

I don’t speak French, but I did translate “cat, I farted” into French on Google Translate and had it dictate the result. It sounds a good deal like ChatGPT, especially if you’re primed to listen for it.

EDIT: Or at least it used to. Now, if you translate “cat, I farted” it gives you “Cat, j’ai pété” and pronounces the C as a hard C, like it reads. Maybe it’s deciding that “cat” on its own is the name “Cat,” and thus not in need of translation. If you give it different context you get the expected result, as with translating “I had to tell the cat, I farted” you get back “J’ai dû dire au chat, j’ai pété,” which when pronounced the last bit sounds as expected.

They subscribe to the theory that less forward acceleration is the same thing as slowing down.

Just write a script that runs periodically to check the log’s size and delete when its near the crash threahold.

This is genius but too high effort. You may sit on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of shitost.

It’s a holdover from the at-the-time socially acceptable racist tropes of the 90s.

Describing a soul is task for a philosopher. I merely recognize a familiar spark.

The Outer Worlds is like if you stripped half the soul and the content out of New Vegas, slapped a coat of paint on it and threw a brick on the accelerator.

Fat people are pretty common, they’re not a rare body shape or disability that should require a custom bike.

Bikes are, in general, designed to be as light as they can be for their price point. The reason behind this is that a lighter bike is less weight to move, meaning for the same effort one can potentially go farther or faster than they would be able on a heavier bike. So when a company is designing a bike, they think about the person they believe will buy it and design a bike that will support that rider.

Heavier people weigh more, obviously. Larger loads require more structural strength. Making a bike that can carry a 300lb+ person without breaking involves a redesign if you initially designed for lighter loads. Similarly, building it requires change to your manufacturing processes.

People who have health problems due to their weight, in general, do not buy as many bikes as people whose weight does not negatively impact their health. A company isn’t going to go an make a big production run of an expensive product if they don’t think there’s a market for it, which means it becomes a custom job to get one done.

Want cheaper bikes that can handle 300lb+ riders? Do a kickstarter and see how many customers will put down dollars.