Exactly!

Lots of AMD boards do, actually.

Nah, the RAM will be ECC, but AMD motherboards often will take that. SSDs will be m2 or SAS, you may have to find yourself a PCIE card to hook up those, but it shouldn’t be impossible.

No, “AI” can’t “take a shitty photo I took myself with my phone and make it look professional”. It can maybe make it look less shit, to an untrained eye.

Getting decent shots taken by someone who knows what they’re doing (regardless of gear, even) is absolutely not the same thing. And that’s before you get to all the environmental and ethics issues around it, so it certainly isn’t “free”.

I mean, you do you, and if auto-tweaked snapshots serve your purpose, more power to you. But don’t think for a second that you’ve made a photographer superfluous. You weren’t her (or any photographer’s) target group to begin with.

A not too long one, for portraits, say 86 to 135mm, and a fast one at that? Absolutely.

A mild nausea, usually.

“Do we have a spare? We don’t? Tch, unfortunate.”

Plus zero LLM slop everywhere.

![Shrimp on an office chair](https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/cd36a359-5165-49c5-85b3-0cd3425680ee.jpeg "Rate my build)

“Try to keep out the worst malware’d packages”

I have this one, too! Well, actually, I have two of them, as I also wanted one on my desk at work.

I have the shrimp in an office chair, too. Twice.

…that we know of.

“Plop”

Last drive I replaced was a consumer desktop drive that had been spinning in my server for 7 or 8 years. Get better drives than that and yeah, they’ll typically last a while.

Yeah, RAID is for uptime, or for speed (RAID0, RAID10), but defo have a backup.

Multiple.

One of them off-site.

Ah, that. Yeah, I understand the sentiment, but of course that’s never going to happen. It’s not as if any of it is actually about the game for those people, anyway.

If Europe had any balls we would just go home and start a new organisation to replace the corrupt FIFA.

UEFA is already a thing.

Not all hearing aids are cochlear implants or bone conducting types. There’s plenty that are basically an Airpod.

Source: am a user.

On the other hand, not livetweeting an event saves you both money and a lot of effort.

Some people are literally too poor to own a lib.