adavis

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[–] adavis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They already exist. $dayjob bought some 64GB ssds. They were about $7500USD per drive.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hippos are herbivores. They only kill tourists for fun.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

While not hard drives, at $dayjob we bought a new server out with 16 x 64TB nvme drives. We don't even need the speed of nvme for this machines roll. It was the density that was most appealing.

It feels crazy having a petabytes of storage (albeit with some lost to raid redundancy). Is this what it was like working in tech up till the mid 00s with significant jumps just turning up?

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hi, someone on the other end of the spectrum here.

The most exciting time in gaming in the past 10 years for me was when AMD announced the RX480. They were excited about a $200USD GPU, targeting 1080p gaming.

I ended up buying an RX570 a some time later on a sale. Great card!

Years later I started looking around for an upgrade. Each time I looked it was as if mid range had ceased to exist at a reasonable price point. For examplw last year in my region the RTX 3050 was 3x the price I paid for my RX570, and wasn't that much cheaper than an Xbox series S.

I think it's great you love your 7800XTX, and I hope they continue to make good high end cards. But I also hope they remember my area of the market exists, and after 8 years of engineering improvements since the RX480 I want them to release a pair of cards targeting 1080p and 1440p gaming at a killer price.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even Nintendo has gyros in their controllers

Nintendo have had gyros in their controllers since 2006 with the release of the Wii. Basically right there with Sony (Nov 11th vs Nov 19th 2006)

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm an atools kinda person

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If the cause of this is because of Cyberpunk then that's ridiculous. It'd be like Steam deleting cloud saves because someone's Half Life save file got too big... It's their own game, marketplace and ecosystem.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Blast from the past! I had this on cdrom. As a child I remember our old computer that had Sim City 2000 on didn't have a cdrom drive. Our new computer did. I fondly remember copying my favourite cities from the old to new via floppy disk. Those were the days!

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's super interesting. Do you have a source you could link for this data?

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You can also use systemctl status $pid to find out what service a process is from.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I think if anything I'd view it from the other direction. We had machines with hardware support for memory protection and multitasking and we got DOS. DOS was the abberation.

Microsoft was a Xenix vendor before it sold DOS.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I used to turn to custom roms to extend the life of my phone. My first smartphone didn't get an official update after I purchased it for example. The custom roms often made the phone snappier too.

These days I'm on a mid range Samsung phone released almost 4 years ago and it's still getting updates.

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