Judging from the way AMD got up and spent all their time talking about their data centre products, nobody does.

Smeg-heads do be like that.

I just wish each video decoder manufacturer didn’t feel the need to create their own API that isn’t supported by anything.

High resolution graphical assets are big. That’s why we’re now getting 32GB video cards in desktop PCs.

Sure, nobody’s doing super high end graphics on a phone, but it doesn’t take much high resolution art to take a big bite out of that 6GB. Phones don’t have separate system and video RAM, remember.

That’s because empty RAM is wasted RAM.

You want to keep RAM full of stuff you aren’t using right now. That stuff can be erased almost instantly if you need the RAM for something else. That’s why OSs list “Available RAM” and “Free RAM” as two separate things.

Removing all the idle apps from RAM just means you need to wait longer every time you open one of them.

the ICQ age

There’s a blast from the past. Uh oh!

It’s more about what happens after it stops running. If used cars are scarce and prices are high it makes a lot more sense to do that expensive engine repair. If used cars are cheap, you get more repairable cars going to the wrecker.

To be fair, those cars don’t just get set on fire when they’re done with them. They’re supplying the used car market.

It’s a terrible idea financially, but it isn’t actually wasteful.

I didn’t do the legally mandated number of "Hail Corporate!"s yesterday.

Probably because they insist on replacing the browser’s right click menu with theirs, and web pages can’t just grab the clipboard contents for security reasons.

Current capacity, safety and power delivery are fine for most purposes, really.

LFP batteries really solved battery fires - they can’t produce their own oxygen like older NMC batteries, so they just get really hot and die instead of going off like fireworks.

Once you get past 300 miles, you’re pushing the limits of the average bladder and you need to stop before the car does.

With current electric trucks, if you’re doing some city driving and plug the truck in when you take a break, a truck driver will run out of hours before the truck runs out of range.

Can we get some more JPEG? I can almost tell what some of the colours are.

Because then they’ll actually need to do recalls instead of just patching issues with an update.

Those people who can’t pay aren’t really worth anything to advertise to, though.

Teaching sand to think was a mistake.

They’re not the sharpest spoon in the drawer.

Okay, but the people playing on 5090s aren’t interested in barely getting 60 fps.

There’s no amount of hardware that shitty software can’t piss down the drain.

All those textures that won’t fit in the VRAM of Nvidia cards have to go somewhere, I guess.

“With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power.”

- Richard M. Stallman

Note that this isn’t vkd3d-proton, the one people are using for gaming.