You want us to yell out our credit card details over the phone like the good old days?

HardwareUnboxed did a with/without ray tracing comparison. TL;DR in most games it’s not worth the performance hit. Don’t bother with ray tracing for now, especially on low or mid-range hardware. https://youtu.be/DBNH0NyN8K8

Playing devil’s advocate here. A possibly legitimate reason ISPs put in data caps is wireless spectrum congestion.

Does your FLancher start up by default? I have a similar setup on a Shield, and the home button does go to FL. But whenever it comes out of standby it still goes into the Google launcher with ads on it…

Xitter

And if said tradesperson doesn’t want their equipment to get wet in the rain they get a van instead.

Need? No. But hardware acceleration makes things faster and more efficient.

You copy pasted 3 possible answers from the font of infinite possible answers. OP could have done the same themselves but chose to ask humans.

Those cost money too

To be fair, LLMs are very good at this sort of associative lookup. But I agree that it doesn’t add much to thr conversation. It’s like the modern equivalent of letmegooglethatforyou

Do you have a source for the CIA backing claim? I can’t find anything substantiated with a quick ddg search.

I can recommend this site for up-to-date and fairly neutral parts recommendations split by budget https://www.logicalincrements.com

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Honestly the LCD decks are so cheap, especially with sales, I don’t think you could build a gaming PC for that price.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com

Kinda depends on where you live but there often is an excess of hydro and wind power overnight.

It’ll depend on how efficient your phone charger is vs your PC PSU. Looking at some charts, it’s a very close battle but generally the phone charger seems to win out. Probably because it’s more optimized for its max power output, whereas the PSU needs to support a wider range of loads.

https://silentpcreview.com/power-lost-a-better-way-to-compare-psu-efficiency/

https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/power/whitepaper/21129264/gan-fulfills-promise-of-efficiency-and-simplified-power-adapter-design

The amount of heat this will add to your case is negligible. We’re talking 15% waste on a 20W load, so 3W worth of extra heat. And that heat is produced in the PSU.

(PSU efficiency standards: https://i.imgur.com/WSWrsCm.gif)

Or just don’t use it

I will always downvote articles with “slams” in the title. It is undoubtedly low effort clickbait. …unless someone actually gets a door slammed in their face.