reginald78

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by reginald78 2y ago
The 90s was an absolutely crazy period for PC hardware. So many flash in the pan companies making a novel devices and then dying entirely as their niche became obsolete. There used to be tons of display board manufacturers and very few of t
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by reginald78 2y ago
I remember reading a historical piece where the voodoos success was partially luck. At the time the first generation cards were being developed edo ram was super expensive so most competitive designs were hamstrung trying to do things with
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by reginald78 2y ago
I was browsing r/localllm recently and was surprised that some people were purchasing two 3060 12GB and using them in tandem somehow. I actually didn't think this would work at all without nvlink.
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by reginald78 2y ago
Windows has lost UI customization in every release since at least XP. RIP hotdog stand.
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by reginald78 2y ago
To me 2000 was the peak since it combined stability of NT with 98 UI and plug and play (which had gotten over its ugly early period). Also 98/2000 had a file search that actually worked, even if it was slow. XP added an animated dog to
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by reginald78 2y ago
I went to fire up my old Xbox 360 to play dance central with my kids and of course it had developed RRoD while sitting on a shelf in my basement. It seems emulation is a no go for kinect games as well.
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by reginald78 2y ago
Seems odd it is still fairly common, don't most people have detectors at this point?
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by reginald78 2y ago
I'm pretty sure their search results intentionally suck to make their ads more valuable.
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by reginald78 2y ago
I can't even remember reading any reports of read only failure due to flash exhaustion. I do remember boat loads of early SSDs, mostly sandforce based ones, spontaneously dying due to firmware bugs.
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by reginald78 2y ago
Yes, there won't be an Intel when they're done. Previous customers will be using AMD x86 or ARM after suffering being screwed by Broadcom for a few years.
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by reginald78 2y ago
The Toto soundtrack is an atrocious fit, completely bizarre choice given the tone.
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by reginald78 2y ago
Microsoft was forced to keep selling XP (Cut down 'Starter' edition was introduced for this IIRC) because Windows Vista was so bloated it was completely unusable on netbooks which is why they started using linux in the first place
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by reginald78 2y ago
Many custom build PCs had the fTPM disabled by default in the bios. It was buggy and caused performance issues on AMD systems at the time and since few people buying their own motherboards were using it, it was a pretty obvious fix for the
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by reginald78 2y ago
They could just disable Windows 10 through their updates or put it into some kind of read only mode. Basically a more extreme version of what they did with Windows 7 when it went EoL where they disabled wallpapers and showed a bunch of popu
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by reginald78 2y ago
You'd need memory chips with double the memory capacity to slap the extra vram in, at least without altering the memory bus width. And indeed, some third party modded entries like that seem to have shown up: https://www.toms
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by reginald78 2y ago
The generations are all fantasy type names in alphabetical order. The first was Alchemist (and the cards were things like A310) and the next is Celestial. Actually when I think about product names for GPUs and CPUs these seem above average
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by reginald78 2y ago
I actually think it is just the public nature of it all. If there's a bunch of twitter posts on your page complaining about the product being crap that you're ignoring that already says something. Whereas if you resolve them in pu
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by reginald78 2y ago
Back in the 80s my dad worked at a factory as a chemist. He said one dude who worked the night shift had put a cot in a closet. He'd come in and sleep basically his entire shift so he'd be well rested for his day job.
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by reginald78 2y ago
Things are so far gone at this point I'm perfectly willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater on this one.
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by reginald78 2y ago
With updates you actually never know. They can add them to what you purchased at any time. They can even turn your purchased product into a F2P crapfest.
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by reginald78 2y ago
I just disable the notifications entirely. If you don't want me to view it as a garbage dump stop putting all your garbage there.
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by reginald78 2y ago
I probably read the same thing, the most galling to me wasn't the failure rate it was that once you've failed you can never reapply.
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by reginald78 2y ago
Do skunks hunt chickens? We lost ours when we were a kid to raccoons and weasels. The later being better suited to getting into the coop. Our neighbor's chickens were devoured by black bears twice. They had one wily chicken that manage
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by reginald78 2y ago
I can't remember if this was Valorant related but I recall an article voicing concerns that physical hardware in PCs being used to identify users to ban and that the ban would persist when you purchased a used motherboard. Not a great
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by reginald78 2y ago
The TPM push predates the AI craze and I don't see this as a particularly strong compliment so this doesn't really follow to me. But the general idea isn't that crazy honestly. They already use your upload bandwidth via a bit
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by reginald78 2y ago
Was GDP ever meant to be used as a metric of success? It almost seems like it adds in all the broken window fallacies in the world and celebrates them as an achievement. The US broken scam healthcare system is likely a significant contribut
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by reginald78 2y ago
Valorant requires it for anticheat. The purpose is to prevent users from running unauthorized software on the computers they allegedly own. I wouldn't expect many examples to exist yet. You want to wait until almost everyone is on Wind
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by reginald78 2y ago
Preventing the user from running unauthorized software is the purpose of the TPM so that isn't much of a surprise.
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by reginald78 2y ago
I don't follow. They didn't fix it by installing ads in the start menu, making the command prompt take 4 second to load or constantly moving all the settings around. The fixed those things with security patches, which back then we
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by reginald78 2y ago
For me the answer is yes. It has been more important than upgrading the processor or anything else. But this depends upon your use case. If you're a tinkerer or even just some kind of traditional PC gamer Mac just isn't a fun plat

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