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  • This is a good run through

    https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-ryzen-7-8700g-cpu-review/3

    It’s targeting performance benchmarks for the 8700G at 1080p and getting decent FPS

    RAM speed really matters as it’s also your GPU memory. So low clock RAM will kill GFX performance.

    If you’re really budget conscious TDP at 65W for the CPU and GFX is a major win over any other setup.

    I know someone who went the 5700G route a few years ago and was pretty happy.

    But my budget setup:

    USB-C dock for my steam deck. One device for desktop, TV, and handheld.

    As the amount of time I’ve got to spend on games has gone down, I’ve got too many great games to get through on the steam deck already and I lean towards indie titles.

    During the summer running a heater as a GPU either makes the room unpleasant or has additional air con load.

    Honestly each Playstation generation has ended up sub 250W power consumption at launch with sub 400W rated PSUs. They kick out enough heat.

    A build with a 1000W PSU or 1200W PSU is a red flag for me.

    I get the desire to get the best possible performance but at some point it’s really not worth it. It’s a space heater, and one too powerful to leave on even in the winter.








  • Ross_audio@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldThe audacity
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    And Hollywood profits aren’t from movies, honestly you’ve fallen for basic accounting tricks…

    A franchise that doesn’t make money devalues the retail space. McDonald’s model links rents to sales so they take maximum value at all times.

    Royalty fee: 4% of gross revenues

    Brand marketing and promotion fee: 4% of gross revenues

    Location rent: Unlike most other franchises, McDonald’s owns the land and buildings at its locations and franchisees pay rent that can be based on a percentage of sales or as a fixed amount. Percentage rents are 31.75% of sales. Fixed rents are typically £100,000 to £225,000 per month.

    So Corporately it looks like they make their money from rent. But that rent is directly linked to sales and labour in most cases.

    Without sales they don’t get rent unless they’ve agreed a fixed rent and that’s increasingly rare. Usually only the highest value sites.

    The real estate value of the property is linked to business revenue as well. If a franchise fails and doesn’t get another investor then the empty building is worth a lot less.

    By picking McDonald’s you’re actually about as wrong as possible. Everything of value is linked back to labour, even the value of the land.

    It might work differently in other countries but I doubt it. Economics work the same everywhere and McDonalds didn’t like to standardise when they find a winning model for themselves.



  • It remains to be seen what he’s actually done to benefit anyone who gave him anything.

    And he stopped accepting them once he entered the office. We found out because he told us about it all and the mistake of accepting some gifts a bit too late.

    With the only arguable benefits being publicity for the brand it’s not nothing but it really is daft the perspective tricks that have been played with that particular molehill. It’s the press that actually gave the gifters the benefits, not any actions by Starner himself.

    Being given something isn’t proof of being bought. Acting for the person who gave you something is.

    I predict that as the COVID era corruption comes to light his previous job will result in him prosecuting and recovering quite a lot of public money. Sadly I don’t think he will get a result of jail time for anyone. The laws just aren’t in place for that and he can’t get them made retrospectively.

    A UK constitution would be very interesting. But I’d just settle for some actual laws specifically against corruption rather than relying on MPs following conventions and being honourable.

    The shocking thing is that hundreds of millions of pounds worth of corruption through the “fast lane” wasn’t illegal to do. We’ll only be able to recoup from the companies who actually didn’t deliver their contracts.



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    Look into the maintenance costs of Germany’s 1970s reactors before calling an entire nation brain dead.

    The cost of nuclear today is high and continues for thousands of years. Cost is the entire problem.

    Nuclear power isn’t green, it’s just at the beginning of the cycle where it’s waste is seen as a small problem because there isn’t a lot of it. Like fossil fuels were a century ago.

    Unfortunately we don’t have a lot of suitable places to put nuclear waste so the small amount we already have is already causing problems in Europe. The US being a bigger place may get to that point a little later than us. But nuclear waste stores are already oversubscribed in the UK, Germany, and France.

    Nuclear power is short sighted.

    The money spent should be on renewables and grid storage. Then more efficient heating and insulation.

    Not nuclear, not carbon capture.

    Proponents of nuclear power never look at the total lifecycle cost of a reactor. In fact it’s usually deliberately hidden.

    Nuclear reactors have always been and will always be military technology. They should be funded as military spending.

    By all means put a price on carbon so they can get a better price on energy but the military should be funding the reactors they need and dealing with the waste out of their budgets.


  • It was dead the moment we didn’t elect a low towing fop.

    Russia funded and led the conservative movement here in the past 10 years. We got Brexit, we got incompetent government, they got a place to park their wealth (a lot of it is still here), they got crimes without much fuss.

    Europe was weakened.

    As the funding for Trump’s loans and Musk’s Twitter buyout as well the moment we woke up and voted for a different party we became a target state instead of a puppet state.

    Even Boris Johnson realised we had to help Ukraine. They replaced him with Truss and Sunak, more controllable puppets.

    There are of course other factors, but the effect of global oligarchs spending fossil fuel wealth is clear in Western Democracy at the moment. Saudi is another big influence, they court both sides as long as they aren’t crossed.

    Every crisis delays climate action, every election they can influence delays action. The longer they delay the more profit they get.





  • Yes, but your country being unable to have sensible judicial selection and poor judicial elections is not an argument for anywhere else.

    The US ranges from failure to bad.

    Other countries range from the good to the point other countries refuse to replace their own court system in order to continue using the good judiciary that’s trusted internationally.

    Using the US as an example to follow in this case is a bad idea. Even if removing selection from the US system would be an improvement, it isn’t relevant anywhere else.

    Especially when discussing an ideological law like making elections compulsory.