Ahh, thanks! Reading a description, that’s how I use it too, that’s fun to learn there’s a name for it.

GTD?

I think what I didn’t like is: I could maybe agree with their line of thought for the changes they made to the weapons. I don’t like that they prioritized these as the first balance patch.

As many have said it was meta because of the abundance of chargers/heavy enemies in 7-9 for folks trying to get the super samples.

Before the high difficulties felt chaotic but at least doable. Now… it still is but it’s even more running and kiting. To me it’s a less fun gameplay loop.

And the “arrogance” is probably perceived from the other dev comments like “get good” “stop clutching your pearls” “goodbye crutches”. If that’s how the devs feel, it’s easy to imagine the balance person, who prioritized removing tools vs making the reason the tools were needed first, thinks the same way.

Why I think people are praising the helldivers2 monetization is that isn’t the case. The “premium currency” is earnable in game and at a reasonable. I haven’t bought any but still have the battlepass and a few of the premium armors.

You get it as part of the battlepass, and the gameplay loop guides you to the currency. You’ll be looking for ammo or in game currency, and there also happens to be premium currency sometimes. The battlepass not being timed and on a work at your own pace is great too.

It feels fair to me? Like the developer can still make a buck but not ruin the experience. I.e. the monetization lets people pay to instantly gratify if they want vs punish you for not spending.

Very much so, they have become a status symbol for some people.

They used to be incredibly well made, I believe they still are but the draw for many people is the name and known high price tag.

On one hand it’s a pretty common acronym in consulting-businees work. But on the other you’d think Wired, as a general tech publication, would want to take the two sentence to explain what it is and how it’s generally used.

It could be a pretty big value to remove humans in this step. A lot of times the rfp contents are known-ish anyway. You’re a tech dev firm, and someone wants a proposal for building an app in a framework you know, you already have language probably you’ve used. In theory this is a great application of AI to speed up the process of building this. The request is “hey we need these things and want this and this”. A consumer facing business might present this information as a FAQ or custom order process anyway, so automating an rfp could be good since it speeds things along.

In practice, who knows. If it isn’t accurate, if it takes longer to edit than just write from scratch, then that would suck. It’ll likely be another way to “reduce headcount” cause of “efficiencies” regardless of how good it is. I doubt this changes anything for most sales executives job status, for people who work in those departments that support those execs though, probably not good

I actually had a pretty similar system, a 2700k/32gb/nonraid ssd and went to a r5 3600 and that felt amazing from a system responsiveness standpoint. Like you said it wasn’t night and day immediately (say the way a hdd to ssd) felt but after using my new computer for awhile and using the old one the old one felt slower and more limited.

Edit: I also upgraded cpu again from a 3600 to a 5800x, not as much a jump but the upgrade felt so good for me I wanted more and thanks to the cpus sharing am4 all I needed was a new cpu.

I didn’t OC and didn’t have a raid setup, but the cpu upgrade felt better as my workload on it increased. And the nvme upgrade really felt amazing for my workload. I do web dev/automated testing and the update enabled me to use my computer to stream (sometimes multiple streams) and do my workflow (standing up database, site, running automation, manually testing) without having to close tabs or “prep my computer”. The ceiling of what it can handle performantly is much higher which improves my test reliability and quality of life. The amount of stuff I can throw at it before it begins to slow down has been the biggest improvement for me.

If you’re happy with your performance in games, I don’t know it’ll be that much better with the upgrade given what you play now. But for work, I imagine it’ll be quite an improvement depending on what you upgrade to/how you use your computer.

I’m not an expert but I think : The site you visit only sees the VPNs info. Which is how you maintain some anonymity while browsing. However, if your VPN keeps logs, then you can still be tracked, just at a different place. Some say they don’t keep logs, and you’d have to trust that.

RAM is considered volatile memory, so each time the server turns off, it loses all data. This is compared to disk (hard drives of whatever type) which retain memory even if the server turns off.

In theory, this ram only server prevents them from keeping logs (like which user went where) since the server wouldn’t even have a place to store it.

Edit: lustrums post is more accurate and has info that this doesn’t prevent logging per se, but could prevent accidental logging. I.e. they can’t hire a forensic computer specialist to parse through operating system logs to try to find info they didn’t otherwise log elsewhere.