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| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 21-02-07, 02:54 (revision 1)
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Post: #391 of 426
Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 498 days Last view: 13 days |
Okay, in Australia they've stopped constantly showing him (Trump) in the news cycle each day. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-02-10, 23:48 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #902 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 13 hours |
And in Soviet Venezuela, the commies just did a s/Trump/Biden/ over its regurgitated party line discourse and moved on. In the meanwhile, nobody cares~ Anyway, speaking about USA! USA! USA! and bleeding-edge semiconductor fabs, it seems not only TSMC is looking to protect the supply chains of its customers by building a PRO GEAR SPEC fab on American soil, now Samsung is about to do the same: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16483/samsung-in-the-usa-a-17-billion-usd-fab-by-late-2023 If this fab finally comes to life, nVidia and Qualcomm shouldn't be found themselves fighting for scraps against the crApple 5nm monopoly for long. As a bonus, this should double as a quite expensive insurance against fatass Kim nukes directed to the other Korean peninsula half. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-02-11, 05:44
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Custom title here
 Post: #982 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by tomman Hooray! ... You know, as wild and crazy as Kim Jong Un appears, I don't believe he would ACTUALLY nuke South Korea. He talks a big talk, but I am reasonably certain he's aware that's a fast way to turn North Korea into glass. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-03-06, 14:36
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Dinosaur
Post: #915 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 13 hours |
Remember the SMR HDD debacle, where every single HDD manufacturer secretly conspired against you, the consumer, by swapping ho-hum CMR HDDs with SMR junk unsuitable for anything but data hoarding? Well, a bunch of slimy lawyers hit Western Digital (the biggest liars on this SMR saga) with a lawsuit, and they want your input if you fell into this scam: https://www.hattislaw.com/cases/investigations/western-digital-lawsuit-for-shipping-slower-smr-hard-drives-including-wd-red-nas/ Too bad we all know the outcome of this: if they win the lawsuit, WD will have to pay millions, 90% of it that will end into said slimy lawyers' pockets, and the victims (that's you and me!) will get at best a $5-off coupon for another SMR HDD, and maybe a free download for some shitty backup software. Or simply a coupon for the latter. But it's the principle that matters. Hurt Western Digital plenty, pretty please! Oh, and don't forget to BACKUP YO SHIT, people! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-04-06, 22:55
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Dinosaur
Post: #931 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 13 hours |
Lenovo is using AMD PSB to vendoer lock AMD CPUs WTF AMD, this is a new low for you guys. This is some Apple-tier bullshit, and not even Intel would fall THAT low. Vendor locked HDDs are very common on the server arena, but vendor-locked x86 CPUs too?! As in "won't even boot if not mated to the vendor-approved motherboard", and "efuse-protected, so no BIOS/firmware hacks will work around"?! Ugh... computers SUCK. Lenovo, welcome to the shitlist! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-10-18, 22:05 (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1007 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 13 hours |
APPLE!!! So Apple came with their latest designer-thin laptops, whose features are to be cloned by the rest of non-Apple OEMs, making computers even more terrible. The good parts: - Improved M1 CPUs (M1 Pro, M1 Max) - Up to 64GB RAM. - GPU that supposedly rivals gaming-grade mobile nVidias in performance - quite the bold claim for a company whose only involvement in gaming is on cellphones! - The return of HDMI ports and SD card slots. ("slots? ports?! Who need those!? I've never used a slot/port, therefore nobody needs those!") - The touchbar is gone, bringing back sanity to Apple keyboards. The shitty parts: - NOTCHED displays. On a frickin' LAPTOP. What the fuck, Apple. No, seriously, WHAT THE FUCK!? Who asked for this!? Bezels are there for a reason!!! Now wait for notched computer displays fucking everywhere, for no good reason other than APPLE DID IT!!! - Still thin because it gotta be theeeeeeeeen. In the meanwhile, the sperm banks of California are reporting lifetime records today on sperm donations - in fact they're overwhelmed due to the insane amounts coming from Apple fanboys around Silicon Valley. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-11-16, 01:16
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Dinosaur
Post: #1011 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 13 hours |
Seagate Creates an NVME Hard Disk Drive So, Suckgate finally brought the worst parts of storage (spinny rust, high latency, subpar random I/O performance, shingles, butter platters, self-destroying drives) to a interface designed mainly for GOTTA GO FAST solid storage devices. WHY. But then, they aren't the first that tried to shoehorn a native PCIe interface into a good ol' HDD: remember SATA Express? No? Can't blame you, as that interface went nowhere, but at least Western Digital toyed with the idea of native PCIe HDDs a few years ago... In any case: friends don't let friends buy Suckgate, backup yo' shit, blah blah blah... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-11-16, 01:41
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Post: #1030 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 4 hours |
I do remember SATA Express! Lost to M2 and U2. Because we gotta make sure home users and businesses have different standards. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| wertigon |
Posted on 21-11-17, 14:23 (revision 4)
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Post: #166 of 205
Since: 11-24-18 Last post: 155 days Last view: 27 days |
Posted by tomman I like 'em big, I like 'em chunky... Posted by tomman Not *quite* as stupid as you'd think. The world is moving towards more and more PCIe-only connectors. It would not surprise me if a motherboard five years from now would come with 10 m.2 slots and three add-in cards, one for something like six fan headers, one for legacy SATA and one for Wifi, or something. Only other connectors are power, a couple of fans (CPU + Case fans) and front I/O - but most of those could also go on the m.2 connectors, except for the Rst/Pwr/PwrLED/HDDLED connector. This would *vastly* simplify motherboard development, with the only question being how many PCIe lanes do ya really need, punk? (According to Epyc it's 128) But, I do agree - why not simply an m.2 -> SATA power + data cable instead of mucking around with an incompatible drive interface, or why not simply an HDD as a 1x PCIe extension card? Posted by CaptainJistuce More like, Hurr durr laptops bettar than desktops man, gotta get those sweet cheap and fast m.2 drives onto desktop to save MONIEZ! Also, NEED THAT SPEED! |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-11-17, 20:49
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Post: #1031 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 4 hours |
My point was more "there are two standards that do the exact same thing in incompatible ways because market segregation". --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| funkyass |
Posted on 21-11-17, 23:57
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Post: #197 of 202
Since: 11-01-18 Last post: 660 days Last view: 15 days |
Sata express was hey, SSD's are getting super fast, lets add a PCIe connect to our sata drives! And everyone else, why bother, hook the SSD's directly to the Bus man! Seagate, many years later: wait, lets also do that with old HDDs and get rid of a bunch of cables and middlemen inside the racks. |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-01-25, 17:12 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1042 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 13 hours |
Apparently noVideo is giving up with its planned purchase of Acorn RISC Machines, and it's all thanks to the competition, the US, the EU... but mainly China, which swore to NEVER EVER APPROVE THE MERGER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, EVER! https://archive.fo/NEg6u I mean, why nVidia does even need to buy ARM in first place if they want to control the full stack? Do they don't have an architectural license? The very same that Apple has had since the very beginning, which led them all the way from the Newton up to the Holy Grail of all ARM SoCs, the M1 series. Also, can't believe ARM is worth less than Activision-Blizzard, whose main business line these days relies on content for -you guessed it!- ARM-powered devices! In any case, since nVidia is going "screw y'all, I'm going home", wonder what SoftBank will do with it: remember, they still have a $150B hole to fill in their accounting! At this stage, I guess their only option would be an IPO. UPDATE (2022/02/08): IPO it is: https://www.reuters.com/business/softbanks-66-bln-sale-arm-nvidia-collapses-ft-2022-02-08/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/08/arm_cancels_sale_to_nvidia/ Good luck next century, noVideo. We don't need more monopolies in tech, or anywhere else, thank you very much~ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| desudesu |
Posted on 22-02-22, 12:55 (revision 1)
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Post: #22 of 62
Since: 01-29-22 Last post: 864 days Last view: 864 days |
Well, thank fuck for that. On that note, I want someone to actually fucking buy Discord just to make everyone quit it. Either the pr0n will be banned on an acquisition or they will actually bother scanning DMs properly: both will drive people away to the point that about 80% of the userbase who initially joined/heard of it in 2015-early 2018 (before nerd culture and being terminally online somehow became cool, basically) will flee for other, almost certainly proprietary platforms. Discord, Twitter, Tumblr, 4chan and Reddit are one and the same these days, there's virtually no individuality between any of them, and it's sad. The day modern day people stop being sheep and succumbing to proprietary platforms (who aren't unironic "socialists"/"fascists" of any variety) the better. |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-05-25, 11:46
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Dinosaur
Post: #1103 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 13 hours |
AMD just https://www.anandtech.com/show/17400/amd-announces-mendocino-apu-6nm-mainstream-mobile-zen-2-laptop-chip-coming-in-q4 From the specs, it seems to be basically a die shrink of Steam Deck's custom APU, but now available for cheap laptops. ...and it had to reuse an Intel codename that for some evokes good memories (Mendocinos were fine overclockers), and for others, very sour ones (Celerons were often paired to garbage mainstream junk from Compaq and others). Ah well, at least Mendocino, California can now boast about being represented on TWO decent-ish x86 CPUs. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-07, 00:27
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Dinosaur
Post: #1117 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 13 hours |
APPLE!!! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31643917 Wasn't iOS supposed to kill the Mac? Or is now the other way around? Also, you haven't updated your Apple gear yet - go go go! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-15, 00:06
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Dinosaur
Post: #1122 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 13 hours |
Yet another name-and-logo CPU vulnerability, because security researchers sole goal in life is to make our computers even slower (if software bloat hasn't achieved that yet): https://www.hertzbleed.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31743110 *yawn* Thankfully my threat model is "mitigations=off and GTFO - I paid good money for all those megahurtz!". Time to add security researches to my shitlist? Oh, silly Intel - asking researchers to extend their NDAs won't fix your BROKEN CPUs! To the shitlist with you too! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-06-15, 04:03
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Post: #1081 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 4 hours |
Also the PACMAN attack. http://pacmanattack.com/ The most surprising part is that the URL wasn't taken. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-16, 22:09 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1124 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 13 hours |
Intel continues half-assing the launch of their highly awaited discrete GPUs: https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-arc-a380-available-china/ https://www.servethehome.com/intel-arc-a380-gpu-is-out-in-china/ Enter... the Arc A380?! Apparently the A3 is the low-end series, so I don't know if $150 is a reasonable price for this thing (although the TDP is quite high for such a low end part). Also, only available in China for whatever reason, because of neverending hardware shortages. Nice to see that the Chinese market now has two mostly failed products bearing the A380 name specifically being targeted at them: the superjumbo Airbus that was designed for high density markets like China (and on where a grand total of FIVE planes were sold... and two of them were permanently retired recently), and a Intel GPU that most likely will fly under the radar because Intel is not being serious with this (is it too soon for the i740 flashbacks?). The A7 series are supposedly to be the high-tier flagships, to be released someday. Can't wait for the A747 Jumbographics! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| desudesu |
Posted on 22-06-16, 22:11 (revision 1)
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Post: #29 of 62
Since: 01-29-22 Last post: 864 days Last view: 864 days |
The first thing that popped into my head when I read A380 was one of the Dingoo handhelds, funny enough, which was inferior to the original A320 (and in itself not even produced by the original people afaik), so that's something else heh. >only available in China because of neverending hardware shortages I'm not sure that translates to 'shipping shortages'. Intel are just talking shit. :P |
| creaothceann |
Posted on 22-07-09, 23:57
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 Post: #409 of 456 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 44 days Last view: 1 day |
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32028511 https://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/vv8i7w/hour_40k_problem_for_sandisk_ssds/ My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10 |
