Iran Fires Disposable Single Use Explosive Drones at Commercial Ships after Signing a Ceasefire & Peace Agreement

Trump issues a stark warning, either keep the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial ship travel, or the US will continue precision strikes of critical infrastructure to cripple the Iranian uranium enrichment program, power production, oil, gas, water, roads, bridges, ports, in order of economic importance or national security interest importance. 

 

Iran run by incompetent Islamic extremists who enacted and enforce sharia law, causing millions of young girls to be married off to adult men, while GLBTQ+ people discovered to be so by police in Iran are shot on demand murdered for apostasy, stoned to death or dropped from tall buildings into the street. In other words the state of Iran engages in hate crimes and endorses pedophilia. 

I really like the Persian people of Iran, the traditional foods of Iran, the Persian language, many aspects of the 9000 + year old culture of Iran are fantastic, making what happened to Iran after the fall of the Shaw so terrible in a perpetual ongoing chaotic way, nearly all other countries denounce sharia law as incompatible with human rights, to the point of being cringy, disturbing, cruel, mean spirited and unfair on many levels to girls & women. 

When your heart neurons, gut neurons, & brain neurons align, doing what you know at every level to be good, choosing the right with all sincerity, making the world a better place, making the difference for someone else

Who can say if your love grows as your heart grows, saith Enya, in her song, Only Time

Yet people even as babies have an intrinsic sense of right and wrong, able to tell the difference between a good or bad person, before knowing almost nothing about anything as a young infant, a young baby, born with a blank slate brain knowing almost nothing. 

Probably a stretch philosophically, but I believe the overwhelming vast majority of people understand the difference between right or wrong conduct as a person. 

I am not telling anyone else what to think, how to choose, how to act, what to care about, how to steer their focus, or how to live best, since I could never know enough about anyone else to give them specific pointed instructions in every possible way about the best way for them to live, because clearly I do not even know the best way to live for myself as a person, so on what grounds would I have to claim to know with authority a superior way to think, act, live or operate as a person.

I seek to create unity between people worldwide, across time, space, culture and place, to agree to disagree peacefully, to go our own ways in peace, to be kind to one another, to be polite and fair & reasonable with one another as people, unity, peace, kindness, loving kindness 

At my best I show loving kindness to other people, strangers, when it make zero sense, when there is not personal benefit, when its pure genuine benevolence, kindness, being fair, reasonable, polite, decent, operating above suspicion, doing my best to do my best in all ways at all times obedient unto the Lord our God, master creator of all in all realms, out of humble respect for God and not wanting to remove his blessing from my life or that life of my wife who I adore.

CS2, ultra classic FPS for Desktop PC or Gaming Laptops

 After more than 20 years of playing Counter Strike on every game console, every laptop, every desktop, I can say its about as neoclassical as the tab on a pop can containing 5182 alloy of mostly aluminum with 4.5% magnesium & 0.3% manganese, cold strain hardened, amenable to every kind of welding, extremely ductile able to be drawn into complex 3D shapes, while the mouse and W A S D keys of a keyboard are the primary typical inputs for gaming, even illuminated specially on some gaming keyboards, but had did Valve the gaming company behind STEAM the online gaming platform, create a perpetually interest.

 

E-sports game popular worldwide across generations of people, so many iterations of computer and software advances, really a glimmering shimmering amazing example of a game that transcends space and time, connecting with millions of players globally, showing the best of what high speed internet can become when mixed with a computer powerful enough to play Counter Strike with enough frames per second displayed to be playable in a fluid way that players enjoy, special thanks to AMD, Intel & NVIDIA for making it happen, and Kudos to Microsoft & Valve for supporting PC gaming! 

 

In the context of artificial intelligence data centers eating up HBM memory so pervasively its creating bottlenecks and market shortages for DDR production so bad that RAM prices for DDR4 and DDR5 have tripled in less than a year, graphics cards like 4090 and 5090 commanding $2000, $3000 or $4000 now, making gaming PC even more expensive, unfair in particular because PC gaming most popular with younger people with very little if any income or money, who rely on their parents to live, really kicking people who are already at layers of disadvantages, facing a dollar that has never been weaker, against a housing crisis where homes have never been more unaffordable, and wages in most areas of the economy while they have grown, they have not kept up with inflation or the increasing cost of all of life's basics. 

 

In 1999 when I was in high school, gasoline sold for $0.99 per US gallon, today where I grew up, gasoline selling for $6/ gal, 600% increase in price, 290% when adjusted for inflation, a gallon of Milk that was $1 now $5, housing that was $250K selling for $1.5 million, apartments that rented for $450/mo now $2800/mo in worse condition.  

 

Why have so many people taken to hiding behind their smartphone, tablet, TV, desktop monitor, gaming consoles, well, there are many factors, as with most complex phenomena we would have to touch on some very unconfortable realities, so lets go ahead and try. 

Loss of community connection, people do not even know their neighbors anymore. A commonly expressed musical lyric touches on this with a pen & paper analogy, "I can't talk openly with anybody anymore, so I talk to my journal writing, social media posts, blog articles, or escape watching movies, videos, shorts, memes, doom scrolling, of whatever


Lack of an effective free to the public open space where people can connect that is not their home or place of work, while Churches have functioned to provide a 3rd place for social connection, in many ways church attendance been on a decline in America for decades because of an increase in secularization, and more recently criminal Islamic terrorist in America have been engaged in arson, burning Christian churches down.

Lets for a moment touch on a disturbing reality, in many Islamic Republics where Sharia Law enforced, girls & women have no rights legally or otherwise, child marriage pervasive, mostly very young girls married of to older adult men, illegal in almost all other countries, in many ways Sharia Law, killing GLTBQ+ alphabet people, stoning them to death, dropping them from tall buildings into the street, or shooting them in the head, Islamic police acting as judge & jury with on demand killings justified in the name of defending apostasy, in effect either become Islamic and practice Sharia Law or they will kill you for not joining.

Unsurprisingly, I always plat Counter Terrorist or CT when playing counter strike. Simulations where I get to stop the terrorists from bombing the target.  To warm up after not playing CS for a long time, I play Practice with Bots, and once I am able to dominate the bots, means I am about to get smoked but still play on community maps with real people, usually a few rounds a few times per day for a few weeks and my chops improve, but then I get bored and stop playing CS for months, come back rusty, have to warm up and practice to be good enough to play against other people ") 

Anthropic IPO Over Valued, Data Center Noise, Light & Water Pollution, Driving up Electricity Cost for Residents Nearby

A range of problems with data centers that release as much heat daily as large nuclear weapons detonated, millions of gallons of fresh water polluted with coolant additives discharged into municipal water supplies poisoning public and nature simultaneously, giving rise to class action lawsuits seeking damages for harms data centers causing.

 

Over Valued IPO's 

How are any of these big tech companies seeking huge amounts of money going to capitalize on unproven revenue models, entirely based on estimate and projections that might not ever pan out. 

Do your remember 2008, when large banks & insurance companies in America projected they could make $60 trillion in profit off of NINJA sub-prime mortgage loans, zero down, no documents, no income, no jobs, upside down, Richard Fuld of failed AIG leading the charge to bankrupting 158 year old institution, worldwide by 2011 more than 30 million people lost their jobs because of great 2008 Recession in America.   

Economy Boosting Chip Fabrication 

Chip fabrication plants making CPU, DRAM, GPU, SOC, brains in computers, tablets, smartphones, data centers, servers, super computers, smart watches, automobiles, micro-controllers, modems, WiFi routers, data switches, cloud compute, ASIC chips for ai training, BTC or bitcoin mining, blockchain technology, fintech, clean technology.

Closed Loop Water Reclamation 

TSMC, Intel, GF, chip FAB plants renowned for immense water consumption, helium consumption, acid contaminated with heavy metals or rare earths, making chips of all kinds using polluting toxic industrial strong corrosive or acidic chemicals, ions created, requiring expensive ion capture, not always applied, so often dumped into local waterways as polluted water emissions, nearly all existing chip FAB are located near large sources of water & electricity. 

Dirty Clean Technology

Renewables as micro inverters or inverters, for wind power, geothermal, wave capture, hydro power, solar power, in ever renewable energy system chips controlling data flow essential, of critical importance to the functions of these urgently needed energy systems, part of a trend globally towards clean energy, a mix of SMR fission, novel new nuclear fusion DT FRC pulse direct energy capture magnetic compression from Helion Energy NW, Orion plant under construction as the worlds first fusion power plant to go live in 2028. Fusion reactors are also important for faster access to the moon & mars, to go to Proxima Centari the next closest star system some 4+ light years away.  

SpaceX never worth $1.75 Trillion Dollars

Only business segment turning a profit, StarLink, via revue from hundreds of millions of subscriptions, yet at more than $100 per month for truly fast satellite internet, when Verizon 5G option for $50 performs better over cellular data networks, millions of people are switching away from StarLink, to lower their monthly broadband high speed internet subscription fees. SpaceX responded in part to boost revenue before the record setting IPO, by lowering subscription fee with discounts to boost sales. 

Innovative Reusable Rockets 

SpaceX first company private, to commercialize reusable rockets, using engine gimbals to control relight and inverted pendulum stabilization of Falcon 9. Now with Star Ship V3 SpaceX chasing economies of scale, noting stainless steel & liquid natural gas or LNG along with liquid oxygen LOX chosen as a cost efficient fuel mix. Falcon 9 used RP1 a kind of special Kerosene chilled along with LOX or liquid oxygen

Lithium Aluminum So Expensive

The shell & frame of Falcon 9 instead of cheaper stainless steel like V3 Star Ship, instead made of an expensive exotic lithium aluminum alloy, incredibly with a thinner shell to body ratio than an aluminum beverage can. That is to say that if you stretched and scaled a pop can made of aluminum to the size of a Falcon 9 rocket, the pop can would have thicker walls.

Pop Can Lid 5182 Alloy

In order for the tab to pop open the top of a pop can, the lid actually 6X stronger aluminum magnesium alloy, similar to the low mass 15 inch wheels of a 2nd Gen. Toyota Prius. More specifically 5182 cold worked & strain hardened to H48 temper, giving it exceptional deep draw ductility and corrosion resistance without any heat treatment. Containing 4.5% magnesium & 0.3% manganese, producing high strength, excellent welding characteristics in stick, MIG, TIG, & spot welding. 

Beverage can lids are the most iconic use of 5182, while automotive hoods, doors, & body panels of high strength to weight ratio for mass savings and dent resistance also made of 5182. Computer cases, fuel tanks, tankers, ships, aerospace, aircraft, this strong alloy used where low mass strength provides benefits, for example a Ford F150 made with more aluminum uses 27% less fuel by losing 600 lbs by virtue of the low mass strength aluminum alloys offer automakers. Audi famous for using aluminum alloy for the space frame of the A8/S8, giving them higher power to weight ratio performance, improving handling, & reducing fueling consumption, while lowering emissions.

 

SpaceX Ai

With tough competition from Google Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Amazon Q, Watson, OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, ChatGPT, some with new over valued IPO upcoming, we see few if any profitable LLM or ai products or services, and while SpaceX wants AI5 asic chips in 3nm process node, they have zero chips, no Optimus has this AI5 brain SOC yet, and to make a 100 million Optimus robots annually, would require more AI5 chips than the combined capacity output of every chip making company, Global Foundries, Intel, TSMC, etc, to even supply 2% of SpaceX ai chip demand.

DDR, Data Center, Chip Fab, NIMBY

Along with need for memory chips, DDR6, as industry ships to ai data training centers, with NIMBY push-back from noise, light, water pollution, water waste, environmental damage, some data centers release so much heat in 24 hours its similar to the heat output of a large nuclear weapon detonated daily, which in hot locals in Pheonix Arizon causing locals to run their AC more often at higher cost, giant Data centers driving up electricity costs as their heat output raises local temperatures up to 9 degrees, further increasing costs to locals, the electric bills are reaching $1000+ per month. 

RAM Shortage

Building a PC has never been more expensive. DDR4 that was $50 a year ago, now $150, DDR5 kits selling for $400 to $550 that were under $200 a year ago, CPU chips that were $120 a year ago, now selling for $220-$1000, GPU that sold for $1200 a year ago selling for $4000 now, in every respect core computer components have tripled in price, making a new PC build that was $450 bare bones last year, cost more than $800 now, and that's with cases, PSU, monitors, motherboards that did not go up in price, almost all the cost increase for a basic computer because the CPU & RAM & GPU prices have gone up.  

Metabolism, Movement, Steps, Activity, Fitness, Exercise

When a person stops eating for 24 or 48 or 72 hours, fasting, only drinking water, their body places health cells into a protective state by activating Sirtuin Genes, 1-7, known as ancient survival genes, from times in antiquity when food scarcity was a common cultural phenomena, where people went without food for often days or weeks or sometimes even months. Jesus Christ of Nazareth mentions fasting & prayer in The Christian Bible more than 70 times. 

 

Going Forwards & Backwards Simultaneously 

So how have we made so much technological progress while overlooking metabolic health in favor of focusing on maximizing the profits of food companies, the overwhelming majority owned by global tobacco giants today, through merger and acquisition to divest investment into unregulated, largely deregulated FDA & UPF or ultra processed foods with any of many chemical additives, so unhealthy, that what Americans eat linked to more than 32 disease in medical evidence & physiology studies. How can the science of exercise from sports medicine or the METABO law of Japan exist in the face of exporting harm as American tobacco giant traffic ultra processed foods globally. 

 

Disease Epidemics Exploding 

Exploding cancers, diabetes, heart disease, obesity rates, kidney failure rates, in ever way disease are exploding into epidemics, almost exclusively linked to dietary imbalances, namely tons of chemical additives, modified starches, industrial artificial colors & flavors, not real food by any reasonable definition, but food like sparingly edible items that are sold in colorful bags and boxes, plastic or aluminized "mylar" bags, or packaged processed foods. 

 

Shop Borders of a Grocery Store 

The saying "Shop the edges of the grocery for perishable real foods, largely due to the face that most of the stuff sold on the shelving of the isles of a Grocery Store or Supermarket in America, are ultra processed, for example industrial GMO rape seed oil confusingly sold in clear plastic low flavor low smoke labeled bottles cheap, called Vegetable Oil, when no vegetables were used to make veggie oil.

 

No Veggies In Vegetable Oil 

GMO crops of rape seed harvested and pressed with solvents, heat & pressure, then up to 50 different processing stages are applied to the resulting rape seed oil, which given what goes into making it, seems like it would be even more expensive, except doing all that stuff to the rape seed oil sold as vegetable oil, gives it a longer shelf life and done on an unmatched volume level or mass produced, giving the selling of the most unhealthy oils economies of scale, so they can sell Vegetable Oil as cheaply as possible. 

Chemical Stream Entering Your Body, Largest Stream Food & Beverages

 The overwhelming vast majority of things entering your body are food chemicals, from what your are eating and drinking, which have a majority effect on your body, health, and wellness as a person. This is beyond refute, axiomatically factually accurate backed by an enormous body of evidence from scientific, medical, physiology & sports medicine, the science of exercise, reality of fitness training, even TV shows like The Biggest Looser or My 600lb sisters, reality TV, YouTube videos, intermittent fasting, calorie restriction, SAD standard American diet of ultra processed convenience foods, snacks and fast foods made with industrial chemical additives. 

 

These dietary imbalances, especially excessive sugar, HFCS, starch & carbohydrate, but also UPF or artificially colored & artificially flavored, industrial long shelf life foods, that are known world wide collectively in terms of negative harms to human health as diseases of civilization, noting that the grocery store unlimited access to food plus fridge and pantry are a historical anomaly. 

SMOG harms Public Health while Damaging Nature

 When gasoline or diesel fuel combusted in engines, the resulting exhaust gas contains mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor, but when we add together the emissions of all combustion engines, the trace emissions of pollutants in traffic congestion accumulate faster than dispersion, forming air pollution that clogs the engines air filter faster, but also damaging the lung cells of people breathing in, near and around traffic congestion, where stop and go traffic jams, all those engines burning fuel without moving getting negative fuel economy, while forming SMOG air pollution that forms acid rain, lung toxic, toxic to brain, kidneys, liver, responsible for many disease pathology, especially cancers.

 

HC Hydro Carbon vapor, 90% emitted just after cold start after vehicle parked all night

PM Particulate Matter, tiny particles, micro-fine, dust like lodge deep into lung tissue

Oxides of Nitrogen like that orange brown lung toxic nitrogen dioxide, major smog part

Tire tread particles & brake pad dust, wearing away, toxic dust & microplastics

Soot, smoke, vapors from leaking engine oil, transmission fluid, power steering fluid, grease, tar, gunk, smelly petrochemical fog, SMOG

Acid rain also acidifies bodies of water toxic to fish & other aquatic wildlife, SOx, NOx

Rising fuel prices are also still very cheap, to understand why you have to consider all the things that a gallon of crude oil can produce, of incredible value added potential, so many applications of petroleum in industrial chemistry of critical value to most industries, synthetic fabric, wire insulator, explosives, dye, membranes for batteries, non-stick coating, lubricants, lubricating oils, synthetic tire compounds, food additives, concrete additives, asphalt additives, carpeting, vinyl windows and siding, play slides on playgrounds, shoes, tires, storage bins, containers, food packages, hospital tubes and many other plastics in hospitals, in fact plastics are the bread and butter of petrochemical industries. 

 

While a single 42 US gallon barrel of Brent Crude can make about $220 of transportation fuels, propane, butane and tar for asphalt, if the same exact barrel of crude converted to high value polymers they are worth more than $1400, but the market capitalization of fuels about 10,000 bigger than the global market for high value synthetic polymers or similar petrochemicals. 

Iran Poor, Why would Iran fight USA a military industrial giant, in Iran gasoline sells for 3 cents per liter, Extreme Poverty

 How can the jerks in charge of Iran afford ballistic missiles? That means they in charge of Iran are diverting money from schools, infrastructure, hospitals, police, fire departments, public services, utilities, power grid, natural gas, fuel distribution, retail, building, development, they are buying weapons with money they could be using to help the Persian people, which is immoral, unethical, and wrong on many levels. 

 

Globally, gasoline & diesel prices have sharply risen up to 30% because up to 20% of all Brent Crude travels through tanker ships though the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has become a major criminal terrorist group blocking shipping channels, causing worldwide economy damage, raising fueling costs for the general public, thus with adequate reasoning and logic the international community should be cracking down on Iran to open the Straight of Hormuz for international trafficking of goods and materials of all kinds, especially Brent Crude Oil.

 

Crude Oil a virtually ubiquitous input for the production of thousands of high value added petrochemical goods, from tire compounds to wire insulator, to car bumpers or airbags, para-gliders, synthetic fabrics in fashion, carpeting, explosives, dye, pharmaceutical precursors and chemical precursors essential and of critical value to a broad range of industries worldwide. In many ways Petroleum can be seen as Black Gold, of unimaginable value chemically, to so many industries, that create hundreds of millions of jobs, trillions in added value, of essential value of economies of most nations globally.

 

I am calling for the deposition of Islamic Republics of their extreme leadership, replaced with pro-western reformists who bring human rights to girls and women, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, atheists, agnostics, anyone who is not Islamic, known as the Shaw of Iran's progressive reforms before Ayatollah Khomeini and his stupid Islamic extremists kicked the Shaw out of power and took over Iran, ruining a 9000+ year old nation and making life worse for all the lovely Persian people.   

Pop! OS Linux Desktop PC Build Complet & Working

Took a while to build it, and get the ISO flashed onto a USB key to boot, since the reused M2 MVNE SSD upcycled from an older mining rig recycled, and had a windows repair partition that attempted unsuccessfully to repair the disk. Fortunately disabling secure boot in the bios allowed the USB ISO to boot into POP installer, from there system spent all day downloading Steam & CS2, some 60GB of data, over 85 mbps wifi connection, which improved from 52mbps to over 90mbps when I installed the dual antenna to the IO output of the MSI Pro B550 VC motherboard. 

 

For reasons I do not understand, I have to use HDMI cable to get my monitor and graphics card to communicate, using 8K Display Port cable, nothing visible on the screen, and even troubleshooting so far, DP port work, I am not sure why I cannot use the nicer braided DP cable and stuck using the monitors short included HDMI cable. I will do more research to figure it out. 

 

Built my first desktop PC in 1994, using parts obtained from PC shop in Kent Washington, my adoptive father took me there on a Saturday, armed with $450, he contribute $200, got me a color CRT monitor, and a family friend gave me a CD-ROM with Windows 95 on it. Full ATX case, PSU, Pentium Intel CPU, 3DFX AGP GPU, 100MB HDD 64MB DDR RAM, Modem for Dial-up 56K internet, AOL Netscape Navigator, and could only use it online with permission because it absorbed our families only phone line to connect, mostly to web rings about high voltage physics, lasers, chemistry, things that spiked my interest as a per-teen! 

 

This latest PC build my 7th desktop build since 1995. By far the fastest and highest performance, the total build cost $810 keyboard full RGB gaming, 22 in LED 1080P LCD monitor, Cubix-G case, Rosewill 650w 80+ gold PSU, 64 GB DDR4 3200MT/s, AMD ryzen 5-5500 CPU, Thermalright Assassin V2 CPU cooler w/ FRGB fan that matches the 3 included case fans, all the same FRGB color matching, looks cool through the glass, including the Asus dual fan 3050 6GB OC graphics card :) 

Game Consoles Xbox, Microsoft, Play Station, Sony, Killed PC Sound Cards, Sound EAX API, Intel 97, then Intel Azalea, CPU after Pentium 4, Mobile SOC DAC ACD integration tightly, iPod

Sound Blaster made IDE & later PCI sound cards for PC or personal computers in the 1990's

Music Streaming, Computer Gaming, Killer Apps required Motherboards to integrate Sound Processing

When Intel & Microsoft got together to put sound in the PC, this eventually doomed sound cards.

By the time the Play Station launched, first Xbox launched, even PC CPU & GPU CUDA offered high end 7.1 surround sound, elite headphone performance, even over USB-A connections, bidirectional gaming headsets with stereo speakers, synthetic 3D soundscape, and a boom mic to talk smack in games like CS or Counter Strike on Steam, CS2 lately. 

PCIe super fast storage, but Graphics Cards the killer user app for PCI slots in desktops ITX, mATX or full on full size ATX big dog units. 

I am typing this blog posting on an M2 MacBook Pro that has a 1/8 inch multi-function headphone jack.

If we look upon the motherboard and M2 chip of this machine, it features high fidelity audio functions, even over a USB-C connection with high bit rate able to move UHD video, so audio at 198 kilohertz sampling super easy as a simultaneous stream along with ultra high definition video. 

Even my VR headset, a Meta Quest 3S features a Qualcomm SOC with incredible audio performance. 

Everyone's smartphone SOC, system on a chip features high fidelity audio processing, including ADC and DAC for microphone and speakers, noting most phones like the iPhone or Samsung Galaxy S whatever, have a pair of speakers that can pump out stereo sound, from the top earpiece speaker and bottom charging port location speaker, tiny rare earth magnet speakers featuring foam balls to improve sound performance, making the output sound more rich with more base notes and less tin like which would happen without the foam balls improving the sound pressure wave form spectrum. 

When Apple was working with IBM on the first iPod, Steve Jobs contacted Creative in Singapore, to work with them to integrate their sound technology into the iPod line, but Creative declines having their own MP3 player partnerships competing with the iPod, not seeing the sales potential of Apples music distribution AAC files on iTunes online, which came to dominate music sales and the CD players faded into tech history, discs physical kept alive with DVD and lastly BlueRay disks, but no new DISC formats after that, especially not for music alone. 

Something about writing all of this reminded me of the Microsoft Zune audio player & software. 

I don't even remember the name, but I had an MP3 player in college that used CF Compact Flash Memory Card, it was a Canadian Brand, made in Singapore, around 2001, Napster online download many gigabytes of MP3 music, over USB loaded them onto this portable CF card MP3 player. 

2026 Expensive PC Parts Forecast of Higher Prices Upcoming

DDR5 6000MHz RAM for PC, $400

5090 GPU $4000

i9 or Best Ryzen $1000

High end 1000w PSU 80+ Titanium $400

Liquid Cooling for CPU & GPU + radiators, hoses, additives for fluid, kit, $1000

Your looking at a high-end gaming PC for $6000 that blows any gaming laptop out of the water in terms for FPS on AAA titles

Many high-end gaming laptops are selling for $2500-$4500 now

Even popular gaming consoles XBox X and latest PS5 prices are up to $800

AI demand for GPU, RAM, CPU, logic, all the part sharing the same supply chain as PC parts

Leveraging more than $700 billion in ai investments 2026, the ai industry making PC parts expensive

Graphics Cards are Super Computers

 Even very cheap GPU cards are pumping data at 2 teraflops, trillions of floating point calculations per second, often on about 20 watts of power, while even the 70w RTX 3050 6GB OC does just above 6 teraflops.

A 4060 does about 12 gigaflops of floating point, on a larger power budget of 150 watts, requires a PSU with a GPU power cord able to give the GPU enough energy, noting that a GPU contains VRMs to regulate RAM & GPU power, a mainboard logic, data controller for IO, and other components of a PC motherboard, and in some sense a gaming GPU card a kind of specialized super computer. 

The same can be said of the latest updated Sony Play Station 5 game console or the Xbox X game console, which are gaming computers with highly optimized architectures. Even the Intel Arc 580 with 12GB VRAM performs well at the $450 price point to keep up with vastly more expensive NVIDIA chip GPUs

AI boom eating up global RAM production so much that RAM today sells for 4X what it did 1 year ago. I had to pay almost $240 for 4X8GB of DDR4 3200MHz w/ Aluminum Heat Sinks, while the 3050 6GB OC GPU card cost me $180, the MSI PRO B550-VC mainboard was $80, the AMD Ryzen 5-5500 was $86, the Zalman CUBIX-G case for $40, the Rosewill 650W 80+Gold PSU was $47, 22inch Gaming Monitor with speakers was $70, gaming keyboard was $10, all said with a DP braided cable, about $810

Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, wait a Rocket Company big on Artificial Intelligence

Lets not forget Apple Siri or Google/ Alphabet Gemini or Amazon Alexa, notice how even Microsoft Copilot/ Cortana/ Clippy in Microsoft Office, or has narrow band ai been present in IDE SDE when writing code the compiler used specialized ai to check code, and many writing applications have spelling and grammar checking built in, also narrow band type of artificial intelligence, and the same can be said of the many generations of bot crawlers the browse and scrape the web to build a search index ranking key words list and similar, essential for companies to connect with customers online, search engines. 

So why would SpaceX go in big on ai development ? Lets not forget the FSD packages sold on Tesla model whatever, which a 10 year delayed promise level 5 autonomy never delivered, causing many to sell their Tesla Model 3, S, X, Y, or Cyber-truck, oh noting that LIB EV's like those Tesla mentioned, the same thing that gives them really fast acceleration, also shreds tire tread up to 10X faster than ICE or conventional gasoline engine powered automobiles. 

Tesla ^ SpaceX are the same people, so ai development essential for Tesla FSD can aid rocket guidance system development at SpaceX

Notice fuzzy logic controller of a typical automatic transmission of an automobile, SUV or Truck, this high speed analogy circuit a kind of very low brow very narrow band ai, as it does everything automatically without using a big energy hogging digital multipurpose computer module, like the ECU or VCU. Notice also that nearly every kind of passenger car sold contains up to 100 chips, integrated circuits, similar to the SOC or brains of a smartphone. 

IO, EUROPA, MARS, MOON, SUN, SpaceX, Elon Musk, Chemical Rocket Mass Paradox, Urgent Need for Space Based Fusion FRC Low Mass Propulsion

United Launch Alliance, Reusable Rockets, Solid Rocket Boosters, 3S Rockets, Space

Amazon New Shepard Explosion on vs Kepler Satellite Internet Amazon.com Prime

Star Link space based high speed internet satellites + ground receiver kits from SpaceX

Global AI race chip GPU RAM demand ai training paradox cost, more electricity & time

New algorithms taking longer & costing more to develop, scraping internet data 

Big data explosion generated content videos impossible scenes depicted

Text prompts making images or videos automatically, data centers cost billions

PC parts graphics cards, M2 MVNE SSD, RAM, CPU price debacle 2026 So Expensive

NVIDIA and Microsoft for new kind of CPU, via GPU skills for WINTEL history technology

E-commerce, Investment, Fintech, Crypto, Blockchain, Insane in the Brain Membrane 

Catch that riff, different, slippery slope, hope for it, spit it down, sound of which, switch

Twitch streaming videos YouTube Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Pick up sticks, wicks 

Legal tender fiat currency global national debt debacle increasingly unstable able to pop

Bubble gum, dumb as a rock, sock missing, hissing sound indicates a leak, take a leak

Pop! OS by System 76, Firefox Web Browser for Low-end Gaming PC Build, Ryzen 5500, B550 MSI, GTX 3050 6GB, 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz, 650W 80+Gold PSU, Vulcan 256GB M2, Still cost me $800.48

Though I got a full gaming keyboard, dope monitor, nice case with 3 fans included, a really novel CPU cooler, really high end PSU, dope mainboard, & what appears to be good ram with aluminum heat sinks, through I dreamt of smashing some copper water pipe to make a custom heatsink for the VRM's on the mainboard and GPU, to keep them a tad cooler to make them last longer. Relatively easy, it gives me a path to some DIY fun, as does some bright yellow spray paint in a can that I will use to custom paint part of my rig to personalize it, including graphics for Pop! OS by System 76, Firefox Browser, Wifi 6 MSI B550, GTX3050 6GB OC, 32GB 3200MHz DDR4, 650W 80+Gold PSU, Up-cycled M2 drive 256GB

AMD Ryzen 5-5500, B550 MSI PRO VC, ASUS dual fan GTX 3050 6GB, 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz Puskill Gaming RAM, Rosewill 650W 80+Gold PSU, Vulcan 256GB M2, Still cost me $800.48

I harvested M2 Vulcan 256 from an old mining rig, while 64GB Kingston USB key used to flash the ISO was found on a public bus with nothing on it. Waiting on Amazon for all the parts, but decided on System 76's Linux as the best net solution for CS2 on PC, but also allowing Web with Firefox secure and lightweight browser with low ram footprint. The 70w low power GPU can run on PCI-e 4.0 port DC energy budget of 150 watts, while this build allows for a better graphics card, as the PSU has a dedicated 450 watt cable for GPUS, but that will be retained for a future upgrade. Desktops being full modular, almost like Lego's to put together, can be updated, mainboard, ram & cpu, gpu, PSU, case, cooling method, its all parts that go together in millions of possible combinations. Why did I go with GTX 3050 6GB OC Asus Dual Fan, because it was $180, while the 4X8gb DDR4 32GB 3200MHz cost $232, more than $50 more than the GPU, noting RAM prices are high because of demand for AI training, but odd that DDR4 288pin desktop sticks would be expensive, who uses those on AI training rigs anyways? 

Random Stranger Suggested I Create a Blog in 2003

I was at a car show in Issaquah when I was 20, when a man in his 40's walked up to me and said, "you seem or look like you are a blogger, do you have or publish a blog?" 

On Facebook a longtime school friend SS says to me "You post really deep, technical, complex ideas that are probably not in the interest sphere of your family and friends from real life, but are aimed at technical scientific minded people like you, so if you instead publish your ideas to a blog, sort of like those TED talks we watched at Griff house, you will probably reach your target audience, best of luck, I believe you will become a prolific blog writer. 

Now thousands of blog posting into it, I look back on these inputs from others, reflecting on how they must be a component of what drives me to hand type these posts on any of a few different computers, even my smartphone at times, anything that accesses the internet with a keyboard, physical or virtual, can be used to type up a blog posting, therefor anyone literate can post a blog. I am very educated, so it is probably easier for me to post a lot of different ideas, but I assure you, I post what I have been thinking about, as sincerely as possible, and its from my heart, dripping with blood, sweat, tears and authenticity.

Gaming PC for $800, any of many carports cost more, if you damage a finger, it costs way more, and airplane and photography gear costs way more. Given the bang for buck per dollar, if you enjoy Steam games on PC, it can cost as little as under $1 per hour, even factoring in a gaming PC build, cost of games, and internet, gaming on PC one of the cheapest ways of enjoying content, overall. 

I combined PC parts from 2 to4 years ago, on sale, to save over $150, vs buying new parts, plus 32GB of DDR5 6000 cost over $300 now, and CPU in 12100 to 14400K or AMD Ryzen 9, these cost over $250, often i9 or Thread Ripper AMD cost $1000 for the CPU, while a GTX 5090 costs $3400 for just the GPU, so I went with bare minimum for PC gaming with a ASUS dual-fan GTX 3050 for $180, & the least expensive 4qty of 8GB RAM sticks, so 32GB DDR4 3200 which cost $232, or $50 more than the GPU, for RAM, old DDR4 for that price, a scam, stupid ai training eating up RAM like a monster globally, shafting PC gamers, PC builders, and normal people on rational PC build budgets like me. 

Of Meta Quest 3 $599 or Meta Quest Pro $799, I went with Quest 3S for $349, then added a better head strap & silicon face gasket $411 all said, then charged the 3S for a couple hours on USB-C till 100% to format the battery, it came out of the box with 49% charge, then promptly set it up using the Meta Quest app on my iPhone, then was able to download Les Mills Body Combat, since I already paid for it previously, then spent $11 on DLC for it, then tried one of the new 20min DLC levels, which worked me over to get 211 points, since I am gradually building up my strength again after getting wrecked physically moving to relocate. 

When my iPhone 14 started to slow down, I was driving route 17, and the number 17 started showing up all over the place, so I went to the Apple Store and traded in 14 for a regular 17, which cost an eye watering $914 more than the gaming PC build, incredibly, though Apple did buy my used iPhone 14 and gave me $231, lowing the cost to a more reasonable $683 total cost for iPhone 17 minus giving up iPhone 14 as a trade in. I did not do this all at once, instead I got the iPhone 17 all set up and data transferred with iCloud, when I pay $3 per month, then factory reset iPhone 14 to remove all user data, so as to improve safety of giving it to the Apple Store. 

 

Helion Fusion Power Plant

Worlds 1st nuclear fusion power plant using tritium and deuterium extracted from sea water as inputs to FRC field reverse configuration, pulsed direct energy capture grid synchronized load following firm power creation as two opposed cylinders containing an electrical plasma toroidal donut shaped hot ion stripped gas which electromagnetic coils wrapped around the middle section where both tubes connect, thus electromagnetic field or magnetic field are used to shove hot plasma donuts together which reach 150 million degrees allowing tritium to fuse with deuterium, & the resulting enormous magnetic field created by nuclear fusion are captured as electrical current in the windings coils that act to convert nuclear fusion directly into electricity without any steam, offering a much greater efficiency to be achieved as producing commercial grid power eventually for as cheap as 1 cent per kilowatt hour. 

1st Windows Computers to use NVIDIA Chips Launching

NVIDIA one of the worlds most profitable and popular tech companies, renowned for GPU such as the GTX 5090 that sell for thousands of dollars, noting that a bleeding edge computer discrete graphics card can consume 450 watts of electricity, such that a GTX GeForce GPU itself a computer, mainboard, chipsets, main GPU chip/s, ultra fast GDDR memory, a huge heatsink cooled with 1-3 fans, able to HASH blockchain or cryptocurrency, many people 2020 onwards converted their home PC gaming computer into a mining rig, with many GPU's running in parallel, on a single mainboard, running 24/7 making thousands of dollars paid out as fractions of a bitcoin or BTC as payment. 

Jensen Huang holds up NVIDIA PC chips 

Over years of developing graphics cards for windows PC's, NVIDIA has built up extensive experience in operating system core principles of operation, how to design and implement an OS on hardware, helping their AI chip development process, giving NVIDIA huge competitive advantages. 

Graphics Cards are one of the lowest margin items of a PC build, noting that NVIDIA & AMD make more money selling server / cloud chips, chips for AI training, chips for blockchain calculations, and for emerging information services, the demand of which now outstripping PC gaming purchases, so in a literal FU to PC gamers, NVIDIA reducing the amount of GPU cards its making, to divert any silicon to high profit ai applications, in part why I purchased a $180 GTX 3050 for my low end gaming rig, that still cost me slightly less than $800

Dell PC, Microsoft Surface, heating up the PC market with NVIDIA powered PC's. while Qualcomm a fierce competitor seeking to up-end this Windows Intel NVIDIA Alphabet Apple consortium of major famous American tech brands taking in all the revenue, with novel emerging Snapdragon ARM processors with power efficiency rivaling or besting Apple Silicon M's series chips by TSMC.  

Graphics Card or GPU a parallel processing computer more similar to your brain, in your desktop build

At 70 watts ASUS Dual Fan RTX 3050 6GB GDDR6 OC, low cost, low power graphics card in desktop computers still able to play 1080P AAA games at decent frame rates, while small enough & low power enough to run on up to 150 watts available from the PCIe 4.0 slot on the mainboard, alongside a recent generation 65W CPU.

AMD RYZEN 5-5500 for $80 the best value 8 core with 16 threads & even includes a Wraith cooler in my upcoming PC build, along with $80 MSI mainboard. I increased cost of the rig ** update by $18 with a TR Assassin X 120R SE V2 CPU Air Cooler, of 4 Heat Pipes + TL-C12C-L V2 PWM Fan CPU Cooler, that includes TF4 thermal grease. 

A desktop GPU or graphics card actually a computer itself. Discrete GPU cards have a mainboard, chipset, power conditioning, main GPU chip (core IP), copper heat pipe or machined aluminum or nickel plated copper heat sink, PWM fans cooling the heatsink, low end graphics cards draw about 50w, while low end gaming graphics cards 150w, mid-range gaming 250w, high end 350-500w. 

Rosewill 80+ Gold PSU 650W selected for $47.99, great value, means system gets to about 30-50% load under CS2 on Steam, 1080P higher graphics setting. I will not know about actual power consumption, chip heat levels or load, until I apply a power monitor to the power input cable to study the systems absolutely kWh consumption vs time, call a P3 Power Meter for Power Outlets. 

New graphics cards like a 4060, 4070, 4080, 4090, or 5000 series, sell for thousands of dollars each
This is part of the reason I went with $170 GTX 3050, a low end unit 2 generations behind.

32Gb of DDR4 3200 cost $233, expensive, compared to the recent past, more expensive than any other component of this PC build, almost 30% of the total build. RAM prices are way up do to demand for ai training. 

Taking into account total build cost aim of $800

IRL real costs of $800.48

$50 PSU 80+ Gold, $47.99 lighting discount, Originally $59.99, saving $12

$37 Case, valuedprice, Cam with 3X 120mm FRGB fans Pre-installed

$233 RAM, 4x8gb DDR4 32000MHz PC4-25600 w/ Heatsink, 1.35V CL 16 288-Pin, expensive

$180 GPU GTX 3050 ASUS Dual Fan, saving $60 coupon clipped

$80 MB, MSI B550 Pro w/ Wifi 6, originally $120, saving $40

$86 CPU, AMD Ryzen 5, 5500, 6 core, 12 thread, originally $120, saving $36

$70 Monitor, very reasonable given specs, value priced, fair price 

$10 Full RGB Gaming Keyboard originally $15.97, saving $5

$18 Thermalrlght Assassin X 120R SE V2 CPU Air Cooler

Sale prices on some of parts saved $153 

ASUS Dual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB GDDR6 OC Edition Gaming Graphics Card - PCIe 4.0, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a, 2-Slot Design, Axial-tech Fan Design, Steel Bracket for $179

Dynamic thermal performance with Advanced cooling dual Axial-tech fans for maximizing airflow to the heatsink, in a 20 cm long, 2-slot card. NVIDIA Ampere SM brings 2X FP32 throughput + improved power efficiency. 2nd Generation RT Cores: 2X throughput of 1st gen, plus concurrent RT & shading for improved ray-tracing performance

3rd Generation Tensor Cores 2X throughput with structural sparsity in advanced AI algorithms, e.g. DLSS. Massive boost in game performance, all-new AI capabilities. 

Axial-tech fan design features a smaller fan hub that facilitates longer blades and a barrier ring that increases downward air pressure, combined with GPU thermal heatsink & 2-slot design maximizes cooling efficiency in small chassis.

Amazon AI summarizes customer impressions

Customers say, 83% 5 star reviews

Customers find the graphics card performs well with AAA games and handles 1080p gaming smoothly, while being easy to install and quiet even under heavy load. Moreover, the card offers good value for money with impressive visuals at the price point, and customers appreciate its compatibility, with one mentioning it works well with Dell XPS 8930 Desktop. Additionally, the power consumption receives positive feedback, with one customer noting it draws only about 150W.

Gaming PC Build, Meta Quest 3S, iPhone 17, 2026 Tech Update

Dark sinister reality of electronics, E-waste, mixing elements and materials, old electronics are some of the most toxic kind of waste, but ironically they contain gold, high purity silicon, copper, aluminum, tin, platinum, nickel, then why would we throw waste with high concentrations of valuable elements into e-waste streams, globally, exporting harm, from the west where computers go out of style quickly, noting that my latest desktop build for $666.25 in stupid 2026 USD super cheap and the least expensive when adjusted for inflation of any computer I have ever owned.

The new gaming desktop will run a distro of Linux as its OS, since I am over using Windows 10/11 and look forward to having a desktop that can be rebuilt and updated with time, instead of a soldered together fixed MacBook Pro, that just become out of date, obsolete, but at least Apple lets you trade them in at the Store for money towards your new models, not that such would ever happen with an aging gaming pc, lol. 

Big data explosion, video streaming, uploading from smartphones, image data, online, social media, e-commerce, fintech, blockchain, crypto, ai training web scraping, bot crawlers, world wide web, internet, mainframe, workstation, desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, smartwatch, fitness tracking, sleep tracking, heart rate, breathing, sleep tracking, health data, insurance, grocery, nutrition, farming, food, agriculture, beverages, packaged foods, industrial ultra processed foods.

Spices, greens, leafy, natural, organic, no artificial ingredients, no dye, no hormones, food scams, counterfeit olive oil, fake honey made of flavored high fructose corn syrup, healthcare debacles, dehydration, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, America, industrial inflation nuclear bomb testing isotope exposure heavy metals and radioactive, depleted uranium bullets fired out of electro-hydraulic autocannon, land minds blowing off legs of children in Cambodia

Meanwhile I am playing CS2 on Steam on my gaming desktop build or older gaming laptop, stop for nothing, pee break, more water, brain and kidneys, what color is the urine, look the other way, pay your taxes, don't ask questions, neck protection, what are you looking at, look at that, would you just look at it.

Mid 26 Gaming PC Build $800.48 B550, Ryzen 5500, 32Gb DDR4 3200, GTX 3060, 650W PSU 80+ Gold, Cubix-G Zalmanm, Thermalrlght Assassin X 120R SE V2 CPU Air Cooler

Mid 2026 Gaming PC Build

Zalman CUBIX-G case • $800.48 all-in

Clean, modern, high-value 1080p gaming rig with RGB and great upgradability

Components

Zalman CUBIX-G Micro-ATX Case

MATX Case with 3×120mm FRGB Fans Pre-Installed, Panoramic Tempered Glass, USB Type-C, Fits up to 280mm GPUs, Black

MSI PRO B550M-VC WiFi Motherboard

AMD Ryzen 5000 Series, AM4, DDR4, PCIe 4.0, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, mATX

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

6-Core, 12-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler

ASUS Dual RTX 3050 6GB OC

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB GDDR6 OC Edition • PCIe 4.0 • 2-Slot • Axial-tech Fans • 3-Year Warranty

PUSKILL 32GB (4×8GB) DDR4 RAM

3200MHz PC4-25600 • Aluminum Heatsink • CL16 • 1.35V • Non-ECC • For Intel & AMD

Sceptre 22-Inch Gaming Monitor/h3>

80+ Gold Certified • ATX 3.0 & 3.1 Compatible • Non-Modular • Low-Noise • 5-Year Warranty

GEODMAER 104 Keys Gaming Keyboard

FHD 1080p • 144Hz • HDMI + DisplayPort • Built-in Speakers • Machine Black (2026 Model)

GEODMAER 104 Keys Gaming Keyboard

Full Size • LED Backlit • Wired • Multimedia Keys • Anti-Ghosting • Spill-Resistant Membrane

Total Cost: $782.47 • Ready for 1080p 144Hz Gaming

Cleaned & optimized HTML • Modern responsive design • No bloated tables or inline spans • Fast loading • Mobile-friendly

Meta Quest 2 VR, the Most Interesting Computer I Own, Meta Quest 3S Next Move into VR & Steam F17 Gaming Laptop VR action

Years ago, I mounted a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 into a Google Cardboard, producing a limited early example of a VR, later got a more polished plastic headset to hold a Galaxy Note 3 that Alicia gave me, that still works, and this was more polished as a VR kit, but still very early. 

Some friends and coworkers went the way of building gaming desktops to high end VR headset systems, but that did not appeal to me, I wanted the standalone wearable kind, but something dope.

I was on Amazon one night researching workouts on Wikipedia and stumbled upon VR Kickboxing via Beat Saber and Les Mills Body Combat, then looked up how to do it, Goggle AI summarized that a Meta Quest 2 VR system would match my need for exertainment.

 

Meta Quest 2 — Advanced All-In-One Virtual Reality Headset — 128 GB $298 paid

Via Microsoft Copilot, on the Computation architecture of Meta Quest 2

Meta Quest 2 powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2, a system on a chip (SOC) designed for VR and augmented reality devices. SOC derivative of the Snapdragon 865, optimized for low-latency sensor fusion, crucial for the headset's performance in virtual reality applications. 

Quest 2's architecture includes Visual Processing Unit (VPU) that handles processing of passthrough video, ensuring a motion-to-photon latency of below 20 milliseconds to prevent motion sickness. 

A depth Sensor projects a mesh of infrared light onto the room, allowing for creation of a 3D 'Environmental Mesh' essential for 'Occlusion', ability for a virtual character to hide behind a real-world object. 

Quest 2's architecture is designed to deliver a high-resolution display with a refresh rate of 120 Hz, providing an immersive and smooth VR experience. 

Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 5G Platform is the world’s first XR platform to integrate 5G and AI for next‑generation virtual and augmented reality experiences Qualcomm.

7 concurrent cameras for precise motion tracking, gesture recognition, and 360° spherical video capture Qualcomm.

Mixed reality (MR) capability with 3D video pass‑through, allowing VR and AR to coexist in one device while maintaining situational awareness Qualcomm.

AI integration for personalized, predictive experiences with optimized power efficiency Qualcomm.

5G connectivity for ultra‑low latency, instant content loading, and global multiplayer interactions Qualcomm.

8K 360° video support for highly immersive, high‑fidelity visuals Qualcomm.

Rich 3D audio for spatial sound in all directions Qualcomm.

Technical Specs (Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2) hmc-tech.com+1

CPU: 6‑core (1× Cortex‑A78 P, 2× Cortex‑A715 M, 3× Cortex‑A55 E)

Base: 1.38 GHz, Turbo: 2.36 GHz

Cache: L1/L2/L3 totaling ~3 MB

TDP: 5–9 W

GPU: Adreno 740, 1536 shaders, FP16 peak 4.18 TFLOPS

Memory: LPDDR5X, up to 24 GB ECC, 64‑bit bus, 8400 MT/s

AI Engine: Qualcomm Hexagon NPU for on‑device AI tasks

Connectivity: 5G, Wi‑Fi 6/6E, Bluetooth 5.3/5.2, USB‑C 3.1 Gen 2

Video: Up to 3K×3K per eye, 90 fps; 8K 360° video support Qualcomm+1.

Use Cases

VR headsets (e.g., Meta Quest 3S) for immersive gaming and simulations.

Smart glasses for AR work, navigation, and interactive media.

Enterprise XR for training, remote collaboration, and mixed reality applications.

Content creation for 360° and 8K immersive media.

Why It Matters

The Snapdragon XR2 unifies high‑resolution visuals, low‑latency 5G, AI‑driven personalization, and mixed reality into a single platform, enabling unrivaled immersion and real‑time interactivity across VR, AR, and MR devices 

Tuning Quest 2 for VR Kickboxing

I got an upgraded head strap battery $80, the Quest 2 VR $300, silicon face interface $15, charged it up, put LR6 or AA batteries into each remote, spent an hour or so integrating my old disused Facebook account, to activate it, purchased Les Mills Body Combat app $40, then started doing VR kickboxing. 

I added creatine into added protein shakes to account for all the extra exertion, and despite keeping the same 32 in pant size, I was able to gain about 20 lbs of body weight as mostly muscle and bon. Today I have completed 214 VR kickboxing sessions, yet the right remote for Quest 2 vibrator motor cutting in an out, replacing the remote costs over $100, so I am almost ready to start over with a Quest 3 system and keep going.

If I attached a Bluetooth keyboard to Quest 2, I  could write blog posting on the Quest 2, and regularly watch big screen YouTube videos on it while laying down in bed resting, awake, but sore from VR kickboxing, after showering off & cleaning up of course, since those VR workouts make me very hot and sweaty, I get runners high, fantastic.

****Update 5/30/2026 MQ3S (meta quest 3) testing ongoing, faster, sharper, better imaging, better performance, better image passthrough, better tracking, better remotes, when doing my 215th VR Kickboxing in Les Mills Body Combat, some new DLC 20 min round, got 211 points, but it beat me up, I was no where near first place, it was a fast paced one where I could barely move my arms fast enough, but zero stutter, it was shaper looking with more detail, new visual of the gloves, workout locations, everything about it was crispier and nicer visually while the hand and body tracking was also more precise. Overall, the battery seems to be holding up better also, in terms of drain, since first charging it, holds a charge much better than the 2+ year old MQ2 (meta quest 2) 

Meta Quest 3S 128GB | VR Headset
33% More Memory — 2X Graphical Performance
$411 for Q3S, Silicon Face Gasket & Comfort Head Strap
I decided after reviewing, that it was a worthy upgrade
Quest 2 gave me 214 VR Kickboxing Sessions
Numerous hours of YouTube Big Screen
Quest 2 still works, just adding a new VR 

Snapdragon a smartphone SOC, let us dive into which one used in the Quest 3S

Microsoft Copilot produce the next Section about the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 MR VR SOC

Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 Processor Overview

The Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 is a purpose‑built platform for next‑generation mixed reality (MR) and virtual reality (VR) devices, designed for high‑fidelity visuals, immersive interactions, and efficient power use Qualcomm.

Core Architecture & Performance

CPU: 6‑core ARMv8.2‑A (AArch64) design with 1× Cortex‑A78 P‑core, 2× Cortex‑A715 M‑cores, and 3× Cortex‑A55 E‑cores 

Cores/Threads: 6 cores, 6 threads (1P+2M+3E) 

Clock Speeds: Base ~2.05 GHz, turbo up to ~2.36 GHz (some sources list 2.4 GHz) hmc-tech.com+1.

Cache: L1/L2/L3 totaling ~12 MB; LPDDR5X memory support up to 24 GB

TDP: ~5–9 W, optimized for low power in headsets hmc-tech.com+1.

Integrated GPU: Qualcomm Adreno 740 with 1,536 shaders

Performance: ~4.18 TFLOPS FP16, 3,100 GFLOPS FP32 

Resolution Support: Up to 3K×3K displays Qualcomm.

Features: Dynamic foveated rendering, space warp, game super resolution, and ultra‑fast 12 ms video see‑through latency 

AI & Processing

AI Engine: 8× more performant than Gen 1, supporting 10 concurrent cameras and dedicated XR acceleration blocks 

AI Capabilities: Hand, head, controller, facial expression, depth estimation, and 3D reconstruction for natural interactions

Connectivity

Wi‑Fi: Wi‑Fi 7 and Wi‑Fi 6E for ultra‑fast throughput and low latency 

Bluetooth: 5.3 and 5.2 

USB: USB Type‑C 3.1 Gen 2

5G: Full sub‑6 GHz and mmWave support for lag‑free streaming

Visual Fidelity: Higher resolution, smoother frame rates, and reduced jitter for immersive XR Qualcomm.

Efficiency: Low TDP for thinner, more comfortable headsets Qualcomm.

AI‑Driven Interactions: Real‑time object detection, voice recognition, and multi‑camera tracking Qualcomm+1.

Connectivity: Fast, low‑latency wireless for seamless multiplayer and streaming Qualcomm+1.

The Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 powers devices like the Meta Quest 3 and other Android XR headsets, enabling high‑quality VR/AR experiences with advanced AI and graphics 

In short, the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 is a premium, power‑efficient XR platform that balances high‑performance CPU/GPU, advanced AI, and next‑gen connectivity to deliver smooth, immersive mixed and virtual reality experiences.

Compute Per Dollar, Flop per Cost, FPS on AAA per reliable dollar in desktop or gaming laptop, Can Apple M5 Pro compete against GTX 5050 and Intel I7 or AMD Ryzen

 Writing a blog post on my Asus F17 gaming laptop like driving a 3 mpg dump truck to the grocery store, except I was just playing 2 rounds of CS-2 on Steam a few minutes ago, so I need that performance for smooth gameplay, while Pandora was streaming beautiful music, I was playing practice against NPC's like normal, since I am old, I cannot keep up with teens in the community maps, but I can smoke the robotic players, they are kind of funny, in practice mode on CS2. Counter Strike, Half Life before that, its an iconoclastic PC game. This gaming desktop from 2020 blows the doors off a high-performance desktop I built in 2014. With a 150W adapter, these are laptop chips, based on i5 and RTX 1650, so discrete graphics GPU by NVIDIA and CPU by Intel, with a dope dual copper heat pipe dual fan, heat exchanger hot air out the back cooling system. 

I have an iPhone 17 that I just replaced the 9H screen glass privacy protector on, the prior one had 3 major cracks and 11 minor cracks, that happened when I was doing a DIY construction project at home.

I have a M2 MacBook pro laptop also, that pairs nicely with the iPhone.

I have a 2014 Acer Notebook computer that was $650 from Costco, and it still works, based on HDD, it takes a min to get going, not snappy, but can watch a YouTube movie, stream music, write blog postings, no need for a big heavy powerful gaming laptop, which as of 2026 are desktop replacements, they have incredible performance with the latest M2 SSD's, fast RAM SO-DIMM, efficiency optimized chipsets use less power to pump gaming FPS fast enough for causal episodic gamers like me. Portal 2 my all time most favorite game, other than Counter Strike, which I have played on every game console and every computer I have ever built or owned, even the MacBook Pro M2, the last Intel iMac, another of my computers that still works. Even my iPad 2 still works, all these years later, can your believe it, with the original battery too, incredible. 

I was configuring a desktop build on Amazon earlier and got to over $1200 for the PSU, MB, CPU, CPU cooler, GPU, AM5, AMD 9000 CPU, DDR5 52000 2X8GB RAM, adding a monitor, keyboard & mouse and desk for it, over $1500, so stalled, not now, prices for PC parts seem a little high, especially RAM prices, vs just a few years ago, that same desktop build would have been $800 or so. Will I build a gaming desktop, I am not sure. I have a higher priority expensive Paramotor Wing to acquire as my next big ticket item, and not sure which one to go with yet. 

I have refurbished Apple Watched Series 8, the original one I bought new failed, it would turn on an work on the inductive charger, but as soon as removed, it would turn off, so the battery seems like it died, so I took it to the Apple Store in Bellevue Square Mall, and they sent it off for refurbishing and then I got a call about 10 days later and in bland cardboard box I found what looked like a brand new Series 8 in dark blue, just like my original but not all scratched up, for $130 they game me a like new refurbished unit, since the battery replacement repair did not work. Apple has superior customer service, privacy, and the hardware Apple sells really long lasting, as noted with the iPad 2 that still works. 

How much computer do you need at home. I have 3 laptops, a iMac & Linux desktop in storage, smart watch, smartphone, tablet that still works, I have way too many machines, but like it like that, Windows, Mac, and Linux, something for any occasion, the M2 MacBook probably the most power efficient with performance, the iPhone 17 has A19 processor that runs on a tiny battery all day so its even more power efficient, but without the giant battery of the MacBook or ability to run on grid power the same way. My wife's MacBook Air has MagSafe charging, while my MacBook Pro M2 only has dual USB-C for power input output and data input output, that broke, I had to pay the Apple store about $80 to change that part, the USB-C stopped working, oddly. 

QR Code Explosion, Printed onto Aluminum Beverage Cans Now

Even beverage cans now contain QR codes, that contain a link to sweepstakes for merch, hype generation, brand promotion, to improve engagement with customers.

In the following images an expired promotion QR code link can be seen printed on the textured outer printing of the REIGN energy drink can 300mg caffeine, B3, B6, B12, Potassium only 10 calories, fun flavor options.

Context of Barcodes & QR codes

2D barcodes contain vastly more data than 1D laser line barcodes, epitomized for retail purchase item laser scanners that started with HeNe gas lasers into a galvanic scanning mirror that projected linear laser pattern at the 1D barcode, then CCD imager analog to digital compute sensor system object recognition able to read the line array barcode image and convert it in near real time to an inventory tracking code, which provides the retailer with numerous tools to improve inventory management by being able to track how many of which items are selling on what day and time of day, allowing for more accurate sales forecasting or informing what to order on the next shipment of items, more of what sells best, and less of what sells slower, essential for thin supply chain, to minimize inventory value loss of items that sit on shelves without moving as sunk cost depreciation, to improve profitability. 

QR code's Online Big Data

Do to the information explosion, big data, web, internet, QR codes or 2D barcodes enable links to websites if a person opens the camera app on their smartphone and points the phone camera at the printed QR code, there inside the camera app a link will appear to the website, if you click that link, it will open your phones web browser app and automatically enter the linked website, the URL code encoded in the QR code enables automatic redirections from the phones initial photo app scan, link click to browser launch to the website link encored in QR code. Real life printed QR codes generate more website traffic.  

Legacy Barcodes

While barcodes to phone camera web links are also possible with standard 1D line array barcodes, typical barcode contain so much less data, they are not practical for web links. Longer length barcodes can serve up enough data for a web link, but there are practical limits for printing and size of 1D barcodes, UPC item codes, by going 2D in a QR code that's hundreds of times more data in a smaller area, that is much easier to scan with your phones camera.

Eggs Choline, Acetyl Choline the Neurotransmitter, Amino Acids, Protein, Membranes of the Body

Mounting evidence that a diet higher in proteins, from plants or animals or any combination, healthy fats from butter, EVOO, nuts, seeds, and carbs from fresh fruits, berries, fiber from root vegetables & greens, along with micronutrients, superior nutrition, vitamins, a balanced diet of home cooked meals made of real foods, not ultra processed industrial foods associated with 32 disease pathologies according to the World Health Organization and US National Institute of Health, along with numerous other studies, research, scientific evidence, where obesity, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and many other disease are amenable to treatment with dietary improvements, calorie restriction, annual multi day fasting for autophagy, and getting enough activity or fitness exercises to stay healthy lifelong. 

Healthy lifestyle has nothing to do with living longer. Making choices to be healthy in a well rounded sense has everything to do with staying fit and healthy and happy while you are alive, while also reducing healthcare costs, to you, your insurance, the state, the government or whoever is paying, be that private or public, as healthcare costs tend to be higher for older people, but can be substantially reduced in populations that eat healthy, stay physically and mentally healthy, and have strong social connections.

Sadly, usually one or more of these conditions absent, missing or incomplete for many people, be that social health, sleep health, dietary health, fitness healthy, physical health, or any combination. 

How can eating eggs improve your health. Eggs are natures perfect food. Egg farming does not kill the chickens for food either, so eggs are often part of vegetarian diets. Albert Hoffman, the inventor of LSD the psychedelic substance, was bright and giving talks at symposiums until age 102 which he attributed to eating many raw eggs daily as part of his Swiss diet. Not to suggest that eating raw eggs is healthy, as this posed health risks of food poisoning. But eating a gentle poached egg where the yolk not fully cooked sold, but instead remains runny, that also means much of the Choline and other healthy substances damaged by excess heating of the yolk remains bioavailable in the runny yolk, while the cooked whites of the egg are a great source of protein, or amino acids. 

Studies show that eating pasture raised eggs associated with higher dietary choline intake, which improve brain synthesis of acetylcholine, which improve learning and memory, noting that small children have 500% higher brain levels of acetylcholine than adults, making it nearly effortless for them to learn, retain and rapidly recall facts about anything they encounter! 

Case in point, Americans are one the sickest people with the highest healthcare costs and the highest per capital prevalence of preventable illness. Not to suggest that isotopes from nuclear testing, lead exposure from bullets and wheel weights that fling off, or PFAS / PFOS, microplastics, toxic personal care and cosmetic chemicals, plastic in dryer sheets, lawn are garden chemicals, pest control chemicals, smog exposure in traffic, or any other source of toxic substance.

Those are obviously not helpful to public health, and probably at least each or in combination make people sick with diseases, even if they are physically fit and eat clean or 100% organic home cooked meals. This speaks to the unintentional consequences of dismissing industrial development, DID, where the harms of doing human activity are overlooked for the sake of maximizing profit about every other issue possible to consider, many of which are just as or more important that turning a profit or making money as the only issue considered. 

Disclosure, I am now participating in a 15 chicken egg home farming setup in a very rural small town, via a recent relocation to move in with family, so I have a bias to support and endorse eating eggs as the perfect food, and myself and my family all eat eggs, almost daily, and lots of them :) 

30-80% charge makes lithium ion batteries last 5X longer

Charge your phone when you wake up, on the counter or table, for 10, 15, or 20 minutes

Install an outlet timer in your bedroom power outlet, into which your plug your phone power adapter charging cable, that comes on for 20 minutes at 2am, so you can plug your phone in an go to sleep, then it will charge for 20 minutes, turn off and be partially charged when you wake up.

Charge in your car on the way to work, or on the way home

Do not charge all night long, that risks a battery fire, a LIB that will cook your phone, total loss of value, and if your stand or where its placed flammable, it could set fire to your home while your sleeping. 

100% charging damages your electronics batteries faster

Draining to below 1% damages LIB faster

Very high temperatures cause a rapid loss of capacity

If we look at battery experts, they say most commercial lithium ion batteries or LIB are a box of compromises, noting that NCA offers the highest initial capacity, but as the Boeing Dreamliner and Samsung Galaxy S7 proved, even a tiny error in LIB manufacturing can become battery fires, blue smoke containing cobalt that are toxic to inhale, so called shorted LIB "venting with flame" when they fail, often puffing up prior to failure, as many RC hobbies are well away of with so called lithium polymer RC batteries, which has a characteristic puffing end of life before catastrophic thermal runaway internal shorting failure, if dendrites that form inside the battery perforate the electrode separator, a synthetic polymer membrane that allows ions of lithium to travel through it while keeping the different electrolyte on the anode and cathode side separated. 

Yet LiTi lithium titanate and LFP or lithium iron phosphate, are far longer lasting, even if they have lower initial capacity than NCA nickel cobalt aluminum cathodes, often combined with a graphic or carbon anode. Noting that LIB fires are particularly difficult to extinguish, forcing many Boeing Dreamliners to rapidly land, and many Galaxy S7 left on the charger all night soft shorting until they burned up, costing Samsung nearly $19 billion dollars of recall costs, a major record breaking blunder in smartphone business, though because Samsung so intertwined with the government of South Korea, they were able to pivot, absorb the losses, and continue selling high value added electronics of every kind. Boeing likewise made a good recovery from the initial Dreamliner battery problems. My wife and I have flown on ANA Boeing Dreamliners repeatedly, and they are pleasure to ride on a passenger, the pilots said they are dream to fly also, since I always make a habit of talking with the pilot, copilot, navigator or airline workers, from who I have great respect.  

Why humans so different than all the other mammals or animals on earth, ecosystems in our guts, on our skin, in our hair, the human microbiome made of nature

Humans are the only species on earth that wages wars against itself, which many find deeply confusing because most people are unwilling to hurt other people, yet war mongering wealthy people in America encourage the US government to behave like the "World Police" so much so that this concept made fun of in content, America The World Police Movie, noting that of the debt spending of the US government, up to 90% of it spent on The Pentagon, Armed Services, so bad the US Government has become the largest single employer in the United States of America. 

I advocate personally for a small smarter government, lowering taxes, libertarian conservative ideology of helping families, helping the public, helping regular people, helping nature and wildlife and ecosystems by encouraging businesses to upgrade with emissions controls, of which there are more than 20 cost effective feasible technologies applicable to the overwhelming majority of polluting industries, factories, buildings, governments, manufacturing, from ion bead capturing heavy metals, to selective catalyst reduction of combustion emissions at power plants, even home owners installing drip irrigation to water their garden. 

From computer chips to electronics to space satellites or satellite based internet, humans are radically divergent from animals in nature, yet all people burp, fart, pee, poop, eat, drink, we also have a lot in common with animals, yet our gut microbiome has a lot in common with wetlands and forests or ecosystems, for there exist a broad range of organism living in our gut, responsible for our immune system function and digestion, without which a person would die much younger and have many more health problems along the way to dying early. 

Politics Inappropriate Topic in Many Workplaces, Considers Rude to Discuss, Polarized Views about how to define "Better"

Culture varies considerably depending on where you are in the world. In some Islamic Republics for example, under Sharia Law, it's legal and normal for older adult males to marry very young females age 5 or 6, or 9, minors, acts consider illegal pedophilia in western countries. This and other differences between "The East, and The West" give rise to what is called social friction, ideological differences that become political and on social media discourse in postings with differing viewpoints. Many people find political topics frustrating, annoying or upsetting as they are capable of causing stressful arguments. 

GAZA Run By Terrorists

I think its extremely illogical for GLBTQ+ people in America to support GAZA run by Islamic terrorist groups who regularly murder gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer people, because under Sharia law being anything other than heterosexual consider apostasy against Allah, and punishable by execution in the street by police who shoot GLBTQ+ people in the head, or organize to have them stoned to death or similarly have them dropped from tall buildings into the street. I am considered a conservative libertarian by American geopolitical standards, because I believe that Family is the most important issue just behind faith in God. 

Electricity from Alternatives Essential 

Clean energy, emissions controls to reduce toxic emissions, smart grids, N+1 distribution systems for electrical power, fission power, solar & wind power, new nuclear fusion power plants, a mix of biofuels, renewable fuels, e-fuels, we can energize and empower all societies with alternative cleaner safer energy solutions, even coal power emissions can be sorted out with bubbling through fluids, bag filtering particulate, ion bead filter water slurry formed by spraying water into the coal power emissions to remove heavy metals, isotopes and other toxic substances that stick to the water droplets or dissolve, like NOx or SOx, oxides of nitrogen or sulfur, arsenic, lead, mercury, coal power the dirties way of making heat or electricity, but as a fuel coal cheaper than any other fuel, and the low cost of coal as a fuel also why coal power plants are so common for the last 300 years. 

Water H20, Fresh, Salt, Water Pollution, Ultra Purified for Chip Fabs, Water Cycle of Earth, Clouds, Rain, Storms, Flooding

Water a big topic, from the good, the bad & the ugly of boiling water for cooking, coffee or tea, to the immense economic value of extremely highly purified ultra pure water for chip fabs of TSMC or Intel, that make CPU, GPU, SOC, ASIC, LED, CMOS, IC's, Integrated Circuit Computer Chips.

Water in Terms of Human Health

Water for hydration, the brain, kidneys, skin, liver, every cell in the body contains water with an isotonic amount of sodium chloride ions to keep the osmotic pressure balance correct so the cells do not shrivel up or burst. Yet not getting enough water daily can cause dehydration, while drinking too much water can cause fatal electrolyte depletion.

Water Balances Earths Atmospheric Temperatures

Earth water cycle balances temperatures by absorbing energy from incoming solar radiation energy from the Sun, a gravity confined fusion reactor star that through fusion processes, combines 600 million tons of hydrogen even second making helium 3/4 nuclei. 

Earths Water Cycles Solar Powered

Rain forms when the sun evaporates water, wind forms from asymmetrical solar heating of landscapes, the clouds resulting from evaporating water, and thus blown over land, where changing pressures and temperatures results in dew point, where nucleation causes trillions of tiny droplets in clouds to accrete, forming larger droplets, which become rain droplets, or if its cold enough hail, or under other conditions snow or snowflakes. 

Water at Chip Fabs

Not all lithography or chip fab processes use water, yet in term of the majority of chip making activities, ultra purified water required for rinsing stages, or for a kind of immersion lithography where a water lens allows the aperture of the laser beam to more precisely draw patterns in photosensitive polymer automation spin coated onto the cut silicon wafers, themself made from enormous heavy silicon boules made in special argon purged induction furnaces, from ultra pure silicon, that goes though more than 256 stages of processing as 15 inch wafers at high volume chip fabs. Most chip fabs use an enormous amount of water and electricity, though many newer chip fabs have on sight water reprocessing closed loop ultra purity water creation systems that slash water consumption and water pollution by 99% at great cost in terms of expense of setting up these water saving systems. B

Closed Loop Water Reclamation Important 

Because closed loop water processing of Chip Fab reduce water demand and water pollution simultaneously, they are of increasing importance as more chip fabs go online, as in are under construction to increase the number of chips made for the global ai development cyber war and other applications in increasing popular consumer electronics, vehicles, routers, modems, gateways, servers, crypto mining, e-commerce, fintech. 

IC CMOS Computer Chips are Valuable 

These compute chips are of extreme value to a broad range of industries from education to healthcare to gaming and government but also at home in our so called Information Furniture, a mix of high speed internet with WiFi connected to any of many devices, known as COTS or consumer off the shelf electronics, smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, smart watches, smart fridges, and upcoming smart shoes and smart clothing. 

Water a Polar Solvent in Chemistry

To make prescription or illegal drugs, to cook, to clean, to rinse, to shower, water is a polar solvent with a higher boiling point that its molecule compared to other solvents would suggest, due to hydrogen bonding. In effect, water is a bent molecule because the two hydrogens are positive, while the unpaired electrons of the oxygen are negative, forming a magnets with a plus and minus, such that all the water molecules stick together like a bunch of tiny magnets, known as Hydrogen Bonding in Chemistry. 

Why Ice Floats on Liquid Water

Ice floats on liquid water because it forms tetragonal crystals that are less dense, so ice expands about 10% when the water freeze becoming ice. Water also changes density as its temperature changes, notable at power plants where heating water to make steam for turbine engines connected to generators to make grid power of critical importance for nearly all economic activity globally. 

Cooking At Home, With Real Food Ingredients

Peppers, Tomatoes, Carrots, Potatoes, Celery, Garlic, Olive Oil, Paprika, Chicken Broth, Lentils, Salt, Soup, making this in Dutch Oven, on the stove, simmering for 45 minutes, there is a YouTube video to this effect, teaching you how to make authentic Lentil soup at home, its not hard, just load on your phone, tablet, laptop, follow along, write down the recipe, type it up, save in your Recipe Book, now you can easily tune or optimize or change it, make a grocery list for the ingredients, the Mediterranean Diet proven to improve health with its higher fiber content, more natural vitamins and minerals, real food ingredients, lack of industrial ultra processed foods or added sugar or chemical additives. 

Even Busy Families Can Eat Healthier

Busy Americans, Mom & Dad both working full time, kids, seems like there is no time for home cooked meals, but the kids and dad & mom can all collaborate with grandpa and grandma to make it happen. Over time this improve the health of everyone in the house, healthier and happier, this kind of food tastes better and good for your body, mind, soul and spirit, and improving the diet of a house improves kids scores at school, improves productivity at work, and it reduces healthcare expenses for older people, who suffer less pain as a result of eating real foods. 

Healthy Change for Society 

Home cooked meals pair excellently with Regenerative Agricultural Practices on farms that rebuild soils. Drip irrigation systems that reduce water use. Smart practices with gardening that reduce costs and improve outputs or yields, so your get more greens and root veggies and things to cook at home with from your garden :) 

How do Cook at Home with Very Little Time

Get some plastic, glass or metal food containers, your going to cook on your weekend, enough, a large batch, to make 10 containers worth, 5 for the fridge, 5 for the freezer, over the month you will create 4 different recipes with alternatives, to keep it interesting, tasty, and nutritious without being monotonous. 

Food Storage Containers

Cook Large Batches

Eat some, fridge more, freeze more, some for now, some for later, labor saver

This is how you make home cooked meals on your time off, to eat when you are busy, take one of those containers out of the fridge, heat it up, mix up a salad to eat with it, some rice, bread, fresh fruit or berries, the idea is that you get a mix of protein, fats & carbs, from real whole natural organic foods.