Little gasket thing

I'd like to just put my PC to sleep, but it seems like half the time it turns on in the middle of the night leaving me looking like the meme. I have cats but the never touch my keyboard even when they want attention from me when I unloading the computer. If I can't solve this, I'll just revert to shutting down every night instead.

He lives in a small town and the local internet company is able to get away with literally any prices. That is 10 megabits for $80. 3 megabits for $60! Can’t even watch Netflix in high quality with that speed.

I’m team 75%!

Yes this is a true product: https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z890%20Taichi%20AQUA/

I broke my ankle really bad and decided to make myself feel better by overhauling my rig while recovering from surgery. It was already pretty capable (5800x and 3060 Ti), I just wanted good native 4k performance given I'm a tv couch gamer.

Sooo now have a 7800x3d (Microcenter bundle made it like $200), a 7900 XTX (like new for $700), 32gb DDR5 6000, an AIO for the cpu, and a 1000w PSU...oh, and a 65 inch 144hz qled TV with Freesync Premium (Hisense QD7, only $495, it's incredible)...

I'm just blown away...no wonder GPU sales are down. Why would I need to upgrade this for the next 8 odd years? It's an absolute monster. 4k 80fps is like the minimum performance I get with this...stuff like Doom Eternal with RT on runs so much faster than even my new TV can display.

Playing Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora with ray tracing maxed at 4k90 has been the most jaw-dropping gaming experience of my life. It often looks better than the movies...and goes to show that new gen AMD cards can chew through a very high RT workload when devs care to optimize their games. Of course Alan Wake 2 is an exception, but that game (and Hellblade 2, tbh) are in my opinion quite boring and optimized by drugged monkeys, so nothing lost there. Snowdrop engine (when optimized, unlike SW Outlaws) looks arguably even better than UE5 and runs like butter.

Rant aside, I'm mystified by how powerful this is. I spent half my life (38 yo) shooting for 1024x768 and happy with 20fps, so this has all been a 'died and gone to heaven' type experience. We can have our problems with the games industry, but just saying we should be so thankful to have all this horsepower under the hood!

Recently, I saw this motherboard from ASUS which had this image with stuff ‘AI Overclocking’ and AI Cooling.

Why is basically every company like Microsoft, Asus or NVIDIA trying to shove AI into everything?

Nvidia is the 2nd most valuable company in the world right now. Money isn't a problem AT ALL.

If these leaks are true then why fuck the consumers? 5060 should have started at at least 10GB. And 5080 should have 24 GB for future proofing since if you're gonna invest that much on a gpu, you expect it to last at least 4 years.

Pc gpus isn't their main source of revenue (and doesn't look like it'll change in near future). They could easily offer good quality products at affordable prices, then why not ? Corporate greed ? or pressure from board members/share holders? or whatever internal politics ?