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my favourite addition since the 80s has been the unrelenting, unquestioned, ubiquitous and permanent inclusion of numerous iterations of poorly planned and exec

my favourite addition since the 80s has been the unrelenting, unquestioned, ubiquitous and permanent inclusion of numerous iterations of poorly planned and executed management engine frameworks designed to completely ablate the user from the experience of general computing in the service of perpetual and mandatory DRM and security theatricality. the best aspect of this new feature is that not only is your processor effectively indifferent from a rented pressure washer, but on a long enough timeline the indelible omniscient slavemaster to which your IO is subservient can and will always find itself hacked. One of the biggest features missing from 80s processors was the ability to watch a C level cog from a multinational conglomerate squirm in an overstarched tom ford three piece as tech journalists methodically connect the dots between a corpulent scumbag and a hastily constructed excuse to hobble user freedoms at the behest of the next minions movie to arrive finally at a conclusion that takes said chipmakers stock to the barber. oh and chips come with light up fans and crap now but theres no open standard on how to control the light color so everyone just leaves it in Liberace disco mode so its like a wonderful little rainbow coloured pride parade is marching through my case.

hulitu 5y ago
You are preaching to the choir. People don't care about security. They just want to see their Netflix 320x240 px movie marketed as HD.
hengheng 5y ago
Are you alright
- B1FF_PSUVM 5y ago
  He's pining for the freedoms. For a while it seemed that senator-level freedom would be available to the great unwashed, but it was but a mirage. Carry on.
Kuinox 5y ago
Is that a GPT3 generated text ? It must be.
- glouwbug 5y ago
  Reading this feels like I'm reading a book in a dream
- speed_spread 5y ago
  For once I think it's just an honest to god drug addled heartfelt rant.
  - BizarroLand 5y ago
    I'm hearing an impassioned cry from someone who is devastated by the sequence of events that lead to modern computing being a system to control the masses instead of a system where the masses were free. It used to be that you could do almost anything with impunity on the internet, trade books and mp3's, bitch on forum posts anonymously and anything less than the CIA getting a federal warrant (which they never did because even if they could see what you were doing it was obvious you were just being an edgy teen) would mean that your bullshit would be hidden and lost to the annals of time. Now if you post something edgy on Reddit and someone takes offense to it then they can track down your twitter and insta and fb and swat your house and get you fired and turn you into a social pariah. Hopefully this is obvious hyperbole, just saying that I get where they're coming from. From before the Matrix made the internet seem like it was cool and full of vigilante Jesus bullet-dodging ninjas with infinite guns and everyone wore black leather and hacked into the mainframe. There was a time when the internet was mostly text and pretty much sucked but that was still amazing and beautiful and now it's an all out slugfest between 5 billion people all bickering and posing for points, fame and fortune from the other 5 billion humans on the same 5 websites while corporations spur the up and comers into greater feats of dickishness in order to garner attention that can then be used to possibly sell some random cream made by child labor in Morocco to fight off a butt wrinkle or something stupid like that that doesn't matter. The internet is an amazing thing and computers are amazing but this ship did not end up where its original captains were sailing it and no one knows if we could ever turn back.
Epiphany21 5y ago
>oh and chips come with light up fans and crap now but theres no open standard on how to control the light color so everyone just leaves it in Liberace disco mode This is why I continue to pay a premium for workstation/server grade hardware even when I'm assembling the system myself.
nyolfen 5y ago
check out coolero, it's foss for controlling cpu coolers that can handle lighting for a lot of them https://gitlab.com/codifryed/coolero https://gitlab.com/codifryed/coolero
- 7speter 5y ago
  And here I am lead to believe openrgb was consolidating all of these Voss attempts to get all rgb working in one application
- FridgeSeal 5y ago
  Does it avoid setting off Epic’s garbage EAC software? Most of the other lighting software sets it off because for whatever reason, they appear to do something with running processes or windows registry or something that causes EAC to panic and crash my computer. The default ASUS motherboard lighting controls set it off because apparently they aggressively reach into the running game binary in order to set the lighting appropriately.
- ant6n 5y ago
  I love this small hn moment where somebody complaints about A) threats to freedom and privacy of computing B) that it is difficult to control the lights of cpu coolers And there will be very helpful responses fixing B).
  - hulitu 5y ago
    You will love it more later when you will see that this is ' think of the children " moment. First they control the CPU, then the OS and then they control you.
voldacar 5y ago
this has a beautiful stream of consciousness quality to it. do you write somewhere? agreed on all points too
AggroVanGogh 5y ago
Parklife!

hulitu 5y ago

You are preaching to the choir. People don't care about security. They just want to see their Netflix 320x240 px movie marketed as HD.

hengheng 5y ago

Are you alright

B1FF_PSUVM 5y ago
He's pining for the freedoms. For a while it seemed that senator-level freedom would be available to the great unwashed, but it was but a mirage. Carry on.

Kuinox 5y ago

Is that a GPT3 generated text ? It must be.

glouwbug 5y ago
Reading this feels like I'm reading a book in a dream
speed_spread 5y ago
For once I think it's just an honest to god drug addled heartfelt rant.
- BizarroLand 5y ago
  I'm hearing an impassioned cry from someone who is devastated by the sequence of events that lead to modern computing being a system to control the masses instead of a system where the masses were free. It used to be that you could do almost anything with impunity on the internet, trade books and mp3's, bitch on forum posts anonymously and anything less than the CIA getting a federal warrant (which they never did because even if they could see what you were doing it was obvious you were just being an edgy teen) would mean that your bullshit would be hidden and lost to the annals of time. Now if you post something edgy on Reddit and someone takes offense to it then they can track down your twitter and insta and fb and swat your house and get you fired and turn you into a social pariah. Hopefully this is obvious hyperbole, just saying that I get where they're coming from. From before the Matrix made the internet seem like it was cool and full of vigilante Jesus bullet-dodging ninjas with infinite guns and everyone wore black leather and hacked into the mainframe. There was a time when the internet was mostly text and pretty much sucked but that was still amazing and beautiful and now it's an all out slugfest between 5 billion people all bickering and posing for points, fame and fortune from the other 5 billion humans on the same 5 websites while corporations spur the up and comers into greater feats of dickishness in order to garner attention that can then be used to possibly sell some random cream made by child labor in Morocco to fight off a butt wrinkle or something stupid like that that doesn't matter. The internet is an amazing thing and computers are amazing but this ship did not end up where its original captains were sailing it and no one knows if we could ever turn back.

Epiphany21 5y ago

>oh and chips come with light up fans and crap now but theres no open standard on how to control the light color so everyone just leaves it in Liberace disco mode This is why I continue to pay a premium for workstation/server grade hardware even when I'm assembling the system myself.

nyolfen 5y ago

check out coolero, it's foss for controlling cpu coolers that can handle lighting for a lot of them https://gitlab.com/codifryed/coolero https://gitlab.com/codifryed/coolero

7speter 5y ago
And here I am lead to believe openrgb was consolidating all of these Voss attempts to get all rgb working in one application
FridgeSeal 5y ago
Does it avoid setting off Epic’s garbage EAC software? Most of the other lighting software sets it off because for whatever reason, they appear to do something with running processes or windows registry or something that causes EAC to panic and crash my computer. The default ASUS motherboard lighting controls set it off because apparently they aggressively reach into the running game binary in order to set the lighting appropriately.
ant6n 5y ago
I love this small hn moment where somebody complaints about A) threats to freedom and privacy of computing B) that it is difficult to control the lights of cpu coolers And there will be very helpful responses fixing B).
- hulitu 5y ago
  You will love it more later when you will see that this is ' think of the children " moment. First they control the CPU, then the OS and then they control you.

voldacar 5y ago

this has a beautiful stream of consciousness quality to it. do you write somewhere? agreed on all points too

AggroVanGogh 5y ago

Parklife!