DarienGS

joined 1 year ago
[–] DarienGS@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I dunno who told you the Wii U was 720p-only. Mine ran at 1080p all day, every day - albeit some games used upscaling to reduce the graphical workload.

[–] DarienGS@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I do this all the time. I see so many brainless, low-effort posts all over the internet that I don't want to add to the pollution with anything I'm not confident is either informative or funny.

But I also want Lemmy to grow and thrive, so here I've been making more of an effort to try to finish and post even comments I'm not so certain about. I figure that has to be better for the site than contributing nothing at all.

[–] DarienGS@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nixon died in 1994, so there's that.

[–] DarienGS@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not talking about the merits or otherwise of "unified memory", I'm pointing out that because Apple's RAM is physically integrated into the CPU, it can provide more memory bandwidth than regular DDR5 DIMMs.

[–] DarienGS@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago

The LPDDR4X RAM in the Raspberry Pi isn't QUITE the same as the on-die stuff in the M3 processor.

[–] DarienGS@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

With Apple's chips the RAM is all on the CPU die so both CPU and GPU get the performance benefit. With Intel's, none of it is.

[–] DarienGS@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apple's RAM isn't as cheap as you might think, because it's all built directly onto the CPU die. That's part of what makes its computers so fast.

[–] DarienGS@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It's a shame we can't downvote posts lower than zero.

[–] DarienGS@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That was my immediate guess, but Covid blew up in March, and the Reddit graph doesn't go crazy until a few months later. It is hard to see what else could possibly explain it though; I wouldn't be surprised if there's just an error in the axis labelling or something.

[–] DarienGS@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (16 children)

What the hell happened in the second half of 2020?

[–] DarienGS@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] DarienGS@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

In the early days they did satirise current issues, but it mostly seemed to be through a lens of 31st-century technology or social conventions. Nowadays, the future setting often just feels like window dressing for a story that's really entirely about the present.

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