I’m not sure what your point is.

It won’t be “forever”. Once the piled up fuel (that’s been accumulating for the past hundred years or so since we’ve taken the stance that all forest fires are bad) are burnt through, we’ll stop seeing these big fires over and over.

And there’s no chance by the way of every other country in the world replacing America as our trading partner.

It’s already happening.

Canada and Japan just signed a massive deal for Canada to supply Japan with our heavy crude, and also to help Japan retrofit their refineries to process our oil.

Mark Carney caved And gave a better deal to the president instead of standing up for Canada.

The thing that most people miss is that Carney isn’t reactionary. He doesn’t give in to squabbling or public chirping. He’s a pragmatist and plays the long game.

Could he have “stood up for Canada”? Sure. Would it have done any good? Probably not.

He knows the US is no longer the same reliable trading partner. Carney got the deal out the door to get some trade going, while the real focus is with just about every other country in the world. The bridge and its deal are just a distraction at this point.

I’m sure the Prime Minister appreciates you’re desperate efforts on his behalf to justify his actions against Canadian interests

I’m sure he doesn’t care. He’s not a whiney baby.

to justify banning VPNs

Never going to happen. Businesses would be up in arms about this.

just caved on the Gordie Howe Bridge

https://youtu.be/iwJlmNOrtfE

They are a major corporation, and a telecommunications company at that. Their bottom line isn’t exactly shrinking. Many companies operate industry related public arms at a loss as a promotional department. Them simply operating a radio station is massive marketing, and if done right, can earn a lot of public goodwill.

Edit: bad wording

Not everything needs to be business-ified.

I’m just not an idiot with prioritizing

Ok, that’s good. You had me worried there for a bit.

8gb works fine for most games at 1080p.

Nobody buying this is doing it to play competitive FPS games on a 4k 144hz monitor.

I’m running a 12gb card and I haven’t found a game yet that completely saturates the GPU’s memory. But then I don’t play most games with maxed out settings. And I have a system with 16 cores on the Zen5 arch and 96gb of RAM.

All you’re doing here is being an elitist and ignorant chud.

I literally said “it has to be more than a 10% price difference”. And if you’re bad at math, that’s more than $100.

And that extra $100 gets you warranty from Valve, a sleek compact form factor, and a ready-to-go system.

The price from GN is less than a $100 difference. And their point was basically to show that you can’t get much cheaper than Valve’s price, and that it is actually competitive.

Yes, you absolutely would pay more for less. I saw on the comment thread you linked to a 4th gen Intel as an example. What a joke.

i suck at picking parts and never know if they’ll fit my build

Just use pcpartpicker.com

It’s very good at telling you if parts aren’t compatible.

Money grubbing monopolistic shit bags.

Yes, those money grubbers making probably $50 on each unit. How dare they!

And pay more?

At this latitude?

This is overpriced for the hardware.

I challenge you to build out a parts list with comparable performance for cheaper. And it needs to be more than a 10% difference. You can’t just show a savings of $50 and claim victory, because there’s a lot you get in convenience and guarantees when you buy hardware from Valve.

Yup, and it was a shameless money grab.

it’d be fairly annoying to connect to Tailscale, and really annoying to connect to Wireguard or Yggdrasil.

Tailscale is a managed Wireguard service.

Don’t have to. My parents (who are grandparents) use my Jellyfin server just fine.