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In the South you used to (and still do) have the following three meals a day:

Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

In the North, however...

Breakfast, dinner, tea.

In the South, we sometimes have "breakfast, dinner, supper" (especially in rural areas; city folks are more likely to have "breakfast, lunch, dinner") and our tea definitely has ice and a fuckton of sugar in it.

I had high hopes for Google Glass because of the previous work of the GA Tech professor who led it, until it came out. That thing was a regression in both privacy and functionality compared to his self-built wearable computers from the '90s or 2000s.

(Although TBH, I would really love to have a wearable computer that was fully open source and local. Unfortunately, big tech going full Orwell has ruined the idea permanently.)

LOL, America's Hat doesn't count as a real separate country, silly!

From comment in the source they are not flock and at least officially intended for tracking who is going through the low pollution zones and which of them have vehicles that don't qualify to be there.

There's a much simpler and less intrusive way to accomplish that: just put up bollards to exclude all automobiles and only allow bicyclesa and pedestrians.

That wasn't "an incident." The notion of Windows breaking Linux's bootloader has been a known thing for at least a decade.

Rodriguez is in a competitive primary for Wisconsin’s open governor’s race against democratic socialist Francesca Hong...

I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but there were black people in ancient Greece IRL. It's not even "woke," just historically accurate!

I just want to point out that Windows bundling Internet Explorer for free was a blatant violation of antitrust law that Microsoft should've gotten broken up for, since the other replies didn't mention it.

I understand being intimidated. Under normal circumstances I'd say maybe try building a cheap computer for your first time, but there kinda aren't any right now. That said, my first one was a reasonably high-end machine for the time, and it turned out fine.

I feel like the biggest sticking point is actually #2, not #1. I was the kind of kid who was obsessively reading tech magazines/websites/newspaper ad flyers and knew exactly what I wanted and where to get the best deal on it. So yeah, I definitely recommend doing your research first.

But good news: you've got it easy these days with YouTube showing you what to get and how to assemble it instead of having to read. The parts themselves are easier these days, too: no jumpers to set, and almost everything is keyed to only fit one way. Short of being really inept/careless and bending CPU pins or snapping the edge connector off a PCB or something, you're not going to hurt anything.

The bottom line is, if you want to do it eventually you might as well do it now, because there really isn't that much to it.

The only real reasons to get a Steam Machine are if:

1. You really want your computer to be a 6" cube
2. You really want HDMI CEC support
3. You really want to give your money to Valve instead of some other company

Otherwise, something else will be cheaper and/or faster, at the cost of being a more normal desktop size and shape.

I haven't had a prebuilt desktop since I was 15, so I would definitely build my own. (In other words, if the thing stopping you is being nervous about screwing it up, don't be because it isn't actually hard.)

Otherwise, I don't have any specific prebuilt brand recommendations for you, but I'll echo the advice to get something with a Radeon 9060 XT (or better). Alternatively, if you think you might want to do AI things with it too instead of just gaming, consider a small-form-factor PC with a fast APU and a lot of unified memory (e.g. like the Framework Desktop or Minisforum MS-S1 Max) or a Radeon RX 7900 XTX (with 24GB RAM), but be aware that those would be a lot more expensive right now.

That's true, dinosaurs don't have buttholes.