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Normally I like buying things second hand as well. That way I can buy second-hand, sell my things to make up for the cost, too. With OLED, second-hand feels risky, due to burn-in again.

I had thought about using the OLED monitor just for games, but I can't exactly justify dropping £1k on something I'm only using for games lol

This might be the first time I've heard someone else describe this phenomenon. It's gotten much worse in the last 5 years, to the point where I barely game. I still want to though. Very odd.

How is your German? In Berlin you'll be fine with English. In the other big cities, you'll already notice less proficiency. You'll be fine, but you'll notice it from time to time and English speaking jobs will be few and far between. Rural areas are hopeless lol

German here. Lived in Hamburg and Munich for about half my life each. They call Bavaria the Texas of Germany, but that's just in relation to the rest of Germany politically. German conservatism is nothing like American conservatism, thank God. Right-wing disinformation cancer is spreading in Germany, like it is anywhere else (AFD in the east). Any LGBTQ folks don't need to worry in any big cities. I'd recommend Munich over Berlin, but that's personal preference (Berlin is like Germany's London, loud, dirty, exciting, more crime than any other part of Germany, which is still less than most places in the US). Like, you won't 'feel' the difference between Hamburg and Munich politically. In Berlin you might find a few more people openly displaying their left or right leaning tendencies. It's also much cheaper than Munich, not sure if that matters.

Monitors are an exciting place of development. They make such a huge difference when upgraded. The jumps between TN -> IPS -> OLED are crazy and completely change the experience. Almost nothing else makes such a big difference. Maybe HDD -> SSD was similar.

Capitalism requires coercion to function. Capitalists openly admit this by being staunchly against removing 'incentives' (read the coercion) to work. The 'incentive' is goddamn starvation and being exposed to the raw elements with no shelter. And apparently, if this was a basic human right provided to everyone, we'd all stop working over night and become lazy. It's just such an ass-backwards way to look at the world. People are not inherently lazy. But they need to be forced to work shitty jobs under unacceptable conditions. That's the crux of the matter. The ultra-rich require wage slaves. Not free-thinking, educated people who go after their own interests and are productive in their own ways. I'm interested to see how the system will hold up when all the shitty jobs have been automated away. My guess is that the rich will flee to some kind of Elysium type paradise, while robot police keeps the masses in check and 'poor' people, aka 99% of humanity goes extinct.

This feels closest to the response I would have written. I would perhaps add, that one of the consequences of this system is, that money insulates you from having to improve. Someone like Trump will never go to a therapist to fix whatever mental illness made him turn into who he is, precisely because he doesn't need to. Money can prop up the most evil, stupid, useless people for generations and generations. If they had to live examined lives, they'd stop being evil. The only ways to fix this, that I can see, are all utopian sounding, but shouldn't be. Wage ratios for example. As CEO you simply shouldn't be able to hold more shares or earn more income than, say, 10x that of the lowest paid worker in your organisation. And that needs to include subsidiaries and 3rd parties. This system would have to be implemented globally. Never going to happen though. We can fight a pointless global war on drugs, but we definitely won't reduce CEO income.

Loved the NUCs, shame. Along with Optane, Intel has now killed off two product lines that I really, really liked.

Could these cause a headache for Ryzen 7000 X3D CPUs in terms of gaming performance?

The idea of a sub $50 PSU would make me worry about my hardware constantly.

Definitely interested to try this out. GN had a good video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVzTi6fzG90 Seems to give decent results. As always, better input -> better output