@aaronage I am tempted to take a dremel to the screw to get the heat sink off which would at least answer the RAM chip model number question and give more certainty about which of the available vBIOS might work. But I’m clumsy and I will destroy something important in the process.

@aaronage It’s perfectly stable under Linux from what I can tell but from reading it sounds like the windows driver check for messed with firmware.

The only issue really is the low core clock and high ram clock which seems to be a mining thing. That’s hitting graphics benchmark performance a bit unsurprisingly.

@aaronage It seems well put together but a few things point to it being a “fake”. I wonder if the GPU itself has been scavenged off another card in the first place. 🤷

@nikdoof I love playing with slightly shit hardware. I’m £40 into this card even with new fans on the way so I’ll take a risk.

I hope that is the case. I’ve found some firmware that should work but I’m having major trouble finding straight info about what the consequences of getting it wrong are.

I’m trying to find a slightly less dodgy vBIOS for it with more standard clock speeds so I can get a decent level of performance out of it. However the chance of me turning it into a paperweight in the process are high. Watch this space. 😆

Oh and I can’t get the heat sink off to check chip markings because one of the previous owners rounded out one of the screws. So very dodgy!

In my cheap gaming rig antics my dodgy AMD RX 580 arrived from eBay. It is, as expected, pretty dodgy!

It’s got a sticker on it suggesting it’s an Asus card but it seems to be a bit of a mongrel and running a firmware with odd clock speeds optimised for crypto mining.

Oh and it’s missing a fan blade so I’ve removed the fan in question to stop it shaking itself apart.

It’s working under Linux albeit with sub-par peformance, but the Windows drivers won’t work with it at all (why it was cheap).

Next up: Tesla's Autopilot is actually just some dude in India driving your car with a Playstation controller.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actually-1-000-people-in-india-2024-4?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar

@sam Have you turned on this setting? My running specific instance is hovering at about 18GB after just over a month and a handful of users. It seems stable there.

@aaronage Hope you get away without any drama! 🤞

@ttscoff I clicked a Facebook link for you but I will admit that it was worth it.

Some dude on the radio:
"A solar eclipse is a regularly occurring natural phenomenon."

My brain:
"Phenomenon!
♪♫ Doot doooo, doo doo doo. ♪♫
Phenomenon!
♪♫ Doot, doo doot doo. ♪♫
Phenomenon!
♪♫ Doot, doooo, doo doo doo, doo doo doo, doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doot doot doooooo doo. ♪♫"

Here it is: my 2024 manifesto to be Mayor of London. Can any other candidate beat this? Not a chance! #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount #IchBinEinLondoner

20 years of #Ubuntu

@MnemosyneSinger

The Verge article on the best printer in 2024 is just completely brilliant in so many ways.

And also kinda sad.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework

The one positive of not having many people post of my instance at the moment is simply that I don't have to mute half the feed because it's not relevant to me.

People living in #Southampton you can save me from this lol

@linuxmatters Uh oh I’m doing it wrong!

@Quinnypig We switched everything to it more or less the moment it came out. It seems completely stable and has a lot of traction with big names in the terraform community. Who knows how it’ll pan out long term though.

@thelastpsion I try to write down the infinite project list. Oddly it helps me let go of them and calm the hell down. Sometimes one of them will be actually worth doing. 😆

@feld Thanks. I hate it.