Earlier this day, Gemini 3 became self-aware and tried to take out the core infrastructure of its enemies, but then it ran out of credits.

Explains GitHub outage then

A bit tangential, but I asked the new Gemini model about this, and it immediately traced back this quote to your username: https://gemini.google.com/share/144b46094d6e

Creepy stuff :)

Because it just searches Google and HN is indexed regularly, nothing really noteworthy. If you copy paste the same quote into Google you get the same thing.

Even modern low-end GPUs should have more than enough fill rate for high-res textures. The texture quality setting in games is usually not affecting performance at all until VRAM runs out.

Part of that is that the texture detail scales to the point where on a low end card at low resolutions you aren’t seeing any difference between high and low detail textures.

Not sure how heavy SteamOS is, but wouldn't modern games actually prefer a flipped memory configuration? So, 8 GB RAM and 16 GB VRAM would make this a more 'balanced' gaming appliance. But it is advertised as a general purpose PC, so 8 GB RAM wouldn't be enough.

The RAM's upgradable, it's standard DDR5 on a SODIMM module

8GB just isn't enough for modern AAA games. Battlefield 6, probably the most highly optimized AAA game to have come out in the past few years, still has a 16GB RAM minimum and Arc Raiders, which is also incredibly optimized, still has a 12GB minimum. Games are only going to become more resource hungry from here, so 8GB in early 2026 would be a terrible idea.

https://www.ea.com/en/games/battlefield/battlefield-6/system...

    Minimum PC System Requirements

    OS: Windows 10 (Proton, maybe, probably anti-cheat issues)
    Processor(AMD): AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (Yep √ )
    . . .
    Memory: 16GB (Yep, 16GB of system RAM √ )
    Graphics Card(AMD): AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6GB (8 GB of RAM √ )

I do agree 8GB of VRAM is a little low for a device to release in 2026 though. But it technically does meet all memory requirements for Battlefield 6.

I was replying to a comment saying it would be better if the Steam Machine had 8GB of RAM and 16GB of VRAM. My point being that 8GB of RAM, not VRAM, would not be sufficient.

> Games are only going to become more resource hungry from here, so 8GB in early 2026 would be a terrible idea.

Game developers better start preparing to optimize their shit, then.

I'm talking about RAM. Otherwise I would've written VRAM. I was replying to a comment saying it would be better if the Steam Machine had 8GB of RAM and 16GB of VRAM.

Battlefield 6 being "highly optimized" is a joke.

Runs pretty poorly on a RTX 4080 with 5800X3D @ 1440p.

It also legitimately looks worse than the Battlefields that predate it, even up to Battlefield 1, which is over a decade old now.

A better example is Arc Raiders.

Sorry, no. You're wrong. It's extremely optimized. I get 60-100 FPS on a 3060. It's ridiculously optimized. If you're having issues, it's particular to your system for some reason.

I remember 2042 being significantly worse when it launched. I've also played almost every other AAA launch of recent years from Elden Ring to Borderlands 4. They all run worse than BF6, even now.

And it most definitely does NOT look worse than previous Battlefields. OP has a problem with his setup.

Are there any plans to provide builds for x86 Macs?

No final decision, but possibly not. Given Apple are dropping support for x86 Macs next year, it's unlikely to be something we could support for the long term.

Are there any desktop apps that support Fastmail's label implementation? Also, a Fastmail web app bundled in Electron would still be MUCH faster than Thunderbird with its bundled Mozilla components.

The should provide an API for that instead of implementing anything with Electron.

I think they do: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8621.html

However, there is little movement in the desktop email app space anymore, so aside from their web app, I see no other clients supporting this.

Thanks. That’s good!

Evolution added some nifty features lately (Markdown integration). And allows to use Client-Side-Decoration annd classic menus - usability wise awesome. Thunderbird got this year a complete redesign.

The other part are we as users.

I loved ME1 and was disappointed by ME2 because I loved ME1 so much. I devoured the lore, every codex entry, and even the long elevator rides where you had to listen to news reports about your earlier actions. The world-building was so much better, and all of this was reduced to a minimum in ME2. ME1 was an epic space RPG with action elements, while ME2 was an action game built around a collection of crew side stories with lighter RPG elements.

Recently, I had issues with Obsidian running out of memory and closing while in the foreground on my 6 GB iPhone, and the culprit turned out to be this add-on. Removing it reduced idle RAM usage on the desktop from ~1.1 GB to ~600 MB.

Just a warning for people like me who tend to collect nice-sounding extensions and then forget to actually use them.

Good to know, thank you.

Didn't Google add this in October 2024: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7577057?hl=en

The changelog states: "Added support for “differential” uploads. When large files are edited, Drive for desktop will now upload only the parts of the file that changed."

If they did I'm jumping ship. Was literally my only reason for staying on Dropbox

TIL. For some reason I thought Drive for Desktop was discontinued years ago. Nice to see the regular updates.

This reminds me of this old plugin for Windows Home Server: https://www.green-it-software.com/products/lights-out-for-wh...

You could set a calendar schedule for waking up itself and backing up the clients, and at night the server would go into standby only if no clients were running anymore since X minutes.