Blackmist

I just got an N150 Mini PC for about that. Should be decent as a Jellyfin server.

I used to have that CPU, but found it absolutely dying on it's arse for VR Chat (which is notoriously badly optimised). I got a i5-8400 instead, which is about twice as fast for single threaded work (which is still the main bottleneck for most games). Your overclock would take it a decent amount of the way there, but most people aren't going to do that, and it was getting a bit iffy even when I replaced it. Runs hot as well, I expect.

Since then they've got about twice as fast again. You don't have to spend a lot on them to get that either. A Ryzen 9600X will have me set for the next 15 years (assuming they don't ditch x86 CPUs altogether). AMD being competitive again has down wonders for performance boosts. Motherboards seem a lot more expensive these days though.

Yeah, those are basically Mini PC prices. The CPU alone used to cost more than that.

The specs look perfectly adequate (I'm still running very similar for daily use), and 1TB SSD and 32GB RAM should keep you going no matter how many tabs you open or how bloated your PC gets.

Personally I'd get a new Ryzen Mini PC for that kind of money just for the form factor, but they're hardly a scam. The main issue is that the crowd this is aimed at have very little use for a PC these days.

Yeah, I can see how it ended up like that, and it would at least be nice if Windows accepted that and had one copy of the browser rather than every app installing it's own just in case of breaking changes.

And it would also be really nice if it only clogged the system for when it needs to show a UI, but I've got a ton of background processes that are also running a browser just in case today is the day that I finally need to see them. Just looking down task manager now at some suspect large processes, I can see a Razer "mouse driver", Epic, Discord, Steam, Nvidia, Oculus, NordVPN, Signal...

None of these things need to be running a browser while I'm not looking at them.

But hey, lets throw another 32GB of RAM in there, and another dozen cores, and maybe we can achieve the dream of running each of them all in their own fucking operating system as well...

Well he was late to the party.

Everyone else would have dumped it back in November.

He says on the "I hate Reddit" forum.

So busy she's got time to stage a fake photo from the toilet and make a wishy-washy LinkedIn post about how fucking busy she is.

*Palantir standing the corner taking notes.*

I once installed Gentoo from scratch.

I then didn't use Linux for about 15 years, so take from that what you will.

Eh? They've been chasing the one-off Xbox 360 high for two generations now, and are nowhere near it. Sony have near full dominance in the console space. Valve have so much dominance in the PC space that they've got people to try Linux.

The aim of GamePass was that people would stream games and not need a console at all, and that just hasn't happened for them. Their entire gamble was on cloud gaming, and it's not paid off at all.

As much as the higher tiers of PSN aren't as good value as GamePass, it's certainly lead to higher quality games for Sony's platform as they can still get sales revenue from shorter or niche games, rather than just looking at a single figure and laying off whole studios.

I'd much rather pay money for a full game now (and I'll be honest, my day one purchases this gen are limited to games I'm really interested in), or wait and play on sub later (and it's about 18 months I think for games to go "free"), than have half a game on sub now and get nickle and dimed for the rest of it.

Performance, but Death Stranding 2 looks weird (really washed out) in that so I left it on quality. It's not a fast paced game, so I'm ok with that.