So RX 5000 series and newer. Cool

Yeah, I do. For two reasons.

1. Buildout will start to slow down when the speculative investment slows down. Which is going to happen. None of the big ai companies are actually making money yet, and even if they were, eventually growth will start to level off. Investors are always looking for the next big thing, so once AI isn’t the shiny new thing, the magic investor money will start to dry up.

2. Even if demand continues as it is, more memory will be manufactured. China is already producing memory, and I’m expecting them to scale fast. Also other countries and regions are realizing how important tech independence is, so I expect we’ll see more fabs pop up at least in the EU and US. One of the big reasons we’re in this mess is that the Korean fabs have been hesitant to expand production because even they don’t expect this to last.

I wonder if we’re going to see a console generation with expandable memory for the first time since the N64.

Would make some sense if the current climate persists for a few more years. Sell variants with multiple ram configs at different price points, and when ram prices come down you can wack a ram stick/module in there.

Obvious problems: consoles usually use unified memory, which probably won’t really work with expandable storage, so would need a different architecture. Also, if they use non-standard dimms, it’s unlikely the manufacturers would drop prices of those modules anywhere close to the actual amount of theoretical ram price drops. And this would require cooperation with game developers to make games that work with different ram configs, and give a tangible benefit for having more ram, without breaking compatibility for the base model units.

But with a lot more yapping

Eh depends how many factories or even just lines in the factory they’re using to produce them. Cheaper to retool some of the lines than all of them.

Should they have made them all with replaceable batteries in the first place? Yeah.

I doubt they were blindsided by these regulations. Maybe they were hoping to somehow get an exemption?

Either way, fuck them and everyone else making devices with non-replaceable batteries.

Does….does it go back together?

Because petro companies pay off politicians and use a couple unfortunate and totally preventable incidents to make nuclear power a boogeyman even though annual deaths related to petroleum power far outweigh all deaths related to nuclear power?

I’ve been using Manjaro for a couple years, and of course didn’t see any of the hate for it when trying to pick a distro, or for the first like 6 months of using it. But tbh the only part of my manjaro experience that isn’t fine is that they disable hardware acceleration for h.264 and h.265, with no easy way to enable it. Which is very annoying since I run a Jellyfin server on my desktop. But overall it’s been trouble-free for me.

But along with the seemingly constant power struggles over there, makes it hard to recommend. I hear endeavor OS is the new “easy” arch

That’s awesome! Unfortunately I have a pretty high hardware fail rate, at least for motherboards and gpu’s. But I also have/had a penchant for overclocking everything, so guess I’m kind of asking for it. Most spectacularly had a nvidia 780i sli motherboard let the smoke out from running a q6600 at 3.2ghz for a few years. That was a rad platform, still feel kinda bad about that one tbh

I’d much rather game on old hardware or janky arm based stuff than use hardware as a service, even if it means being 10+ years behind in performance. There are so many great games that will run on pretty much anything

Okay so I spent some time driving around, and replayed some missions. The actual drifting dynamics feel how I remember, which is to say intuitive and responsive, though a little too forgiving imo. More on the “arcade” side of “simcade”. So overall good. Though I think they re-tuned the grip? Lower hp and generally unmodified cars feel way easier to initiate and hold in a drift. In low hp cars the handbrake used to rob too much of your speed and make your engine bog when you got back on power, so clutch kicking was the move. Now you really don’t need to clutch kick at all except in the super low power cars, and even then it’s usually optional. Also they gave the tofu delivery car way more steering angle, which is a positive imo.

Grip driving is definitely not this games forte. Even when a car is set up for grip, it feels like it wants to be a drift car. I can’t quite get the steering setup to make it not feel like a drift car. Every steering input when gripped feels more like trying to initiate a drift than actually turn.

So making the beginner cars easier to drift does reduce some of the progression that I really enjoyed. Still, I think it’s fun, and I’m going to do some of the new missions that have been added.

I remember there being a major change to the handling like a month after release that was a big improvement, but I haven’t played in several months, so not sure if it’s changed further. But I can play some tomorrow and report back

I miss racing games that had real progression and plot lines. Are there any more recent big games that deliver on this? I had high hopes for the new Assetto Corsa, but sounds like they abandoned a progression system.

JDM: Japanese Drift Master does in a lot of ways, but you can burn through the story pretty fast, though I did still thoroughly enjoy it. The grip driving is kinda jank, and is pretty much unplayable with my wheel. But is a lot of fun to just drift around Japan with a controller in some heavily modified jdm legends

…which aren’t (usually) paid for with taxpayer dollars

But I’m guessing doing air shows counts towards training hours, so they’re going to be flying those planes regardless. Still feels like a massive waste when two of them crash and burn in a show though

Very strange this doesn’t have a 3.5mm jack. That’s one of the main reasons I daily carry a handheld (psp) these days. It’s as valuable to me as a mp3 player as it is a gaming device.

Yeah they all either look like a scam or cost more than they did new…

If they don’t rerelease it, I’ll probably pick up a used 5800x(t). Still a big upgrade from my 1700

3-5 was pretty normal for a long time, in general and for myself. But I’m sitting at 7 years now, and idk if I’ll build a new one until there’s some kind of crash in prices. Might upgrade the cpu to a 5700x3d though if AMD does actually make more of those

I also picked up a working NES from the curb, on top of a trash can. I assume they left it on top in case anyone wanted it, but still, that thing was an hour away from going to landfill.

They still make the most sense for bulk storage, no? I have one m.2 drive in my desktop and 5 2.5”

We used Kelvin for some stuff when I was an intern in a lab