• Remarkably uncontaminated with cheese: The 5070 Ti has sold out.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  In minutes.
  
  The $750 sacrificial edition?  Sold out.
  
  The $1000 costs-as-much-as-a-5080 edition?  Sold out.
  
  Everything in between?  Sold out as last week's limburger.
  
  You can expect new stock in two to six weeks, at which point it will burn down, fall over, and sell out.
  
  The 5090 could take as long as 14 weeks to restock.
  
  
  
• Launches of the 5070 and 5060 could be delayed due to a sudden total existence failure.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Or not.  They might just continue with the 90% post-consumer waste launches.
  
  
  
• My graphics card has shipped.
  
  Quick note on that: The 5070 Ti has listed in Australia at an effective exchange rate of $1 to A$2, which is even worse than the real exchange rate.  The $750 sacrificial card is A$1500, though of course it's not available at all in either country.
  
  Comparing retail prices on the Radeon 7800 XT that I bought, the conversion is more like $1 to A$1.25, which is much better than the real exchange rate.
  
  I don't know precisely why, but this card is a great buy in Australia but only meh in the US.  Unless something really surprising happens with AMD's new cards, I made the right decision.
  
  I expect the 9070 XT to offer 25% to 50% better performance than the 7800 XT, but cost twice as much in Australia.  America is another country.

• How Bluesky loses posts from your timeline.  (Jazco)
  
  If you follow hundreds of thousands of people.
  
  In which case (a) this is necessary and (b) you deserve it.
  
  
  
• Xbox Game Pass was supposed to be the Netflix of gaming - what happened?  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  Sadly it turned out instead to be the Netflix of gaming.
  
  
  
• Amazon is shutting down its app store on Android.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  To be clear, it is not shutting down the Amazon app store on Amazon devices running Android, because Amazon doesn't call them Android devices even though they are.
  
  It is shutting down the Amazon app store on third-party Android devices, because basically nobody uses it.
  
  
  

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Posted by: Joe Redfield at Saturday, February 22 2025 04:39 AM (KOtXO)

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