I hear what you're saying, but I have about 200 games stored on a traditional HDD that only provides me a read speed of about 220MB/s absolute maximum and I have never had a single issue with any game running from it. As you say this could become a problem as devs adopt directstorage but as it stands right now, it's a total none-issue.
I have a 2TB NVME M.2 drive in my PC but don't really see any advantage to putting games on there, that's what bulk storage is for. If you are playing online, 99% of games will have a countdown or otherwise make you wait until the slowest PC is also ready to go. If it's a game that uses loading screens, I really don't care as it still loads pretty damn fast.
Pretty much the only games that I will throw on my M.2 drive is open world games that load as you go if I am on my first playthrough. RDR2 lived on there for a while.
I am happy to pay whatever extra it costs to have the experience of actually owning a game on a lasting medium with some artwork. My experience with digital downloads is that I just never care as much. Often I won't even finish the game unless it is beyond amazing. I like to receive tangible things for my hard earned money I guess.
I don't think you understand economies of scale. It doesn't make sense for me to pay retail price for a single unit, especially if I have no other use for it. These costs are trivial at scale, and would also hopefully provide some impetus to optimise the code and texture storage.
You have just been unlucky. I've never had any such issue. Were you using stock CPU cooler? I'll admit the CPU cooler that comes in the box with AMD is atrocious.
I fucked around a LOT whilst I was studying. Changed degrees a couple of times, studied part time and worked a lot, deferred and traveled for several years, eventually got serious and paid up-front to blast through full time and come out with a fair few qualifications once I figured out how the system worked and had something resembling a direction I wanted to go.
The end result was that I got to watch the massive shift in university culture and policy from 2001 through 2010.
In 2001 I could go to class with $4 in my pocket and know that it would be plenty to spend at the union-run cafeteria to have more than enough coffee and food for the day. Food was ridiculously cheap, and decent. Real meals made in bulk and sold in bulk. Coffee that came out of a giant urn that was strong and hot that I could enjoy whilst reading my free union magazine full of fairly hilarious left-leaning content, local news and events. I'm fairly sure at this time the writers actually got paid out of student union dues, but the magazines were free and the food and services either may as well have been free, or were.
The change came gradually. First of all every union magazine article became about infiltration by the young libs and constant drama within the union. Battles with the university board over the direction of student services and outlets etc etc etc. I won't cover the slow descent.
Skip to 2010. There's a fucking subway on campus. If they had tried that in 2001 we would have burned it down. The union cafeteria has been replaced by a commercial entity that not only serves absolute dogshit food, they charge around $10 for that serving of dogshit. The student magazine is GONE. Student services are gutted. If you want a coffee, you now have to order from a barista at a commercial coffee stand and stand around waiting like a fucking goon no matter how late you are for class, instead of pouring it yourself into a polystyrene cup and going about your day for 50 cents.
You eventually get to class and work your arse off to get a decent grade, whilst international students who can barely speak English let alone write 10,000 words in it somehow also pass the class so that they get to pay their unjustifiably higher fees to continue into the next year.
In short, Universities gradually became a business in the exact sense of the word Menzies originally railed against. They completely lost their status of having values which are other than pecuniary, and in the process they completely lost all semblance of the culture that made them worth turning up for. By the time I graduated, my university was a vile space to inhabit. The freaks were all gone, the politically conscious student body had been replaced by the trendy set and every single part of the campus existed purely to extract money from your ever shrinking wallet. Where once I felt grateful for every minute of my experience of student life, I was now disgusted and could not wait to get out.
Neoliberalism and twisted profit incentives killed Aussie university life like it killed everything else in this country that was ever any good. Not everything can afford to be about money all the time. It's fucking tedious.
There's a balance point somewhere between size and battery life with resolution as a catalyst. Small phone = small battery.
The Xperica Z3C achieved ridiculous things in that space (I could get 5 days normal use out of it after rooting and tweaking kernel etc).
You couldn't do that today though. Nobody is going to buy a phone at the resolution required to pull it off, and it would be under powered to boot.
I think this is why even "small" phones like the Zenfone aren't really even that small...they have to be big enough to fit a decent battery. Power demands have increased and you can't fight physics.
Not only do Sony not bother to sell them in Australia, they refuse to lend any assistance to get VoLTE and VoWifi working if you do jump through the hoops to import one.
This renders them completely useless for making voice calls in Australia as of July 2024 as our 3G network will be completely shut down by then.
It's a major fucking bummer because I would have bought the Xperia 5 IV in a heartbeat. It's perfect.
If you want to be a pedant, follow through. It's inhalation of the biproducts of combustion that causes cancer. It's burning tobacco that causes cancer. It's tobacco grown with fertilizer that locks in lead isotopes that causes cancer.
He called out Epstein and now people who vote democrat are mad as hell because if they just work hard enough, maybe next year they might get to go to Epstein's Island 2, electric boogaloo.
You know how deliberately engineered, autotuned pop music and its popularity doesn't really represent real music? Same goes for "country". All of those carbon copy songs about ford trucks and beer in the bed of ma pickup chucklefucks doesn't represent the real music being made in and adjacent to that genre. Much like pop, it's music for idiots. It moves volume in America because of the size of that audience.
I once borrowed my father in-law's Holden Statesman when I was on an interstate trip.
Well over ten years old, oil leaking piece of shit (It's a Holden).
I'll tell you what though: as someone who has never owned a large sedan, I was absolutely blown away by how much room is available in the boot.
It was cavernous! I had a bunch of projects to carry out that involved hiring a bunch of gear. I was fully prepared to hire a trailer and I never had to. That boot would swallow just about anything. Multiple bodies!
It was way more practical than my wife's SUV boot, and I never even had to put the seats down which I would absolutely have had to do with either of our more modern cars.
I was also blown away by the fuel economy. A supercharged V8 getting waaay better mileage than our tiny 4 cylinders. Power to weight ratio off the charts and I have to admit very nice to drive.
It would be super cool if someone was still making practical cars like that.
Alas, we've lived in the boonies for many years now. Where we live a proper 4x4 system is not really an optional requirement especially during the wet season.
I hear what you're saying, but I have about 200 games stored on a traditional HDD that only provides me a read speed of about 220MB/s absolute maximum and I have never had a single issue with any game running from it. As you say this could become a problem as devs adopt directstorage but as it stands right now, it's a total none-issue.
I have a 2TB NVME M.2 drive in my PC but don't really see any advantage to putting games on there, that's what bulk storage is for. If you are playing online, 99% of games will have a countdown or otherwise make you wait until the slowest PC is also ready to go. If it's a game that uses loading screens, I really don't care as it still loads pretty damn fast.
Pretty much the only games that I will throw on my M.2 drive is open world games that load as you go if I am on my first playthrough. RDR2 lived on there for a while.