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This is a good run through

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-ryzen-7-8700g-cpu-review/3

It's targeting performance benchmarks for the 8700G at 1080p and getting decent FPS

RAM speed really matters as it's also your GPU memory. So low clock RAM will kill GFX performance.

If you're really budget conscious TDP at 65W for the CPU and GFX is a major win over any other setup.

I know someone who went the 5700G route a few years ago and was pretty happy.

But my budget setup:

USB-C dock for my steam deck. One device for desktop, TV, and handheld.

As the amount of time I've got to spend on games has gone down, I've got too many great games to get through on the steam deck already and I lean towards indie titles.

During the summer running a heater as a GPU either makes the room unpleasant or has additional air con load.

Honestly each Playstation generation has ended up sub 250W power consumption at launch with sub 400W rated PSUs. They kick out enough heat.

A build with a 1000W PSU or 1200W PSU is a red flag for me.

I get the desire to get the best possible performance but at some point it's really not worth it. It's a space heater, and one too powerful to leave on even in the winter.

This happened with appliances. They ended up with the silly A++++ ratings added in 2010 as otherwise everything would be an A.

In 2021 they decided to redefine grades instead. A fridge at A+++ became a C. A became the top grade again.

It's also worth noting that as they push the whole scale and G into being more efficient that essentially bans products that can't achieve a rating.

if everything becomes an A the system has worked and increased the efficiency across the market. They'll adjust the goals every 5 to 10 years.

The EU battery life measure is going to be the most interesting battle ground in my opinion. "All day battery life" will have a measured metric in hours.

If the EU have managed to make that metric representative of an amount of screen time in a busy day it could become the first thing consumers look at. Or at least a deal breaker when that number is too low.

Edit: Disregard. I have the 13, not the 12.

~~Normal laptop formfactor. You can have a touch screen as an option but it doesn't do the full 360 fold round into a tablet.

I own one and the hinge goes 180.

It's an excellent laptop, I grabbed one when the first AMD board was available and it runs Fedora flawlessly and has windows on an SSD when I need it.~~

To exclude certain Semites from the definition of "antisemitism" based on religion...

The definition of antisemitism is anti Semite.

As long as we come across people playing language games while excusing a genocide.

It' could be reasoned it's not accurate to call Israel's actions "antisemitic" as that has been chosen as meaning only Jewish related hatred.

It can also be reasoned that it's perfect valid to call Israel's actions "anti Semitic" as this is a genocide against an Arabic speaking Semitic population.

Women exist and are equal to men in artistic spheres. There is no reason they can't compete for the same award.

The need for separate recognition of men and women implies separate standards for men and women.

You could afford a house and got a free or cheap education

The state has sold off everything in your lifetime to keep your taxes low, including housing. Which you bought and now own.

Millennials are generation rent with a government renting back what it sold as taxes rise.

And the cold war is still going on, what is it about Gen X that makes them think it stopped. Putin is at war in Europe right now. The cold war only ever paused.

Proxy wars didn't stop with Vietnam, the cold war didn't stop with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

You get to experience the events of the world while being comparatively rich.

You got to experience the only decade or so without a cold war threat while millennials experience the threat of Russia and an increasing threat from China.

And millennials were told as children the world would burn if we did nothing. Gen X and the Boomers did nothing.

Yes it sucks.

But you had it good, and politically you've fucked us recently. After being previously politically apathetic.

We've got a world to repair and it remains to be seen if Millennials will actually move past apathy into fixing it with Gen Z or continuing to fuck it up like Gen Z.

It isn't that simple. Solar power wasn't economical until China made a push to manufacture at scale.

Wind power received that push in Europe. Then China and India have joined in.

Not buying the massive nuclear reactors and buying smaller units could be possible. They exist. Alternative technologies also exist.

But nuclear generates heat, which we use to heat water into steam. Which drives a turbine to produce AC electricity.

Massive steam turbines are massive because they are efficient. Multistage turbines range from near 70% efficient for massive ones to 25% efficient for the smallest ones in serious use.

NTAC-TE is a technology that converts the radiation into electric current. Like solar panels converting the sun's radiation into electric current.

NASA uses it in space craft.

If we can get that working at an efficient rate smaller radioactive units will produce power without the efficiency loss of small steam generators. Then we can talk about small modular nuclear energy.

Unfortunately every pro nuclear person parrots the same gumf about nuclear being good, therefore we need to build the massive nuclear reactors.

They only consider talking about any other technology to try and defend nuclear when you point out why they shouldn't be built anymore.

So in 20 years, if we stop building massive nuclear reactors with the money, we might be able to complete some research and start building the correct nuclear technology at scale.

But that 20 years is vital and we need to spend that on carbon reduction now. That's reducing usage through insulation. That's renewables being added to the supply directly now. That's grid level storage to allow us to stop relying on massive steam turbines to hold a steady grid load.

In 20 years we can talk about nuclear again. Add an additional time for every wasted effort on a reactor like Hinckley C or Olkiluoto 3. Starting out as a thin justification and just economically viable.

But then spending 400% of their budget meaning carbon reduction would have been much higher investing elsewhere.

And 2 years of security updates.

They type of person who owns a set of wired headphones or earphones for over a decade doesn't replace their phone every 2 years.

And these days you really shouldn't try and keep a device on the internet without updates.

It's why the fair phone got rightly trashed when they ditched the headphone jack. Battery powered ear buds were completely against their demographics

HMD make decent repairable phones with a headphone jack. They took the Nokia brand for a while but they're now just HMD and they're doing some cool modular stuff with cases too.

Agreed.

Also, don't waste money on experimenting with the others. Just build renewables and grid storage.

And they are all uneconomical.

The nuclear industry only works economically when either we need weapons grade material as a byproduct or we happen to produce electricity as a byproduct when making weapons grade material.

They aren't an efficient use of resources.

Amazon had their walk in walk out stores.

AI was meant to track what you put in the basket and charge you without you going through checkout.

They launched as an AI store.

Humans were looking at cases and were just meant to be "error correction".

They were doing 80% of the work of tracking the images and barcodes into actual products.

Amazon closed the store.

Lots of "AI" systems are currently in this state. A computer can do the easy 10 to 20% of the job. Humans are doing the rest.

Venture capital are just investing in anything that looks like it's working on "AI". Even when it's currently taking more human labour than the work did previously.

Companies are launching now as "AI" gambling on getting that percentage up otherwise they end up late to market. Lots will fail to actually use AI and probably fold.