Skynet’s real origin story. We might just deserve judgement day.

A VPN is the only bit you’d pay for, alongside the inevitable mass of HDDs to store everything on once you get addicted to just keeping everything forever in your own personal Netflix.

Don’t want to get lumbered with a bunch of old stock now, do you?

No, it’s a piece of shit and it’s more expensive than mini PCs many times more capable.

The thing is Twitter costs, even at its height, under a billion a year to run.

He could pull all advertising and run it to the end of his life as a hobby.

But he can’t have that, because the line must go up and the workers must cower in fear whenever their boss stalks the building.

It may well be the case that they’re similar or even swapped now. I can see that the N100 is pretty low power compared to the newest low end AMD chips, but then the AMD chips are better in terms of what they can do.

This one reckons they’re pretty similar.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/10evt0z/ryzen_vs_intels_idle_power_consumption_whole/

This one reckons Intel are better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809852

I doubt there’s much in it either way. Even if AMD are ahead now, laptops don’t get replaced right away, normies replace shit when it fails or is too slow to run whatever shit Google shoehorned into Chrome this year, and the most popular laptops are probably the ones with the lowest sticker price.

That’s under load. At Idle (which is where your average home PC will spend most of it’s time) I think Intel has the edge still.

It’s certainly a consideration for a battery device. Watching a video reading emails or staring at a spreadsheet will likely have better battery life than a similar spec AMD device.

We’ve reached a point where most everyday computing tasks can be handled by a cheapo N100 mini PC.

I haven’t got around to playing it yet, but what you’ve described sounds a lot like The Witcher 3 for me.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it enough to finish pretty much everything (except all the Skellige question marks which thoroughly outstayed their welcome), and Hearts of Stone is better than Blood and Wine, but the gameplay was pretty flat throughout, and most of my enjoyment was in the cutscenes and dialogue and following threads to their inevitably grim conclusions. It’s not a game that I would ever replay.

It does seem like a very obvious thing to add, and the mind boggles at how it wasn’t there to start with.

It’s taken this long for Intel to lose gamer trust.

Intel also have lower power consumption iirc, which is useful for laptops etc.

AMD have the best server chips: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

You have to remember that most people aren’t “choosing a CPU” as much as buying a PC. If the majority of pre-build retail PCs have Intel, then the majority of purchases will be Intel.

But for that you can buy a mini PC that runs it locally. What the fuck is this even for?

The UK is a lot further north, and it’s probably not a massive loss.

It was enough to prevent me getting “free” solar panels (while that was a thing) though, so I’m still salty about that.

All the new houses around here with no solar would indicate that is not true. They’re not even required to have a south facing roof.

If you have a solid gaming PC, yes. There is no immersion quite like VR. No amount of monitors will get you there.

It’s a bit of a faff each time you want to get it going (having to start the link each time), at least compared to a dedicated headset like the original Rift. The Quest 3 is a bit pricy, the 3S and 2 not so much. There’s a few decent exclusives for the 3 that aren’t even available on PC, so of the two I’d get the 3S.

Low framerate will make you dizzy. The resolution not so much. You will need a decent GPU.

Most VR games are fairly small and low budget affairs. The big exception is Half Life Alyx which is amazing. The game I come back to the most is VRChat, just for the massive number of worlds that people have made. It will help you get your VR legs over time.

It was either that or show that picture of Bin Laden again.

What did Episode 1 and 2 push forward?

I don’t see why it would only be Chinese immigrants doing it.

It’s all over the place.

It’s all fun and games until you’re left with a bunch of crap you can’t sell, or it turns out you were shipping dangerous products and now you’re on the hook for it.

Enjoy your 5% profits though.

Elon turned it into his own personal Nazi blog where people can’t block him.

The first is a bit rough. It got a remake with Black Mesa which used to be free, but I don’t think it is any more.

I’d honestly just start with 2. It’s a better game all round. You can always go back and play Black Mesa later if you like it.

If you have a VR headset and a decent rig, Half Life Alyx is well worth it. I’d definitely play HL2 plus Episodes 1 and 2 before heading into that one.

I do wonder how much higher that would be if GPUs targeting 4K were £299 rather than £999.

Although some of it is down to monitors being on desks right in front of you and 4K not really being needed. It would also be interesting to for Valve to weight the results by hours spent gaming that month (and amount they actually spend on games), rather than just counting hardware numbers.