The problem is that these ‘features’ give you the fake appearance of performance but at the cost of actual performance. And they aren’t even good in the first place. Upscaling is like smearing vaseline all over your screen and saying “see how good it looks” when it’s just a blurry mess, especially with temporal elements. Frame generation gives artificial smoothness but doesn’t help input latency which is the part of frame rate that actually matters.

The kicker is that it costs real frames to generate fake ones. The game ends up looking and feeling worse.

So I have to roleplay romance in my role playing game? I don’t play role playing games to play roles! /s

I have personally used an electric lighter for several years primarily for starting campfires. It’s definitely less convenient than a traditional lighter but totally works and doesn’t need any lighter fluid. I don’t personally feel comfortable carrying flammable fuels in my backpack, so electric was a good choice for me

They’re available, I have one

US citizenship isn’t that much of a benefit these days anyway

Syncthing can also do this seamlessly, and you don’t need to set up a central server. The devices connect to each other in a mesh

Piano Flute Saxophones Bassoon Melodic percussion

Strongest on piano. I have dabbled a bit with accordion since a relative has one, beautiful instrument.

If you’re technical, you might be able to change out the chipset as WiFi+Bluetooth is usually on an M.2 2230 E-key board on most machines. But agreed that it is very annoying and this isn’t feasible for most regular users

One option you have is to import your organized files into Immich through the immich-cli. That will make sure it ends up in the intended file structure.

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Hot, strong and sweet like toffee

Correct. However, it ‘adds to’ the evidence provided by other studies

Except for the numerous other artificial sweeteners that have been found to also have negative effects. This has been a trend, and I think that’s what they meant by that statement

Should have said ‘included’ rather than ‘free’ since it is a paid service

Shortcut: blocking something the Doug Ford government wants - Good!

There are ways of making money without damaging society.

And so what? I have 1.5 Gb symmetrical with latency to many sites and game servers under 10 ms (on Wi-Fi!)

I have fiber to home in Canada

In the US there exists a system where you have to pay for healthcare up to a certain value, beyond which insurance covers the costs. It’s common to have this deductible reset every year.