Truscape

Haven’t had any malfunctions on the pixel 9 at all, but I immediately installed grapheneOS and put it in a case. Maybe because I didn’t grab it at launch I dodged a bullet? Odd.

I’ve had nothing but good experiences with my pixel 9, what stands out to you?

Failure rates and RMAs might be more common when manufacturers save a buck. Samsung SSDs for example are expensive AF, but they have a good reputation for reliablility and lifespan.

Of course, being diligent about backing up your data means that you might benefit from the savings with less worry about the risk. Or you could use the cheaper SSD for something like a Steam library where you may not care as much about long term data preservation.

Word of warning though: super cheap end might end up with you getting scammed, or things like SSDs without DRAM caches, which are slower than even HDDs.

Wasn’t there development of a linux translation layer for CUDA workloads to run on AMD GPUs? I haven’t heard about it in a while, but I’d imagine that’d help the situation.

The funny thing is I think we are in the same situation except now the free distribution of games on the internet means the supply side issues are even less relevant to the game industry. The losers might end up being consoles again.

One of the reasons the 1983 crash was so harsh was because brick and mortar distribution and producing expensive cartridges made self-publishing and indie development much more difficult. Hell, the Commodore 64 never had any problems throughout the crash because games were distributed on tape and floppy disk, and hobbyists could easily create new games much cheaper than console counterparts.

I would argue we have the same echoes here. The winners will be the indie PC and mobile devs alongside digital distribution platforms like Steam (Valve) and GOG where anyone with talent and ambition can enter.

Memory includes SSDs. NAND flash chips for storage + small DRAM cache.

the fediverse in a nutshell (unmonetized environment that doesn’t reward ragebait blatantly)

Buy a used liquidated office PC, add GPU and SSD. Done.

The current market’s kind of making it rough to find that at the moment though.

Emulation’s gonna bring them here anyway XD

That would be stripped out by the cracking team before release. The scene doesn’t forget to test things, you know (also many countries where cracked games are hosted/more prevalent are places where foreign copyright law doesn’t matter much).

A backup of the existing database would probably be a good move at this point.