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- Comment on Anyone a fan of Wizardry, or other first-person dungeon crawlers? 17 minutes ago:
store.steampowered.com/search?sort_by=Reviews_DES…
Games on Steam with tags Dungeon Crawler, First-Person, and Grid-Based Movement sorted by user rating.
- Comment on EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally 2 hours ago:
4chan’s position is that they aren’t doimg business in the UK, which is why they’re disregarding the UK regulator’s fines. The UK might be able to block them, but probably not get the US to enforce rulings against them.
In the same way, lemmy.today is doing business in the EU.
Very unlikely, in the eyes of the US court system. They have no EU physical presence, and aren’t advertising targeting EU people.
- Comment on EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally 2 hours ago:
Note that the issue only affects websites in EU legal jurisdiction. From the US legal standpoint means doing business in the EU. The body text has the qualification, but the headline does not.
The Court of Justice of the EU—likely without realizing it—just completely shit the bed and made it effectively impossible to run any website in the entirety of the EU that hosts user-generated content.
“in the entirety of the EU”
That’s kinda clickbaity.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 21 hours ago:
Oh, and almost no GP has an option to book appointments in advance, and those that do often have them weeks in advance.
I’m in the US, but you guys also have private sector GPs, and those guys have dramatically-shorter waiting times than the NHS ones, right?
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 day ago:
Micron is one of the “Big Three” DRAM manufacturers.
Crucial is their “sell directly to consumers” brand.
netvaluator.com/…/top-10-ram-manufacturers-by-mar…
Micron Technology stands as the third giant, with a market share close to 20%, or about 23 billion USD in DRAM revenue. Unlike Samsung and SK Hynix, Micron is headquartered in the United States, making it a critical supplier for Western markets. Its product portfolio covers both DRAM and NAND, giving it broader exposure to the memory industry.
The company’s consumer-facing Crucial brand is well recognized among PC builders and gamers worldwide. Micron also plays a vital role in supplying DRAM for servers and AI, competing directly in the HBM space. Its strategy focuses on quality, diversification, and maintaining a stable supply chain for North America and Europe. As the only American giant, Micron is strategically important in the geopolitical landscape of semiconductors.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 day ago:
for example dell, hp and lenovo run a large business laptop leasing business if they do not get their ram, it will sour their relationships with memory manufacturers
Lenovo is stockpiling memory to try to make it through the RAM winter.
tomshardware.com/…/lenovo-stockpiles-ram-as-price…
Lenovo stockpiles RAM as prices skyrocket, reportedly has enough inventory to last through 2026 — memory stock claimed to be 50% higher than usual to fight pricing shock
Lenovo is playing it smart and buying up as much memory inventory as it can
I don’t think that Lenovo is getting special deals with memory makers either, or they wouldn’t need to stockpile.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 day ago:
Serial compute isn’t doing the double-every-18-months-in-speed since something like the early 2000s.
Unlike with serial compute, not all problems can be solved, run faster, with parallel compute. But at some point, unless we figure out some sort of new way to play with physics, we pretty much have to move to parallel compute where we can if we want much more performance.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 day ago:
Damn, that was the only brand of RAM without LEDs and racing stripes on it
hits Google Shopping
www.gamestop.com/pc-gaming/…/333745.html
Aside from being a black circuit board rather than green, that doesn’t look especially blinged up.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 day ago:
The Brits are still doing a penny!
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 day ago:
Also, I can’t wait to buy up used RAM for pennys when the bubble pops.
The memory that manufacturers are producing is HBM; they’re transitioning facilities to producing HBM. HBM won’t be in DIMM form factor — you can’t just stick it into the slots on a PC motherboard.
That being said, the hardware in question will probably hit the used market at some point. You might be able to get used Nvidia Blackwells.
tomshardware.com/…/nvidia-announces-blackwell-ult…
Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra B300 —1.5X faster than B200 with 288GB HBM3e and 15 PFLOPS dense FP4
Those things have 1.4kW TDP. There may be a lot of those things floating around, and if people have enough power and cooling to run those things in their home, maybe they can use repurpose them for something else.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 day ago:
I read an article yesterday that Samsung’s memory division wasn’t even willing to let Samsung’s own cell phone division lock in any long-term memory buying agreement with them, which the cell ohone division hsd been trying to do. Too much money in selling HBM memory for parallel compute to datacenters.
reuters.com/…/ai-frenzy-is-driving-new-global-sup…
Some 6,000 miles away in California, Paul Coronado said monthly sales at his company, Caramon, which sells recycled low-end memory chips pulled from decommissioned data-center servers, have surged since September. Almost all its products are now bought by Hong Kong-based intermediaries who resell them to Chinese clients, he said.
“We were doing about $500,000 a month,” he said. “Now it’s $800,000 to $900,000.”
I threw away a bunch of large-capacity DDR4 DIMMs last year, figured that theyld be useless in the future. Kind of wish I hadn’t, now. Reusing old DIMMs is probably the only source of supply that can be ramped up in the near term.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 day ago:
Why? I mean, they aren’t compelled to manufacture DIMMs.
Right now, there is a window in time where there are companies willing to pay tons of money for HBM memory, more than most people and companies are for DIMMs. It’d be crazy for memory manufacturers not to make HBM if they have the capacity to do so, if they’re doing way better by doing so.
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 4 days ago:
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 5 days ago:
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- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
From my /etc/resolv.conf on Debian trixie, which isn’t using openresolv:
# Third party programs should typically not access this file directly, but only # through the symlink at /etc/resolv.conf. To manage man:resolv.conf(5) in a # different way, replace this symlink by a static file or a different symlink.
I mean, if you want to just write a static resolv.conf, I don’t think that you normally need to have it flagged immutable. You just put the text file you want in place of the symlink.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Also, when you talk about fsck, what could be good options for this to check the drive?
I’ve never used proxmox, so I can’t advise how to do so via the UI it provides. As a general Linux approach, though, if you’re copying from a source Linux filesystem, it should be possible to unmount it — or boot from a live boot Linux CD, if that filesystem is required to run the system — and then just run
fsck /dev/sda1or whatever the filesystem device is. - Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I’d suspect that too. Try just reading from the source drive or just writing to the destination drive and see which causes the problems. Could also be a corrupt filesystem; probably not a bad idea to try to
fsckit.IME, on a failing disk, you can get I/O blocking as the system retries, but it usually won’t freeze the system unless your swap partition/file is on that drive. Then, as soon as the kernel goes to pull something from swap on the failing drive, everything blocks. Might try
swapoff -abefore doing the rsync to disable swap.At first I was under suspicion was temperature.
I’ve never had it happen, but it is possible for heat to cause issues for hard drives. I don’t know if the firmware will slow down operation to keep temperature sane — rotational drives do normally have temperature sensors, so I’d think that it would. Could try aiming a fan at the things. I doubt that that’s it, though.
- Comment on GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
GPU prices are coming to earth
Nvidia reportedly no longer supplying VRAM to its GPU board partners in response to memory crunch — rumor claims vendors will only get the die, forced to source memory on their own
If that’s true, I doubt that they’re going to be coming to earth for long.
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 1 week ago:
Prices rarely, if ever, go down in a meaningful degree.
Prices on memory have virtually always gone down, and at a rapid pace.
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 1 week ago:
If consumers aren’t going to or are much less likely to upgrade, then that affects demand from them, and one would expect manufacturers to follow what consumers demand.
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 1 week ago:
I remember when it wasn’t uncommon to buy a prebuilt system and then immediately upgrade its memory with third party DIMMs to avoid paying the PC manufacturer’s premium on memory. Seeing that becoming inverted is a little bonkers.
I also wonder if it will push the market further towards towards systems with soldered memory or on-core memory.
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- Comment on GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
You can have applications where wall clock tine time is not all that critical but large model size is valuable, or where a model is very sparse, so does little computation relative to the size of the model, but for the major applications, I think that that’s correct.
- Comment on GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Last I looked, a few days ago on Google Shopping, you could still find some retailers that had stock of DDR5 (I was looking at 2x16GB, and you may want more than that)and hadn’t jacked their prices up, but if you’re going to buy, I would not wait longer, because if they haven’t been cleaned out by now, I expect that they will be soon.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
Historically, it was conventional to have a “you have unsaved work” in a typical GUI application if you chose to quit, since otherwise, quit was a destructive action without confirmation.
Unless video games save on exit, you typically always have “unsaved work” in a video game, so I sort of understand where many video game devs are coming from if they’re trying to implement analogous behavior.
- Comment on Looking for ARPGs like Ys Origin and older Zelda gamma 1 week ago:
Have you played the existing Legend of Zelda titles? I mean, there are a ton of them. Even if you stop at Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda
Year Zelda Game 1987 The Adventure of Link 1991 A Link to the Past 1993 Link’s Awakening 1998 Ocarina of Time 1998 Link’s Awakening DX 2000 Majora’s Mask 2001 Oracle of Seasons 2001 Oracle of Ages 2002 Four Swords 2002 The Wind Waker 2004 Four Swords Adventures 2004 The Minish Cap 2006 Twilight Princess 2007 Phantom Hourglass 2009 Spirit Tracks 2011 Ocarina of Time 3D 2011 Four Swords Anniversary Edition 2011 Skyward Sword 2013 The Wind Waker HD 2013 A Link Between Worlds 2015 Majora’s Mask 3D 2015 Tri Force Heroes 2016 Twilight Princess HD - Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
Thanks for the added insights! I haven’t used it myself, so appreciated.
Linux has a second, similar “compressed memory” feature called zswap. This guy has used both, and thinks that if someone is using a system with NVMe, that zswap is preferable.
linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/
Based on his take, zram is probably a better choice for that rotational-disk Celeron, but if you’re running Cities: Skylines on newer hardware, I’m wondering if zswap might be more advantageous.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II
The original retail price of the computer was US$1,298 (equivalent to $6,700 in 2024)[18][19] with 4 KB of RAM and US$2,638 (equivalent to $13,700 in 2024) with the maximum 48 KB of RAM.
I mean, few people actually need a full 48KB of RAM, if you have an extra $6k lying around, it can be awfully nice.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
TECO’s kinda-sorta emacs’s parent in sorta the same way that ed kinda-sorta is vim’s parent.
I compiled and tried out a Linux port the other day due to a discussion on editors we were having on the Threadiverse, so was ready to mind. Similar interface to
ed, also designed to run on teletypes. - Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
It’s a compressed RAM drive being used as swap backing. The kernel’s already got the functionality to have multiple tiers of priority for storage; this just leverages that.
Kinda like RAM Doubler of yesteryear.
