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Love how detailed Gamer's Nexus is, but 3.5 hours is waaaaay too much. What's the TLDR?
I'm only half way through but the TLDW so far is that the consumer DIY market is in collapse. Component suppliers are in bad financial shape, and many will probably not survive the down-turn.
Does make you wonder what we will be left with. Probably not all components gone. But likely less choice.
Could get a pi, they seem to be popular enough to not go away any time soon.
Did you see the Pi price increases though? Ouch. A mini-PC is likely better value now.
Part 1: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/1gb-raspberry-pi-5-now-available-at-45-and-memory-driven-price-rises/
Part 2: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
Mini PC prices are also going up. But yeah they are also an interesting choice to look at.
I'll game on a pi zero before I subscribe to run them on a data center.
My Pi3b is a great little emulator, retropi worked great last time I plugged it in
He repeats information constantly. Any time I watched one of his videos I couldn't stop thinking how it could be cut to a third of the length without losing anything important. For my attention span it's unwatchable.
If that were true we wouldn't have anti-vaxxers, flat earth, or religion.
No they are right. That was exactly what we learned during the pandemic. You can lay out the most researched fact check argument you want and they still wont believe you.
People are going to still say he is making shit up. No amount of facts are going to help.
Personally, I prefer the method used by a lot of podcasts I listen to. They put a link to all their citation and research instead of cramming it all into the presentation. Often with some discussion items and additional information if I want to check sources.
Video is an exercise in patience, because it is a horrible way to convey information, and really long ones are not helping.
It's a compilation of a handful of previous videos all out under one broad topic. If there's one you care about there's a more dedicated specific video about tariffs, AI, memory, factories, etc.
I also can’t stand his voice for too long.
i’m half way in
watch it
Or watch The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition in the same amount of time.
do both
That is why I have 2 monitors
Usually, there’s a mouse over on the time bar of his vids. You can find the bit you want and skip the rest. But if this is 3.5hrs, it’s likely it’s a playlist of all related vids smashed into one vid.
It isn't.