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I had Kodi installed for a few weeks as my television media front-end, but it has:

• the worst UX that you could possibly imagine, with menu after menu arranged seemingly at random, and buttons doing different things at every level
• functionality delivered via plugins, at least half of which do not work
• directory scans failing seemingly at random, with the errors hidden away in log files that you have to shell in to retrieve
• terrible documentation, inevitably consisting of forum pages about how it used to work a decade ago

It may well have a huge amount of functionality, but configuring and using it is the exact opposite of slick. Have uninstalled in favour of KDE with VLC installed, and manipulated via the KDE Connect mobile app, which is somehow a much better big-screen experience.

The RAM is the HBM kind that won't fit in your motherboard at home. The GPUs tend not to have video outputs, require power supplies around a kilowatt, and powered external cooling. The whole lot of going to landfill when the bubble bursts.

The storage is reusable, I think. You might get a deal on SSDs and hard disks.

Just bind update/shutdown to a key you don't press often, like keypad insert.

yay --noconfirm ; sudo shutdown now

Any problems with update, computer is put straight out of its misery. Bang.

Now I am wiser! Thanks AON.

Bad for the bee as well...

It's its trick mode. You can convert it without dropping your attack 'combo' on odd-numbered hits, so you can rush up to an enemy, quickly 'cane hit' twice to stun, then 'whip hit' until you've killed it with a bit of AoE coverage that stops any other enemy in front of you from sneaking in. Works great when you need to clear out a large number of mooks; the whip is a bit slow when you're fighting single high-difficulty enemies.

In fact, might bust Bloodborne out again after I've finished Mina, always something more to learn about that game...

Ah, but that's the joy of it. You don't need a new PC for this; a very old one will still run it absolutely perfectly. And I agree with OP; great game, although I'm still only 2/3rds through it.

Enjoying it greatly so far - the difficulty level seems calibrated to 'brutal' but everything about it scream polish and perfection.

I find it hard to believe that some of the platforming sections are intended to be as difficult as they are. If there's nothing to attack, you can't heal, and you take a tonne of damage from falling off. Even with the life ring accessory, it's still wicked in places. Not so bad once you're able to equip a few more items and have some extra sparks, but at the beginning of the game, oof.

Some of the bosses having very random attacks is a bit unpleasant, too. If they keep busting out screen-fillers that are very hard to avoid, there's not much you can do, especially as some of them can finish you in a couple of hits.

Oh yeah, was just watching Hard Target the other day. Terrible film, but he's great in it.

I'd like to think that the bag is step 1. Step 2 is to balance an old car tire on top, and set it on fire.

Hate AI 'art'. Love me some Icon For Hire. But they mostly sing about mental illness with pop-metal hooks, and rarely anything spiritual.

Water is compressible; it has a bulk modulus of about 2.2 GPa. So at the 1086 bar at the bottom of the Mariana trench (~109 MPa), it'll have compressed about (109 / 2200) ~= 5%. Materials with a different bulk modulus to water may start to float at sufficiently high depths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_modulus#Selected_values