Thankfully both boards support bios flashback so as long as OP prepares a USB drive ahead of time, they can update bios without a CPU.

Also agreed on the X*70s. Besides the OCing stuff you’ll see more pcie lanes but it doesn’t sound like that’s much of a concern for OP. Personally, with the small price difference and similar capabilities, I’d go with the one I thought looked better lol. The average user probably won’t notice any difference between the two.

Option 1 would be the better way to go first imo. The 9400 was an ok CPU but those 9th gens are really starting to show their age. You’re also holding it back by only using a single stick of ram. Your RX580 can hold out a bit longer with a better CPU and faster memory in dual channel, but if you upgrade the GPU first you’ll still be seeing the same performance issues. If you do go with option 1, make sure you have the proper mounting kit for your heatsink. AM5 is very different from 1151.

I live in a desert so extremely low humidity and the pantry area is often over 80. I’ve used potatoes over a month after buying them many times. I still use them for myself if they have small sprouts. I usually don’t see mold until closer to two months in. If I’m cooking for others I’ll buy fresh. Our local grocer has a very small selection of produce so I tend to buy a bunch of the nicer ones if I see they’ve restocked since the next grocery store is about an hour away. When I lived in the city though I’d only buy what I planned on using within the next couple days. More trips but always fresh.

I’m in that boat as well. I backed around a decade ago and while I haven’t made it to the chairman’s club, I’m still embarrassed by how much I’ve put into this dumpster fire due to the fomo and ever looming price increases on stuff. I basically don’t play anymore, but I follow the patch notes and occasionally drop into the testing chat or subreddit and see what the latest is.

The main arguments I see from people are that it’s in alpha and that x or y was never promised (or wasn’t promised by a certain time) and that’s all bullshit. Yes, the game is in active development. Yes, bugs are going to be created and slip through testing. Yes, scope changes and things need to be reworked. Yet year after year after year CIG has shown how incapable they are at squashing bugs properly while still adding more features which just compounds onto the underlying problems. As for the feature promises, they make a big deal about x or y coming around a certain time. Is it a promise? No, that would be insane, but they feed the community what they want to hear with targets, build that hype and take in money, then last minute it’s oh, we’ve gotta push it back, BUT IT’S COMING DON’T WORRY!! Really, what a surprise you guys ran into issues with yet another thing and had to push your projections out yet again. Every year it’s the same cycle. How long has 4.0 been on the horizon? I also found it a bit insulting when Jared went on ISC (IIRC) not too long ago and was like “we never promised anything, that’s the communities fault for getting too hyped.” Like broooo, you guys intentionally drive the hype and then blame us when we get excited??

The project has been poorly managed for years and I don’t expect it to get better. I truly hope they succeed because it really has the potential to be something special and ground breaking (at least as far are the server meshing tech goes) but I’m done supporting them in any way. I’ve handed over way too much money. I’ve wasted countless hours trying to work around the bugs that plague almost every single patch. And all the times I tried to defend them online just made me look like a clown as they continued to pump buggy builds out one after another. Eventually, you just can’t find a reason to stand up for them because you feel like you’re enabling bad behavior. Unfortunately, the wonder and awe the game used to inspire is long gone for me. It’s been a really disappointing ride watching the one game I really wanted get mismanaged the way that it has.

Winter in Australia is June-August, so that December temp is their summer record.

Thanks, this worked for me as well. For those that don’t know how to change this (like me a little while ago) hit F12, go to the storage tab and select the site from the cookies list on the left then change the year in the “Expires / Max-Age” cell in the middle window. Hit enter and it should save.