The boy said, "My name's Johnny and it might be a sin
But I'm gon' take your bet and you're gonna regret
I'm the best there's ever been"
He's boasting about it before, and gloating about it after. But the devil is expected to sin, so it doesn't matter. Johnny on the other hand knows he's being boastful, and goes and does it anyway.
There was steel rationing for the war effort during WWII, so they stopped using steel to make pipes. Then it wasn't until the 70's that they decided to ban the use of lead pipes in new construction, but never forced anyone to remove their existing pipes.
At my previous apartment, I had a city employee test my water. They let faucet run for about 10 minutes, then took a sample and got basically immediate results and told me the pipes were leaded. If that's all it takes to test positive, then the protection can't be that effective. The tech was in my apartment for less than 15 minutes, and 10 minutes of that was just letting the faucet run.
They tell us that there is no safe amount of lead, and they can detect the presence instantly. That tells me there's not much protection. Even if it takes 10 minutes to get past that protective layer, after taking a shower your water wouldn't be safe anymore until there's another buildup.
Most of the buildings built here since WWII and into the 70's have lead pipes. There's a push to test water quality in homes, and to have the pipes replaced, but in the meantime I use a Brita pitcher with a lead filter.
It's a ~10% increase, but the scale makes it look like the count shot up by 10x at first glance. I know that's why you always need to look at the axis labels, but graphs like this are purposely presented this way because they're easy to misinterpret for the average person.
Currently, they don't even give you that choice. They're the ones making that decision. Sure, you can buy it, but you don't get to decide if you want to play their game longer than they want you to.
If it's just for gaming, you really don't need the absolute top of the line in terms of CPU. I can't think of a game I've ever played that maxes out my CPU on all cores.
Unless you're also using it for CPU-specific and intensive work outside of gaming, you won't gain much from spending more money.
Mine aren't as bad as those in the picture, but at -7 wearing glasses I can see perfectly. There's just slight distortion at the sides that's not really noticeable unless I'm moving my head to the side.
The middle looks normal, but the edges curve, kind of like a fisheye lens on a camera. If you look straight ahead, everything looks normal until you start to turn your head, then everything sort of squeezes into focus as you shift your field of vision.
Wait for sales and you can spend half that. If you're willing to settle for anything less than top of the line, you can go even lower.
I picked up a 7900X3D under $450 CAD this summer. My Motherboard was under $200 CAD for an ITX board, and I got 32GB of 6000mHz RAM for $125 CAD.
KDE Connect might work. I've never tried it phone-to-phone, but it works great between PC, Steam Deck, and phone, as long as they are on the same network.
It's all crap targeted at children that came out when you were already well into your teens.