I’d advise you to read more on how Chinese government and spin dictatorships work. There’s a really good book written by Treisman and Guriev

It’s not really a country you’d choose over US even despite all it’s massive (cough healthcare and consumer protections cough) flaws

“Anymore” as if it ever was. Even USSR never claimed to be a communist country

P.S. They claimed to be a socialist, then “developed” socialist country that’s “on the path of building communism”.

Surprised nobody said cell degradation.

You now can live for as long as you’re not killed whilst physically keeping an appearance of an ~30 y.o. This also technically prevents cancer.

Ads, complete lack of privacy, kremlinbots.

It used to be the platform that did one thing good. Build communities. Not it does a lot of things, but all of them badly.

Not to mention that their owners are the main reason why “YouTube works bad, because Google’s servers are degrading”. Basically, Roscomnadzor (an official government censorship service) has been making YouTube unusable for over a year now to make people switch to VK Video or Rutube (both owned by same entity) whilst pretending that it doesn’t. Did it work? According to them, yes. According to reality, however, the vast majority just switched to using VPN.

Ah, I see. Yes, you’re right, they do manufacture reference design cards. First time dealing with reference models, since those aren’t sold where I live, hence the confusion, haha

Those will all be the same in terms of temperature and clock speeds. Build quality should only vary insignificantly, although I do not trust Gigabyte, due to 3000 series PCB issues and how they handled it, and ASUS due to their borderline scam customer support.

You won’t be getting any warranty buying used, I don’t think. So, imo, just get the cheapest one. You should concern yourself more with the seller, and do make sure to thoroughly check everything after buying. Both physically and performance-wise.

You must be mistaken because reference cards are specifically those made by GPU manufacturers, aka AMD, Nvidia, and Intel.

They’re called that because third-party manufacturers (Gigabyte, Asus, XFX, etc) use those as a reference to create their own designs of PCB, coolers, and settings.

Can you give links to the cards you’re speaking about?

Those aren’t reference models, the ones you named are called something like AIB or aftermarket cards. (Reference models are those made by GPU manufacturers)

Main differences between all are temperatures, clock speeds, build quality, and price.

They also have different “tiers” of cards using same GPU. Those of higher tier cost more, but have better coolers and higher clock speeds. The premium you’d be paying isn’t usually worth it, unless it’s a small amount.

Personally, I prefer Sapphire, PowerColor, or XFX for AMD cards.

It’s simple math and understanding of the law, what does political affiliation has to do with it?

0.05$ is not a substantial amount of money regardless of your political views.

Am I missing some context here that there’s new taxes passed by Trump? (Am not American)

Not really. You just have to make sure you got what you ordered by doing a bunch of tests. Plus, you usually don’t get a warranty.

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. It’s almost as if I’m reading a script from a teenage drama show where a character has an unresolved inner conflict. Doesn’t mean I’m correct, just some food for thought.

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. It’s all about retrospective.

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.