• Well, work insanity is finally easing for at least a couple of days. Have a big project kicking off next week and October is likely to be another write-off, but at least I won't be working 18 hour days and moving house at the same time.
  
  These posts will gradually return to their usual schedule and content.
  
  
  
• It seems like I picked the right week to be on a big city salary with a small town mortgage: The GPU shortage is over.  (The Verge)
  
  Do I need a new GPU?  There are games I want to play and applications I want to run that can benefit from teraflops of crunching power, but I already have two laptops with RTX 3060 graphics, which while far from high end are perfectly fine for Minecraft and...  Also Minecraft.
  
  Still, with GPU prices down 57% since January it's awfully tempting.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  
  
• In fact, Nvidia, AMD, and Apple are all cutting back on 5nm production for their next-generation parts.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Thanks to our leaders for running a pump-and-dump scam on the entire global economy.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Does this mean I can get a PS5 or Xbox Series X?
  
  No.  (GamesRadar)
  
  
  
• Well, does it indicate that the supply chain issues are resolving themselves?
  
  No.  (CNBC)
  
  
  
• In fact Chinese authorities announced and then deleted that they will pursue their disastrous Zero COVID policies for the next five years.  (The Guardian)
  
  That worked so well for New Zealand, and China is also a small remote island.  There's no chance that anything could go wrong and I am totally not buying everything I need for the new house at the earliest possible opportunity.
  
  
  
• Redbean in Docker gives you an automatically deployable web server - indeed, application server if you want - in as little as 186k.  (GitHub)
  
  No matter how screwed up the supply chain becomes, I expect I will have 186k of disk space available.
  
  
  
• The Patriot P400 seems like a perfectly serviceable SSD.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  1TB for $100 and transfer rates up to 5GB per second.  It's DRAMless, so not suitable for servers (or developers who run local copies of applications, like me), but for most desktop use should do fine.
  
  
  
• OpenSea ran into supply chain problems of a different sort.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  An employee at their email provider made off with their customer list.  If you use OpenSea - which I do, for work - you will have already seen messages from OpenSea telling you not to trust messages from OpenSea.  
  
  It's all quite meta.
  
  
  
• Oh, and Arm has new CPU and GPU cores out.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  CPU cores are the high-end X3, middle-end A715, and low-end A510, which, yes, is the same as before.
  
  GPU cores include the Mali G615 and G715, and the new high-end Chuuni G715.

Posted by: normal at Sunday, July 03 2022 12:18 AM (obo9H)

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