X870 board and a 9800x3D? What is your GPU?

That’s a good build for her, a very nice setup.

Now you know that SLI doesn’t mean anything anymore. It’s always better to buy a single higher GPU than 2 lower ones. And given how high the prices go, there’s no limit on how much a person can soend on one.

I will recommend that if you buy a 5060 or 5070 in 6 months, your wife will immediately see a big boost in performance in anything and everything she does on computer.

So you know, for gaming, the 4060 beats the 1080 Ti. The 4060 does AV1 video encoding, I don’t think even the 3090 has that. Definitely not the 2080 Ti. So ifyou buy a 5060 or 5070 to put in her system, everything will run flawless. I don’t know if that 1080 is actually restricting ir limiting her CPU performance. That’s another reason to upgrade an 8 year old GPU, it will allow the CPU run constantly run at full speed.

I would still call this a personal success because how much you learned from this about cable management. I trust that from now on you will never take whatever random cables and p’ug them into whichever connection that looks. I hope also understand that it’s not always possible to diagnose a system issue without personally looking at it and trying to use it to see what is going on. For me, I would never think of asking the person if their video crd is daisychained but because is something normally never done. Each GPU gets their own cables plugged directly to the power supply

Is that a multiplayer feature? I only play campaign single player, zero online playtime.

The code for Recall is in the code for File Manger. Recall cannot be turned off if you want Windows to load and function.

Yes, wiping your drive would lose everything on there. Connect your drive to a different computer before wiping if you need to transfer files.

Do you not have an iGPU? The fact that it happened during gameplay makes me think that you have to zero out your drive and erase it. Not delete your OS but boot into a live USB program to actively write zeros across your drive and re-install OS.

To be sure, you could take out drive and plug into a different system to put from it and see if it works. So far I don’t suspect it’s a GPU issue but rather a driver or OS issue that only requires erasing your drive.

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No dogma or built-in censorship for unapproved statements and wrong think, or what is demed as having wrong opinions.

I did wonder if Aurora version might function better. I downloaded the standalone apk file in hopes that there would be a removal from such heavy dependancies compared to the Play Store version.

I know Services is available in a sandbox, I didn’t think of that, presumably because I view it either with disdan or treat is not an option. There’s also MicroG which I’ve never been interested in trying.

Thank you for the link, I was not understanding you correctly

For talking with people outside of North America where people still pay to send a text message, getting rid of Whatsapp means cutting off all communication.

Buy an Android phone that you can flash to change the OS to remove all Google dependancies and use F-Droid to get all of your apps.

Copilot is not an issue, it’s Recall that could send screenshots of all files and folders to Microsoft.

I found Bridgy Fed to enable Bluesky to communicate with Mastodon.

It would be no suprise if chromium is more secure but Firefox is more private.

What does the law say where your brother lives?