Well, you may still not trust them, but there's something to consider: law.

One thing is to delete an account that has nothing but free games, sorry, licenses that meant no money exchange between Ubi and the user, but another thing is to do the same when money is involved. Things get a lot more complicated.

Remember how Ubisoft decided to shot down some servers and decided to not only remove some games from sale, but also make them unplayable? Wjem was it, earlier this year or last year? I remember because Anno 2070 was involved and I have that game. Well, it turn out that Ubisoft killed those servers and removed the games from sale, but they found out a way to make them still playable for its owners. Why? Because they realized that, if they didn't find that fix, they could get into serious legal trouble.

New rumors point to Intel radically changing their CPUs starting with Arrow lake:

https://www.hardwaretimes.com/intel-15th-gen-arrow-lake-cpu-with-40-cores-in-2025-40-faster-than-meteor-lake-no-hyper-threading-rumor/

Apparently, Intel will ditch Hyperthreading completely in favor of lots of cores, 40 of them in this case. This would be probably be the start of the "Royal Core" architecture, basically a successor to the current Core architecture, which could possibly be what Jim Keller was doing at Intel lately. The timing would fit since Jim left Intel prematurely due to differences with it's leadership over their foundry prospects.

Given the source of this rumor, MLiD, we should take it with a grain (or more) or salt, even if his Navi 3X leak turned out to be true.

In any case, Intel would need to make giant leaps in the efficiency of those CPUs to make them a good option. 8P +32E cores may use a ridiculous amount of power.

Lol getting rid of hyperthreading sounds like the typical MLID retardism. Hence why I skip articles that sites him. Remember he said DLSS 3 would be driver based, Lovelace would be delayed to 2023, Zen 4 would have crazy IPC, etc.

Yeah, I was one of those Anno owners for the old version. Not sure if I can still play it though, since it'll require me to download Ubi's latest client remodel, and I ain't down for doing that (especially after I had to deal with EA's new crappier client, I want Origin back). 

"Intel can no longer get hyperthreading to work with their P-cores" sounds like your typical MLID insanity.

Intel might have shortened it's pipelines, which makes Hyperthreading more difficult and pointless to implement.

The idea of Hyper-threading was to spool up a thread and insert some processing into certain pipeline stages that were idle to increase performance via ILP and reduce parts of the CPU burning energy and not doing anything.

Sure (if it were a brand-new architecture, which Intel would have announced already), but MLID has been peddling some variation of these same rumors for two years now, and in the past, he used to claim Intel would actually adopt 4-way SMT with Royal Core... talk about getting the fundamentals wrong.

To be fair, I don't think he outright makes up stuff, but his sources are just Chinese Twitter users who might get some low-level industrial information that it's usually outdated or incomplete on top of things getting lost in translation.

Others in this area sometimes use the same kind of source, yes-but usually to greater levels of success.

I've about fucking had it with my router. Keeps dropping connection. Any recommendations? I don't need a bunch of fancy features; just rock solid uptime and speeds for several connected devices.

My last router which was Asus RT-AC86U was pretty great. Never lost a connection after the initial few weeks of updating the firmware and didn't need to reboot for years. But it's only wifi 5 so pretty "dated" these days. My current one is the ASUS RT-AXE7800 which goes on sale often enough and has Wifi 6E capabilities but there are also some interesting quirks of wifi 6e and some fine print material in general with a lot of these modern routers. I'll likely have a review of it sometime this week after my experience with it. But both are pretty great routers.