I don’t think you need to get yourself banned. Tell them you will make the switch, and when you’ll make it. You don’t need to explain yourself any further or make excuses.

With tech it’s about convenience imo. I am privacy-concious, trying to avoid services like google, but a game’s EULA? scrolls to the bottom Accepted. Do Russians mine bitcoins on my machine? Is Unity surveilling me? Who knows.

Then of course these brands put a lot of effort into strengthening consumer loyalty. Make their stores a nice place to be, offer plans especially to minors, so they get used to their products and eco-systems early on. For example Google’s ChromeOS laptops in schools. They are cheap and… well… are cheap.

But overall, I think consumers do not realize what they are buying because many buy impulsively, or simply don’t know or care about the impact of their purchases. And to some degree, who can blame them? Who has the energy to sort through anything in the grocery store and determine which products are produced through slavery, animal cruelty, stealing the local population’s water, aren’t sourced locally etc. Because at that point, there’s probably nothing left.

The moment you try to min max the economy will fall apart. Replicate new PC parts? Cool, but now intel/AMD/Nvidia will go bankrupt, no more development. So I guess you could min-max the economical revolution. Capitalism doesn’t appear to make sense in a world with near endless access to anything.

Personally I’d get heaps of food and water

I hate that by now, I have found a way for capitalist to bill you anyways.

I think hybrid is the way to go. You won’t connect with your peers online the way you do irl, and I it’s healthy to leave home from time to time. I also work better in a dedicated office space versus at home.

But as a student in an IT related field: God do I hate the uni pcs. They. would. not. run. unity. once. because of some obscure bug with my user profile and I had to waste my lecturers and my time switching users, trying to install the right version every single lesson. For two semesters I could not parttake. On my own PC at home I could have fixed that within minutes because admin rights and decent internet. Heck, I even asked the IT department if I could have admin rights which they denied, quite understadably. Sorry this turned a bit into a rant.

But cutting commute time and getting up shortly before lecture sure is nice :3

Pretty much any variation of power saw. The closer your hands are to the moving saw, the worse. Hand saws are cool tho. Love my Ryoba

Saws. The sound they’re making shakes me to my core and having to help someone who almost amputated their finger enforced that fear further

I just read lately that younger generations in germany drink less alcohol. I am not sure what the common reasons are, but I think the weed legalization made questioning the effects of alcohol more mainstream.

King Arthur will come with his coconut playing entourage and claim my mortal soul. I should get a white rabbit. or maybe I should avoid it? Who can tell

Not that many, bacause I don’t have a lot of space. I borrow from the library occasionally, which is brilliant, because it’s cheap and doesn’t take up space.

And yes, I weed my collection and keep only books that I really enjoyed or know that I’ll reread. Sometimes I try to sell them 2nd hand, others that are lesser value I leave at these public book cabinets.

I hardly ever give away educational books though. I feel like I could come back at them anytime and they’ll still provide information and usefullness.

Doughnuts. I made doughnuts by hand recently, and kneading the dough. For. 30. Minutes. By. Hand. Fuck, never again. I usually don’t mind kneading dough by hand, but this was the first time I wish I had a mashine for it

Selma was the most fun to draw and it shows, everybody else looks kinda unhinged xD

“The chosen one” as in the hero who faces dangers without worrying about their own safety and health? Fuck no.

I do it to feel good about myself. Sometimes I fail or miss the mark, which is okay. At the end of the day I want to be able to be okay with my deeds.

Since it’s the GPU fans only, I don’t think I have the skills to fix it. I’ll send it back. Thanks for your input :)

It’s the game development on a budget PC xD

Needs no bling but to get stuff done.

Do you have a recommendation where to look for fan drivers? In the package manager/ apt or do I have to hope the GPU manufacturer offers them?

Yeah, set the fans to 50/75/100 and they still had 0rpm. Did not expect that to happen at 100% tbh. I’ll try it again with other software, but I guess I’ll RMA.

I took a bit of a trustfall and bought an acer rx7600xt. Plan to get the same chip, but from a different, more reputable vendor next.

But I didn’t try Lact, thanks. I’ll give it a shot.

When the code finally works, the computer issues are fixed, the kitchen is cleaned.

Had it installed via steam, gave it a shot, sadly didn’t work. But thanks still :D