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  1. Comment on Di.gg AI preview in ~tech

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    Wait what? I got an invite to the Digg beta 6 months ago. You're telling me it never even properly launched and already got taken down? Wtf

    Wait what? I got an invite to the Digg beta 6 months ago. You're telling me it never even properly launched and already got taken down? Wtf

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  2. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    Definitely something I'm considering. If I knew my current 27" 1920x1080 screen would look this way at this close distance, I would have never bought it in the first place. But an 27" 1440p at...

    Definitely something I'm considering. If I knew my current 27" 1920x1080 screen would look this way at this close distance, I would have never bought it in the first place. But an 27" 1440p at either regular 16:9 or widescreen - going by other comments - seems like it would look great. Above 100 PPI should be good enough.

  3. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    I already have a 500 GB SSD that I'll continue using, so I won't only have 1 TB. I'm a bit of a chronic declutterer too so not all too worried about not having enough space. Solid advice though,...

    I already have a 500 GB SSD that I'll continue using, so I won't only have 1 TB. I'm a bit of a chronic declutterer too so not all too worried about not having enough space. Solid advice though, thank you!

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  4. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    Well if you can travel to the future and check how GTA VI runs, that'd be great! Nah jokes aside, Cyberpunk is probably the best benchmark for the time being right? It's years old by now yet still...

    Well if you can travel to the future and check how GTA VI runs, that'd be great!

    Nah jokes aside, Cyberpunk is probably the best benchmark for the time being right? It's years old by now yet still so demanding that I bet it's more of less the closest we'll get to how GTA VI would run - without considering how it's optimized of course. So yeah, "don't even sweat it" is kind of the dream. Not even have to worry about what the PC can do, just pick up and play without a single second thought :D

    As for gaming, the past few years have mostly been spent on Turtle WoW which is 2004 graphics and only the client was holding it back. Games like GTA and Cyberpunk are kind of outliers in terms of amount/percentage of time spent at the PC. Like you say: edge cases. It sure would be nice though.

    Thanks a bunch for the advice, super valuable since you got the exact system I'm looking at buying!!

  5. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    When you say 2k, does that mean 1080p or 1440p? Your comment just even more affirms that I gotta go somewhere to check out the differences of screens in real life with my own eyes. Thanks for the...

    When you say 2k, does that mean 1080p or 1440p?

    Your comment just even more affirms that I gotta go somewhere to check out the differences of screens in real life with my own eyes. Thanks for the input!

  6. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    The setup by default had a 750 which I was also advised against elsewhere, with upgrading to the 850. Do you really think all the way to 1000 is necessary though? Not gonna lie, I don't know...

    The setup by default had a 750 which I was also advised against elsewhere, with upgrading to the 850. Do you really think all the way to 1000 is necessary though?

    Not gonna lie, I don't know when's the last time I looked at my GPU software haha, I don't even know if I have it installed on my PC! What do you use this AMD Adrenalin for other than adjusting the RGB lights?

  7. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    Oof :D Yeah this seems like the conclusion from this thread - that one sentence is on point lol, seems like a bit of a conundrum. 4k being great for watching stuff and reading on the screen, no...

    I recommend'nt a 4k screen!

    Oof :D

    Yeah this seems like the conclusion from this thread - that one sentence is on point lol, seems like a bit of a conundrum. 4k being great for watching stuff and reading on the screen, no problems, but then on the other hand not quite there yet for gaming and even handicapping oneself. So in terms of having my cake and eating it too with high/ultra settings and also high fps....

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  8. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    This is really informative, thanks for taking the time! Where do you sit? I'm at an arm's length so only 40-50 cm away. A little bit further leaning back when watching stuff though.

    This is really informative, thanks for taking the time!

    I have a 1440p 27in and I can only barely discern pixels from where I sit.

    Where do you sit? I'm at an arm's length so only 40-50 cm away. A little bit further leaning back when watching stuff though.

  9. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    Was it only that one game?

    Was it only that one game?

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  10. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    All things considered, I don't really play that many newer games - but that's maybe because I never had a PC that could actually run them! GTA VI is on my mind as being what the PC needs to be...

    All things considered, I don't really play that many newer games - but that's maybe because I never had a PC that could actually run them! GTA VI is on my mind as being what the PC needs to be capable of running, but I'm aware that unless I put twice my budget into a 5090, it simply ain't happening on 4k with more than like 20 fps.

    Really nice to know about movies looking good in both versions, thanks for sharing that! And yeah the PSU is 850 as someone posted about 750 probably being too low in case I wanted to upgrade the GPU in future. I'll look into whether 1000 is needed, thanks for that!

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  11. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    Yeah it looks like the 9800XT has a bit higher fps output than your 7800xt (link here, scroll down a bit for the table) on 4k, 40 vs 55 fps. Thanks for sharing! Good to know that an older build...

    Yeah it looks like the 9800XT has a bit higher fps output than your 7800xt (link here, scroll down a bit for the table) on 4k, 40 vs 55 fps. Thanks for sharing! Good to know that an older build sorta works for it too.

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  12. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    That's cool, I'll see if I can find that monitor thread! And yeah I think I'm with you on prioritizing solid fps when it comes to games.

    That's cool, I'll see if I can find that monitor thread! And yeah I think I'm with you on prioritizing solid fps when it comes to games.

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  13. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    Yeah that benefit to working/reading on the screen is what's drawing me in. Give and take though, because if I went with 4k, it would probably be a 32" screen, which if the game was put to 1080p,...

    Yeah that benefit to working/reading on the screen is what's drawing me in. Give and take though, because if I went with 4k, it would probably be a 32" screen, which if the game was put to 1080p, it would look quite bad on such a huge screen. I already have trouble on my 27" 1080p screen but it's mostly with text and small details that look bad.

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  14. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    Yeah going by the other responses in the thread it does seem very much a question of preference. You're right about trying it out - at the very least I'll be heading to some electronics stores to...

    Yeah going by the other responses in the thread it does seem very much a question of preference.

    You're right about trying it out - at the very least I'll be heading to some electronics stores to see the monitors in real life.

  15. Comment on Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs? in ~tech

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    Definitely good stuff to know about UI's, thanks for looking out!

    Definitely good stuff to know about UI's, thanks for looking out!

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  16. Buying a high-end PC for the first time - help me to doublecheck what I'm buying? Is 4k a bad idea with the specs?

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    I somehow have money I need to spend, more than I ever had, and where else to put them than where I spend most of my awake time. So for the first time ever I've decided to splurge on a PC that...

    I somehow have money I need to spend, more than I ever had, and where else to put them than where I spend most of my awake time. So for the first time ever I've decided to splurge on a PC that isn't a low to medium budget one. For reference, I'm currently on a 10 year old 1070 GPU with a 1080p screen and the rest of my PC is either also 10 years old or at least 5 years old so it truly is time to upgrade.

    It looks like it's 10-15% more expensive to self-build nowadays so what I'm about to pull the trigger on is a package/prebuilt deal. But I can still pick and choose (some) parts from this store. Here's the specs at the moment:

    • GPU: ASUS Radeon RX 9070 XT Prime OC - 16GB GDDR6 RAM

    This seems to be the most reasonable buy. The price is about 70% of Nvidia's equivalent in performance while the next stepup, a 5080, is more like 240% as expensive. I however got recommendations to get at least 5080 for good framerates in 4k gaming on high settings. I am currently on 144hz and have gotten used to about 100fps in most games, so ending up with like 50fps would suck.

    • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

    Something I play a lot is WoW, and that is apparently a very CPU heavy game, so this one seems the best choice in terms of performance in that particular game even though I'm reading it's somewhat overkill for most other stuff.

    • RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 - 32GB

    I practically never multitask so getting only 16GB would have been fine I believe, and opened some room in my budget, however this is a limitation of the package deal and I cannot go lower than 32GB. Besides, this should be futureproof.

    • Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING B650

    • Storage: Kingston NV3 SSD - 1TB

    • Case: DUTZO C740 Airflow Wood

    • PSU: Corsair RMe Series RM850e (2025) - 850 Watt

    Here's a link to the full specs and options to configure.

    So.. is 4k a bad idea with this setup? Because I really want to.

    I would probably settle for 1440p (widescreen even?) but I'm sure 4k would feel like such a much more massive upgrade. So if this build is not capable of 4k for newer modern highly demanding games, would downscaling in them look disappointing? If anyone has experience with that?

    If I end up on 1440p, if anyone has experience with this part, what do movies and such look like? Would a 1080p download look strange and blurry being upscaled? And would a 2160p download look weird being downscaled?

    I have also seen some posts about 4k being not worth it on account of just how tightly packed the pixels are - that unless it's a more than 30" screen, it's not even worth it? Any truth to that in you guys' experiences?

    Sorry for the long post, but thanks for reading!

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  17. Comment on King of Denmark has asked centre-right politician Troels Lund Poulsen to try to form a new government after PM Mette Frederiksen failed to put together a ruling coalition in ~society

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    LLR has simultaneously refused to work with the far left as well as the far right. As long as that's his position, he gets to decide for how long to extend negotiations since neither a left-wing...

    [...] Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s centre-right moderates. He is seen as a kingmaker owing to his position in the middle between Frederiksen and Troels Lund Poulsen, the chair of the centre-right liberal party.

    LLR has simultaneously refused to work with the far left as well as the far right. As long as that's his position, he gets to decide for how long to extend negotiations since neither a left-wing government nor a right-wing government is possible without his mandates.

    Unless it ends up being a very fragile minority government, the right-wing thing is not really possible, since multiple parties have refused to work together, somewhat of a Swedish SD situation. It's my guess that LLR only wanted the right-wing to try to form a government in order for him to get more leverage on the left-wing once these right-wing negotiations inevitably break down.

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  18. Comment on Did wokeness leave us worse off? (gifted link) in ~society

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    Yeah leave it to online spaces to take one off-hand comment about something and suddenly it turns into this, or that Epstein is the one that created microtransactions in video games (because he...

    Yeah leave it to online spaces to take one off-hand comment about something and suddenly it turns into this, or that Epstein is the one that created microtransactions in video games (because he wasn't already bad enough) haha

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  19. Comment on Did wokeness leave us worse off? (gifted link) in ~society

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    Yeah I 100% get that. A couple years ago we actually got a new spokesperson for the socialist party and he has been really good about dropping the identity politics stuff. Not because he or the...

    Yeah I 100% get that.

    A couple years ago we actually got a new spokesperson for the socialist party and he has been really good about dropping the identity politics stuff. Not because he or the party doesn't still believe it, but because they know it's a losing issue. Their focus or in your words marketing is great because he never bites when the right try to talk up and import American culture war stuff like what we have been discussing here today. And it seems to have won him and the party some ground.

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  20. Comment on Did wokeness leave us worse off? (gifted link) in ~society

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    Yes and I am agreeing with you. I explicitly said above that woke has not gone far enough. So I tried to say: so what? Where do we go from here? How do we make progress now? This is not pragmatic...

    Yes and I am agreeing with you. I explicitly said above that woke has not gone far enough. So I tried to say: so what? Where do we go from here? How do we make progress now?

    This is not pragmatic politics. This will not create societal, cultural, wide, progress. This will create camp A and camp B and each will dig into trenches instead of finding common ground. That is not realpolitik. It is ideology which 90% of the planet will not agree on in any foreseeable future.

    Realpolitik is to deal with what you have. Sticking to our ground not moving an inch is very much what I want to do as well. But it is not how we convince everyone to come along with us.

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