I can’t wait for the release in 2044! I hope 1440p is still all the rage when it launches!

Serious note: I hope Intel stays in the dgpu market, we could use another player in the space.

The report in question:
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/antimicrobial-consumption-ESAC-Net-annual-epidemiological-report-2023_0.pdf

And the data on usage:

EU is behind the restrictions for vaping liquids, not Sweden. :)
https://health.ec.europa.eu/tobacco/product-regulation/electronic-cigarettes_en

Yeah, they had started limiting what you could buy in Sweden as well. My last time mixing I bought a silly amount of 18mg/ml 10ml strong menthol bottles and large 70/30 PG/VG bottles and ended up with my own 3mg/ml mixture that still tasted menthol, although not as overwhelmingly so.

I think part of it is something else - ease of use and ease of access.
The “world that makes sense” product exists already:
https://www.elementvape.com/box-mod-kits

While I was vaping I mixed my own liquids though, as the cost savings was immense and I could easily lower the nicotine mg/ml on my own until I quit it altogether.

If the leaks are correct we’re talking about 120W TDP and higher power and thermal efficiency than the 7000 series of X3D CPUs.

Priority one for me is that the motherboard allows for BIOS Firmware updates from a USB drive without having to boot an operating system. The user manual is usually the fastest way to verify that one.
Then I would look at PCIe slots, if I bought a new motherboard today I would want to have at least one PCIe 5.0 x16 slot and one PCIe 5.0 m.2 slot.

Oh, and searching the net for people having trouble with the motherboards networking or bluetooth when running linux distros is always a good idea.

CPU
Some games benefit a lot from the large L3 cache in the X3D cpus, f.e. the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Check whether it is true for the ones you play.
GPU
I’m running an AMD 6650XT GPU in Linux without any trouble, I even use vfio to use it in a Fedora VM without errors.
RAM
Buying 2x32GB gives you enough RAM to run a bunch of VMs while gaming. 2x16GB is more than enough for a gaming rig.

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I imagine the youtube link is about the following:
Discord is firing back against MapleStory devs over copyright infringement and users are caught in the crossfire.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/social-media/discord-is-firing-back-against-maplestory-devs-over-copyright-infringement-and-users-are-caught-in-the-crossfire

You could always find some nice online cooperative game to play together, should give you stuff to talk about. Or choose to read the same book at the same time and talk about the latest chapter. Or use one of all those “watch tv together apart” sites that was created during covid. Or follow the same recipe and eat dinner together. With a little creativity you can do quite a lot of activities together apart.
What I wouldn’t do is agree to be in a relationship with someone you’ve never met, or loan them money for that matter.

I download both windows and linux offline installers when I buy games at gog.com, it’s one of the reasons I buy there.

And I was impressed by Seagate launching their Mozaic 3+ 32TB HDDs…

I used to think a lot about up-gradability before but often find that when a cpu is too slow then it is also so old that I have to change the motherboard and ram too for compatibility reasons.
Same thing with the motherboard, if it fails I’ve never had it be new enough that I can bring my cpu and ram with me to my next motherboard (unless buying an older motherboard second hand).
And many of my disks will be old enough that I want to replace them too, at least if they have anything important on them.

Only things I’ve brought with me when upgrading desktops have been my case (including fans), psu, gpu and (some) disks.
Having a quiet and dust proof case that is easy to build in and a good psu that https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/ endorses has become higher priority to me since then, as I know they might last me more than one build.

I stand corrected, .NET Core is open source and uses the MIT License.

“We’ve finished taking all we need from the Mono project and implemented it into our proprietary .NET implementation for Linux, Android and iOS. Instead of getting flack for killing off Mono (which is open source and would’ve been forked anyways) we graciously give this old husk to the Wine project. We recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET. kthnxbye!”

Good thing that it went to Wine I guess, as they do lots of work to get old Windows programs up and running in Linux and that often involves Mono.

This was a better story than the headline shows. There’s interviews with some artists that got dropped by the record labels with unreleased albums and how they finally got their albums released.

“I’m a mum and I’ve been working in IT, so it’s really weird to be like, ‘I’m going to be a pop star’ again.

• Alexis Strum

Some alternatives:

• Incus - After canonicals takeover of LXD a fork of it called Incus was created. Supporting both virtual machines and linux containers. Free open-source with paid support.
  https://github.com/lxc/incus

• virt-manager - For home usage without clusters and the like a simple Linux host with kvm/qemu/libvirt/virt-manager usually works just fine.
  https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager

• Cockpit Project - Cockpit can be used to manage both virtual machines and podman. Personally I use it in tandem with virt-manager.
  https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-podman https://github.com/oVirt/cockpit-ovirt

• Proxmox - KVM/LXC Hypervisor based on Debian. Supports clustering and High-Availability. Free open-source with paid support. https://github.com/proxmox