adavis

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[–] adavis@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

While not hard drives, at $dayjob we bought a new server out with 16 x 64TB nvme drives. We don't even need the speed of nvme for this machines roll. It was the density that was most appealing.

It feels crazy having a petabytes of storage (albeit with some lost to raid redundancy). Is this what it was like working in tech up till the mid 00s with significant jumps just turning up?

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hi, someone on the other end of the spectrum here.

The most exciting time in gaming in the past 10 years for me was when AMD announced the RX480. They were excited about a $200USD GPU, targeting 1080p gaming.

I ended up buying an RX570 a some time later on a sale. Great card!

Years later I started looking around for an upgrade. Each time I looked it was as if mid range had ceased to exist at a reasonable price point. For examplw last year in my region the RTX 3050 was 3x the price I paid for my RX570, and wasn't that much cheaper than an Xbox series S.

I think it's great you love your 7800XTX, and I hope they continue to make good high end cards. But I also hope they remember my area of the market exists, and after 8 years of engineering improvements since the RX480 I want them to release a pair of cards targeting 1080p and 1440p gaming at a killer price.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

And its logo is a robot, so it isn't unreasonable to think it's go-dot

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even Nintendo has gyros in their controllers

Nintendo have had gyros in their controllers since 2006 with the release of the Wii. Basically right there with Sony (Nov 11th vs Nov 19th 2006)

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm an atools kinda person

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If the cause of this is because of Cyberpunk then that's ridiculous. It'd be like Steam deleting cloud saves because someone's Half Life save file got too big... It's their own game, marketplace and ecosystem.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Blast from the past! I had this on cdrom. As a child I remember our old computer that had Sim City 2000 on didn't have a cdrom drive. Our new computer did. I fondly remember copying my favourite cities from the old to new via floppy disk. Those were the days!

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's super interesting. Do you have a source you could link for this data?

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You can also use systemctl status $pid to find out what service a process is from.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah for my case it was easier in the initrd otherwise I'd be trying to roll back the active / partition.

Re run levels, they were a sysvinit thing so I wasn't sure sure about systemd, this suggests that would work though https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SysVinit_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet

And if you have to bail out even earlier, run level 1 will give you the rescue.target

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Pass something stupid via your bootloader so it aborts boot and dumps you in an initrd busybox shell. No usb required.

This was my poor man's boot environments when I was using zfs on root. I had a pacman hook to snapshot before package transactions, then if it became unbootable I'd interrupt the following boot attempt, edit my grub command line with something wrong so I'd get dumped in the busybox shell, import my zfs pool and roll back before finally rebooting again.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Similar here, bought car in 2011 and will drive it till it dies. I'm happy with an 3.5mm port.

But for those that do feel like Bluetooth etc are must have features. You can buy head units, with touch screens and Android auto and Apple CarPlay for only a few hundred dollars, and often support connecting rear cameras etc.

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