The sort of protections that you’re offered by your CPU and modern OSes aren’t offered by GPUs and their libraries, yet. So you’re back in the '80s, when your Mac or MS-DOS machine would crash hard on the smallest issue. That’s life, I’m afraid.
Lower settings. Sorry, thats all there is to it. 8GB is not a lot these days (i have two older cards in my PC and they’re both 12). Textures, screen resolution, there’s a bunch you can do.
Crashes are unavoidable, given that everyone wants max performance everywhere, things get shipped with all the debugging and checking stripped.
US physicians: read https://canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/03/25/i-traded-my-u-s-medical-career-for-life-in-canada-heres-how-the-two-health-systems-stack-up. I think you’re most welcome here :)
It’s just much easier to stop using them. Remember: its founder and largest shareholder (I guess) was one of the billionaire groupies standing behind Trumd during his inauguration. Canadians should not be shopping on Amazon.
Note that most of that fee (80%) goes to the issuing bank. The rest is split between network (“the logo on you card”) and the actual payment processor.
Yes, it’s still .15% that visa or mc take but still (also, I think visa was a cooperative at one point held by all the member banks, not sure that still is the case). And CCs are dumb but that’s not the point here :)
(Source: https://www.retailcouncil.org/payment-and-credit-card-fees/)
I ran e/OS on an old OnePlus for a year, quite close to GrapheneOS and mostly just as free of Google. There are plenty of options out there to run a degoogled Android these days.
But yes, running GrapheneOS on a brand new Pixel Pro right now, couldn’t be happier.
I think French and Heinz use Canadian tomatoes. So does the bottle of Compliments in my fridge. I guess we grow more tomatoes than we realize :)
While I won’t say that writing a text editor or rewriting (base) Emacs is easy, I think it is all about the ecosystem. There’s lots of Emacs reimplementations out there, some really good ones (like Lem), but they all have the same shortcoming: “no org mode”, “no magit”, and so on.
Emacs has a truly enormous ecosystem and only a reimplementation that runs everything unchanged has a chance of attracting enough attention. There was a time that that was seen as a worthwhile venture: Elisp was limited and slow. However, now with CL compatibilty and native compilation, I don’t see it happening. Not in the sense of something standing up that can and will actually replace Emacs.
Worse is better :-)