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2027 RAM Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold out (www.ign.com)
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[–] 153 points 3 months ago (34 children)

Looks like I'm gonna keep on rocking my pre-Covid era computer without an upgrade for a few more years.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    My steam deck has become my all in one. Sucks memory card prices have leaped the past year. But I got a couple terabytes, so I'll be alright, just going to have to shuffle them around. But I'm cool with not having 240 hz 4k on Powerthirst settings. I got a back log anyways and a yard to get back into shape.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I got 3 6+ year old thinkpads that are all chugging along just fine. got them all for dirt cheap.

    But as another person said keep that shit for as long as possible and learn how to properly maintain it. New stuff is absolutely horrible. I recently had an ASUS laptop that fried itself after 3 years. was getting really wonky 2 years in.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I have an Asus laptop and the touchpad stopped working tue first week. Piece of garbage.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Asus laptops are such trash. Same with Acer. I kept seeing people recommend them but every time I bought one it came with a major manufacturing defect or some important component failed almost immediately.

    That happened to me three times and I had to return each laptop. So now when I buy a laptop, I only go for ThinkPads and MacBooks. And tbh it'll only be macs going forward because Lenovo can't be trusted.

    Say what you will about apple but their hardware quality can't be beaten and going forward there are people building Linux distros for them. So even when apple stops updating them you should have options.

    Only thing that sucks is MacBooks are crazy expensive. So I buy them used/refurbed from good sellers on eBay. Haven't had an issue yet.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    they really are horrible laptops, especially the ROG ones. Those things on day one you turn it on are like "alright, time to start killing myself". you can keep all the fans constantly clean, repaste them every few months, and they'll still cook themselves alive. and the AC adapter will die on you faster than the laptop itself. I had to replace the AC adapter on mine 3 times in 2 years.

    Friends don't let friends buy Asus laptops.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    This is wild to hear? What year(s) are we talking on these Asus laptops? Everything Asus I've bought has been rock solid, and I go out of my way to get their hardware. I haven't really bought any new systems or components in about 5 years though...

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (23 children)

    Keep it as long as possible, the new shit suuuucks, is built to break & riddled with adware.

    Back in my day ;) we had to worry about keeping up with the newest tech because you needed it for the best games or whatever.

    These days, my desktop from 2014 can run all of the new games that I want to play (yes, even the demanding ones) It has 32 gigs ram and a 1660 Ti. That's really all I need, especially since most of the games I enjoy AREN'T new.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 months ago (20 children)

    How is adware an issue? I haven’t had any of that with my Mint machine.

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  • [+] -30 points 3 months ago (19 children)

    It's baked into a ton of hardware updates these days. Trust me, in 5-10 years it'll be a big deal if we don't do something about it..like yesterday.

    Also, OS doesn't matter if it's a bios update.

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  • [–] 64 points 3 months ago* (18 children)

    That's...not how device firmware works.

    You're not going to get adware drivers on a Linux system unless you're using stuff that's supremely sketchy and also installing things you shouldn't be. What you're thinking of is 3rd party windows drivers.

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  • [+] -27 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Also, If your motherboard installs something through a bios update, that has nothing to do with your OS. It comes before.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Please point out the bios deployed adware you are talking about, or I'll have to assume you're just talking from vibes.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Lenovo had spyware baked into the chips that would reinstall itself if it was removed from the OS. It was a big thing.

    Although I believe that was just for Windows. But the functionality exists for them to do it to Linux if they decide to.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Multiple (most?) motherboard manufacturers have options to install drivers and software from the BIOS. So you don't have to go download it elsewhere just to get your system up and running.

    That setting can be turned off. In fact they usually turn themselves off after the first boot because otherwise it would prompt every time.

    But, you're referencing Lenovo, a full system integrator, not a separate hardware company. Of course the system integrators bundle shit, that's not new at all. They've done that for decades.

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  • [+] -11 points 3 months ago (5 children)
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  • [+] -19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Thank you, I'm too drunk to argue with this nerd ;)

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    well, that article disagrees with you though. That "feature" is only going to do anything to Windows installations.

    Also, OS doesn't matter if it's a bios update.

    The ASUS UEFI firmware exposes an ACPI table to Windows 10, called "WPBT" or "Windows Platform Binary Table". WPBT is used in the pre-built OEM industry, and is referred to as "the Vendor's Rootkit." Put simply, it is a script that makes Windows copy data from the BIOS to the System32 folder on the machine and execute it during Windows startup - every single time the system is booted.

    also, https://github.com/Jamesits/dropWPBT

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    That not how that shit is done.

    The BIOS just take care of the basics, but Windows do have an API allowing the BIOS to ask for the installation of additional drivers. That process was abused (and continue to be) by multiple hardware vendors to install spywares or adwares.
    Linux doesn't have that API, and just ignore such requests.

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  • [+] -27 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Android runs on Linux, wouldn't you agree that Android is compromised?

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Android depends on who gave it to you. If you install Linux from a parking lot flash drive it doesn't mean the Linux project is compromised, it means you got pwned.

    I'd make the same argument about installing pre-compromised pirated windows but...windows kinda just is malware now.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    It's actually scary how wrong you are while being so confident. It's not even just wrong but also so incredibly dumb. Doesn't matter if you're drunk or not, you're clearly an ignorant fucking idiot.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    is built to break

    honestly, i kinda agree to this, the current gaafets and mbcfets designs are like fuses on a nano scale if it doesn't have REALLY good power management. Unlike with finfets where the channels/source are still connected firmly on base to dissipate heat in case of a nasty power draw.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Luckily two and a half years ago I decided it was time for a new computer. I go more than a decade between new PCs so it was just really dumb luck that I got a new computer when I did. And the reason I can go so long between computers is because I always get way more RAM than I need when I get a new one.

    So given the current state of things, it's a little awkward to admit how much RAM is in my computer.

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