Mine got upgraded to a full meg.

If you have an 8GB GPU that’s a few years old, it’s probably doing okay-ish. It probably doesn’t have the performance to really suffer from VRAM limits and you don’t game with things like raytracing or ultra detail settings turned on because the GPU isn’t fast enough for those things anyway.

My Vega 64 had 8GB VRAM and that was fine.

If you buy one of the new GPUs with 8GB though, the VRAM is a huge problem. You have the GPU power to have all the features turned on, but you’re going to see real performance crippled because it overflows VRAM.

Longevity is the other issue - when games released in 2025 run like ass on your 8GB GPU from 2017, you won’t be surprised. Bad performance from an 8GB GPU that released in 2025 for $500, that’s a problem.

I’m seeing games today regularly hitting 11 GB, and that’s without raytracing or frame generation which require more VRAM.

The new 8GB GPU Nvidia just launched is a trap. It exists to trick people into buying a GPU that they’ll need to upgrade next year.

It looks like that got fixed anyway.

At least they aren’t trying to get Steam to work on Kali.

It’s only a safety feature if it stops someone from getting injured. If it just kills the device, that means they have to buy a replacement!

IIRC USB killers work because they’re sustained high voltage. USB ports can often deal with a static discharge or over current, but a sustained 200 volts will let the magic smoke out.

And Linux nerds.

The fun part is that even if you protect the factories, they’re moving more and more into automation. So the jobs will still be lost.

Sorry, best we can do is microtransactions, fear of missing out and AI slop. That’ll be $90.

Okay, but your EV has an even smaller, slower charging battery than mine.

In the time it would take to get swappable batteries standardised and swap stations built and running, cheap EVs are going to have a lot more range and better charging speed. Swap stations aren’t up against today’s EVs, they’re up against 2035’s EVs.

You couldn’t crank your CPU in the olden days, it’d make games run in fast forward.

Nobody wants to deliberately use the wrong compression type when extracting, so modern tar will figure out the compression itself if you just point it at a file. So tar -xf filename works on almost anything. You don’t need to remember which flag to use on a .tar.bz2 file and which one for a .tar.xz file.

Eh. My car’s only 200 or so miles of range on the freeway and charges pretty slowly by modern standards, but I still find I want to stop before the car does and the car’s ready to go before I am.

When a charging stop comes three hours into a longer trip it doesn’t really slow me down. I want to pee, stretch my legs, and get a coffee and a sandwich anyway at that point.

We don’t really need battery swaps for cars, and with a longer range EV with faster charging that’s going to be even more true.

I think people who don’t own an EV don’t really get home charging. They think of fast charging as being equivalent to filling a gas car and imagine using a fast charger during a 20 minute drive to work like they fill up, when actually fast charging is something I only do once every few months.

It’s apparently the Pentium 1 and older, so those chips were discontinued in 1999. Almost 26 years old.

Ditching i686 could be a problem for people running 32-bit stuff on modern hardware, though. I expect that’ll hang around for a while yet.

And we’re pronouncing it JIMP?

Disney characters are proboscis monkeys:

This. Your mail isn’t going to be opened by the CEO. Hurt the business, not the worker. Mail them a box of rocks or something, the company will pay postage on it and the minimum wage guy opening packages will laugh.

I see [email protected] is leaking again.

The monk pays with a twenty, which the vendor pockets.

“Where’s my change?”

“Change comes from within.”