Yeah, it sucks though. It feels like building a PC has been inadvisable more often than not. Thanks to the GPU prices being ridiculous a while back. Now this. It’s crazy that you have to time building a PC between these stupid waves.

What is it actively doing now with AI? There is the ai sidebar, but if you don’t use that it isn’t used, right?

I think we are reaching a moment where corporate greed is pushing people towards a tipping point. It feels like people are getting squeezed on everything and are seeking areas where things are still customer friendly.

Yeah, that’s basically it. Buy a license and apply it when you install windows from the windows ISO installer on the VM.

If you’ve already used the license on a PC, you may need a new one or you might be able to transfer it if it’s a retail version, not an OEM version.

My work has licenses I can apply for VMs when I’m keeping them for longer client work, so yes they are licensed in my case.

I wouldn’t do that for my own personal use though.

I have given up dual-booting and just have a Windows VM for work things that require Windows. Less muss, less fuss and I can move the VM around as needed when moving between primary PCs.

You don’t need an account for that, really. I haven’t logged into Reddit since the API enshitification wave.

I’m completely a novice at understanding this, but is ARM battery efficient because of how its executables are compiled or is it battery efficient because of ARM chip architecture? I guess my question is if you run a comparability layer like this will the ARM chips still be as efficient running x86 programs and games?

64gb was the lowest they offered at launch. Though it certainly felt like 16gb without the SD card in place.

Hardware survey is opt in, so you should chill out.

Except every time

CS2, for one

Why are they removing hacking videos? Have they always done that? IT help videos are the cornerstone of why YouTube has any redeeming value these days. I know, I know, I shouldn’t use it, but sometimes it is the only place that has the info you need.

Yes, agreed. Definitely value there. I feel like a huge part of university is demonstrating the ability to learn and apply oneself. So many people have success (like myself) in areas that they did not major in.

One thing that I think is actually an argument for big state schools vs private, more expensive lib arts schools is that the big state schools provide you skills in navigating “a System” and that does help when you get into the real world and the damn corporate rat race. Smaller liberal art schools might have more academic competition maybe, but less bureaucratic competition, in many cases. In many cases bureaucratic navigation skills, which are often more valuable in job applicants IRL.

Most impressive are folks that have gathered both the book smarts and the world navigation smarts without the need of higher education institutions and carved their path without going into huge debt or getting carried by rich parents who paid for their degree.

It is wild to me that tuition is SO expensive and quality educational content is SO ubiquitous now. It does take a lot of time, skill, and effort to provide quality educational experiences, but man is it weird that it is simultaneously free and ridiculously overpriced.

Yes, I’m a technical person, but not a web developer and so this was all new to me until very recently. Good luck!

The way I think of the cloudflare tunnel is very similar to a VPN into your system from outside, but for web application traffic specifically.

Not the guy, but I use a domain I bought from cloudflare with a cloudflare tunnel on my network. Not as secure as a VPN like tailscale, but doesn’t require setting up a VPN for my friends and family’s TVs so they can connect to the server while keeping my actual IP hidden and without needing to do any port forwarding.

I think Linux has also improved immensely. There are so many more things available that weren’t an option even a few years ago. Not to say it was bad, but it wasn’t something most people could seemlessly do. Now it kinda is.

I’m on Fedora KDE. I think it was drivers. I had the official drivers just fine, but at the time (18-24 months ago?) they were shitty and breaking some games on my GPU so I switched to alternate drivers. I think the drivers are better now, but I haven’t switched back and cleaned out my repo list.

Yep, this is the way. Pretty much every game works fine unless there is specific anticheat or some launcher nonsense.