I’ve had a few prior to that degrade as well. Definitely rip your discs. DVDs and BluRays. I had one BluRay get its encryption key revoked and couldn’t play it anymore… luckily I was able to rescue it by ripping it in an older BR-ROM drive.

I literally just bought 2 more WD NVME m.2 sticks. They’ve been solid for me and I needed to replace some older slower storage.

But how else are my friends kids going to add “Farts” and “A little brother” to their parents shopping list?!

Definitely true. I will say that the sheer amount of high tech crammed into the Vision Pro package necessitates that price tag. Not to mention the R&D and testing to do so. Like I completely understand why it costs as much as it does.

Still not going to buy it though.

But Nvidia already had chips and cards shipping that were suitable for AI, so not tons of R&D up front. Intel would have to somehow make their ARC line better for AI and do it faster than Nvidia is improving theirs.