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    Hardware Bargains 2 - Electric Boogaloo

    Well, 32GB costs R5700 but that comes with active lifetime warranty. https://www.wootware.co.za/adata-ad4u320032g22-sgn-premier-32gb-1x32gb-ddr4-3200mt-s-cl22-1-20v-green-desktop-memory.html If I were in the market I would want at least 50% discount.
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    New laws in Cape Town let the city impound your car for breaking these rules

    I also suggest you read and grasp this: "but given how lacking in insight and judgment so many people are, especially in these comfy government jobs which don't require high levels of intellectual processing," You're telling me that sentence means one doesn't have a license at all, but I...
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    Playstation 6 "Orion" thread

    If it came with 24-40GB of video RAM it would be a good way to run local LLMs. It will likely not come with that much RAM as RAM is expensive.
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    General coffee thread

    Strictly speaking no such thing as good or bad coffee. It's all subjective taste. If it tastes good or good enough, it's good or good enough. And not everyone is a coffee connoisseur, the same way not everyone is a wine connoisseur or an audiophile, or a Mac user. That explains why the...
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    New laws in Cape Town let the city impound your car for breaking these rules

    True. I've seen the same luxury cars for over a year not sporting license plates. I suppose it's different policing for different people.
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    New laws in Cape Town let the city impound your car for breaking these rules

    Imagine forgetting your license at home and you lose your car for however long. The thing is that we know it should not happen in such scenarios but given how lacking in insight and judgment so many people are, especially in these comfy government jobs which don't require high levels of...
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    Gaming laptop?

    You have to know its limits. Eg with those heavy lids, you need to open them by holding them in the centre, and pulling up gently. Don't extend the screen past 100 degrees. If you can, use an external keyboard or pad to game. Be gentle with the thing.
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    Gaming laptop?

    Depends on the laptop. Thick and chunky often run cool eg Asus ROG or Lenovo Legion Pro. Thin like Blade and Asus Zephyrus run warm and have to throttle. But Laptop GPU is not a desktop GPU. Although a thick RTX 5080 laptop today (TGP 150-175W) matches or even outperforms a desktop RTX 3090...
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    No new disc games on PlayStation from January 2028

    I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
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    No new disc games on PlayStation from January 2028

    No. Sony controls prices of all games for customers on their consoles and has eliminated all competition (or in the process of eliminating it by January 2028). That's the monopoly. Sony sells discs at wholesale prices to retailers because retailers have to make a profit. Sony obviously doesn't...
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    No new disc games on PlayStation from January 2028

    There are more considerations here. People have bought into the Sony system back when Codes could be purchased on third party sites, eg Amazon , Humble Bundle or Play-Asia or even G2A, often at large seasonal discounts. Sony then did away with that in 2019. Physical discs could be purchase new...
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    No new disc games on PlayStation from January 2028

    It seems we may have touched you and Splint on your special Sony studios.
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    No new disc games on PlayStation from January 2028

    No it's not. And it wasn't. Case in point Sony had successfully used the disc sales as defense before, Splinter from the Mybb Braai school of law. You're telling a Johns Hopkins guy off? You see Sony sells these discs at wholesale discount allowing stores to set their own specials. Some stores...
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    No new disc games on PlayStation from January 2028

    Shops like Amazon.com, .uk, .jp, .de, .fr, .za, etc. Best Buy Walmart etc How many of those shops exist, Splint? By the way Amazon is worth way more than all of Sony. Amazon is valued at $2.63 trillion, whereas the entire parent company Sony is valued at roughly $124 billion to $138 billion.
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    No new disc games on PlayStation from January 2028

    Andrew Ching, PhD, the marketing chair at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School who studies video game demand and used-game resale markets, told Fortune that Sony's disc decision resolves that dispute in the plaintiffs' favor. "Sony has historically pointed to that physical marketplace when...
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