Not Merritt Stone

Yeah, when the Wikipedia page for the Radeon RX 7000 includes this warning:

Not to be confused with the Radeon HD 7000 series, an earlier series of GPUs developed by AMD.

You know things have gotten a bit out of hand with respect to AMD’s GPU naming conventions/

If you’re bored and looking for something (un)interesting to read - you can see some of the legal filings surrounding the lawsuit for non-payment of rent on their SF headquarters on this website.

Seems like it’d be kind of useful for people who like to have their cat or dog curled up into their lap while they read. Now both of your hands are totally free to stroke/scratch your pet!

The PCIe 6 spec was finalized in early 2022 but - despite most every article saying to expect PCIe 6 hardware w/in 12-18 months of the finalization (which is right about now) I haven’t seen anything out there for sale yet. Perhaps it’s just going to be one of those PCIe generations that won’t gain much traction.

Well, the Denver Nuggets finally won their first ever NBA championship while the NBA subreddit was closed. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when the sub reopens since - from what I understand - the decision to close that sub was not very popular with the users.

Ah yes, the Barracuda 7200.11 bugs. I wasn’t impacted by those but maybe it would’ve been better if I did - it might’ve kept me from buying a couple of those infamously bad 3TB drives they released a few years later.

edit: also, FWIW, Toshiba is in the midst of spinning off a number of their divisions - including the one that’s responsible for manufacturing HDDs so it might be the case that their old HDD division ends up being bought by Seagate or WD - much like what happened to HGST.

I suppose the protest may have played a role in the site going down but I thought the outage was mostly due to the cloudflare issues from earlier in the day.