You can still build a pretty great pc for a little over $1000, though there are some compromises imo. You can get under the $1000 mark if you’re willing to make some more compromises and/or do a mix of new and used parts. But either way you can get way more performance than the steam machine for the money, though maybe not in as svelte a package.

Yeah I was looking at mostly similar parts, but squeezing for a 9060xt. I got to a little less than $1200 on an am5 platform with all new stuff, or $1000 using used ddr4 and ssd on an am4 platform, but still with the 9060xt

Because they don’t make them anymore?

Agree, it’s a spectacular world to bop about in on your boys road trip. But a pretty junk final fantasy game outside of that

I used to eat it more often than I should, then at some point it got more expensive than just going to locally owned actual Mexican restaurants. So now I just do that. The food is way better, cheaper, and you get more food. And it feels good to support local rather than some enormous publicly traded corporation

The race organizers really fucked that one up. But women catching the back of the men’s peloton is a “problem” that happens from time to time, and it can be hard to tell when it’s incidental or intentional strategy. It has been a tactic for some women to push extra hard at the start to try and catch the men’s field to draft behind them until the finish, which is an unfair advantage. Which is explicitly illegal in most racing series.

Though that gets complicated when it’s a woman catching a large men’s peloton that the female rider can’t ride alongside, and would have to just ride awkwardly far behind the pack to avoid running afoul of the rules.

I don’t know the details of this race in particular, but it seems the organizers halted the race to avoid this once they realized they really should have started the women’s race later. Was she intentionally trying to catch the men’s group? Maybe. Starting a breakaway from 2km in is almost certainly unsustainable, so if she wasn’t planning on catching the men’s field, it was either gross overconfidence or terrible strategy. She was very likely going to get caught by the women’s peloton regardless, and passed since they’ll be on fresher legs when they do catch her.

Edit: I should add that stopping the race for a few minutes with a neutralized restart is not entirely uncommon in pro cycling. For example, if part of the field has to stop and wait for a passing train, they’ll stop the front of the race as well, and restart them with the approximate gaps between groups they had before the train.

As funny as that is, something tells me it’s not that hard to spot an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean

Almost certainly a bit of performance art. Makes for some interesting imagery, and provocative enough to be posted and discussed here. So he’s done well.

The sick guy is more likely to die soon, so she’ll get tons of money and not have to be with some rich dude, who are generally assholes

Doubt it, but it does feel like the good times are behind us. I imagine pc building as we know it is going to continue to skew towards high end.

Though I can see mid range and lower end stuff move in the direction of sbc’s and stuff like the Framework desktop, where your cpu, ram, and probably gpu are a single package soldered to your main board. So when you upgrade you might keep your chassis, psu, and storage, but everything else is one piece and has to be replaced at the same time. Which, tbh, I don’t think is the worst thing in the world.

It’s arguably the best part of the video

Just based on how AI is trained, makes sense that it would be around average at best. Bad training data gets mixed in with the good, and a lot of times AI really wouldn’t be able to tell which is good vs what is bad. A lot of objectively good quality stuff goes totally unnoticed on the internet, and memes and shitposts get a ton of traffic.

So what I’m saying is we should continue to poison AI with shitposts and blatant misinformation

Post nudes on 4chan. See if they can tell if they're real

Of course he would. Because the system for “electing” the FIA president isn’t broken enough.

But if he ever stops being president, who will play with the drivers hair and pour water on their heads?

..which aren’t (usually) paid for with taxpayer dollars

But I’m guessing doing air shows counts towards training hours, so they’re going to be flying those planes regardless. Still feels like a massive waste when two of them crash and burn in a show though

I drink very little, usually only one or two beers a week. But on the rare occasion I have a couple drinks with friends late at night, I sleep like a baby. I feel well rested after only 4-6 hours, and actually have dreams almost every time. Which doesn't happen most nights without alcohol.

I find this a little alarming, as I see how that could be habit forming. But yeah, alcohol seems to drastically improve my sleep, though I haven't given this thorough testing for obvious reasons.

I’d much rather game on old hardware or janky arm based stuff than use hardware as a service, even if it means being 10+ years behind in performance. There are so many great games that will run on pretty much anything

Framework catching strays with that thumbnail

Unless they’re super aggressively pro-ai and I just haven’t heard that.

That image is hard af