1. Likely, yes. The mounting holes and rear connectors on any ATX motherboard should line up with the standoffs and slots on any ATX case. Just make sure the new board isn’t too large for the case. Plan ahead for the size of your new CPU cooler, too.
2. For the most part, yes. Pay attention to the new motherboard’s power connector and that of your old power supply. If they don’t match, you might want to get a more modern power supply (even if it’s a used one).
3. It depends on the prices you find. Bear in mind that if you go for a new motherboard, it doesn’t have to be the latest generation. A socket AM4 motherboard might make sense, since new CPUs are still being made for them, and they’re likely to be cheaper than latest-generation stuff.

The Ryzen 5 5500X3D’s Latin American exclusivity sets it apart from its higher-end counterparts, being the only Ryzen chip exclusive to that geographic area.

The practice extends beyond those. Lemmy is not immune, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

This community looks relevant in principle, although most of the posts right now are about political astroturfing (which is not the only kind):

!fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com

You know that it’s common for companies to pay influencers and publications for favorable publicity, right?

It’s important not to get caught up in the “constantly upgrade everything” hype, even though it gets the spotlight a lot more than solid midrange gaming gear. As far as I’m concerned, four years is nothing; a gaming system that can’t hold up for that long would have been a poor system even on day one.

Glad you’re still enjoying your Steam Deck. I would be surprised if you don’t get another four years out of it. :)

The use of “self-hosting” is a little confusing here. To be clear, he wasn’t self-hosting his video. It was published on YouTube, and the guidelines and procedures in question are Google’s.

Edit: I’m not defending Google’s actions. It’s just that the title gave the impression that a video he had self-hosted was somehow subject to “community guidelines”, which didn’t make sense.

Edit 2: Ten downvotes in less than an hour, on a clarification comment? Wow. I’m disappointed to see that level of targeted negativity here. What rotten behavior. :(

As Lemmy is federated but not fully decentralised, continuation of communities hosted on a dead instance is not currently possible. (Compare this to Matrix, where a room can carry on even if its original homeserver dies, so long as at least one other homeserver participates in it.)

So that is indeed still a problem here, although not as severe, because I think the posts in those communities will still be available on instances that participated in them. Such communities would be forever frozen, though; carrying on from where they left off would require migrating to (or creating) communities on still-running instances.

Lemmy does allow you to export your own data and import it into another instance. That includes settings, subscriptions, and links to saved posts/comments. So I guess maybe you could save your own posts, export your data, and import it elsewhere to keep links to what you wrote on the dying instance. I have not tested this to be sure.

1. The GTX 1070 was in the upper tier of gaming GPUs when it was released, categorized as high-end on Wikipedia. Most people wouldn’t be able to justify the cost of its kind of performance until years later, even if the next thing didn’t happen…
2. About half that long ago, GPU prices tripled, and prices are still absurdly elevated today even adjusting for high inflation. This has significantly delayed a lot of peoples’ normal upgrade cycles, so your 9-year-old GPU is effectively more like a 4-year-old GPU with respect to affordable upgrade path.
3. Back when that card was new, running a first-person game at 60fps 1080p was mainstream and not particularly impressive. That level of performance is mediocre-to-weak today.

(And by the way, the other GPU they mention is only 5 years old.)

With all these things considered, I don’t view the quoted performance as anything special. It’s not particularly bad, but not particularly good either. Certainly not “very friendly”, or newsworthy.

I haven’t been following Reddit events since I left a couple years ago, but if there have been recent ban waves for bad behaviour, it wouldn’t surprise me to see corresponding upticks in it here.

I wish more of us spoke up against rudeness, confidently incorrect ignorance, combativeness, tribalism, brigading, and other such stuff when it rears its head here. If all of us participated in moderation, I suspect it would be more effective and make our mods’ lives easier.

That’s supposed to be very friendly? I think someone might be a bit out of touch.

I might have upvoted this post if it contained even a basic summary, rather than just a link to someone’s video.

0. Getting users to post text instead of screenshots of text.

The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.

There are also bluetooth adapters that plug directly into those older iPods’ accessory port (the slot on the bottom) instead of the headphone jack.

The main benefit of the one I used was being compact, with no wires. The main drawback was having to remove the adapter to charge the iPod. I guess a model with a USB charging cable might exist.

It looks pretty.

They say their performance target is 60 fps on a Playstation 5, but they didn’t mention a resolution.

Perhaps AMD could convince game developers/publishers to spend some time learning optimisation. Many of the popular games I’ve seen in the past 5 years have been embarrassingly bad at working with RAM and storage specs that were considered massive until relatively recently. The techniques for doing this well have existed for generations.

The host’s intro made me laugh out loud.

“If you’re anything like me, you’ll prob’ly be fascinated by a brand new game called… [looks down at notes to read the name of the game…]”

Seriously, though, I’m thankful that he put a spoiler warning right up front. I’ll have to save this for later.

Yes, that’s part of the ecosystem. :)

I recently started it.

Gameplay-wise, I find it bland at best: A world traversed entirely on rails, and JRPG-style combat with timed dodge/parry moves. These mechanics don’t excite me, but I’m still playing anyway, because…

As a work of art, I find it gorgeous. The operatic soundtrack, despite being a genre outside my usual preferences, is captivating. The voice acting is nuanced and immersive like I don’t think I’ve heard in any other game (so much that I can mostly overlook the terrible lip sync problems in the animation). A few of the facial expressions are… disarming. The environments are so beautiful that I sometimes find myself just staring at them for a while instead of advancing the story.

It’s too early to be sure I’ll stick with it, but I suspect that I will, just as I would a film that indulges the senses.

In practice, I think that people gaming or doing workstation tasks would use more power on the 285k, because typically, that’s what these will be used for anyway.

People doing “workstation” tasks or gaming with desktop CPUs also spend a lot of time in editor tools or basic desktop tasks, and seldom turn off their systems in between tasks. (Some don’t even turn off their systems when they leave work or go to sleep at night.) And very few games will load up all the CPU cores at once. So idle power draw remains significant. Also, many/most real-world tasks have CPU cores constantly varying their power draw, not pegged at the package’s rated TDP. So using TDP as a proxy for overall power usage is unrealistic.

It might be interesting to study the proportion of powered-on time spent at low load vs. high load in a typical week, across a decently large sample size.