As an individual? She's right to. As a voting block? Boomers are the target (thankfully that will shift to Millennials within the next decade or so – type 'F' in chat, once again, for GenX)
I hear you, and in an ideal world, you'd be right. But in a world where boomers have a shitload of political sway, this is the smart play to keep the dental plan alive long-term.
Still describing the Diablo 3 in-game real money auction house. People just gathered the quickest-to-gather saleable thing over and over, sold it en masse for real money. Little money × many transactions = lotsa money. Then they bought the good stuff.
Became a gold farm simulator, as full stacks of gold were saleable. If they had blocked gold sales (can't remember if they did do so eventually), it would've just moved to X relatively-common legendary item.
This article's premise is BS. Easy mode is for people of any age who have not gotten gud.
I don't disagree with you, but a lot of people, when presented with new game mechanics, don't have the time to spend "getting gud".
I know that if I were to start playing, for instance, Hollow Knight today, rather than at its release (cleared Pantheon of Hollownest), I'd likely have to put it down or install a nail damage increase mod – I have kids now; no time to grind at bosses to learn the patterns.
It's gotten a lot better with the Open source Nvidia drivers and the latest Kernel. Fedora 40 in March is ditching X11, and it's expected that Nvidia cards ought to work fine.
I'm an AMD guy myself, but Nvidia isn't the headache on the penguin like it used to be.
Regardless, your best use of your $100 is to change the CPU to the son-to-be-released 5700X3D. That 3D cache is amazing.