It is undeniably satisfying though to turn all settings in a game up to maximum without performance tanking, but you and I (same card, but 1440p screen) are not the target audience. This is for people who want (and can afford) at least 4K with ray-tracing in the latest games and all of this at triple-digit frame rates - or they are actually using it for non-gaming applications: Even our old 2080 is a beast for tasks like offline rendering, scientific calculations, machine learning, etc. - and a 4090 is of course several times better at this.

I know this is going way off-topic, but I love providing a bit of perspective: The fastest supercomputer in 1996 was the Hitachi CP-PACS/2048 at 368.20 GFLOPS. In 1997, it was the Intel ASCI Red/9152 at 1.338 TFLOPS. An RTX 2080 achieves 314.6 GFLOPS at 64-bit precision (as used by the TOP 500 list of supercomputers) and an RTX 4090 1.290 TFLOPS. Granted, despite similar processing power on paper (and FLOPS being hardly an objective measure to compare vastly different architectures and systems), even ancient supercomputers still have modern GPUs beat in terms of the amount of memory alone (although latency is of course far worse): 128 GB (2,048 * 64 GB MB) in case of the Hitachi system, for example.

There’s the expected whataboutism.

The fourth one is absolutely hilarious. It demonstrates just how weak and insecure Chinese nationalism is that propagandists feel the need to create such a flimsy, self-congratulatory lie so that mainland citizens might feel something resembling pride about their crumbling dictatorship.

Are you seriously trying to promote a false equivalency narrative?

In a two-party system, you’re throwing away your vote that could get Harris instead of Trump elected for not even a blip on the radar. This is at best pointless grandstanding.

Edit: Decided to read a little into her. She’s nothing but a spoiler candidate, meant to syphon voters away from Harris, just like Stein. Cherry on top: Apologia for China and North Korea and funding from China, which alone should motivate any decent human being to avoid her like the plague: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_De_la_Cruz_2024_presidential_campaign#Criticism

I’ve got a Steam Deck and two servers running on Linux.

… until you inevitably need to use the shell. Linux, no matter the flavor, has been very easy to use in the 22 years that I’ve tried to use it - until you need to dig ever so slightly deeper for something and then it very much isn’t. I started out with a Knoppix live-CD back in 2002. Remember that distro?

No issues that you know of.

Eh, that’s a bit different. The Russian state does carry out assassinations of critics.

Low bar - and you should look into the many faults and issues Chinese cars are having.

Consider looking into 3D-printed cases, if you have access to a printer or thought about getting one. Lots of nice small designs out there. For the price of one of your cases, you can get an excellent printer already.

“Included kinetic sidepanel removal system.” - I’m dying!

This doesn’t look like small form factor to me, if that’s what SFF stands for.

The thing is, this pornography and cats will tell future historians a ton about what people were like in our times. Not all of it will be accurate, but that’s an issue with any primary source. Hell, watch some grainy smut from the '70s or '80s and pay attention to things other than the “action”, like the choice of music, the way the actors are talking, how they are dressed, what the sets look like, what kind of excuses for plots are being used, all of which are clearly products of their time. Amateur stuff is even more illuminating. Before anyone thinks I’m overthinking this: We learned a lot about Ancient Rome from the smut Romans carved into buildings in Pompeii.

It’s the same with old cat pictures. You can reasonably date many of them by what the background looks like, e.g. what kind of electronics and furniture are present, how people who are also in the photos are dressed, image quality (provided it hasn’t been compressed to hell and back since), etc. These kinds of seemingly inconsequential artifacts of our time will be highly illuminating to future historians (provided they are being preserved), just like the complaint letters ol’ Ea Nasir received thousands of years ago.

Probably wrote at least parts of the article.

But what about…

The 1060 is an eight year old mid-range card, lacking almost all of the features that are setting nvidia apart from AMD these days. It has CUDA, but on its own, that’s mostly useful only for non-gaming applications. AMD is lagging behind, but they are not lagging that far behind. AMD has trouble keeping up with 20xx cards and newer, especially when it comes to ray-tracing and upscaling. FSR, while supporting older cards and being manufacturer-agnostic (that’s why even your old Nvidia card is supported), is a crutch that comes with serious visual downgrades, whereas DLSS improves both performance and visuals. This matters in all market segments. Ray-tracing meanwhile is mostly a mid-range and up thing - and while newer AMD cards support it, their performance relative to otherwise equivalent Nvidia cards is lagging far behind.

I hope you are merely trolling.

On one hand yes, but on the other hand, he also likes to cozy up to dictators to an alarming degree.

That’s a universal truth about parenting though and not limited to just social media.