Because they don’t make them anymore?

Yeah, I do. For two reasons.

1. Buildout will start to slow down when the speculative investment slows down. Which is going to happen. None of the big ai companies are actually making money yet, and even if they were, eventually growth will start to level off. Investors are always looking for the next big thing, so once AI isn’t the shiny new thing, the magic investor money will start to dry up.

2. Even if demand continues as it is, more memory will be manufactured. China is already producing memory, and I’m expecting them to scale fast. Also other countries and regions are realizing how important tech independence is, so I expect we’ll see more fabs pop up at least in the EU and US. One of the big reasons we’re in this mess is that the Korean fabs have been hesitant to expand production because even they don’t expect this to last.

I wonder if we’re going to see a console generation with expandable memory for the first time since the N64.

Would make some sense if the current climate persists for a few more years. Sell variants with multiple ram configs at different price points, and when ram prices come down you can wack a ram stick/module in there.

Obvious problems: consoles usually use unified memory, which probably won’t really work with expandable storage, so would need a different architecture. Also, if they use non-standard dimms, it’s unlikely the manufacturers would drop prices of those modules anywhere close to the actual amount of theoretical ram price drops. And this would require cooperation with game developers to make games that work with different ram configs, and give a tangible benefit for having more ram, without breaking compatibility for the base model units.

Because petro companies pay off politicians and use a couple unfortunate and totally preventable incidents to make nuclear power a boogeyman even though annual deaths related to petroleum power far outweigh all deaths related to nuclear power?

Framework catching strays with that thumbnail

Unless they’re super aggressively pro-ai and I just haven’t heard that.

So that’s what the bay leaf does

I had a cat when I was a kid that would pretty regularly snatch a fish out of the creek behind our house, and she definitely seemed to enjoy the fish. But also squirrels, rabbits, birds, lizards… :(

That was a long time ago. I know now that cats really shouldn’t be let outside because of the (obvious) havoc they wreak on wildlife

Not that I know of. But Brave blocks YouTube ads on iOS. I know brave is somewhat problematic, but options on iOS are limited

Is that a raccoon without the black eye markings? That’s definitely no opossum, at least not one you’d find in Alabama.

But I’m also getting strong AI slop vibes, so that might explain it

Also, the white patch on the cat’s nose is inconsistent. I’m calling it, it’s slop

As funny as that is, something tells me it’s not that hard to spot an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean

Oh, interesting. I find that to be one of their more intelligible ones. Though I still don’t know what a p-y-t or b-y-t is

Took me ages to work out what’s being said in DVNO

Do you know which album it’s off of? Now I really want to know what song you’re on about haha

Jealous yours works. The battery on my 1st gen 2gb bloated and killed the screen. But apparently there was a recall on them years before, so I sent it in to apple and they sent me a 7th gen 16gb, which I still use. At the time it just felt like an upgrade, but now I kind of wish I just fixed the 1st gen

Also commonly used by a good player to play with trash-tier friends.

TBT my friend restricting himself to only deagle no armor in csgo, WITH A CONTROLLER

Yeah, my oven is electric. Internet says 65C, which is conveniently as low as my oven goes

Silica gel has worked pretty well for me to keep a spool dry for a couple months, but I’ve never tried to dry a “wet” spool with it, so no idea. I’ve dried petg spools in the oven before, and it worked out. Can’t remember what temperature, but I’m sure that’s floating around on the internet somewhere.

Also the silica gel only keeps stuff dry if it’s dry itself. You can also heat that in the oven or a microwave to do that.

So yeah I’ve found petg (or at least the cheap stuff I’ve bought) to be kind of a pain. But if you’re almost neurotic about keeping it dry, you can get some super nice results. I only use it if I really want something to be clear

Looks like a filament moisture issue to me. PETG can get real weird unless it’s really dry. Temp is also a little low, but drying the filament will also fix the stringing issues you were seeing at 240