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   Jon 🇨🇦🇵🇹 (samuraisakura@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 11:00:46 JST Jon 🇨🇦🇵🇹

   This is a very depressing video.

   We know what is happening but it is nice to hear from others in the industry. It's hard to believe we are in this timeline.

   https://youtu.be/zyQwAhppWj8

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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 11:00:45 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     You don't need a new computer. You don't need ddr5. You will be fine.
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     isutowaru (histoire3@shota.house)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 11:05:30 JST isutowaru

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     @Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
     
     Not like there's any games worth a shit anyway, which is the main reason for upgrading the pc

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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 11:37:30 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • isutowaru
     And most software runs fine even on old ddr3 builds. And anything 9th gen and after will run just about anything you can throw at it. We may become the Cuba of computers, but it's hardly the end.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:38:06 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Herman_Hetherington
     I still have core2duos that run linux fine. I had to throw ssds in, but even with sata2, they're still pretty snappy.
     
     Besides, the day of the cyberpunk has been predicted since at least the H/P/A days. Us old timers expected it.
     
     The real issue will be code / repo access, and not so much hardware imo.
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     Herman_Hetherington (herman_hetherington@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:38:07 JST Herman_Hetherington

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     HW still does degrade though. Even though RAM should only fail due to poor config or other issue pushing too much power, SSD and GPU will eventually fail with both having cost and availability issues due to RAM components. It seems China will save us though... Glory to the CPC!
     
     > During this trip our car got robbed in San Francisco
     San Francisco might be the best argument against democracy that exists today, with Detroit & Boston being great examples from yesteryear
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:41:12 JST cjd

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     • Herman_Hetherington
     This is the second thread in which someone suggested computers "fail". In all my life I've never seen it.
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     Herman_Hetherington (herman_hetherington@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:43:54 JST Herman_Hetherington

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     I'm pretty optimistic about code because of codeberg, gitea etc and the oversupply of underemployed sw engineers. Would require a lot of govt "great walls" which may come, but are hopefully not competently implemented
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:44:01 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Herman_Hetherington
     Me either. The only reason I had to throw ssds in the duos was to saturate that sata bus for max speed since the spin drives are slow af. The old drives still ran fine though.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:46:14 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Herman_Hetherington
     I have lost data before due to corruption, and even had a path truncated in one instance, but I've never had a drive itself fail.
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     Herman_Hetherington (herman_hetherington@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:46:15 JST Herman_Hetherington

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     • cjd
     You've never had a hard disk failure?
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     Herman_Hetherington (herman_hetherington@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:46:47 JST Herman_Hetherington

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     • cjd
     Poor quality power, either spikes delivered by the network or lightning strikes, poor quality or degraded PSU, poorly designed mobo (becoming much more common) delivering power spikes to equipment.
     
     Overclocked, esp with bad numbers as well
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:46:48 JST cjd

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     • Herman_Hetherington
     Disks are mechanical devices, so eventual failure of those is expected. Flash likewise wears out eventually. But I've never seen a CPU, motherboard, or RAM just stop working - unless it was obviously abused.
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:49:58 JST cjd

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     • Herman_Hetherington
     However, CRT monitors, I've had a handful of those just decide to crap out - which is funny because they're also supposed to be solid state. I guess high voltage is bad for longevity...
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:49:59 JST cjd

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     • Herman_Hetherington
     Power -> guess I'm lucky
     Overclocked -> I don't do that (mostly because I'm too lazy)
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:52:52 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Herman_Hetherington
     I do OC my studio rig, but with OC, the pump / radiator is likely to fail long before any drive.
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:56:09 JST cjd

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     • Herman_Hetherington
     Water cooled my last home server, what a pain in the ass, never again. Regular 4u tower and big ass-coolers from China work great.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:58:49 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Herman_Hetherington
     I have an i9-9980XE I run at 4.5ghz. It's the last good chip intel made for audio processing. The modern power / efficiency core paradigm has been a real shitshow in that specific use case.
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     Herman_Hetherington (herman_hetherington@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:59:58 JST Herman_Hetherington

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     • cjd
     The latest ones like the 270k aren't too bad, still not as good as AMD though
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