I just bought a 32GB SODIMM DDR5 5600MHz for $430 😅 at least it was for a work PC

I have 256GB DDR3 ECC, I’m ready for RAM to turn into 2017 bitcoin at this point!

I’ve been interested in Kärcher since it’s German and has better privacy laws than the US branded stuff. But this would be interesting. The Kärcher though is on sale for $400USD on their site, tough to beat. 🤕

Honestly, they can’t afford to. They fucked up in 2012/2013 with the One and have been playing catch up ever since.

You’d THINK this would be used as an opportunity to leapfrog the competition, but I doubt it.

Now watch everyone flee back to Xbox or Nintendo.

It’s truly enshittification at its finest. They think they’ve got all these gamers locked into the ecosystem bc PC building/gaming is pricing people out, Steam box will be over $1000, Xbox is fucking up stuff and cutting back, so it’s a race to fuck stuff up but just slightly less than the competition so they have a “competitive edge”.

Yeah, seeing how they wouldn’t offer secret service to RFK Jr when he ran for the short time, I’d certainly be SOL. I’d imagine I get the ol’ Russian “threw myself out the window” treatment or some other suicide thing…

Couldn’t I just run for president and abuse my “power” like Trump, but instead of doing lots of bad I could do good? Id start by making all these executive orders to raise wealth taxes, ban invasive technologies, limit social media influence, or big tech’s reach into buying out politicians, etc…

Think Robin Hood but on a presidential scale.

So… Looks worse than a PS5 or XSX for several hundred more even after this console prices went up… I’m all for this PC hybrid, esp to compete in the market, but not at this price…

Anyone saying “it’s not bad” is already trying to justify the cost lmao! I built a PC a couple years ago with far better specs (i7-13700K w 64GB RAM & Arc A750, so anyone buying now is either desperate or uninformed. Sure the costs have risen by that’s no reason to cave and waste your money.

Well, Touché

But you’d have to go into it knowing that’s happening. I wouldn’t otherwise want this around for any other reason. Personally.

Absolutely disgusting. Who would intentionally broadcast this??? “Hey guys, I’m not home and won’t be for a while, so please rob me!”

Can confirm. For years, my pt night job was working a video store for the free rentals to “make recommendations” to customers. I didn’t have time to watch them all, so I’d rip to watch later, then used certain sites to share. I usually made direct 1:1 copies bc my PC wasn’t well equipped to remix or transcode. Thankfully, I had a school nearby that would offer free used equipment instead of paying for disposal, so I often had extra computers in doing the work on my broadband connection 😅 (I think 1.5-3Mbs).

I did often burn to DVDs as a backup bc external HDDs were expensive and discs were cheap. I did this for years, often releasing online the Friday or Saturday before DVD releases Tuesdays. If only Plex existed back then haha.

Any reason to use AI and not pay humans!

Oh good

Some drives are older. My 8TBs are 2019 enterprise SAS and are meant to be on all day. They don’t get much workout cuz once full they’re not doing a ton of writing. So they’ll last. Lady year picked up several 16TBs before the price jumped. Thankful I pay attention and jumped on it when I did!

I’ve ripped all ~2.5kDVDs, ~1.2k BD, and ~600 4K BD (plus several dozen 3D) I keep pretty high quality copies, strip multi lang or auto tracks and stick to higher DTS or Dolby, strip subtitles, etc.

Crazily, I keep a 2nd “older” 7700K for playing the DVD and BD content for friends and family, I do the better stuff for me and a couple friends who actually care about quality. Now I need to add JF alongside Plex and Emby just bc.

Heck yeah!! Good to know as I have nearing 100TB of storage 😅. Would be nice to shave that down a little!

Desensitization

Privacy4cars.com

I don’t have good news for you about your Ford…

Do they plan on moving Unifi OS beyond just network? Because we run Access, Protect, Connect and InnerSpace, too… Would be nice to have a PC setup as a controller for the cost of their Dream Machine Pro Max etc.

When I figure out how best to run for a political position, no mercy will be given. Debating which route to go and can’t really do 2026 as it’s too late, but I’ll be damned I’m so sick of big tech or corps getting breaks while the rest of us suffer.