This week’s Tech Chat is a proper “come say hi” stream: a mix of Q&A, tech support, and me going off on whatever I’ve been tinkering with (which is… a lot). I’m knee-deep in a new sim rig build, and I’ve also just bought myself a new toy—sorry, tool—a Bambu Lab P1S 3D printer. I’m designing and printing custom mounts for aluminium extrusion so I can swap between flight sim controls and racing gear, and yes, I immediately printed a peg that doesn’t fit the hole. Classic. We also talk through what’s actually going on under the hood with FDM vs resin printers, and why “printer-level content restrictions” don’t really make sense when it’s basically just dumb G-code telling motors where to go. On the PC hardware side, I’m gearing up for Intel’s next CPU reviews (Arrow Lake S refresh), and I mention Intel sending me DDR5 to test—because improved RAM speed is one of the headline spec-sheet claims. And then we get into the spicy stuff: privacy, OS-level age verification laws, and why the whole “make the entire internet child-safe” angle is a slippery slope. Finally, we rant about DLSS 5 and generative AI in games—why it’s fundamentally inconsistent frame-to-frame, why it adds complexity (and potentially latency), and why I’d rather just mod older games like Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005) than have AI slop smeared over everything.