You’re supposed to vaguely imply the existence of those, not just give away secrets in public bruh

It replaces paying for Spotify because its possible to download Spotify premium. Best of both worlds. Use Spotify or YouTube to find stuff, send it to a seedbox, load it later at home.

Biggest downside is most phones don’t have SD card slots anymore.

Sent from my (slightly salty) hacked pixel 7

Well yeah fuck that guy and this program and it’s implications, but this particular issue doesn’t sound too unexpected considering the scope of the procedure.

I’m all for the science, but you know this is going to be some directly streamed ads hellspace we’ll never escape from if it comes to fruition.

Here’s a good rule for this sort of thing to move forward: No implants before right to privacy and freedom from advertising.

I though it was shitty games done quick. I would check that out.

Line from a solid song by a local band i found when i was 16. Oddly enough, it never occured to me how much i liked it as a name until a decade later.

I’ve played most of the metroid games, and i know theres a ton of nostalgia for super metroid, but to this day nothing has matched the feeling of exploration and awe from Metroid Prime. Every place in the game was so radically different, and the ability to scan and learn about the environment was so unique, and exactly what i didn’t know i needed. Learning the lore and finding out what happened to the planet only by analyzing everything made the world feel like it had died, and it’s death was a tragedy. All the enemies you encounter are just local animals that don’t know better, or had been corrupted by pollution. That is, until about halfway through the game when you meet actually hostile, malicious intelligence, and the combat steps up exponentially.

It’s fantastic. I still remember being amazed at the fogging and raindrops showing up on the visor the first time you step off your ship on Talon IV. I had never seen graphocs so good, and such attention to detail, and the game was already 4 years old.

The only game i’ve ever played that felt similar was subnautica, and while it had the wonder, it lacked the melancholy and insane combat.

Prime is the best in the series, hands down.

(It cuts out the middle man of having to find facts on your own)

I’m sure that’s just a perk and not indicative of the new age of captured information wer’re currently living through.

No, it’s a freeway loop, so there’s never a jam, and it was like 10pm. Took the normal way back and it cut 12 minutes off a 30 minute trip.

They’ve been secretly doing this for years. I switched out after I realized the weird roads they were having me take weren’t to avoid traffic, but because every corner I turned at had a 7-11 on it. The roads in my area are set up like a grid, so there’s many ways to get everywhere. I’m thinking like 3-4 years ago I noticed the change. I would check with my friend’s phones, and notice Google would give them different directions than mine. Last weekend, a friend was giving me directions to a spot in a neighboring town, and it avoided the freeway to have me drive through the business district of both my town and the destination. I work in the town I was heading to, I know how long it takes to get there. It told us to go literally the worst way possible.

That just adds another party with access to your photos.

Cool. I want zero if these features. Leave my shit alone.

I would argue that podcasting doesn’t require a lot of power, and any modern CPU will have more than enough overhead to handle whatever he’ll do. Just make sure there’s adequate storage as audio files can get pretty big depending on how they’re recorded.

A raid set up to make sure there’s no loss of recordings in a disc failure would be a good idea.

I can’t help with mics, but for headphones, audio technica m40x has the best quality to price. There are Definitely better phones, but the m40x punch way above their cost.

I know future proof was a concern, but it’s worth noting that we’re at the beginning of the next gen of ram and cpu’s, so for a LOT cheaper you can get the best of the previous generation of parts and they’ll work for years. No real room for upgrading, but there won’t be a major difference between performance for another few years . I would recommend going for the best Ddr4 and AM4 setups rather than mediocre am5 and ddr5 parts that will cost a lot more. Black Friday deals on Newegg for the last gen are pretty solid.

I generally recommend AMD over Intel just because the value is vastly higher for the price, and they don’t make you get a new motherboard every time they release a new chip.

As GPU’s are going, higher video ram is more important than chip speed for editing. Nvidia makes the best but they cost a mortgage, I run AMD myself and have never been let down, but the specs on the new Intel ARC cards are crazy considering how cheap they are. I have no experience with them though, and reviews are hard to believe because they’re so new, so half of them will be complaints about driver issues that were ironed out months ago.

Monitors are all over the place. IPS, especially high speed IPS is better for gaming and all around, VA is better for movies and video editing. Honestly high end monitors are so expensive, I’d go for a 200$ IPS and assume he’ll replace it himself if he starts getting serious about video editing.

Mechanical keyboards are great, but they’re pretty loud for podcasting, unless you specifically look for a quiet switch. Monoprice makes great mech keyboards that regularly go on sale for like 30$ and have replaceable switches if one breaks, which they never really do.

Mouse’s are unique to the individual, so don’t go too high end and find out it doesn’t fit his hand how he wants it. Again, might be best to consider it a placeholder.

Get a case with lots of room for drives. Glass panels are nice, but if you don’t have one, you’ll never be tempted to fall into the rgb pothole. Unless he wants to rgb the hell out of everything. I did the lights. No regrets.

Good power supply is key and effectively permanent, so go big and get a good brand. I recommend super flower. He’ll probably never need more than 750w, but if you go for 1000 or even 1200 he can use it indefinitely. In general more wattage is more efficient and safer. This is the only part that can take everything else with it when it fails, so don’t take risks here. I’ve had two build lose mobo, CPU, ram, and actually a backup uninterruptible power source to bad PSUs.

Edit: if it interests anyone, the bad PSUs that took down the builds were both EVGA golds, one 750 and one 850. The 750 was two years old and started a fire in the case, the 850 was brand new and killed everything in a new build, including the battery backup I had it plugged into.