My parents raised me as the atheists they were. That too is an ethical/philosophical/moral personal choice they pushed onto me without me being able to object anything, right? They never asked me if I was an atheist, or not.
How do you raise a kid to be atheist? Not teaching them faith based topics is not the same as teaching them to be religious. It's just the default setting.
That's the fundamental problem with your post, regardless of your personal experience with "hardcore atheists" which sounds to me as if they were likely to lean into the "anti religious" angle.
That's what I meant. Compared to the power the GPU is actually using, transmission losses for a pass-through should be negligible. If you have a good way to get it to the card in the first place.
Passing power through doesn't have to put noticeable load on the GPU. The main problem I see there is getting even more power to the GPU - Nvidia's top cards are already at the melting point for their power connector.
This is one of those things that are funny because they're true. Back pain is no joke, whether it's from heavy boobs or a bent spine making your butt more pronounced.
whatever helps you justify paying $120 for software
Does that sound like a lot to you?
Considering the use I got out of it, even if I switch to something else tomorrow, the cost for the lifetime pass was peanuts. I'm sure others making that decision based on the situation today will feel the same in a few years. If Plex seems like the best solution today it's not going to fall off the cliff before $120 were worth it.
Not like FOSS projects are immune to bad decisions, and then you either fork it yourself or depend on unpaid volunteers to keep the version you like alive. There's always some risk.
FTFY. So far, at least. Let's see if any reckoning is forthcoming.