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Nice. The adoption of Glorious Egroll's UMU project is a good thing for all.

If they have old shows you like they can't sell you new shows.

It's all artificial scarcity, just ask the millions of people pirating content.

Can't wait 'till they go to sue Valve for enabling people to perform piracy of their software on their platform.

... Then piracy isn't theft. Let the whole digital content industry burn at this point. I don't care anymore.

Rant:

I built a PC for a friend of mine recently and got a bundle CPU motherboard and GPU (5600x3D microcenter exclusive at the time). I had so many problems with the Phantom Gaming 6600xt at the time. The machine would boot inconsistently. I went back to microcenter and returned the card after reading that the sapphire 6750xt didn't have the same problems and swapped up to a sapphire.

This week I just bought a Radeon 7800 XT steel legend for 480$ USD. It was smaller and cheaper than comparable products. The card has the worst coil whine I ever heard and performed poorly. I assume I paid the price for not going for something like the sapphire nitro+. I went and swapped it out (at microcenter). 7800xt nitro+ is a much better card, does not whine and works as expected.

This may be related to the AMD/Radeon products...

I have a 3080ti from MSI that is a huge RGB glowing monstrosity in one rig and a dell 3090 24G in another. I got them used for 350$ and $600 respectively. I'm running the 3080 with a 12600k and the 3090 with a 7900x with higher end motherboards (Asus Maximus and ASRock Tai chi) and have no issues. I paid extra for these motherboards to ensure that I didn't run into any weird compatibility issues.

I just keep getting burned on ASrock, MSI, gigabyte models of things in the lower tier price category. It makes me feel like "the medium soda 40 cents cheaper than the large because it exists only to make the large seem like a better deal."

It feels like the bottom felt out of the market and now if you want a computer that works as expected you need to get these ultra high end luxury RGB brainrot products.

Anytime I try to buy something in the mid range now it basically comes broken or falls apart in the first month of ownership.

You may as well buy Chinese ewaste from Ali express at that point.

Are any of the high end clientele facing charges?

Please stahp the mergers and acquisitions already pleeeeease.

Price drop put the 7900x at bargain bin prices and I bought that instead.

Stay with me in my ass

• Miki Matsubara

Intellectual property is theft. Is there a WikiLeaks for medicine? WikiMeds perhaps?

In the modern game industry, you get hit with layoffs even if you do well so it doesn't really matter what the quality of your product is in the end... You still get laid off.

This is why being a wizard is illegal in Dragon Age.

Data hoarding is a truly unique experience. Just my two cents

• raid is not a backup. Don't use raid5 unless you're using a filesystem like zfs that checksums your data. Raid5 is vulnerable to scenarios with a "write hole" that leads to bit rot.
• split up your dataset into smaller more manageable datasets so you can more easily back it up in different ways like external drives, cloud storage, etc. You can then limit the dataset size to never exceed the same of your backup target.
• snapshots, use them. Snapshots in your filesystem can make your backups more manageable by only sending the differential data as opposed to something like Rsync which may need to rsync an entire file.

I use ZFS and have found that compression with ZSTD works pretty well for getting extra use out of your disks but unless you have a lot of RAM and some special metadata NVME disks, don't use reduplication as it will be a serious performance impact.

Now if you aren't using a FOSS system like truenas and instead you're using a system like a qnap off the shelf, the qnap hybrid backup and sync manager has a really elegant solution for doing policy based differential backups to back blaze b2 storage. Not only does this give you a copy of your data, you also get immutable points in time archives of your data.

Good luck in your data hoarding endeavors!

Wall Street bets regards linked to an evil admin attack? 😕

This is the actual truth. Revisiting the catalog of early cross platform games and it's evident that Sony engineers couldn't get anything running well on there for the first three years of its lifespan. The same games ran just fine on the Xbox360.

Good to know. I won't buy it. Yoho yoho I guess

10/10 video. She knocked it out of the park.

This is old news but I do often think about the flaw in Tim Sweeney's strategy to try and bully apple and Microsoft into making their platforms work his way.

Honestly Epic should have got in the Linux bandwagon years ago so they could provide their own hardware.