Mine got upgraded to a full meg.

If you have an 8GB GPU that’s a few years old, it’s probably doing okay-ish. It probably doesn’t have the performance to really suffer from VRAM limits and you don’t game with things like raytracing or ultra detail settings turned on because the GPU isn’t fast enough for those things anyway.

My Vega 64 had 8GB VRAM and that was fine.

If you buy one of the new GPUs with 8GB though, the VRAM is a huge problem. You have the GPU power to have all the features turned on, but you’re going to see real performance crippled because it overflows VRAM.

Longevity is the other issue - when games released in 2025 run like ass on your 8GB GPU from 2017, you won’t be surprised. Bad performance from an 8GB GPU that released in 2025 for $500, that’s a problem.

I’m seeing games today regularly hitting 11 GB, and that’s without raytracing or frame generation which require more VRAM.

The new 8GB GPU Nvidia just launched is a trap. It exists to trick people into buying a GPU that they’ll need to upgrade next year.

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It looks like that got fixed anyway.

At least they aren’t trying to get Steam to work on Kali.

And Linux nerds.

Sorry, best we can do is microtransactions, fear of missing out and AI slop. That’ll be $90.

And we’re pronouncing it JIMP?

Disney characters are proboscis monkeys:

People in the USA don’t need to travel for that, just wait.

This. Your mail isn’t going to be opened by the CEO. Hurt the business, not the worker. Mail them a box of rocks or something, the company will pay postage on it and the minimum wage guy opening packages will laugh.

I see [email protected] is leaking again.

IIRC one of the big issues with Twitter was it didn’t have anything set up to insulate the business from Musk’s idiot whims.

IIRC he fired his PR team. That’s why his reputation went down the toilet, we started getting raw Elmo instead of the shiny image his PR team had carefully crafted.

I do, because between every online service being hammered by scrapers training AI and every online service being stuffed full of AI slop, it’s ruining the internet.

Pfft, he’s just some guy distracting people from what’s important: rich people are making slightly less money! Sound the alarm!

But then you can’t inflate the numbers by putting a 3.7 volt battery in a power bank, listing the capacity in amp-hours and implying that you get that many amp-hours at the power bank’s 5V output voltage.