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Randy Pitchford shares thoughts on the Stop Killing Games campaign, gets very existential: "It's so sobering to think about the fact that everything will end[...]and I kind of hate that" in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 5 points 4 days ago

Maybe Randy isnt somebody you want on your side in a legal battle or frankly anything else.

the guys i need in my guy squad in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago

Rock guy is the wildcard fun guy.

Bottle guy is the liability guy.

Not all Orions are pirates! in c/startrek@startrek.website

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that Oh-rye-un or oh-ree-yon?

'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

The main point is that the disk controller gets exponentially more complicated as capacity increases and that the problem isnt with space for the nand chips bit that the controller would be too power hungry or expensive to manufacture for disks bigger than around 4tb.

'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Relevant video about the problems with high capacity ssds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2i8wZCXDF4