Sun on Nostr: How about something interesting that is tangentially related to cryptocurrency? ...
How about something interesting that is tangentially related to cryptocurrency?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zbw_A9dIWM
So, the yields on PS5 production aren't perfect. Some of the boards/chips have defects and can't be used for a PS5. So the company that manufactures them takes the semi-working boards and repurposes them as linux-based bitcoin miners.
Someone took out the PS5 board, got it running with full GPU using an older version of Linux kernel (later versions mysteriously gimped them) and got PS3 games running on them, proving that it was certainly possible to make the PS5 be PS3 compatible despite Sony's claims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zbw_A9dIWM
So, the yields on PS5 production aren't perfect. Some of the boards/chips have defects and can't be used for a PS5. So the company that manufactures them takes the semi-working boards and repurposes them as linux-based bitcoin miners.
Someone took out the PS5 board, got it running with full GPU using an older version of Linux kernel (later versions mysteriously gimped them) and got PS3 games running on them, proving that it was certainly possible to make the PS5 be PS3 compatible despite Sony's claims.