I also read they started doing this in some American state and it raised 1.8 billion dollars. If this idea appeals to you, try to find out if there are any petitions in your country that suggest something like this. If you’re from the Netherlands, the SP has a petition like this.

Oh man I played RRT4 a LOT on my PSone. It was amazing

I do not understand how in this day and age there are are people that just think 'I’ll just dump this here on the street "

Look, if JEDEC standardises it (which they did) it’s in everyone’s best interest to apply the standard.

The only thing laptop manufacturers have to gain is selling you a new laptop every for years… Oh.

Jokes aside, the LPDDR soldering has always been a cash grab. With efficient cpus and lack of dedicated gpus I doubt the 4W of RAM is really that much of a battery drain. The only reason you would want a laptop to not be upgradeable is because they don’t want you to use your laptop for more than 4 years.

I’d say quick turns in the laptop market is good for innovation, but it’s absolutely awful for consumers’s wallets and e-waste.

I am all for CAMM.

Read up on Intel QSV. You essentially only need a recent cpu. i3 would do.

I hear good things about the Intel Arc A380. You basically only need it to convert video and the Intel is not too bad at that for not too steep a price

If I may ask, what country is that?

It’s difficult but the harsh truth is that it’ll only get better once you find people that can accept you for who your are. For me, this was college. I found a lot of like-minded people and realised I tried to adapt to a world that was never made for me for 21 years. Then again, I only have a mild case of autism.

To be clear: hdmi 2.0 is not a cable spec. The ports on both your gpu and your monitor can have a hdmi spec like 1.4 or 2.0 or 2.1. Cable specs are High Speed, Ultra High Speed or Ultra High Speed with Ethernet. Essentially they all work with all hdmi port specs.

Similar goes for displayport except the main cable just has one spec. Your monitor has HDMI 1.4 (no vrr) or DisplayPort 1.2. Your gpu does HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.4. They are backwards compatible but the default to the lowest spec, so connecting HDMI means you can only use HDMI 1.4 spec and connecting DP means you can get DP1.2.

DisplayPort has a much higher bandwidth. Without going into detail I’d say for PC gaming DP is always better. Look up HDMI vs DP for more on the subject.

If you don’t have an Nvidia GPU you can’t use GSync. You can use FreeSync if you have it but variable refresh rates need at least HDMI 2.0.

What it does: your monitor relays a certain refresh rate to your gpu and if you turn on VSync, your gpu will not render more frames than your monitor can display. GSync and FreeSync make the monitor able to relay different refresh rates, making it possible for your gpu to render less frames whilst still showing a consistent picture.

So in short: if you don’t have a DP on your monitor you can’t use variable refresh rates anyway and GSync is out of the question.

I’ve looked up your monitor specs, if you really want to you can use FreeSync over displayport. It’ll require some setup in Windows and in your games.

That’s the great thing about PCIe: could be anything. But until we get a closer look at those two ports at the bottom, there’s really no way of telling. They could be SATA ports.

Why exactly can’t you use hardware acceleration with an nvidia card? We have Arch Linux with a Quadro P400 and using the nvidia driver Tdarr runs super smoothly. The way to get all your content in x265 is just by decoding and encoding, which Tdarr, Handbrake etc can do. But it’s one stream per nvenc/nvdec at a time so it takes time.

I think the timing is a little awkward. But mostly, it’s the prices. Gamers really don’t need 16GB of VRAM for 1440p and for 4K the 4070 just falls short.

So gamers will wait for the next generation, or take a 7800XT for 1440p. Unless they care about DLSS3. Which is very dependent on the games they play.

Essentially the 12 volt cigarette lighters in cars are fireless. There’s also plasma-like lighters that work with electricity.

So yeah, do they work just as well? Depends. Fire lighters are a handful in windy conditions. Electric lighters are less efficient but they work just fine.

SoulSeekQT is a free p2p file sharing service specifically for music and you can specify file types or bitrate in filters.

Money is not the issue to me. I’ll happily pay for every episode I watch, maybe even per download. I just don’t want my content scattered across different platforms in suboptimal quality and be forced to pay a fixed fee even if I just need the one show on that platform.

It’s a service issue.

Love plexamp, hate the way plex forces album-centric metadata.