It got reposted at low res at some point and then someone tried an AI upscale to try and make it better.

You’re right. I’m thinking of malaprop.

Spoonerisms Malaprops are when a character chooses a similar sounding but wrong word for comedic effect.

Thankfully USB-C can handle both of those protocols. Just like with Micro USB and Mini before it, it will just take time until the ecosystem catches up. Just, this time, you can run the entirety of possible data streams through a single port.

The fact that I’ve never heard of the corporate death penalty until now, but they’re bringing back the actual death penalty says everything.

I really need to know the gap between January and the apology.

Their software collection alone has reached the petabyte mark: https://archive.org/details/software?tab=about

Great explanation, thanks

Yeah, I’d like a breakdown as well. I definitely don’t know enough about MTG.

I can imagine being robbed and a drone just flies around with blinking red and blue lights with a siren.

📢 POLICE ARE ON THEIR WAY - ESTIMATED WAIT TIME IS 25-30 MINUTES 📢

Technically speaking you’re supposed to destroy your local copy of you no longer have the original since the rights stay with the original. That being said, no one is coming to knock on your door for photocopying some books you owned and no longer own.

I did my searching based on music/CDs since the wording is a lot more clear, but the same rules apply since were still talking about copyright infringement.

As long you’re making the copy for personal use and aren’t selling/distributing, you are fully in the clear:

• It’s okay to copy music onto special Audio CD-R’s, mini-discs, and digital tapes (because royalties have been paid on them) – but not for commercial purposes.

https://www.riaa.com/resources-learning/about-piracy/

As far as ethical, this is mostly up to you, but unless it’s from an independent artist/distributor, I personally see it as: if you were never going to be a customer to begin with, they’re not losing anything. I am, however, against then reselling it yourself. Ymmv.

For me:

1. Set goals
2. Accomplish those goals

That’s what gives me the best feedback. The more realistic goals I set and the more often I accomplish them, the better I feel. Bonus points for setting “due dates” for bigger goals and seeing if you can meet your own deadline.

That’s about the same model as I have (I’m using a slightly older X260) and Blender works plenty fine, even on decently demanding stuff. An important note is to make sure to reduce the default tile size to something like 256 if you’re using Cycles for rendering to prevent memory issues. Other than that, I’ve had no issues with modeling or Eevee rendering.

Assuming it allows for it, I recommend upgrading your RAM to 16GB. 8 is fine for if you’re just working in Blender, but once you’re following a tutorial and are doing some browsing while listening to a YouTube video in the background, things can start to slow down.