I also have a standing desk, so my wireless receiver is pretty far from the actual PC (on the floor, weighs too much for the desk motors). Latency issues aside, I ditched wireless because I was constantly having to swap/charge batteries in the middle of something important. I'd consider going back, as I'm sure most mice have longer battery life these years. It had "30 day" battery life, but only if you turned it off whenever it wasn't in use. It got annoying, haha.
Back in uni, I was using a 90s wooden desk with a pull-out mousepad for the g602. There was noticeable lag, which was a bit unfortunate. I only realized that after using someone's corded no-name mouse from Amazon and was amazed at how responsive it was. Ooof. Even having the receiver close didn't fix it!
I'll be honest, I mainly keep the same DPI levels. Buuuut, every once in awhile, there's a few indie titles with really weird sensitivity levels (eg, The Forest) that make having a DPI switch really nice. Some games and productivity programs also benefit from lower or higher DPI profiles on the fly. I'm the type of person that downloads the mouse bloatware once, configures things, then uninstalls it, haha.
I could be down to try wireless again. The latency on the 602 was pretty bad, but more than that, the mouse had a habit of needing to be charged during the middle of something important, which was really annoying. That's really why I went back to corded mice. Haven't charged this bad boy in about eight years. xD
The razers are really bad this year and I recommend avoiding them completely. Here's an exhaustive list that just came out six days ago: https://youtu.be/KhfqhCxqpQ8
Generally, I recommend a desktop if he isn't moving it around that much. They're upgradable usually, which saves money over rebuying a laptop with new screens, keyboards, power supplies, etc each time.
But if he is moving it around, the Asus TUF laptops, particularly last years models, are pretty decent on the whole. Budget, but solid gaming laptops. Decent specs when I bought mine a few years ago.
Never buy anything that flies, fucks or floats. No planes, no boats, no horses. If you really want to try one of these, try renting or borrowing the thing for a whole summer. Maybe even two summers.
Sounds like they burned up the CPUs with an inadequate cooler. TDPs are pretty rough, but a 165w fan cooler on a 170w part doesn't seem right. My 5800x runs hot AF despite coolers rated for significantly higher wattage parts. I have it running on custom water now, and it's single CCX design means it still gets to 74c even on a 240x25mm and a 360x45mm rad equipped with T30 fans, which move assloads of air. Those hotspots are a killer.
We don't have any measurements of what it was running at all day, so we can only speculate. But AMD runs a ton of volts out of the box if you don't undervolt. You need good coolers.
Nature. Look around you. Like, seriously, stop what you are doing, and look around you for three, full minutes. You'll start to notice new things. Bugs, plants, views, animals. There's a lot going on, even if you just look at a 1x1 in square of grass up close. It's pretty cool.
Even in human areas, just spending an hour in a space while not being on your phone is kinda cool. I'd be doing something like weeding a local bike path and start to notice way more people than I ever thought used it. It's mostly asphalt, but even here, the plants are interesting, and you start to meet people in your community that do the same work.
Honestly, I'm not even going to see it. The book was so insanely good that I cannot entertain the possibility of a movie straying even one millimeter from the source material.
I want to someday switch to a 4k UW, but my current 1440p monitors are still so good that they don't feel "outdated" yet. Coming up on 10 years with one of them! 1440p, 165hz, IPS. It's been bombproof. And from Acer, of all companies.
It's hard to say exactly. I wouldn't put it past the dev(s) to have potentially put something like "The Egg" in, so potentially yes, though we'd have no way of testing for it.
Those fake astroturf fields and yards people are installing are actually quite toxic. In addition to heating plastic to high temperatures and baking it under powerful UV light each summer, the plastics and rubbers used for them are usually from sources like car tires which are full of PFAS to resist fires, wear, UV, etc. Those leach into surrounding areas whenever it rains.
Water is insanely powerful. As others have said, it could help you get tired swimming. It will not save you if you get pinned, or trapped in hydraulics, like the deadly ones at the bottom of weirs (those low dams, extremely dangerous. You get maytagged until you drown)
The best thing is to not live in flood plains or ecologically risky areas if you can. Research flood maps before moving somewhere. Extreme weather events will become more and more common as the planet deteriorates, unless we dramatically change our emissions, which is not a priority, apparently.
This is one thing that I really hope GMOs allow us to counter. We need chestnut trees back. Natural and farmed ones. Perhaps we will find a gene for blight resistance someday.
Yes, I've dated some. And not having to be assertive 100% of the time is the best, even outside of sex. Relationships should be a balanced thing, where both people take turns doing things. It's very refreshing, but doesn't seem to happen very often.
I also have a standing desk, so my wireless receiver is pretty far from the actual PC (on the floor, weighs too much for the desk motors). Latency issues aside, I ditched wireless because I was constantly having to swap/charge batteries in the middle of something important. I'd consider going back, as I'm sure most mice have longer battery life these years. It had "30 day" battery life, but only if you turned it off whenever it wasn't in use. It got annoying, haha.
Back in uni, I was using a 90s wooden desk with a pull-out mousepad for the g602. There was noticeable lag, which was a bit unfortunate. I only realized that after using someone's corded no-name mouse from Amazon and was amazed at how responsive it was. Ooof. Even having the receiver close didn't fix it!