bobsterlobster

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by bobsterlobster 6mo ago
What a blast from the past. I still remember seeing it for the first time on my Socket A Athlon 1900+ pc.
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by bobsterlobster 6mo ago
>Did you buy this board already broken? Honestly I have no idea what this board has been through before getting to me. It had the PWM/Temp/RPM issue from the moment I got it. Maybe someone did break the chip. I'm gonna loo
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by bobsterlobster 6mo ago
I see, I see. That's an impressive amount of digging you did. Thanks for that. Think I could wire pin 88 to ground and basically fix it? Even if I do get it fully fixed, I think my project could be useful for motherboards that have the
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by bobsterlobster 6mo ago
Will do. Might be worth to look into it a little deeper.
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by bobsterlobster 6mo ago
There's only one page for my board: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/970-GAMING/support And I've tried a couple of versions available there. I was even able to find some beta/unreleased bioses that I
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by bobsterlobster 6mo ago
Your hunch is correct, I did not test the PS/2, serial or parallel ports, and I'm only using USB.
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by bobsterlobster 6mo ago
If windows crashes, then the audio generation crashes, so the fan will start to operate without PWM. Should default to 100%. At least that's how the PWM fans I have behave when the PWM signal suddenly disappears.
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by bobsterlobster 6mo ago
Interesting idea, I'll look into it.
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by bobsterlobster 6mo ago
I am not controlling a single fan though. It's wired to a fan hub, so the PWM signal is sent to all the fans in the system. I also wrote a companion windows application that reads CPU temps using PawnIO or HWiNFO which follow a curve t
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by bobsterlobster 6mo ago
Not sure how LLMs failed me, please elaborate. Also not sure how you found that model number, it's literally an F71878AD, here's proof: https://www.modders-inc.com/wp-content/uploads/image/2015/
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Built a cheap DIY fan controller because my motherboard never had working PWM(himthe.dev)
77 points by bobsterlobster 6mo ago|45 comments
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by bobsterlobster 6mo ago
MSI shipped a genuinely good motherboard and forgot to wire one chip, so PWM doesn't work. Instead of tossing the board or living with the noise, I decided to make lemonade. An Arduino Nano generates the 25kHz PWM signal, and a compani
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
Maybe you're right. After all, I haven't lived countless centuries, so I have no idea what it's like. But I believe life gives life meaning, and we can agree to disagree on that. Still, curing aging doesn't mean defeatin
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
Not aging does not mean infinite life. Not only can you end it whenever you want, but you can still have accidents or win a Darwin Award. Also, longer lifespans open up space exploration and so much more. Anyway, I don't know if I want
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
Why do people use The Last Answer by Isaac Asiimov to justify that dying is ok? If anything I find it a great reason to not like the idea of an afterlife. But living as a human, you can do so much more than just thinking.
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
why's that?
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We Must Cure Aging(himthe.dev)
5 points by bobsterlobster 8mo ago|9 comments
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
I agree with you that there's some friction involved and a bunch of trade-offs. The thing is that I absolutely lost it, because of the bugs and the ads, and just wanted something reliable that doesn't nag me all the time. I know t
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
I don't think it's Stockholm Syndrome, rather it's a classic case of sunken cost fallacy. For me at least, that's what it was. I had invested so much time in Ableton (~14 years) and didn't feel like starting from sc
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
Thank you! Sadly, the one I posted is outdated too. I tried looking around for the newest one because I had seen it before, but couldn't find it anymore. The list was ~30% longer.
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
lol! Sorry about the clickbait. Everyone's doing it nowadays, and I wanted to follow. Gonna think of a better title next time
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
Last time I looked on stat counter it showed 4 and something percent. That's where I pulled the number from. But it seems they updated it to 3.86 now. It's so over for the Linux community.
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
At this point I'd say it's more of a "would" than a "could"
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
Yeah, until microsoft says "Sup there lil buddy? Running an unsupported system? Oof. The next update is gonna really turn it inside-out"
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
Honestly that's what it feels like when something breaks. Linux - you see what's wrong, you fix it, it's done Windows - you pull your hair out trying to figure out what caused the issue, you fix it, it's back with the ne
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
I totally get that. But I read about it, and that custom kernel with the BORE scheduler really caught my eye, especially for music & gaming. I know a lot of people suffer from shiny object syndrome, and to some extent I do too (realisti
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
Awesome, good to know that, and glad to be here
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
Uninstalled with DDU, switched to multiple versions back. But it wasn't the nvidia driver, and I proved that when I switched to an insider build and the flickers were gone :D
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
Calling 4-5% marketshare microscopic is not fair. I get it if it was still stuck at 1%, but it's growing, and the rate of growth has been increasing too.
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by bobsterlobster 8mo ago
The nvidia gods smile upon me, zero issues except the one I mentioned in the article. They do have to fix VKD3D performance though, 10-30% perf loss on Intel/Nvidia hardware when playing DX12 games.

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