What a reach

Last time I heard him say something was “completely dead” it was about Heichachi

Oh I dunno, it only has to be new to me. I’ve spent the last few days swapping around some GPUs that came out circa 2010, seeing if I can get them working with folding@home. Fun enough as it is, but I’m sure it would have been way more fun with Windows.

Sorry, the installer you used played ads while you waited? Like, with audio? Where the fuck did you find that thing? Scrolling text for AMD’s other products, sure, but I’ve never downloaded anything so egregious from AMD’s website

Also something to remember, if you really need Windows back it can be reinstalled almost as easily as any Linux distro. You flash an .iso to a USB, download massgrave, and you’re set.

For sure the ideal is not needing Windows at all, but as one of those people who do need it and find myself reinstalling it fairly often (niche VR hardware), it’s easier to make the leap to wipe a Windows install when you know you can get it back without too much fuss.

If it ruined him, it did so before he had anything to do with Tesla.

That Tesla started with reasonable (if misguided) intentions, I can believe. But only before Musk, who was born rich, got involved.

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of course i know, or id have put my money where my mouth is, and ram alone is too pricey for that now. id have to get a new motherboard too. i love my op cpu, this pc rocks when it’s working (which is 99% of the time), but when training time comes it’s still frustrating that the new shit is so busted for me

Honestly I think DDR4 is the right call for an everyday-use PC anyway. I might be showing my ignorance here, but when I upgraded my PC I got DDR5-6000 and the memory training times are INSANE. The first few times I tried to boot I wound up restarting because 5 mins after hitting the button it still hadn’t shown the manufacturer’s logo and I assumed it was busted. Once it finally does finish the training, it usually doesn’t have to do it again for a while… but sometimes it does! Totally randomly (as far as I can tell), I’ll go for a quick reboot, maybe swapping from my Linux install back over to Windows or something, and what should be a 15 second wait is now suddenly a full 5+ minutes.

Near as I can tell, DDR5 Just Does That Sometimes??? How is that an upgrade!? I guess I’m probably seeing some performance gains from the faster timing, but man, sometimes I think I’d trade it in exchange for never having to wait on a black screen for minutes at a time.

There is an audience for it, sure, but I can’t imagine it’s big enough to sustain the sheer number of these clones getting produced. It’s gotta be some kinda money laundering scheme, no?

My neighbor’s is “a series of tubes”

Huesos de gato

Yeah idk I feel like this copypasta loses a lot of steam when it’s separated from its satire of the 2nd amendment

I’m torn between being jealous and annoyed because those things are basically motorcycles. There’s a bike/pedestrian path near me that I often use and one of its rules is “no motorized vehicles,” to the extent people get tickets for using those electric rent-a-scooter things on there. But apparently people zooming past at 40mph, 2 feet away from someone walking their dog, is fine, cuz technically it has pedals

I wouldn’t excuse the other two either. They’re more quiet about it, but it was their choice to quit and enable Clarkson to take the show somewhere else after he got fired for punching that guy

Yeah, and I’m not sure that a drug that reverses the symptoms is a realistic target anyway. As far as I’m aware, Alzheimer’s ultimately kills neurons. They ain’t coming back without a time machine. A treatment that stops degeneration is as good a goal as we’re gonna get.

Like, if I lose a limb in a car accident, is it really fair to say that the intervention required to let me live on as an amputee didn’t work, since it couldn’t grow my limb back?

Yeah I have issues with my home setup at least that often. I can only think of two occasions where the solution took more effort than a reboot. Maybe we’re all just old enough for “every 6 months” to feel like every 5 mins

To clarify, by “issues” I mean “system stoppages not precipitated by me fucking with something.” I screw up my own system way more often than that lol

This guy also writes the excellent webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons. Hmm I don’t recall seeing any large goblin asses though, mostly just washboard abs…

I think the price difference has more to do with scale than it does data. The main reason good, simple products can’t be cheaper is because the small companies who make them can’t put in the same gigantic bulk orders of raw materials, nor do they have the specialized manufacturing processes or assembly lines.

The data is damn near an afterthought. Putting a touchscreen on a fridge is a great way to pretend a piece of shit is a premium product. If they can scrape your data too, then for sure they’ll go for it, but the main reason the screen is on there is because most people are still buying that shit.

“Male and female” were synonyms for “large and small,” huh? I hope you manage to get past the first sentence of an article one day

Before you come at me with the end of that paragraph, try reading the end of it too. Still not a binary!