Poor lighting is no laughing matter.

Not sure how well that without work even if you could bridge them properly to share their vram, as the latency from the other gpu will be pretty high compared to the local vram. Frame times won’t be that great is my prediction. It works ok for LLMs because they aren’t a realtime compute task like gaming graphics is. If an LLM takes an extra 0.12s to compute its result, you don’t notice, but if a gpu misses a frame deadline by 0.12s, that’s a stutter that represents less than 10 fps.

I believe that’s why earlier attempts at dual gpu systems mostly fizzled out (plus cost concerns). You can get some pure acceleration if you can fit the entire working memory onto both GPUs’ vram (so your total vram is effectively min( GPUA_VRAM, GPUB_VRAM ) rather than GPUA_VRAM + GPUB_VRAM, though that also requires all pixels to be independent of anything calculated on the other GPU, other than maybe post processing effects that could be handled on whichever GPU is handling the display.

That’s not to say that you can’t get extra performance out of multi-gpu setups that don’t just mirror their RAM, but it’s more complicated than “sum of the capabilities of each GPU”.

Personally a big thing that holds me back from even seriously considering mobile gaming as an extension to normal gaming instead of “the best you can do when you don’t have access to better devices” is the input side. I hate touchscreen controls for anything with real time action because touching the screen obscures it from view, plus you don’t get the tactile feedback of buttons that makes it trivial to play without needing to readjust your finger positions constantly.

And I know there are external controllers you can use with phones, but if I’m making space (and remembering to bring) one of those, I might as well just bring my steam deck or even the switch instead.

It’s funniest when they act like their rage is justified. Or destroy their own things.

If you read the negative reviews on steam, you can often filter these shitty ones out. Also, be suspicious by default of free games. There are some that were made by some game dev just having fun but most want to make money some way or another and f2p monetization is often pretty toxic, like adding a long grind just to sell ways to avoid it or p2w mechanics.

I haven’t felt like I’ve gone wrong by generally just buying the cheapest well-reviewed games on my wishlist, occasionally stretching the budget to grab a mid-priced game I’m interested in and rarely going for a AAA priced game. Means that I get to some great games later (eg, Hollow Knight is one of the more recent ones, highly recommended btw) but it’s been a great way to experience a wide variety of games from today and the last 15 years for not that much money.

Maybe about the same sway but they are purchasing memory on a different market that is about future goods rather than goods currently sitting on shelves. So they will have more day to day visibility on RAM futures than your average consumer will. Price increases will happen there before they affect store shelves.

Doh, no such luck for me. Oh well, I still have my PS2 lol.

Don’t feel too bad, Emu, Elmo made a similar mistake last week.

Yeah, when my father died, there were a ton of old family photos, some were his, but others came from his parents or maybe even older than that. They were interesting to look through but no one really wanted them. I took some of them but they mostly just sit in a box now. Highly doubt my daughter will want them when I’m done, though maybe she will.

Memories are nice when looking through them, but it’s not like I’m often worrying about things I don’t remember without a reminder.

Though I should take more pictures of and with my daughter so she can have some memories. But I rarely even think about pulling out a camera most of the time.

Or standardize agreements that can be agreed to with just clicks so you can tell what’s up from just seeing which agreement modules are included and what parameters they have (along with a bunch of sites that explain them in easier terms for the less literate, which will be useful because they are standards used by many agreements rather than needing a unique one for each version of each document).

Hit the reset button then the power button, as the bios usually handles that interrupt by just shutting down immediately (and CPUs reset into low performance modes, so it reduces the power on your CPU immediately).

It came out in July 2010, so almost exactly 2 years ago.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. I’ve fixed a bunch of electronics myself over the years, from rebending the metal in my logitech G7 when the click stopped behaving right to replacing the switch outright on my G900 when it started doing the same thing, to fixing the stick drift on my PSVR2 controller after I accidentally threw it across the room, to fixing a strummer that would stick on a 3rd party guitar controller. Each of those was a bit different but all pretty straightforward and saved me a bunch of money.

The part that makes me hesitate is that each of those were done at my own risk. I had to retire the G7 after one attempt to fix the button resulted in dropping the tiny plastic part on carpet, losing it forever. That was fine because it was mine and like the 3rd or 4th time I fixed it. But if I’m doing it for someone else, then I won’t necessarily be able to just write it off as a loss if something breaks in the process. I might start out by buying broken items cheap, fixing them and selling them so the risk (and decisions about rasolution) is still all just on me. Or maybe letting people bet against me as an insurance. Like pay an extra $5 or something and if I break it, I’ll pay you $150.

Were you generating dynamic instructions based on what the cores were doing or was it all statically programmed such that the PowerPC core had to be running very specific code that went along with the specific code running on each worker core?

That first one might have been very scalable, though I have a feeling either one would be a nightmare to actually write and hell to debug.

That central core must have gotten really busy managing the memory if several cores were each jumping around a lot. Did it have to do other things also or was it just fulfilling memory requests?

Appeal to majority? I’ve never found the argument that “most people think this way” to be very compelling.

Some people even want their partners to get jealous and controlling and think they don’t really love them if they don’t.

Hmm I wonder if mine is that old. I got it used from a friend that also got it used back in the day. I never even tried sticking one of my PS2 games in it.

I was asking about my ps3 and its shitty performance at a retro games store and they had an electronics repair guy that said it probably just needed to be repasted/thermal pads replaced, and quoted $90 for doing it. Makes me want to get into that myself because I already had mine open to clean dust out and though it was kinda stressful, it was also fun and rewarding, and the stress generally comes from the uncertainty.

That sounds like something that might have made it easier to emulate, since on x64 the memory management could be simplified. Though that kind of cache control can lead to very high performance if the working set of data fits into that cache that x64 might have trouble keeping up with.