Too right, my friend. I still want me some snow. 
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I finally did it. I bought an new desktop with an AMD AM5 with 16gb DDR5 ram and all that. Luckily I ordered it in November so I got them cheaper than they are now.
I have a conspiracy theory that big tech wants people to play pc games through cloud streaming. Slowly making hardware harder to get and move people onto subscriptions.
I should be future proof for about 9 years. I can play high end graphics for a lot of games now. I was playing a lot of retro games because they werenât so hard on my computer and other reasons.
Since it is a new computer, I am starting fresh and installed Linux on it. Iâm trying out Bazzite. The computer came with Windows 11, so I removed it. It is about time I learn how to use Linux. Iâll keep the product code if I change my mind.
I hope nothing breaks because I wouldnât know how to fix it!
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Look likes we found Elon Muskâs alt account
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I mean of course thatâs what some companies want, but the second sentence dips into tinfoil hat fodder. Companies wanting to move you to a subscription for infinite money forever is about profits for them, but the current volatility of hardware prices isnât some grand conspiracy and itâs not being perpetrated by the companies that want your game subscriptions anyway; those companies are simply taking advantage of material conditions in our world (namely, demand has gone up due to data center construction and consumers have difficulty competing for the finite supply).
Itâs tempting to try to narrativize everything in life but mostly things just happen and sometimes itâs to someoneâs advantage. It doesnât mean they orchestrated the whole thing, though.
To be clear, Iâm not happy with the direction things are going, either. Enshittification is real, nobody wants to produce anything anymore because itâs more profitable to speculate, and those with the means to do so are doing everything in their power to turn us all into debt slaves. I just think itâs incorrect to assume itâs all some secret conspiracy. To me it seems clear that theyâre all acting with myopic self-interest and I donât see the need for any kind of greater narrative to explain it.
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Dang! thatâs one saucy cuppa 
. Hope your days arenât going like that hon. 
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Edit - dratted headaches.
Meanwhile my days are like
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@Gopher Iâm going to ride that 16GB till the end!
@BlivetWidget I am just annoyed that the prices of graphics cards and vanilla beans never went back down. And RAM prices will go up and stay up even after the shortage is resolved. I donât even know how these data centers are going to power up all their RAM, they are going to need a nuke plant for that much electricity. I bet the RAM is unused and they are stockpiling them somewhere.
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I think it will come down but I agree that itâs not likely to return to baseline because greedflation is a real problem. Like when my local plumber went from $200 to $500 to clear a sewer clog as soon as COVID hit - an action that was not at all affected by supply chains because he had all the equipment and running a snake doesnât expend anything but time. It really did just come down to him thinking, âI see some things are more expensive, why not my stuff too?â But from my POV for $500 Iâm better off just buying an auger myself if itâs gonna pay for itself in a single use.
I think itâs true that businesses are trying to turn you into a debt slave, all Iâm trying to say that this doesnât require any collusion to explain it.
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huge data centers actually build their own private power plants to make their own power nowadays
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That is simply untrue. At least in the US (which houses the most datacenters by a significant margin) energy production is highly regulated and you canât just âmake your own powerâ (generally, except for solar - if the datacenters were using renewables this would be a whole other discussion). Energy is provided by a licensed energy production company (sometimes owned by the municipality, sometimes not) and even in the cases where that energy production company is building new infrastructure directly to support the datacenters, the cost of that infrastructure expansion is being passed on to consumers when what should be happening is that the datacenters ought to subsidize energy costs for everyone else.
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You havenât disproved anything I said. Notice how many of those either donât exist yet or are purchasing their power. Those with onsite power are going to be built and run by utility companies. So as I said, even those that donât share their power are sharing the burden. And even if you can find a few exceptions, with over 10000 data centers, it is simply untrue to make the blanket statement:
If you said it that it would be a good idea, or that there are some, it would be one thing, but it is very much not the case that itâs how itâs done ânowadaysâ.
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When I hear Kim say âI canât believe I married youâ my brain pounces on the ambiguity and heard her meaning âI canât believe how lucky I was to marry youâ. 
âŚthen I say âIf the can opener is broke, should we give it some money?â 
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@delenn13 and @markwr thsnks for the giggles we all need. XD
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Does anybody know what they are correctly called? Looking for them in white if possible, for my hair that keeps getting fairy knots at the ends. 
They are not as Scamazon would have me believe, called mini hair clips or claws. Also not claw clips or butterfly clips or braid clips. Sigh.
The teeth are on the inside, looks like attaching a bubble to your hair braid. I dunno if thereâs another design besides the bead/bubble. Least ways, I want to know the correct name. 
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Whenever youâre looking for something and you only have a picture, try doing a google lens image search. They seem to indeed be called mini hair clips (even if that term can also be used for other things). Hereâs one link, though the image search also turned up results on ebay, aliexpress, walmart, etc etc
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1546112153/1-miniature-hair-clip-claw-hair-clip
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Sorry, friend. I think Santa left a couple of those darn things on by accident after the Eve. 
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Yes, thanks, but I was really hoping to find an exact name, so I can stop seeing all the various claw clips with the outside formed teeth. They named these things like people named CPUs and GPUs.
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