LOL I hope you have at least one NVME SSD to run the OS at least.

You unplugged a DVD drive to plug in a hard drive?

What does it feel like still living in 2010?

32°C is not hot, no matter the humidity.

Come talk to me when it’s 45°+ with 35-45%RH for three months straight.

I didn’t know they offer same day shipping on mail-order brides now.

Wow I would have murder on my mind if I couldn’t adjust my water heater temperature. I set mine above 140°F/60°C so that the dishes in the dishwasher actually sanitize properly. Most water heaters hang out around 50°C out of the box, and I doubt the apartment community actually bothered to increase the temp.

Why do they do this? It’s your power bill.

Then this thread isn’t for you because it doesn’t get hot where you live.

No sane person would live in a home without a central HVAC in an area that gets real heat. Swamp coolers and those portable window A/Cs just can’t keep up.

Also put foil-backed insulation over any single-paned windows you don’t use. Or do what I did and cover only half the window if you still use the room occasionally.

And if you have an HOA that bans this, placing the insulation behind the blinds instead of directly on the window will do the trick and make it difficult to see what you did, especially if you keep the blinds closed or only open them partially and angled downward.

That looks considerably worse. Why’d you turn his face into plastic?

I did some digging and unfortunately I can’t find the original, unmolested version of this image. They’re all cropped and overlaid with a watermark or text.

So he pulled a Bob Marley, then. Also known as a Steve Jobs.

Thanks for the tip. I’ve only ever worked for one extreme or the other.

For me the issue is not only the bad writing, but the over saturation of content as well.

There are just too many spinoffs and sequels now, ever since Disney bought the rights. I got bored of The Mandalorian halfway into season 1. Same goes for Obi Wan. Rogue One was great, but I didn’t bother with Solo or even Episode IX. Stopped paying attention after that.

The only Star Wars content I’m looking forward to is the remake of Knights of the Old Republic, and only because the original was among the best RPGs I’ve ever played. Couldn’t care less about anything else. Disney killed off my enthusiasm for the franchise. Maybe I just wasn’t as much of a fan as I thought I was…

I gave you a source. Just listen to the episode.

No source needed; literally everything Gates does is for one reason: Profit.

Behind the Bastards (podcast) has a good episode on how he operates.

What’s your drug of choice, then?

Good point.

Why does a CPU need to produce seeds?

Okay somebody please explain the joke/reference I’m not understanding. Or is OP just schizophrenic?

Dell, actually. Back in 2004 when they stated making gaming laptops with “upgradable” graphics cards. Except you could only upgrade within the same generation. So go fuck yourself if you actually wanted the latest GPU.

Also the motherboard failed twice on me. Thankfully within warranty but never again.

Desktop, of course, simply for upgradability and better thermal management.

I have an AM5 system, so I’ll be able to upgrade not only my graphics card, but my CPU as well, and have a modern machine that’ll last me well into the 2030s. These days you can’t even upgrade your RAM on most laptops.

There’s also the fact that I don’t really feel the need to game on the go, and modern smartphones have fulfilled my need to have a portable computer for everything else. When I did own a gaming laptop, I paid way too much money for it, and the battery didn’t even last an hour playing something as basic as The Sims, so it had to be plugged in all the time like a desktop anyway. Within 4 years the GPU was too old to run anything at a reasonable framerate. Never buying a gaming laptop again.

When I first got my N64, my brother and I literally couldn’t play Mario Kart without tilting the controller. And my cousin always had to slam the controller down into his lap when doing the grapple attack as Kirby in Super Smash Bros. He claimed that mimicking the motions of Kirby made the attack do more damage.