Another way that I became quite fond of using is Rufus.
When creating a distro it allows you to customize it. Set up language beforehand, a local account, remove hardware requirements and data collection by simply checking some boxes.
It's a very handy tool, saves a lot of headache with this bloody install.
Not every digital signature is legally binding, I'm afraid.
In my country, there are 3 types of it. A simple one (login/password), unqualified (encrypted series of numbers), and qualified (same as unqualified, but encrypted using certified means by government). The last two are stored on a physical drive.
The higher the grade, the more legal power the signature holds.
When signing it by hand from a tablet it's the same as signing it personally where I live. Which, unlike qualified digital signature, can be used for any document.
I used to think the same.
Turns out they are a good alternative to laptops.
If you don't need powerful hardware, then tablets allow to save space in the backpack, are way lighter and always have a touch screen, which in connection with a stylus is big deal for taking notes. Laptops with a touch screen, in comparison, cost way more (at least where I live they do).
Personally, I use it for studying and media consumption. It replaced almost all of my paper. You can also sign documents using those (depends on laws in your country). Inserting photos into documents is one thing you can't do as easily with laptops as well.
And when I do need access to better hardware, I just remote to my PC at home.
So, it's the same idea, but not necessarily related to money? Understandable.
Wait, by "dedicated PC room" did you mean like an office room?
If so, for me it's a matter of how private I want it to be or wether or not I want to separate it from other tasks.
Personally, I'd rather separate work than gaming from my daily life. Like kitchen, I like my kitchen connected to the living room, so I can spend time with others while cooking. Whereas with work I kinda need to concentrate, so everything else would be too distracting.
Most certainly don't. After all, it's a luxury having a separate room specifically for your PC and other technical appliances.
However, you've said it yourself that it does keep things quiet. Not to mention that this way you could also connect a custom loop to your heating and make the components run cool with the heat coming off of it being put to good use. At this point you might as well make a server.
The downsides, beside the cost, are that you won't see your creation. PC is something you put your soul into, picking all of the parts, making them all fit together the way you want them to, and if you spend time making it look pretty, it may as well serve as a decoration on your desk.
Not to mention that it's simply easier to just put it beside your monitor, and to troubleshoot it if something happens.
I'm missing one key detail here.
What are your criteria for a mechanic being predatory?
Heed to my long explanation of what I would consider predatory or not:
In my opinion, a predatory mechanic is one that is set to make you spend more money by means of obfuscation.
So, obstacles to progression, purchases with no affirmation, currency obscuring and etc.
In this way, for example, if an item can only be bought with non-tradable premium currency, the currency is predatory. However, if the currency is tradable then it isn't predatory because it's main purpose lies in trading and not obfuscation.
Same way gacha is also a predatory mechanic, gambling is predatory, and loot boxes. Because you don't explicitly know what you're getting and how much it costs you to get the thing you want.
Therefore to me a free battlepass cannot be considered predatory, as it's main purpose is to increase level of player engagement.
I would agree, however, that making BP permanent would make it a much nicer feature. As in, you can work towards completing previous BPs you've missed. Otherwise it's kinda meh. I don't particularly like them anyways, it's a pretty lazy way of achieving that goal.
Warframe's "BP" system is the most non-intrusive out of all games with BP that I've played.
I was disappointed when saw it initially as well. But on closer inspection, it is completely free, you're not being locked to playing on a certain week to get the missions done and, what I recently found out after years of not playing the game, is that old rewards return to BP on low levels.
This essentially makes it very easy to catch up should you choose to.
About player interactions, toxicity happens, but it happens in every online game. You can't really expect an MMO game to not have player interactions.
I too am a little anxious when dealing with people I don't know, but it really is not that big of a deal. If you're actually having problems with it, consider seeking advice from a specialist.
Having an auction house, although is nice from a convenience point of view, could be going against the design of the game. A bazaar type of trading has it's own charms, and some people may prefer it. Either one is fine with me, personally.
Most of what you've listed don't sound like problems with the game itself, but rather the game being just not for you. And it is normal.
And trust me, there are quite a few problems with warframe, especially for newer players. Like the story not being explicit, you being thrown into the game with no real set goal, game mechanics not being explained properly and so on, which makes you have wiki open on the side to play the game without issues.
If we're being completely honest, all of those are in rotation and although some items cannot be grinded for during that time, it can still be traded for, so it is not an issue.
Dailies and weeklies are here to keep you engaged. They provide some rewards, but I wouldn't call them mandatory to progression. They're more of a side-bonus.
Personally, whenever I'm bored of warframe I just leave. After a while new quests appear, new guns and all of the other stuff to work toward.
The best part is that whenever you return you're pretty much at the same place as you left it off.
Hence I personally see no rush in getting all of the stuff I want. I've been playing this game on and off since 2013 and have yet to experience fomo with it, because of the things listed above.
Destiny, for example, is much much worse. Especially after they decided that it's a good idea to vault planets and remove quests. Made me leave the game, I just can't deal with it and have life stuff to do. Mind you, D2 is easily one of my most most favourite games.
Same with gacha games like Genshin or Honkai 3rd. It's exhausting.
Didn't have that experience with Warframe.
Since my lemmy crashes when trying to edit the post, I'll leave an update as a comment.
For now I've limited wattage supplied to CPU, which solved the issue.
So, basically, there are only 3 options which could be the cause.
Wrong automatic motherboard settings. Which seems to be the most likely option.
PSU protection gets wrongly triggered. That would be unusual, this particular model should be reliable.
Faulty CPU. This is even less likely due to the way they're manifactured.
I would actually love to hear you elaborate on that.
In what way sociologists work harder than economists?
I'd argue that when it comes to science, you can't study economics without studying sociology and politics. Because then you will be lacking context. Wouldn't that mean more research?
In fact, how do you define "hard work"?
I'm acually curious, it's an interesting topic.
Seems to be a protest for free elections on Manege Square in Moscow of 2011. It is known for being one of the largest that happened in the country.
Interestingly enough KPRF, the party who organised this protest, doesn't have much to do with communism anymore despite it's name (communistic party of russian federation)