You can go for an Intel B580 and an AMD 7700 and have a decent gaming experience for well under 1000 $/€, even ignoring used parts. A Steam Deck is 420€.

It’s not like gaming is unavailable, but everything above low-end has a premium price tag at the moment. What people don’t seem to realise is that this low-end is still on paar with current gen consoles and games still look pretty good without spending 2k+ on a computer.

Ein wahnsinnig teures Auto kaufen, das man dann gar nicht haben will, und sich offensichtlich auch nicht wirklich leisten kann, ok, blöd. Das Auto dann weiter verkaufen und sich nicht mit 150 statt 170 tausend zufrieden geben, ok, gierig. Ein Nein vom Zoll ignorieren und es verschleiert nochmal versuchen? Das ist schon wirklich dummdreist.

Wenn dein Freund Gebrauchtwagenhändler ist, warum kauft er dein Auto nicht direkt? Wer weiß, vielleicht wusste er von Anfang an, dass er nicht in dem Papierkram auftauchen will…

Ingl., I don’t see Germany spending anywhere near 250 billion on the military. Isn’t that already rivaling Russia?

Has been a thing in IBM processors for years.

They even do 8-way multithreading. Doesn’t handle fundamentally different than 2-way, except you have less hardware = less compute per thread. Basically the same as using slower clocking cores, if they hide the multithreading right.

*The only, kinda

KDE Plasma offers a UI similar to Windows out of the box, I would say that’s a good start. Introduce them to the endless customisation options and they might start to dig it. Maybe take a distro aimed at gaming like Bazzite.

Other good options inlcude OpenSUSE or Linux Mint, the latter with another, but also similar feeling desktop.

Although caution is advised, this is a slippery slope to becoming a programmer.

I’m a little torn on your comment, because om the one hand you are right and on the other these lawsuits have nothing to do with the designs or art style at all.

That’s funny, I would point put the amazing gameplay in particular as their no. 1 selling point, if I had to choose anything. But the discussion what’s good and what’s bad aside, they just didn’t deliver on their promises.

I was fed the story of a GTA contender. A life-sim where your choices matter, starting with your origin story, which was supposed to already have great impact. And what does reality look like? Well, your origin story gets you a different tutorial mission and you get a few extra dialog options that do nothing. Your character always behaves exactly the same outside of that and it changes nothing about the story. It’s hardly even referenced by other characters at all, something Mass Effect and Dragon Age did better forever ago. The one big difference I noticed is that Jackie matters even less to you as corpo, which makes all the emotional stuff feel even more out of place and awkward, since you lose the offrenda mission. Hurray.

As for life-sim aspects, you can eat in some select few cut scenes, otherwise eating is useless and doesn’t even come with generic animations. You cannot even eat your useless food at a stall in the city or have a drink at the countless bars in the game just for fun. Except for cutscenes and in your, save for the wardrobe, useless apartment of course. You can also take a useless shower, or wait in bed instead of literally anywhere else. Wow.

You can randomly date a select few characters out of nowhere by choosing a random dialogue option. At least this yields you an almost sex-scene and a bonus quest… Followed by optional, awkward staring in your apartment and no further impact at all. Funnily enough your gender has a greater impact on the game than your backstory that way.

NPCs are generally dumb and you can’t really interact much with them at all. Police is dumb and easily outsmarted as well, but also always punishes you by death for anything. MaxTac is really tough actually and beating them yields you… Nothing! Nothing at all.

You do get a couple of choices throughout the story, but do they really change all that much? I would argue no, they don’t. Most of the time they cause some characters you barely know to live or die. Not the really important ones of course! We need those and there aren’t that many. I think one of the most interesting interactions in the entire game is the one with the ranom Natwatch guy, because you can’t really forsee the consequences for once.

Then there are a couple of different endings, some of which are actually hard to find. I think in retrospective, they are the main thing, besides the very varied gameplay, offering replay-value. The thing is, you don’t need to replay the game to see them all.

Is Cyberpunk trash? No, of course not, I’ve had my fair share of fun. I’m actually in my third playthrough to do liberty city, because everyone says it’s amazing. As for the main game only, I can’t help but be disappointed by the countless things this game doesn’t do. Including many low hanging fruits.

They arguably did worse, because NMS didn’t just polish the game, they retroactively added most of the content + didn’t release a paid DLC. Cyberpunk falls short of what has been promised to this day.

Lieber Kanzler Merz als Kanzlerin Weidel. Damit bleiben immerhin 4 Jahre, diesen Wahnsinn vielleicht noch in den Griff zu kriegen… Bzw. einen Plan B vorzubereiten.

Ich denke der CxU ist inzwischen auch daran gelegen, die AfD zu bekämpfen. Zumindest lassen Aussagen der letzten Tage (bzgl. Parteifinanzierung, Überwachung und Staatsdienst) darauf schließen, dass der rein politische Kampf abgeschrieben ist.

Any intel on affected, high-profile software?

Eh, isn’t that argument more about being greedy for ressources rather than capital in particular? I mean, why did empires conquer stuff?

Für die, die es interessiert: fährt fort mit einer Abhandlung über ein völlig anderes Thema

War aber interessant :D

Funfact: That guy rarely uses a campfire to cook

Afaik most people who seriously want to have a local LLM start of off a pre-trained one from the internet…?

Plug and play mostly, think you need an extra one for the media engine

Jeder weiß doch, dass Physik ab Lichtgeschwindigkeit ohnehin irgendwie macht, was sie will. Ich warte noch darauf, dass sich herausstellt, dass das an fundamental falschen Modellen liegt. Dann kann ich nämlich so tun, ich hätte mich um Quantenmechanik gedrückt, weil ich schon immer geahnt habe, dass das alles Quatsch ist, und nichts einen Spin, eine Chiralität, oder sonst irgendwelche ausgedachten Eigenschaften hat

Ich bin mit dem Konzept nicht im Detail vertraut, aber ich würde raten durch einen elektromagnetischen Effekt. Kurzwellige Strahlung trifft auf das Segel, drückt es leicht weg, gibt dabei Energie ab und wird als langwelligere Strahlung abgelenkt

Du kannst doch sowas nicht pfostieren ohne uns jetzt auch mitzuteilen wie viel :(

How does your boot setup look? Reinstalling the bootloader or regenerating the boot image could help. Should be easy, not matter whether its GRUB2 or systemd-boot. Config is managed separately. Might want to have a look at that as well.

With Dracut it’s also very easy to generate and configure your boot image. Don’t know how it works with that Arch native tool.