This is always going to be the simplest answer until VPNs start being regulated or blocked, or there's some mandatory BS age gate in every country worldwide. Which hopefully will be never.

The camelcamelcamel site is always my go to for "is this actually a deal" on Amazon. There's also an extension called keepa that will draw the graph on the Amazon website for you.

You can also make a list on Amazon, then share that list with camelcamelcamel and set your prices and get an email and in the email see if it is a good deal or not. Very handy.

I'd heard that Amazon is getting around price trackers like this using the coupons.

1. List item for $100 with a $20 off coupon

2. On Prime Day, drop the price to $80 and remove the coupon

When you look at said item in CamelCamelCamel, I'm pretty sure it shows the price dropping from $100 -> $80.

terramaster d8 hybrid shows as ~$299 on camel before prime day. but it had a $45 off coupon for at least a month that never got tracked.

Get your head out of the proverbial, a bullshitting machine that lets some developers do things faster if they modify how they develop isn't even close to the most valuable thing we've ever created.

I think you’re wrong. Consider the following. It’s 1995. You and your next door neighbour Jeff Bezos have both just raised $10mm from competing VCs to build amazon.com.

You can choose to have a Claude API portal to the future where you pay 2025 prices for token inference, or you can skip it, and use 1995 devs to build your competitor.

Which do you do?

It easily is, nothing else is even remotely close. Software is the most valuable industry on earth and we are well on our way to fully commoditizing it.

I was about to recommend fitnotes but if you've swapped then I've got something to check out...

There are basically no benefits unless you are very very rich and knew what was coming far enough in advance for some convoluted disaster capitalism.

Most reasonable non thick people were either against it to start with, or have since realised they've been misled.

I feel like that choice is at least more relatable, no matter what industry you're from.

12gb 3060 if you can find one. That extra memory over 8gb will try help for that kind of thing.

Running cards at full pelt 24/7 vs at most a few hours a day? Doubtful.

Lot of gamers, and the displays add a few more watts each to the total.

Fermi estimate: 10 million latest Xboxes, used for 1 hour per day.

Power estimates seem to vary from 120 W to 315 W, let's say 200 W including display. That's 2 GWh/day. Probably similar for Playstation, or at least close enough for a Fermi estimate. I'm going to guess similar for PC gaming also.

Smartphones are what, about 1 W? But a few billion of them? 1 hour per day makes that another GWh/day?

So probably about 7 GWh/day for Xbox + Playstation + PC + mobile, 2.5 TWh/year.

Bitcoin is estimated to use 131 TWh/year according to Wikipedia.

Yeah, you're right, it's not even close.

Cbeebies is good for a mix of very safe content, mix of education and entertainment stuff. There's some annoying stuff in the schedule (teletubbies, ugh) but most of it is decent enough for square nanny content that doesn't need input from an adult.

And crucially, no adverts

Slightly off tangent, has anyone got it running on an AMD card? Sad 6600xt Windows user reporting in :(

Not sure about the 6600, but there is a guide for Linux at least:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d_CgaHyA_n4&feature=emb_logo

And this is somehow relevant (possibly), as I kept the link open.

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-docker/issues/38

Here is a guide for AMD, but I don't have such a card, so haven't tried.

https://rentry.org/sdamd