One of the big problems is stuff that a server wouldn't know is happening
A simple example is wallhacks in FPS games, if you can somehow get the client computer to not render walls properly, the player can see where everyone else is in the level.
You don't need to mess with the game client here if you're clever about it, you mess with the operating system and graphics drivers so that a signed binary can continue to connect and behaves entirely legitimately from the server's perspective.
Of course there are mitigations we could come up with for this, but you're just in a game of cat and mouse. If it was a solved problem, kernel level anti-cheat just wouldn't be a thing for the most part. Yet it's what the competitors demand in the top flight competitions, because there isn't a better way to prevent a whole class of cheating.
To be clear, not defending it and I personally avoid games that use it, but I understand why it exists
For example, Infrastructure projects typically pay back several times in value, so it's often sensible to fund these using debt. China has built shitloads of infrastructure over the past couple of decades
Government debt is bad if it's not funding infrastructure and is instead being used to pay for things like tax breaks on the wealthy and vanity projects
That's just a (concerningly large) percentage of the nutjobs
There are other kinds too that focus their rage at other marginalised groups
Then you get the conspiracy groups, of anti vaccination people (we have official stats showing there were a couple of percent of hard-line nevers during COVID), the ones that burn down radio masts because of bill gates 5g microchips, those lizard-people guys etc.
Perhaps irredeemable is harsh on a few of these, but most don't get to that point because something or someone pulls them out. For whatever reason it doesn't happen to a percentage of people.
It all adds up to a group of people who provide a lot of noise at the bottom end of polling.
Ah there goes my idea, I thought it was gonna be down to Microsoft's inability to not fuck sleep up every couple of years
Memory is probably the next port of call if you don't see anything in event viewer to indicate a driver issue.
Another commenter suggested memtest which is a good shout, might be also worth putting a Linux distro onto a flash drive or partition and try running that for a couple of days to see if it does it under Linux, that will at least help inform you as to whether it's hardware or software
Honestly the Lofi Girl channels on YouTube are probably a higher frequency go-to than I like to admit to myself
If I'm choosing from my library, I'll either go down the Brian Eno-style minimal ambient road, or probably that 95-05 era of trip hop/downtempo electronica mix of tracks running the gamut of portishead/massive attack through to stuff like telepopmusik, thievery corporation, nightmares on wax, zero 7, etc
If I'm in the right mood for it, I find a lot of aphex twin's stuff can be pretty relaxing, but I understand that's probably a less common choice
My personal tinfoil hat theory is that Labour may get a bump off the new leader, but ratings will quickly return to decline for a multitude of reasons I'll skip for brevity
Once we're closer to the election and Labour is looking like it's in an existentially threatened place, I bet we're going to see a proportional representation voting system pushed through, and with the Tories still suffering their own decline, they may provide the support for it to pass pretty painlessly
The obvious risk to it is that Farage will naturally try to oppose the thing he's loudly supported for decades, but his fanbase will probably be too oblivious to spot the inconsistency.
One of the big problems is stuff that a server wouldn't know is happening
A simple example is wallhacks in FPS games, if you can somehow get the client computer to not render walls properly, the player can see where everyone else is in the level.
You don't need to mess with the game client here if you're clever about it, you mess with the operating system and graphics drivers so that a signed binary can continue to connect and behaves entirely legitimately from the server's perspective.
Of course there are mitigations we could come up with for this, but you're just in a game of cat and mouse. If it was a solved problem, kernel level anti-cheat just wouldn't be a thing for the most part. Yet it's what the competitors demand in the top flight competitions, because there isn't a better way to prevent a whole class of cheating.
To be clear, not defending it and I personally avoid games that use it, but I understand why it exists