So let me see if I get this right. Because I'm intent on identifying THE ACTUAL CAUSE, "I'm protecting/making excuses for all involved".
Your type is the reason why we can't have the nice things.
And if it was, it is grounds for revocation of qualified immunity.
Considering that this case went at the absolute minimum before TWO different judges in two different jurisdictions, I suspect that this in fact was something else.
A problem with the system, where this woman was a catastrophic failure case. Which is why no one dares to issue an apology, because an apology would be seen as admission of guilt by that specific organization.
Meanwhile, there are at least two police/sheriff departments and at least two different courts involved. Who if anyone was "totally fucking incompetent" is going to be the crux of the case this woman's lawyers are probably researching and filing.
Best case scenario, everyone agrees on the point of failure in this case, fixes whatever it is and this woman gets a reasonable compensation for loss of income and time spent in jail. Worst case scenario is that this is some kind of a legal issue, i.e. fault lies with legislative for making the law the way it is and everyone involved both on executive and judicial side actually followed the law. Then getting any kind of meaningful restitution is going to be almost impossible.
LEOs don't punish people. Courts do. LEOs merely deliver people to courts when it is required.
There was a court order involved here. Judge decided she should be extradited. Not LEO.
The actual reason police can't apologize for these any more is legal precedent. Apology will be used in court as admission of guilt. So they can't apologize until the case is tried or settled.
This is a case of well intended protections in some areas leading to very bad second order effects elsewhere.
It's not that uncommon that people finger a wrong person in the line sadly. Machines are way more reliable than people in this, but this still happens.
But "let suspect sit in jail for five months and we don't even interview her when she has clear alibi" is the level of dereliction of duty that surely should lead to revocation of qualified immunity for whoever was responsible for being held this long without even a hearing, much less a trial?
Granted, that's going to be up to the judge, but the case seems utterly bizzarre if description is true. I'm going to wager a guess that there are some factors not being mentioned in the story.
I've actually no idea how Logitech's gaming software gets this data to output it on keyboard LCD screen, but in my experience it's dead accurate in that I don't start experiencing swapping slowdowns until it's showing well over 90% ram. It's also dead accurate in that I can reliably see software use/reserve similar amounts of RAM on start, specific use cases and so on.
I've used it for almost a decade on several different OS installs, and it has never failed in this regard.
To be fair on 8GB issue, you don't really need it yet if you're not a high end gamer or a power user.
I run an old 16GB machine with an active RAM tracker on a separate display that's on at all times. Until last 2 years, I saw it going above 50% only in two scenarios:
1. When I run a browser with a lot of active tabs + android emulator that reserves a good chunk of RAM + a decent game all at once.
2. When something has a memory leak and just slowly eats up ram.
I actually felt for years that I shouldn't have invested in 16GB, because it was just not getting used at all.
Last two years I started seeing production apps and games really lean into "we can use 16GB now" aspect. Now I can go to 70-90% used ram with game+browser with just a few active tabs. I.e. 16GB is good to have.
But this is a software problem. If current memory issues persist, there really shouldn't be that much problem for going back to "8GB is enough". It wasn't that long ago.
In general, companies like Asus have sorted this shit out quite well.
For example when Apple made ultrabooks fashionable, they made a line of them. When Steam Deck and GPD made tablet sized full PCs cool, they made that one too. When chromebooks became a thing, they made those. They even made a gaming phone when that was a thing.
Their problem right now isn't this sort of engineering problem. It's the cost problem. Memory is needed for basically everything and its price blew up. That drove consumption down. And now, a new product line may show up.
That means they're squeezed in revenue, profit margin AND product line at once. So they don't really have the budgets to allocate to develop new products as they used to, and any new products will need new memory allocations which are hard to secure right now.
And that is the real problem they can't talk about in public, because that would really hit the stock.
It's a good thing they're not investigating protesting, but, and I quote:
"which authorities were investigating for their connection to arson, vandalism and doxing."
"Your honor, I did try to burn down the building with people in it, but it was just protesting" goes even worse in court than "your honor, I did invade Capitol building without permission to enter".
Straight from the OP:
>"which authorities were investigating for their connection to arson, vandalism and doxing"
Courts grant wide ranging search warrants for much less than that. Especially when you're looking for organizers trying to do those things at scale. This is true for basically all nations within Western jurisprudence (with exception of France, where investigative Magistrate himself may show up at your door, and he and his people won't be nice about it).
Judicial system's job is to regulate these things. Here you have clear cut criminal activity, almost certainly a search warrant issued by the court, followed by a legal request to a foreign entity with similar laws, where their legal system evaluates the request, concludes that yes criminality of this sort has applicable laws in Switzerland and request is otherwise valid and request relevant information from a company running under their legal system.
Where's the problem?
Again, my point wasn't that some exceptional indies aren't outselling some shitty AAA games. But only a tiny handful of indies are Silksong, and only a tiny handful of AAA games are Concord.
Nvidia itself disagrees:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/d...
"NVIDIA Blackwell-architecture GPUs pack 208 billion transistors and are manufactured using a custom-built TSMC 4NP process".
Notably previous generation Hopper is also TSMC 4NM
You're probably thinking about who makes the RAM for these things, and one of the RAM partners is indeed Samsung. Other is SK Hynix.
You could also be thinking about older generation 30 series GPUs. Those were made on Samsung 8nm, and if memory serves me right, problems with that tech process were a part of why 30 series availability was abysmal even before ETH mining boom sucked all of them out of the market.
None of these are even close to Silksong's launch day. Frankly, none of them are even in the same ballpark. They're fun games, and they sold well, but volume of their success vs silksong demonstrates just how much of an outlier silksong was.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.
