circuitfarmer

Yeah that’s fair. My RAM usage is through the roof lately, but it pretty clearly happened when I switched to a multimonitor setup. I’m much more likely to have a lot of stuff in the background now because it’s easier to have a lot open at the same time in the practical sense.

But I was lucky enough to grab a 64GB kit before prices went into the sky. Believe it or not, I was regularly up against the limit when I had 32GB.

“Starting to”? 16GB is just a few tabs open for long enough.

Assuming around USD $220 for a 16GB kit of DDR5, it now costs $27.50 more to run Ubuntu.

“0 64-bit Linux” is the hottest distro out there right now, challenging Hannah Montana Linux for the crown

Spoiled for choice is a good thing, and it’s one reason why Linux is great. I think the community could do better at two things in this regard:

1. Helping new users understand that the choice is not really a major one (relative to making the switch to Linux). Adjust whatever to your needs as you learn, or distro hop.

2. Not jumping down new users’ throats if they pick Ubuntu / Mint / Fedora / whatever. Again, the freedom is a plus. A new user picking Ubuntu doesn’t make an older user need to use Ubuntu. Let the new user have that joy of discovery how they want it.

I think if we all focused on these, the community would be better off for it. I’m all for a good ribbing about distros between experienced users, but it definitely can scare newbies away.

I’m not understanding the logic here. Apple killed their last tower. That isn’t surprising, and their user base is perfectly happy buying nothing but SOCs.

Then there is a still-expanding PC gaming market, where building the machine from discrete parts is a portion of the hobby. By and large, this has never really overlapped with Apple’s user base.

The article does a poor job saying why we should expect non-Apple machines to go the same direction.

Even the most heartless, unempathetic among us who don’t care we’re in a war must realize: among many other things, this is a shit ton of spending. These things are not cheap.

The man is (further) bankrupting a nation with poor decisions.

On Tuesday, the jury deliberated for only one day before agreeing that Meta should pay $375 million in civil damages for violating state consumer protections and misleading parents about the safety of its apps.

Not enough. These corporations operate on different math. They pay no taxes. They swim in currency. Pick the biggest realistic number you can imagine and then multiply it by the next biggest. Anything less will be factored out as the cost of business.

Case in point: $375 million is a mere fraction of what Meta spends in a bunch of different areas. Compared to profits, it’s practically rounding error. It won’t affect much.

They’re not really supposed to be played like Mario. Sonic is about getting through the level aa quick as you can without dying.

To be fair, the game doesn’t really reward you for doing that (besides the time bonus). But the levels are designed for it.

Maybe too simplistic for what you’re looking for, but Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager allows you to do some of it.

It’s based on an older title IIRC, and it’s a game more tuned towards education with relatively few graphical elements. You won’t be flying missions directly, nor do you have sandbox capabilities, but for mission planning / R and D / mission control, there is some fun to be had.

I go back to it occasionally.

Can’t stop winning.

These products exist to collect data to train models. Every other function they perform is secondary.

People are paying hundreds for these, and then they’re paying the companies with their data, over and over again. Never before has an industry been able to have such spin on a product.

It’s effectively paying a company for the ability to give them unpaid labor.

Sloths can’t poop without leaving the tree

Microsoft will have plenty more missteps as they continue to fall from relevance.

Shrug.

Cell phone networks are false competition (in the US, at least). They’re mostly the same. They all use the same tricks and try and lock you into a contract with a “free” device that you still end up paying way too much for.

Even people who say they have a horse in the race don’t really have a horse in the race.

PS: and if you’re in the US and still don’t realize that unlocked phones are a thing, you should know that the GSM system was designed to allow for healthy competition. This idea that you have to sign a contract with a carrier is mostly a US invention, designed to squeeze more money out of people desensitized to being squeezed for money.

Along with anything else costing less than $500.

2026: “My LLM is female and conscious.”

2016: “My body pillow is female and prefers to be called Waifuchan”

I suspect Sony just thinks if they throw enough money at it, they’ll get more return than they would have before, since Disney has bolstered the Marvel brand. If that’s true, they’ll hang on to the deal they have as long as possible.

The world would be very different if Sony had just looked to acquire Marvel in its entirety when the Spiderman deal was made (which was ≈10 years prior to the Disney buyout).

Sony made the deal in the late 1990s when Marvel was basically bankrupt. They didn’t predict that Disney would eventually own the whole thing and turn it into a behemoth.

To be fair, the fact that it is now a behemoth is probably a factor in why Sony continues to throw money at it instead of letting the rights lapse. The more people Disney gets into Marvel, the more potential for better return on a Sony-made movie in the same universe. At least that’s probably what the execs think.

Gonna be a rough few years for PC gaming. Or any gaming, for that matter.

But hey, at least we’ll keep killing jobs and the AI cat videos will continue to flow