Nvidia is propped up by LLM and AI stuff skyrocketing right now. Their GPUs for consumers are sub par. Their drivers suck. Their overhyped and overpriced. Anyone who’s built gaming rigs and PCs will likely tell you the same thing. Especially so if your using Linux of any kind. Their just not worth the hassle. Nvidia is a marketing company.

AMD beats in price, better drivers, and arguably performance when paired together CPU and GPU. When a consumer wants maximum dollar value I built 10 to 1 AMD systems.

Nvidia matches out or exceeds is specialty workstation type work loads but that is about it. That’s also entirely what’s propping up their hyper inflated company.

Bluetooth connect it then steam will automatically use steam input I believe.

If your running that CPU then you almost certainly have done research or have money. Either way. Enjoy the setup you’ve got a good cooler and CPU it seems.

The Noctua NH 15 is a great air cooler one of the best air coolers actually. What are you pairing it to? What CPU?

Almost all things noctua are good. However. They are expensive and if you’re not plotting on future cpu high TDP chips it’s overkill. I don’t honestly see the need to drop that much money on a CPU cooler. There’s near equal more cost effective options. Unless your doing major overclocks, cpu heavy loads at near max clock speed constantly where you think major wear and tear will happen I don’t for see the need to spend that much. I’ve built many many PCs.

You can find comparable air coolers much cheaper. Think 50 to 80 range and technically you can score them on eBay for cheaper than that. Look at the Phantom spirit 120 cheapest 30 to 40 usd, AK620 1 to 3c cooler than phantom 50 to 65usd, frost commander 140 80usd, noctua DH 15 150 to 180usd.

Of course prices fluctuate. Those get you the best ranked air coolers for the most part. Their all within roughly 5C of each other. All good coolers. Take the extra money savings and add to a GPU or whatever part you really need. I just seen you already have the noctua dh15 so in that case you were testing me to see what I knew. LOL. Enjoy you got a great cooler.

Thats what the manufacturer says but… 95c is damn near boiling at 203f. That is too hot to sustain any good longevity of a part, and any good workload for any component in a PC. That is a lot of heat. You will not get the best performance for a processor at its maximum temperatures running it like that all the time or even close to its max operating temp. I’m not saying you can’t hit that number but ideally you really really shouldn’t.

So what I said I think stands. Upgrade to a better air cooler and if need be a water cooler at least a 240AIO nothing smaller period. Keep temps lower and parts last longer. Performance boosts during core loads hold clocks longer. No question.

16 is minimum and 32 is recommended if you do much pc gaming, browsing, or torrenting. Things with multiple programs. A single browser and steam open. I regularly hit 16 to 20gb on mint and librewolf. I rarely never see a use past 32gb. I find that to be the sweet spot right now. Anything higher than 32 is better spent on ddr5 upgrade. Caveat being if you run some serious programs but that’s overly rare even by today’s software.

Slight under volt, or upgrade cooler. 90c is too hot sustainably. Idle high 40s to 50s is not the best. Find a better air cooler or use a 240 AIO atleast.

How do you download the entire Wikipedia? Someone said it was possible to host it and also resources for Anna’s archive and other archive sites.

But the grant money! The colleges receive and dictate where it goes. Just think of the universities for once. /s

This is not late stage capitalism. This is mid stage at best. The entire economy and world population could be shrunk down to literally pennies, as the wealth gap widens. It could have us ending up like district 9, or Elysium as broad examples. The govt and entities have not even started cracking down on illegal activities, loop holes, bank accounts, cash spending, crypto, and more in the super strict enforced fashion they could be.

While rightly fucked up and enshittified. We could be so so much further down the capitalism rabbit hole of hell. Everyone should be boycotting and avoiding the largest companies as a whole. No change you make goes unnoticed. You might be less than 1 percent but the snowball effects happen. Movements, parties, resistance, change, software, everything adds up.

So what you can do. Don’t go mentally insane about it. Most things don’t require THAT much effort. A simple tweak here or there makes an impact.

I really only miss fortnite and the ocassional call of duty warzone but other than those two or some multiplayer games Linux is far more enjoyable. Yeah I know this games and those companies but let someone enjoy something for once. Help me find a work around. Until then I dual boot mint and windows debloated as much as possible for only a few multiplayer games.

Some sort of internal error specific to them and their setup. Mullvad should function flawlessly on Mint. I’ve used and installed mint on multiple PCs and all sorts of drives including usbs. The repo for updating mullvad app usually needs corrected but that is it. Mint and Mullvad are solid.

EXCEPT the fuel pump for a Passat 2013 to 2017 is 400 to 600 dollars for the pump only. You can find some on eBay cheaper but when you can’t drive your car then you have to get what you can get.

I’ve thought about this a ton. Depressing amount.

I’ve decided to work on improving my quality of sleep drastically and have done it but it wasn’t easy to learn and study my body. In effort to maintain or increase the quality of measured and studied sleep to shave off 2 hours. From 8 hours to 6. Allowing me to live awake and hopefully enjoy 13.3 percent more of my life.

Yes you can cut it down more and gain more living time. This is what I deem more acceptable and I slowly bring the time down more as my baseline improves.

My best advice. Cool your body/brain and dial in your body temp use water cooling like a sleep 8 it’s expensive and subscription, so DIY your own use AI to dial it in if you can, live data. By plugging in your health data to it. Learn your sleep stages, wear a health tracker that’s accurate for heart rate, breathing, pulse ox, HRV, keep stress low and exercise regularly. Stick to a strict schedule of sleep and wake. Avoid fatty meals and snacking hours before bedtime, eat clean and healthy.

There’s no magic bullet, most of its common sense. But you can make major gains if you dial in your body and listen to it. Tune into it. Don’t push through, feel and correct. There’s more but it’s late in my time zone.

Kroger 😂

Good it’ll slow down the atrocious e-waste I hope. Fucking everything doesn’t need wifi and blue tooth and bullshit.

Pyronis disease 😭

It seems like a reading issues rather than a hardware issue. Try placing the sensor on the inside if your wrist where the skin is softer and veins are more prevalent. Also play with the tightness and fitment location up or down a little. Go to settings turn data to gather every second. Update the hardware and apps during syncing with phone or wifi. I know mine can be off under vigorous fan biking where your really thrashing your arms. But it’s fairly accurate any other time. I’d like to note the resting heart rate also appears to be an average of sleeping and awake values as an average. I’ve noticed mine doing that same thing. My resting us regularly in the mid 50s with slight variations.

If you do intensive exercises or more moving than otherwise a watch on your wrist could reasonably keep up with. I highly recommend pairing a Polar H10 (roughly 100 usd) strap to your garmin and that’s hospital/lab grade accurate. Pairs right to the watch and nothing else is needed, syncs the data accurately and to connect app as usual. 400 hour battery life, adjustable, comfortable. Check it out. Good luck.

I and my family have had Garmin’s like the venu line for years and I am in the hospital all the time. I’ve tested mine against the polar h10 and multiple medical tests and during times of Hospital stays for lengths of time. Mine has always been accurate and within a beat or two in the heart rate and a single percentage or 2 on pulse ox.

Garmin has fantastic customer service. Perhaps updating your device, or contacting them for an exchange would be worth while. All their watches I have had, seen, have been accurate. I’m not refuting what your saying just trying to give my perspective.

You can also set to track every second vs the default smart tracking every few minutes. Switch wrists as everyones vein layouts are better or worse to get a reading, keep it snug but not tight and not loose the sensor shouldnt indent your skin. Hope any of this helps. Don’t settle for subpar results or experience. They make good equipment IME.

The good Garmins last 2 and half months no charge. An hour in the sun adds a week. Ink display and solar glass. It’s awesome. In the smart watch health space garmin is second to none. Especially so for battery.