I mean what, am I supposed to be 'preemptively mad' because they might become worse one day?
Like I don't understand why I'm supposed to be mad, it's a service that's useful and good, maybe it won't be one day but what am I going to do about that?
It has a huge impact for me, most notably unreal engine because of how poorly most games made with it run, and it visually looking very soft or blurry in some games. So it's something I check before looking at buying a game.
I would look at benchmarks for the game you want to run that are done at 4k. Then divide the FPS by 2 for dual monitors or 4 for 4x monitors. Probably minus a bit more because scaling up isn't perfect.
However that's assuming you don't run out of vram, if that happens performance will drop a lot. Same with CPU, if the threads the game runs on are maxed out performance will drop.
If you have a need for high levels of privacy it's the only way to do it, or just leave your phone at home.
It doesn't really defeat the purpose of having a mobile phone either IMO, most stuff I do on my phone is already offline (maps, notes, taking photos, etc).
Yet another one of these systems, they pop up every year or so. They're always less effecient than a chain, and rather pointless as pedaling normally on an ebike works better anyways.
Yeah a voltage regulator would be a bad idea, however a well designed DC-DC buck converter can be in the 95%+ efficiency range and produce very little heat.
Ah I see, so it wasn't about the downloads but that he had to tap a button.
It's a much better system with manual downloads anyways, since you know you have all the maps for a region available offline, vs with most mapping apps you have no idea and could just end up with no maps loaded.
I mean it is pretty rough if you're used to playing at higher FPS, it's quite a difference.