I got mine on a Thursday FWIW. The employees didn’t even know they had them in stock, they had to pull it out of a case in the back; had to have been an afternoon truck delivery

Also it is goddamned wonderful as a GPU 😍 ive been replaying Far Cry 6 with maxed out… everything. At 4k, and I’ve got roughly 100 FPS stable. Its absolutely gorgeous

I had luck with Microcenter last week (if you have one near you); checked their website at my preferred location and they had 9070 XTs in stock, went after work and I got one.

Tbh chromebooks are amazing as a concept for people like this. Barring proprietary junk like adobe, if they need more than that, they should be able to develop the skills to do basic things in linux without too much difficulty. Likely wont even need to touch any command line stuff.

I remember Apex Legends being pretty fun when it came out; did something happen or was it just EA being EA?

The sheer market share that forces websites develop for chrome for maximum visibility, to force websites to allow their content to be scraped to be usable by the average user.

Nitronic Rush? I remember reading Distance was a spiritual successor to it, and wikipedia backs up that thougbt

That comic is still alive!?

See, and here i thought it would be children of terrorists!

Anything but the fuckin’ metric system…

Not to mention the PC won’t be a brick when they inevitably shut down servers someday

Im frankly shocked VR as a whole didn’t completely die when facebook bought oculus

Imagine if we had gotten a storm trooper turned Jedi instead of yet another desert orphan for the star wars sequels, like all the promotional materials before the first movie seemed to hint at.

I think one if the more stressful shit i saw was a bad driver update that made a specific model laptop completely unable to boot, unless you could get into BIOS to disable audio, then fully purge the audio driver (it was a hidden driver) and do a clean install.

This, with a 5 digit userbase in one location, with most of them having that specific model laptop, while working desktop support. It was practically an IT drive thru at one point.

DoD IT, hell of a way to start out with large scale xD

Best we can do is require photo ID for porn.

Any major tech upgrade or software investment can be canceled on a whim; i no longer get emotionally attached to projects.

I’m inclined to chalk that up as a Sony problem, because fuck sony.

Plus, free parasites! :D

I think the more important thing its missing is EA.

Oof, yeah, thats awful.

Never been reliant on wifi tbh, I’ve generally been an Ethernet purist and have never owned a personal laptop (just desktops). Even for work laptops id use either onboard ethernet or a dongle

Same, but grapheneOS and max screen width (big hands / fat fingers).