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Ralph sold me a lifetime supply of fentanyl

(I don’t do fentanyl so none is a lifetime supply)

Honestly I’m basing this more on the fact amd is STILL out here releasing new am4 cpus than on their stated timelines, they just don’t know when to give up on a socket no matter what they claim (not complaining tho)

One thing I haven’t seen anyone mention yet is upgrade potential - on the intel system, you could move to an i7 or i9 from the same generation but you can’t get anything newer without replacing the motherboard as well. The amd one is AM5 and you’ll be able to pop a new CPU in for like the next six years - odds are good you’d want to upgrade the cpu by then anyway, so expect the amd option to save you the cost of a motherboard down the road. It also gives you a 750W psu rather than a 650, so there’s a higher chance you won’t have to replace that too on your next upgrade.

In terms of performance between the two, i’d actually expect the intel to be a marginally faster cpu and have better connectivity (AMD’s 8000 series is a bit weird compared to their 7000 or 9000 series options, and lack some pcie lanes compared to a standard gaming cpu). This isn’t a super relevant difference for gaming, but still worth knowing for comparing the computers. On the GPU front, which is the most important part for games, the 9070 is way better and this is probably where the price difference comes from. I’d expect the amd system to be noticeably better for gaming, though honestly the price to performance between the two computers probably tracks pretty well.

The other option worth considering is building a pc, which will let you pick a better cpu, MUCH better ram, a faster + more reliable ssd, and your choice of case vs either of these two pcs. I don’t know what the price of that would look like in your market, so maybe not worthwhile, but I’d def recommend checking out the option at least because both of these prebuilts are skimping a little on ram and probably on the mobo/psu/cooling as well.

I’d tell you how I did it if I remembered, but I have zero memory of setting it up lmao sorry. Good luck!

What do you mean by audio support for directions? There’s turn by turn audio output already iirc

Damn I wish this were true

Thanks, this is what I was thinking of but fucked up my muppets lore haha

Oh sorry I was in a rush reading your post the first time and fully missed that your wireless adapter was broken lol. Do you have a 3.5mm audio cable to use? I honestly don’t even know if the USB port supports audio but my gut feeling would be charging only (can’t imagine why they’d bother putting a DAC in the headphones). I won’t have my headphones or my pc for a couple days but I can poke around with this after that if you want anything tested on another similar setup, by then.

Some even need active cooling, but they all go directly on the motherboard anyway so this design doesn’t change anything for NVMEs

Possibly a stupid question, but are you using the wireless dongle that came with the headphones? I have the same headphones and run arch as well, and my pc recognizes the dongle as “Audeze Maxwell usb” or something like that.

I’m running pipewire for my audio system and iirc it worked out of the gate with these headphones, though I did some modifications to get digital surround sound working too.

GitHub and all the other sites like it are a bit odd from a UI perspective cuz they’re catering to both regular users (including the “where exe” crowd) and devs, who need to access the million options git gives and all the extras it doesn’t (automated build and testing systems, for example). Going to a project and downloading prebuilt binaries is kinda a tertiary purpose for them, so the UI is more focused on the project’s source code + build instructions and the tooling to work with those instead.

I think they might have meant the identity of the voter, not just the specific number, but this one’s a great feature as well

I only really use LLMs for project ideas, naming things, or recipes, but it’s great for those. For recipes especially, trusting the gaslight machine adds an extra layer of suspense and fun to cooking or baking.

It’s also fun, but not useful, to ask Linux questions - chatgpt specifically told me to restart dbus while in an active GUI session when I asked it about a simple case of unintended behaviour. It’s probably the dumbest Linux advice I’ve heard to date, so I got a lot of enjoyment out of trying it to see how bad it would fuck things up

Isn’t it Kerbie, or am I missing another layer of joke?

They keep saying “unprecedented” about the polling rate specifically as if 8KHz mice haven’t been on the market for years now

Just think how many fallacies are gonna go unspoken 😭 truly a loss for the world

My lisp days were back in my “IDEs are bloat” phase so that’s the only way I ever interacted with it lmao

Step one has five things, and step five has one thing - I think what they’re reacting to is that the order of the steps being reversed would make everything line up

Lisp uses it, with the fun extra part that operators are just normal functions - so instead of foo(bar) you get (foo bar), or for operators 1+1+2 becomes (+ 1 1 2). It’s a really fun language even just for being different than most, I def recommend playing around with it if you’re looking for something new.

This is definitely gonna depend on the market you’re in - in Canada, iirc the msrp was $899 and a couple retailers stuck to that for a bit on launch. They went up for a bit after that but now it’s not uncommon to see certain variants at msrp (most often the gigabyte ones ime).

If you’re in the states it’s probably less likely to ever see msrp, unless the orange piece of shit finally dies or stops ripping off consumers with dumbass tariffs.

Like the other person said tho, the msrp for this gen is less relevant cuz amd didn’t make a reference card to actually have to stick to it, so I’d focus more on the price/performance vs a 5070ti for any kind of value assessment (usually way better in both).