and yet ~some devices are constantly pwned, and pristine UHD WEB-DL's are being ripped automatically.

I have run my mail there for 10 years and it was smooth sailing. Until they've raised prices two-fold but I digress…

1TB of good NAND costs 30€ or so.

for DB's bandwith to RAM and Storage is just as important.

that's the thing. latency to RAM is everything. I would take 10x lower bandwidth in RAM vs 100x better latency from CPU to RAM.

The only x86 CPU that does this is the Xeon Max: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/pro...

There are other possible solutions but they are expensive.

the problem with Macs, among other things, is lack of ECC RAM.

LinearMouse is a bandaid for the latter problem.

> Today we've got stuff like Borderlands 4 (or whatever the newest one is) that barely run on anyone's PC

Just like Crysis did 18 years ago?

>it's no longer really feasible to keep most of your games installed all the time and ready to play.

Crysis was around 5% of common HDD back then. Now, it'd be equivalent of around 80 GiB now. That would be just about what Elden Ring with the DLC takes.

have you ever been to Newcastle?

Aye man, wey aye, went doon there worra bairn, didn’t ah? Cannae remember much like, was only a wee nipper at the time, knaa what ah mean? Me mam an’ da took us doon the Toon when ah was nowt but a little’un, like. Divvent really remember owt aboot it proper, but aye, been the once when ah was just a littl’ bairn, me. Proper yonks ago that was, pet!

(Translation: yes, once as a kid).

These usually attach in the bridge or NAT flow.

More like irony, perhaps.

Maybe some kind of "security" software interfering?