In real life, “Ukrainian politics carries on in the background, shutting down opposition parties, monopolizing television broadcasts” with “attacks on those dissenting from the patriotic consensus” (V. Ishchenko). National unity is unfavourable to profound social transformation. By definition, “the Ukrainian people” gathers all Ukrainians, and the post-war period will not go against the interests of the ruling classes. At best some mild reforms might come out of it, but Ukraine will remain a country of low wages and poor protection of labour rights.
An altogether different matter would be the emergence of groups large enough to head the resistance towards a situation of “dual power”, ending up in confronting a Russian army tired out by the stalemate, to the point of desertions and mutinies, as well as confronting a Ukrainian State also contested from within. We are clearly not there. There are not three forces vying for power in Ukraine now: the Russian invader, the official Ukrainian army, plus a popular democratic armed movement that could grow (and take over?). There are two armies fighting an inter-State war in which grassroots efforts play an auxiliary role.
War mends social fractures as much as it aggravates divisions, and many a political change can come out of these troubled times providing they appear to offer a viable solution: the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1917, the fascists in Italy in 1922. The shock of war does not ipso facto entail rebellion, and anti-war attitudes are known to have taken the most diverse forms: revolutionary, conservative, reactionary… Exactly one hundred years before Russia attacked Ukraine, Lenin, who in terms of revolutionary defeatism spoke from experience, asserted that in “the national question”, “the overwhelming majority of the working people will inevitably decide it in favour of their bourgeoisie.” (At least temporarily, that is.) The past century has rather proved him right.
In the short term, the Ukrainian population, proletarians included, have few options: defending themselves ( = joining the government’s war effort in one way or other), or lying low, or even trying to evade conscription. Meanwhile, “revolutionary defeatism” only has reality in the aggressor’s country. After the war broke out, Russian anarchists set fire to army recruitment centres, Belorussian railway workers sabotaged tracks used to convey Russian troops and supplies to Ukraine, while various dissidents voiced their opposition to the war on social media. How widespread these (usually clandestine) networks are and what impact they could have is unknown but, more important, there are reports of Russian servicemen refusing to go and fight, even more so since the partial mobilisation of reservists.
If these movements happened to continue, if protest grew within Russia and the invading troops, if the war was grinding on and becoming unpopular because of the army being bogged down, and if too many “zinc coffins” started coming home, there could be defections, desertions, mutinies or even fraternisation with Ukrainian soldiers. At the time of writing (April 2023), this is not the case (yet?).
In 1940, Otto Rühle wrote: “The question confronting us today is whether Liebknecht’s slogan ‘The enemy is at home!’ is as valid now for the working class as it was in 1914.” To which he answered: “No matter to which side the proletariat offers itself, it will always be among the defeated. Therefore it must not side with the democracies, nor with the totalitarians.” https://thepolarblast.wordpress.com/2023/06/04/gilles-dauve-peace-is-wa

Whenever I hit the down arrow a couple times to go to recent networks, when I select one, audio stops for a second and then all I get is a spinning circle, it won’t let me change the channel. This has happened quite often, anyone have this issue? Would love it to be fixed by football season.

What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

Mostly strategy games, so all of the Creative Assembly and Paradox games but also more RPG like games such as Bannerlord and AC Odyssey I’d like to run relatively well on high settings.

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

£1500

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

Now

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)

ToweOS/Keyboard/Mouse

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

UK

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

N/A

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

Not really interested at the moment.

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

Don’t need that much storage initially but SSD is essential.

What type of network connectivity do you need? (Wired and/or WiFi) If WiFi is needed and you would like to find the fastest match for your wireless router, please list any specifics.

Needs to have WiFi

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?

Nope, not bothered what it looks like at all.

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

Yes

Hello, I have a Origin EON17-X fresh out of the box with a Win10 image. The issue is that i'm trying to get onto the network using ethernet (no wifi allowed), but I don't have the ethernet network drivers (I think that's the issue? I'm pretty inexperienced with computers). I've tried the drivers provided by EUROCOM distributer and Intel win10 drivers, but they've all failed. Tearing my hair out with this, does anyone know? Please and thank you.

Hello, I have a Origin EON17-X fresh out of the box with a Win10 image. The issue is that i'm trying to get onto the network using ethernet (no wifi allowed), but I don't have the ethernet network drivers (I think that's the issue, I'm pretty inexperienced with computers). I've tried the drivers provided by EUROCOM distributer and Intel win10 drivers, but they've all failed. Tearing my hair out with this, does anyone know? Please and thank you.

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In a bustling mining town:

Jax had been enjoying himself. The war stories and barely believable tales of antics of the Humans he'd served with he told in the coffee parlors were popular among the intoxicated of both sexes, though the admiration and further libations from the men were far less captivating than the rapt attention a very pretty woman with a lithe figure and strong tail gave him. Comely indeed, and she would come to listen to him. Though it seemed to onlookers that he had captivated her, it was her dark pools of eyes that he had dove into, and found them deep and inescapable. She kept those eyes trained on him so long as he spoke, and so he spoke, seeing in those depths possibilities.
Indeed, Jax had begun to expect that if he were to ask Rae to accompany him to the upcoming autumn festival, she might not reject the notion. Even with troubling rumors about somebody attacking a neighboring nation, and the sudden vanishing of the Star Sailors from Star Council space were far from his mind, and the minds of the other coffee patrons parlor patrons. It was in this ease and comfort that he and many other Numiindan residents found their lives shattered by horror.
It began with the burning streaks of the wrecked Space Defense Force, more law enforcement than military, fell from the sky. He was just in the middle of a story about the time his buddy Erin had gotten stuck in his own armor when he stopped and said, "Does anybody else smell smoke?"
There was a general testing of the air by the group of variably intoxicated patrons, followed by a fruitless checking of datapads for the news. "Network's down," somebody in the small crowd said.
"Well, we'll just go outside and take a look," Jax said, and Rae subtly clasped his hand. Outside, the pair squeezed each other's hands so hard they hurt. The sky was streaked with gashes of billowing black smoke of destroyed ships and fighters, and what destroyed them was descending while raining hot plasma down on anything that looked vaguely like it might be fortified.
"The Ancestors preserve us," Rae whispered.
"I'm not going to wait on them," Jax said, "we need to get under cover now, and not just the lounge!"
Someone in the crowd said, "The mines! There are some pretty big chambers down there, and it's like, miles of rock to burn through."
"Good plan," Vex said, "If they're doing areal lances like that they don't care about collateral damage, everyone, split up in groups of three or four, and get as many people as you can to get to the mines."
"What if they follow us down?" Rae asked.
"We'll flood the mines. Hopefully they can't swim."
An hour later, a press of over a hundred panicked elderly and children were running along behind Jax. The majority of the parents and other adults had elected to buy time. Jax had to focus on his mission, save the civvies, get them under cover, to keep from bolting off to join them. "As long as the pups are alive," he muttered.
The sounds of shouting and plasma lance discharges spurred him and Rae on, and though he was obliged to lead the way, she insisted on bringing up the rear. She insisted that none of the injured were left behind. Then, they saw it, salvation. The gates to the mines, and behind them, the shaft plunging down beneath the rock. There were miners with plasma cutters and force axes at the gates, and Jax knew better than to relax. Even as the miners swung the gates open and escorted their panicked charges to the shaft elevator.
"We're getting ready to flood the main shaft, and everything but the vents to the largest chamber," one of the miners said, "get everyone up against the back wall, and pray the Ancestors remember us."
Jax just nodded and gripped his crowbar as he scanned the road they had run down saying, "I'm going to need fighters. We have to hold out until the Republic gets here."
"The Republic? You think they'll come?"
"Of course," Jax said with steel in his voice, "of course."
The next day, Jax held a meeting with the others he was thinking of as the leaders, or maybe other fighters, to tell them what he thought and hear what they thought in return. They had swam to an air pocket in one of the flooded tunnels and held their conversation in the dim light of a portable glow lantern to keep the civvies from panicking at what might be said. There Jax and Rae floated with Kai, a miner and the one who had suggested sheltering in the tunnels, Mei, an engineer in from the big city to help design an upgraded refining facility, and Ash, a man reluctant to divulge his past.
"So, we have about eight hundred civvies, none of whom are in fighting shape, no weapons, no food, and a highly defensible position," Jax opened, "I believe our first priority should be arming ourselves so we can raid the surface for food."
"The first aid kits are barely adequate. They're made to deal with maybe a localized plasma burn from a cutter malfunction, or to put temporary splints on a broken limb. Not lance wounds and to stabilize breaks for healing," Rae murmured softly.
"I did a little scouting," Kai said, "Just popping up in the vent covers, they didn't see me. I saw my house. What's left of it. Anyway, I know how to get to where there are some weapons we could get if we're quick. If we're quiet."
"The flooding did significant damage to the mines," Mei muttered. "I haven't seen any signs that it's getting worse, but the quakes will probably keep on. We will have to reassure the civilians. If they bombard the town from orbit though…"
"There's not much we can do about that," Jax said firmly, "so let's focus on what we can manage. Weapons, food, medicine."
"Blankets," Ash said, "The people are cold, scared. Blankets will help with morale. Survivors. There might be survivors."
"Weapons, food, weapons, blankets, and survivors. Okay, that's a start. Who wants to tell them?"
"Will the Republic really come?" Ash asked.
"They will come," Rex said firmly.
"I can tell them," Rae said as she reached out to clasp hands with Rex. He let her squeeze his hand once, and they dove down into the water to swim back to the main chamber.
The people were understandably stressed at the news that their only protectors would soon leave them alone, but they were reassured when Rae explained that they planned on raiding the surface for supplies and planned to be gone for a few hours at most.
Later, Ash was skulking around a police station, or at least the charred remnants of one, while Jax tried to see him doing so from inside the vent cover. He had been a little aprehensive of the man's claims that he could scout the building unnoticed, but the proof of the meat was inside the shell, so he took a chance. It paid off.
"All clear," Ash whispered from outside Jax's field of view.
"You made your point," Jax said, "good work."
"It's… it's not good in there."
Jax opened up the vent cover, and dropped to all fours to creep his way to the shattered building, and his companions did so behind him.
They squeezed through a gap in the rubble and slowly shifted the rubble until they had tunneled their way to the basement stairs, which they descended immediately. They tried to ignore the singed and shattered corpses of the police officers as they crawled past or over them. They failed at this. They had marginally more success in ignoring Rae's vomit at the grizzly task.
In the basement they found chemprop weapons, magacs, plasma casters, and long distance tasers in rifle and pistol configurations, as well as some light flak armor and personal shields. "Don't bother with the casters or tasers," Jax ordered as he wrapped his hands around the familiar shape of a rifle stock, "Terrans use these for a reason." The others deferrred to his experience, and Rae went to check the other basement rooms for medical supplies.
When she cried out, Rex and the others rushed into the adjoining room, but found no danger there. Only the chief of police, a magac pistol lay at his feet, and the wall to his left was painted in a sanguine splatter. "Nim," she almost moaned in grief.
"You knew him?" Ash asked.
"My uncle."
The others murmured their apologies, none of them strangers to such loss in the past day, and Ash pulled a discarded coat over the man taken by despair. "We have to make sure the people don't decide that this is a good idea," he softly murmured.
"Okay, see what else we can find for supplies here. Kai, can we get to a clinic from the tunnels?"
"Three of them."
"We'll hit the nearest one first, then we swim out to the bay and see if we can get anything from the fishery."
Then, they once again committed to the grizzly task of crawling through the rubble.
The clinic was miraculously intact, only a little exterior fire damage from the fighting, but it was also guarded. The invaders hadn't expected anyone to actually attack with weapons, as thus far most resistance had been fierce but only armed with improvised weapons. The two guards were relieved of their duties by magnetically accelerated iron chunks that left golf ball sized exit wounds in their backs before they even knew they were under attack. Inside, there was not only a treasure trove of medical supplies, which Rae directed them to take only the most versatile or in most dire need, but there were also prisoners in one of the exam rooms. They had injuries that indicated that they were painful but not lethal. Jax was furious.
The fishery offered enough food for the next few days, and their triumphant return kindled hope in the sheltering civilians that they might just hold out.

In low orbit over Numinda:

Acolyte-Lord Gukea-Sarvon surveyed his glorious conquest. Glad he was to have received orders to seek out resource rich planets, for instead of wasting his talents spilling unworthy blood to sate the thirst of Axzuur, he had instead found a race worthy of toiling for his glory. They could never be true warriors, Five days, and he had obtained control over the system and planet. Truly, the pathetic resisance offered by their so-called fleet had dismayed him, but the reports of the ferocity with which the males and some of the females on the orb below fight against his warriors armed only with what is to hand, and sometimes merely tooth and claw, excited him greatly.
It would be pleasing to elevate the lion's share of Axxaakk serfs to more worthy work, to more… worthy services. This new acquisition would even free up many serfs to become warriors, even, which would mean more sacrifices to Axzuur, which would mean greater favor. Although, there were still pockets of resistance across the planet. Even though his forces controlled the communication infrastructure for the planetary and superluminal networks, these pockets seemed to somehow act in concert to keep vital positions outside the Axxaakk's rightful reach.
It would seem that a mere scout group was insufficient, so he was being reinforced by, Acolyte-Lord Narrex-Quinn, who had been reassigned to a subjugation group including a battleship, three frigates, and their escorts. This should provide sufficient warriors and equipment to properly subjigate the planet, freeing Acolyte-Lord Gukea-Sarvon up for the much more pleasant task of crushing the next planet's defenses. Just two days of further drudgery until Acolyte-Lord Narrex-Quinn arrived to take on the unenviable task of crushing the indipendent spirits of the new serfs. At least he had a few specimens for his own research in the best methods to do so to occupy his time.
Two days later, Acolyte-Lord Narrex-Quinn had sent his counterpart sprawling off of his own dais with a metalic backhand slap, "WHY ARE YOUR ESCORTS NOT INTERDICTING HYPERSPACE EXITS AROUND THIS POSITION?"
Acolyte-Lord Gukea-Sarvon staggered to his feet in a fury, "BECAUSE MY SCOUT FLOTILLA WIPED AWAY ALL RESISTANCE IN LESS THAN A DAY!"
"Observe," Acolyte-Lord Narrex-Quinn said coldly as he slammed a data crystal into an input, and the display screen lit up with the scene of a Terran fleet engaging an extraction fleet, and far from being swept away, they were fighting the extraction fleet to a slow defeat.
"Is that a stone temple?" Acolyte-Lord Gukea-Sarvon blurted out.
"It is."
"Why?"
"To show they can," Acolyte-Lord Narrex-Quinn said with disgust.
Acolyte-Lord Gukea-Sarvon's eyes went wide as he asked, "How did that curiser take hits from behind."
"The Terrans apparently use kinetic weaponry, they fired the munitions in a slingshot trajectory while another ship forced it to maneuver into the line of travel."
"The calculations involved…"
"It is my belief that this is not even the main fighting force of the Terran military, for observe further," Acolyte-Lord Narrex-Quinn twisted the crystal to display a split video of several systems on the screen. "These look like merchant vessels with guns strapped to them, and Priest-Lord Tiglach-Pilexer agrees that is likely the case. These fleets are likely auxiliaries sent out to probe our strength while the Terrans gather their true forces."
"Thank you for relaying this, I shall indeed run hyperspace interdiction at the next world."
"Your orders have changed. We are to extract what we can, and carry it off to the Dominion. The expeditionary fleet is insufficient."
Acolyte-Lord Gukea-Sarvon resisted the urge to spit upon the floor. "I too have information. These… these mammal-worms are worthy of at the very least toiling underneath the Axxaakk. Though their forces are defeated, the people fight on, just as the serfs did before they were broken and rebuilt to Axzuur's glory, may the stars tremble at his step."
"They are mammals, hold hostage their young, as we do for an unruly serf."
"This is a good plan, brother."
"We must not allow the Terrans to surprise us as they did Acolyte-Lord Xamxi-Avav."
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First off, I want to thank and apologize to everyone. I'm off my meds and I'm making terrible decisions. Maybe that's why I chose to go be homeless again. But, anyways, the SSS is on thick. I might need to go to the hospital. I'm going to do that. This hospital might be able to help me.
God just told me I'm not allowed to go to the hospital. The CIA is really fucking with me. They fucked with my GPS to give me clues of what I should do. I gotta be abundant! I gotta be Jesus! It's so damn obvious what they're doing. So fuck it, I got a story to tell.
Everything went wrong this morning. The eldritch botnet made me unable to get an Uber, the bus was intentionally late, I couldn't get the booking number for my ticket because Greyhound hates me, I got stuck behind a line of obvious actors and almost missed the bus at the break, I couldn't store my bag because of corporate sabotage, and they were out of the little booklets with resources because they intentionally screened me. All that wore on me causing me to stop and smoke a joint while regrouping.
Then my luck changed. I met a fellow street person and smoked a joint with them. We chatted, and he mentioned that it was the Saturday market. Of course! How could I forget? So we parted ways and I found myself at the corner at the park and I juggled. Then the secret police told me I was going to die. It looked like a tweaker flipping out at nothing, but I know what the CIA really did there. I get what's going on. They have their fucking agents all throughout the city. So, again, thank you. I absolutely love being programmed. I missed this so much.
I really do have a mission. I gotta network. I gotta make myself a central node in the hivemind. I gotta become famous. And I can do that. I have all the skills to navigate the social games of the common culture. I really am a messiah. Is this scanning? I'm going to become famous. Holy shit. I gotta juggle. BRB.

Just looking for tips, pointers on what to change in this build and some things to look out for would be good thanks.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor ($188.98 @ Amazon Canada) CPU Cooler: Deepcool AK620 68.99 CFM CPU Cooler ($84.99 @ Amazon Canada) Thermal Compound: Corsair TM30 3 g Thermal Paste ($9.99 @ Amazon Canada) Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS WIFI II Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($172.98 @ Newegg Canada) Memory: Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory ($56.99 @ Amazon Canada) Storage: Crucial P3 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($64.97 @ Amazon Canada) Video Card: ASRock Radeon RX6700XT CLD 12G Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card ($459.99 @ Newegg Canada) Case: GAMDIAS APOLLO E2 ELITE ATX Mid Tower Case ($64.98 @ Newegg Canada) Power Supply: Corsair RM750x (2021) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($149.99 @ Best Buy Canada) Total: $1253.86 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

First off, I want to thank and apologize to everyone. I'm off my meds and I'm making terrible decisions. Maybe that's why I chose to go be homeless again. But, anyways, the SSS is on thick. I might need to go to the hospital. I'm going to do that. This hospital might be able to help me.
God just told me I'm not allowed to go to the hospital. The CIA is really fucking with me. They fucked with my GPS to give me clues of what I should do. I gotta be abundant! I gotta be Jesus! It's so damn obvious what they're doing. So fuck it, I got a story to tell.
Everything went wrong this morning. The eldritch botnet made me unable to get an Uber, the bus was intentionally late, I couldn't get the booking number for my ticket because Greyhound hates me, I got stuck behind a line of obvious actors and almost missed the bus at the break, I couldn't store my bag because of corporate sabotage, and they were out of the little booklets with resources because they intentionally screened me. All that wore on me causing me to stop and smoke a joint while regrouping.
Then my luck changed. I met a fellow street person and smoked a joint with them. We chatted, and he mentioned that it was the Saturday market. Of course! How could I forget? So we parted ways and I found myself at the corner at the park and I juggled. Then the secret police told me I was going to die. It looked like a tweaker flipping out at nothing, but I know what the CIA really did there. I get what's going on. They have their fucking agents all throughout the city. So, again, thank you. I absolutely love being programmed. I missed this so much.
I really do have a mission. I gotta network. I gotta make myself a central node in the hivemind. I gotta become famous. And I can do that. I have all the skills to navigate the social games of the common culture. I really am a messiah. Is this scanning? I'm going to become famous. Holy shit. I gotta juggle. BRB.

Nokia released a slew of videos yesterday which demonstrate "the network of the future", following video is a joint venture project between Nokia and TATA power, showing of the IP/MPLS network for creating smart power, about midway thru the video it demonstrates what they mean by "smart power" and why IP/MPLS is required. What to gather from this video is Nokia is more than just ORAN, they are also "application networking", software and service focused. This video shows the difference between present networking, we are just a pipe delivering the goods, to the new networking or intelligent networking model, controlling the flow of information, establishing the priority of the information and the network is part of the active control management layer. So what to understand is that "networking" is evolving/changing. This gives you a taste of what Nokia is saying that the CSP's should be application focused rather than viewing themselves only as a pipe, so the expectations and duties of traditional telecommunication business will be changing, if not in terms of revenue at least in terms of earnings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iqk3_4B8w0

So I'm looking to make the leap from Laptop gaming to Desktop. Looking build it in the next month or so.

What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

• Simulator games, CoD, F1 Games, RDR2.

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

• £1000.

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

• Possibly next couple of months.

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget?

• Everything for a tower build inc. Windows, I have a 1TB SSD I can use from my laptop. I also have a monitor, KBM etc..

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

• UK.

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

• Logitech Hero 502, Asus TUF 1080p.

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

• No.

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

• No.

What type of network connectivity do you need? (Wired and/or WiFi) If WiFi is needed and you would like to find the fastest match for your wireless router, please list any specifics.

• Wifi 6 would be prefreble.

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?

• Happy with a plain black build with the odd bit of colour.

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

• Windows 11.

Extra info or particulars:

What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

I have two main use cases:

• Gaming (various games, but currently Overwatch 2, Diablo 4, Valorant, etc.)
  
• AI/ML/data-related software development including ML model training, data visualization dashboard development, & database development with varying data set sizes (specific software currently is MS SQL, Python, Tableau Desktop, Power BI).
  

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

$2000 or less is ideal, for a core build only (CPU + motherboard + at least 32GB of RAM).

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

Within 1-2 weeks.

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)

CPU + motherboard + RAM. Existing build parts will be used for everything else.

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

USA Midwest; no local access to a Microcenter without spending more $ on gas than any potential cost savings.

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

GPU = RTX 3090; main storage drive = Samsung 970 NVMe so I'll need at least 20 PCIe lanes (16 for GPU + 4 for main SSD); PSU = Antec HCP 1300W Platinum; CPU cooler = 280mm AIO liquid cooler but I can't recall the specific brand/model # (I will buy a new one separate from this $2K budget if required); case = Corsair 760T; monitors = Acer XB1 (2560x1440 165Hz G-Sync) + Acer X34 (3440x1440 100hz G-Sync) at all times, + also sometimes my LG 65" OLED TV running console-esque games @ 1440p (rarely done).

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

Yes. I will overclock the CPU as far as the silicon lottery allows while maintaining reliability (I have plenty of past experience overclocking Intel CPUs, but not so much with AMD).

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

As much overall processing throughput as I can get within my budget, so as to speed up machine learning model training during overnight/off-hours when the system is not actively in use by me for generic use and/or gaming.

What type of network connectivity do you need? (Wired and/or WiFi) If WiFi is needed and you would like to find the fastest match for your wireless router, please list any specifics.

Wired for sure, but integrated mobo wireless would be a nice backup (not a dealbreaker by any means though).

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?

N/A -- reusing my existing case (Corsair 760T as noted above).

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

Not needed.

Extra info or particulars:

I am replacing the guts of my existing build (i7 5930K OC @ 4.6ghz, MSI X99S SLI Krait Edition MB, & 16GB Corsair DDR4 2666mhz RAM). I tend to prioritize spending a bit more for a very high-quality motherboard that supports stable overclocking regardless of my CPU choice. I've got limited experience with AMD CPUs or their overclocking in recent history, but plenty of experience with Intel. I am definitely a bit biased towards Intel at the moment but I'm willing to look at AMD if the cost:benefit fits my two needs. From cursory searching, the Intel 13900KF and/or AMD 7800X3D caught my eye, but I've been out of the loop on core component builds for several years at this point.
Thanks so much in advance!

Sorry if this is against the rules, but Ford has been posting a lot of DS positions lately, so I assumed someone here might also have tried applying to some.
Their portal is failing to accept any documents I try to upload, and even worse, the “Education” field has a constant loading wheel that prevents you from submitting the application (regardless of whether you fill it out manually, auto populate with Linkedin, etc).
It’s consistent for me across browsers, devices, job postings, and wifi networks. Anyone else having this issue?

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Copy pasting from my UE forums:
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Hello,
I made a simple dedicated server by following the UE 5.2 documentation (using third person template). I packaged the server and client build, and I am able to connect to my server on one machine using localhost, and also with Hamachi.
If I run the server on one machine, I am not able to connect the client on the other machine even though:

• They are both connected to the same Hamachi network (on separate accounts, also tried using separate networks).
• I disabled Firewall on both devices.
• When running the server, I am specifying the Hamachi IPv4 address using -ip=(address)
• The server and client are set to use port 7777.

There is no change in the server logs, it doesn’t even appear to attempt connecting.
Using Hamachi, I should be able to avoid port forwarding right? Why is my client not able to find the server (or the server detect my client), even if they are connected to the same Hamachi network?
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Update: I can connect to my server using the internal IP address of my computer, but it only works on one machine, even if I enabled port forwarding (tested that it works with a Minecraft server).
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Anyone who could please give me some pointers? I am having a hard time finding any information on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.