yep, he started drifting off the deep end during the pandemic.

Here is a reddit ootl from a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1eagosa/whats_going_on_with_russell_brand/

top comment:

Answer:

Russell Brand is a British comedian and social media personality who started his career as a left-aligned comedian that relied on shock value style comedy and shows.

He got a career doing TV shows and movies and was known for his intellectual style arguments and contrarian opinions. His major claim to fame in the US would be marrying Katy Perry

and later breaking up with her and asking for a divorce via txt message 2 years later.

He was later accused of a number of sexual assaults and inappropriate behaviour and was disowned by Hollywood as a result.

In 2013-2015 Brand admitted to have never voted despite his strong political leanings and expressed public disillusionment in the British political process.

During the 2020 pandemic Brand went totally off the rocker and began sharing conspiracy theories on his social media platform and started moving towards the far-right.

Like many washed up celebrities that got Me-too’d or cancelled he began pivoting far to the right as his left-wing audience abandoned him. He changed his content to align with the likes of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson

the so called “The Intellectual Dark Web” that give a platform to people with seemingly intellectual content but with a focus on contrarian beliefs, anti-woke politics, non-mainstream scientific beliefs, and straight up conspiracy theories.

He’s now considered a right-wing anti-woke podcaster who uses his social media following to spread conspiracy theories.

I’ve been running sid (unstable) on my htpc for almost a year now without any problems (wanted Debian, because that’s what I know, but also wanted HDR support, which came with plasma 6, wichich was only in sid). Just as stable as Bookworm so far (anecdotally).

I’ve actually been thinking of moving my main desktop from mint Debian edition over to sid as well.

Sid is even one step more unstable then testing, so testing should be no problem either

The stats are from StatCounter which has this in their FAQ:

What methodology is used to calculate Statcounter Global Stats? Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally. These sites cover various activities and geographic locations. Every month, we record billions of page views to these sites. For each page view, we analyse the browser/operating system/screen resolution used and we establish if the page view is from a mobile device.

So it’s the percentage if web traffic (to sites that use this analytics service)

Safari + AdGuard used to work on my iPad, but it has recently been blocked with a disable Ad-block message. Orion works for me when I disable all build-in content blocking and using the Firefox version of Ublock Origin.

I think the build-in blocker is too basic and gets detected by YouTube, while ublock works (everywhere I’ve tested it, desktop, android, iPad)

You can use Open Source Sunshine and Moonlight for inhome broadcasting. You install sunshine on the source PC and use the moonlight app on the phones.

https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/releases https://moonlight-stream.org/

It’s meant for game streaming, so it supports controller pass through and what not, but you can also use it to just stream the desktop. It also supports multiple clients, although I have never tried that personally.

It’s because it uses HBM (high bandwidth memory) as opposed to GDDR.

A short video explaining the differences https://youtu.be/CGIVKT0eM_s

I don’t think anyone was expecting a Ryzen 3rd Gen era board when you wrote decade old. It’s been 7 years since that board released (although I do admit that’s a lot closer to a decade then I though it would be).

This board will run any modern GPU. The motherboard doesn’t need to specifically be compatible with certain GDDR generations or what not, that is handled by the GPU itself, which communicates with the rest of the PC through PCIe*. You just need to make sure the PSU can deliver enough power.

You should update to the latest BIOS and enable resizable Bar: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000090831/graphics.html

*The ARC GPUs are 8° lanes of PCIe 4, your motherboard only has PCIe 3. This means that the bandwidth between the CPU and GPU is half of its maximum. In the vast majority of cases this will be a negligible performance difference of 1-2%, but some edge cases can lose you a bit more performance.

°If the GPU was 16 lanes this would be even less of a problem. Even the fastest GPUs can barely saturate 16 PCIe lanes. The fastest GPU, the Nvidia 5090, only loses 1-4% of performance when comparing PCIe 5x16 vs 3x16 (1/4 its max bandwidth): https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/nvidia-rtx-5090-pcie-50-vs-40-vs-30-x16-scaling-benchmarks

Quote from the wonderfully hilarious movie Popstar: Never Stop, Never Stopping.

“Nowadays if you don’t sell out, people will wonder if no one asked you to.”