I have a 6 bay, so yeah that might be a little limiting. I have all my personal stuff backed up to an encrypted cloud mount, the bulk of my storage space is pirated media I could download again, and I have the Synology using SHR so I just plug in a bigger drive, expand the array, then plug in another bigger drive and repeat. Because of duplication sectors you might not benefit as much from that method with just 4 bays. Or if you have enough stuff you can’t feasible push to up to the cloud to give piece of mind during rebuilding I guess.

Depending on how many bays your Synology is, you might be best off getting a nuc or a mini pc for compute and using your synology just for storage.

Gingerbread?

As a general rule, don’t wait for the next thing in tech, you’ll wind up waiting forever. If you’re happy with your PCs current performance now, just wait. If you’re getting a bit unsatisfied with its performance, upgrade, but buy the best thing your budget will allow at the time and run it into the ground. Not being able to build your own PC (or presumably upgrade individual parts on an already purchased/built PC) makes running into the ground a little less viable though.

If you’re mostly only gaming on your PC Ryzen 7 is great, just make sure to get an X3D processor. The 7800x3d is phenomenal, and the 9800x3d is even better if it’s in your budget. A 5070ti would pair well with either of those. Again if budget allows a 5080 is going to perform better, but idk what $/perf is on those cards off the top of my head.

but with more AI frame gen slop

I just want to add something here. I’m also a huge RT fan, especially in Single Player games. At bare minimum you should be using DLSS (FSR on AMD), it does a much better job at antialiasing than TAA does, it doesn’t have the blurry image shit going on etc. I use it in pretty much every game I can in combination with DSR.

Second, the frame gen stuff is honestly pretty goated. If you want to play at 1440p or higher, at ultra type settings, with RT, you’re really doing yourself a disservice if you’re not using it. I wouldn’t personally use them in a competitive fps, but I’ll turn it on in any single player game I have the option for. This isn’t generative AI and your gpu has the tensor cores just sitting there. You paid for those cores, not using them is just wasting your money. To each their own I guess though.

On a similar note, if you have an Nvidia card, you use a mic to talk to people, and you’re not using Nvidia Broadcast you’re fucking up. You can set up your mic to go through it, cleaning up any background noise way better than Krisp or whatever. You can also set discord or in-game voice chat to go into the Broadcast virtual speakers, and it will filter everyone else’s voice like magic. You’ll never hear someone’s keyboard, their dogs, their kids, their shitty music, their coughing, or really anything but their voice again. I get not liking AI slop, but that doesn’t mean that AI is useless.

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You and me both brother.

You can’t help yourself can you?

Hahaha.

It means I’ve hit a nerve and said something so contrary that it actually rattles you.

Funny thing is, you haven’t actually told me how or why I’m wrong—just that I’m cringe.

You have a really inflated sense of your impact on me buddy. I’m not here to tell you you’re right or wrong, I have no opinion on this whole inane debate at all. I play video games for fun, and if other people are having fun playing video games I’m happy for them, I don’t give a single solitary fuck whether they do it on a pc, console, phone, tablet, or by uploading Doom to a cock ring with lcd display and play it by popping their dick with kegels.

I’m just here to tell you that you’re giving off major “meth head arguing with a brick wall in the alley behind 7-11” energy.

Bro this entire post and every reply you’ve made is just next level unhinged, I was giving you a generous benefit of doubt here, because you being a sales rep is about the only way this isn’t insane cringe.

So pirate the shit and use whatever subtitles you want.

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I feel like I’m watching a gen x or really fucking early millennial transform into a boomer live in this thread right now.

Bro are you a sales rep for this data company and this whole post is just a way to drive people to your product? Because that’s about the only explanation I have for, all t h i s.

Kids are easily entertained by all kinds of arguably crappy things.

Guys traditional games AND mobile games are going the way of the dodo because my 6 month old plays with their fisher price phone more than our phones or tablets. - OP

I’m very very sorry for the Reddit link, but figured it’s better than a Facebook link lol.

Anyway it’s called short stocking, and it’s actively used in cqb stuff because it chops off inches of barrel length without being a shorter barreled rifle. Anyone who’s cleared blocks in Ramadi, Fallujah, Marjah, or wherever can attest that shorter is better.

Also the old interceptor ibv’s kind of required you to shoulder your rifle like this from what I’ve heard. I had the unfortunate pleasure of rocking the mtv though.

Anyway pic of short stocking. https://i.redd.it/scgjrd3xxvt31.jpg

There was a quote in the last season of Mythic Quest that was functionally verbatim to that quote. I can’t believe it’s actually a real quote.

Yeah, about the same with cax in 29 palms.

Damn that sucks. I have a chain lock but it only loops through the frame and front wheel. I use a shitty old cable with it to loop through the back tire and my pannier strap if I’m leaving it on the bike. I do this because I’ve had a wheel jacked before also, it fucking sucks.

I mean google says it’s a fashion and style blog, so I don’t think anyone is under the impression this blog site publishes news per se, or is anything more than a gussied up marketing channel.

You should check out The Finals. Free to play, runs on Linux, guns feel and sound mint, dev studio made up of a bunch of former DICE devs. It’s not everyone’s bag of tea though there’s a lot of decision space in the main Cashout mode.

When you say stance are you talking about the rifle’s butt stock being so far above the shoulder pocket?