Emulation itself doesn’t constitute piracy.

Now, it does facilitate it because all you need is a ROM from any source.

However, saying emulators should be prosecuted for it would be the same as arguing that Steam’s Proton should be banned because you can launch pirated games through it.

The real perpetrators are those who distribute pirated content. But going against those would be much more difficult, so they target emulators instead.

Inflation of food prices is very noticeable. Still manageable, though.

Taxes are getting higher.

Lots of services can’t be paid for due to sanctions. Some payments are possible, but for a premium.

Roscomnadzor still pisses everybody off. They’re slowing down YouTube to an unusable rate. They claim it’s Google’s hardware degrading (It’s not). Then there’s Discord being blocked, and now they seemingly want to target Steam for some unknown reason (the reason is VKontacte needs more money).

More insane legislature is being talked about.

The lingering threat of being drafted or randomly killed by a drone isn’t gone, which is emotionally draining.

People want peace. Yet, put responsibility on incumbent. (Think: “We had no say in it, they started it, they’ll finish it”)

Opposition? What opposition? Everybody’s either jailed or were forced to leave the country. They’ll literally lock up a single father up if he dares to show disagreement with their “special military operation.” And the kid? Who cares? They don’t matter to our very just and absolutely not corrupt courts. (Sry, still fuming about that story. Hope the judge and the principal will rot in hell)

That’s about it. Source: me, also russian news media and official legislature sources

It’s more convenient than dragging a cursor across the screen. Works especially great with a 360° hinge.

Yes, ECC memory. If used, then CPU also needs to be able to support it. Then there’s number of cores, unless you specifically need high single-core performance. Efficient and reliable PSU, low power-consumption, lots of memory, redundancy for storage. Stuff like that.

None of which are essential, BTW. Any working PC can be made into a server regardless of its hardware.

All server really is is just another PC that’s been built with a different purpose in mind. The rest is software configuration. They need to be reliable, scalable, and cost you as little as possible to upkeep.

Even your router is the same. It’s all computers.

Have you ever built PCs? Macs are significantly more expensive for the same spec

The rest I agree with, it doesn’t help that Windows has been steadily going downhill with each new version…

Don’t know about the alternatives, but those SOTC ones seem to be in stock on Ali if you’re interested.

It’s quite the opposite, though. PC components have never been as compatible as they are today with the inclusion of different standards like ATX and stuff.

As for you figuring stuff out, here’s how I pick parts:

Coolers: I go see the temperature tests to decide on which one fits depending on noise vs temps vs price.

Motherboards: Here are the main bits I look at

• Compatible socket
• Amount of USB ports
• Amount of Sata ports
• Amount of M.2 slots
• Other ports you’d want to use
• Supported type of RAM (DDR4 vs DDR5)

Then there’s extra

• Chipset (top-tier chipsets are often a waste of money)
• Bluetooth and wifi (can always be added later, but nice to have built-in)
• A button for updating BIOS (bypasses need for CPU)
• Troubleshooting LEDs (very handy when tinkering)
• How chunky the heatsing is (bigger = better)
• Amount of power phases (black cubes around the socket, more = better, only need to pay attention to those when going for high power-draw CPU)

PSU: Very simple, go to power draw calculator or multiply power draw from pcpartpicker by 1.3 or 1.4, that’s your Wattage requirement. Then find a list of reliable PSUs, look for cheapest reliable one that has enough Watts. It’s a good idea to have some overhead as well. Alternatively to a tier-list is knowing which manufacturers are good.

Cooling for RAM: ignore cooling for RAM, not important at all. It’s mostly for looks.

RAM clock speeds: MT/s, aka Mhz, is bus width. Higher amount = more data can pass at once. But we’re currently at a point when 6000mhz doesn’t make much difference against 3600mhz. So, latency is more important. Google, which combination of clock speed + timings (they look like 36-38-38, can also be written as CL36) has lowest latency, go with lowest.

Pcpartpicker makes sure things you put together are compatible with each other. So, start with CPU and GPU.

And here’s your other issue…

Nothing of what I said was meant as an offense. Yet you took it to hearts. That is not a response one would normally expect (Unless it’s cultural, ig). It’s almost as if I’m reading a script from a teenage drama show where a character has an unresolved inner conflict. Just something for you to think about.

Your question was “why people act like I’m a kid?” I only shared my observations of why that could be the case. That doesn’t mean you need to change anything. Not if you yourself are ok with it.

Also, I was well aware you’re 21 at the moment of writing the comment. Yet again, I’m merely answering your question, I really don’t mean anything beyond what is written. I’m not judging, no nothing, everything I write should be read in as neutral tone as possible.

The rest was me speculating. Those aren’t the questions you should be answering to me, only to yourself. After all, a random stranger on the internet can only do so much, you’re the only one who can answer your own question. Best I can do is point you in a direction to dig further, which those were meant for.

Not that I’ve looked up your post history as well as the way you type. Everything just screams “14 y.o. girl.” There’s a lot of personality, a lot of bubbliness, everything’s "hyper. " It’s just not something you’d expect of an adult.

Adults are usually more reserved and “battle-worn.” I’d also look at the wardrobe, especially if you’re of smaller stature. Additionally, being an adult is often about taking responsibility. Sucking it up and doing the right thing, so to say. Look at how you’ve behaved in the past in difficult situations, how you’ve handled conflicts. Have you ever taken a proactive role in finding a resolution? This may also be your clue.

Knowing our “sovereign” projects, no. No, it cannot.

Don’t get me wrong, there is some really cool tech stuff we create, but whenever it gets political, it’s just theft of budget money. Nothing actually gets created.

Problem is (well, not really, but still), she already looked like a real person. Personally know people who look a lot like Ciri, it’s not the most uncommon look in Slavic countries.

It may be just the trailer. In some scenes, she looks like herself from the 3rd game, just aged, but in most, she looks a bit… weird. It’s really hard to tell what’s going on because when you try to compare the models, they do match up.

the clean handle should be on top

I thought so at first too, but when you think about it, that’s the first handle everybody’s going to grab without reading the text, so that would defeat the purpose.

I have a good guess on how this would actually happen:

PM: We need this

Specialist: makes this (doesn’t check results)

QC: Looks good (but doesn’t actually check)

Some updates later may further break the functionality. And as long as numbers aren’t blatantly wrong (think 0s everywhere, for example) and nobody checks thoroughly enough, the issue will remain.

I have unfortunate experience of being a part of such a story, haha. There are ways to counter it. Mainly, their project documentation either wasn’t up to par or wasn’t used as a reference during creation and tests. Either way, it’s negligence.

Another suggestion for a “mystery type” visual novel:

Everlasting Summer

It has some heavy Soviet vibes as well, it’s so good, very atmospheric.

If you go for that card, then, just in case, consider getting yourself a GPU sag bracket.

I’m not sure if Gigabyte fixed it with this generation of AMD cards, but they’ve gotten into quite a controversy not that long ago over quality of their PCBs in 30th series Nvidia cards. Basically, they would crack too easily under their own weight, rendering them inoperable. Gigabyte then refused to cover them under warranty.

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I believe Ubisoft considers these games as “life service,” despite them effectively being single-player.

Kernel-level anticheats are specifically anti cheat. Although, if you take cheats to kernel level, they become anti-cheat in name only. For all the normal players out there, it is practically malware. No software ever should have permissions to track everything you do, see everything you have, and brick your OS just because.

My tipping point was YouTube serving the same one ad months on end to me.

I was fine with ads a decade ago. I tolerated them increasing the amount five-fold over the years. But that was borderline torture, and getting an adblock was the only working solution.

I agree that the gestures feel great (pretty much the only good part about this mouse imo), but why not just use a track pad instead?

Oh, yeah, that I agree with.

My head was at the “VR gaming” as a whole back when I was writing the comment.