Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 16:26

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by Bruninho

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My posts were deleted too. Everyone involved got a PM from him warning about community standards . Something users like appiah4 and xcomcmdr seem to ignore. Both like to bash and harass apple users on this forum, and they also like to start a flame war about that. It's not their first time doing …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 13:58

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by Bruninho

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I'd just buy a new one. I respect the laws. I hope your monitor won't explode on your face for doing an illegal and unauthorized repair and that you fully knew the risks in doing so. The repair specialist showed me he chose high quality MIJ capacitors and allowed me to watch him for the entire …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 13:23

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by Bruninho

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Unauthorized repair shops not doing authorized repairs should be prosecuted by the law, because it is illegal. 3rd party repair shops are not trustworthy. Right to Repair is illegal. End of story. Wow. Just. Wow. My Asus PA249Q monitor failed to turn on this February. I brought it to Asus' own …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 12:35

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by Bruninho

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I will just say it once more and for the last time ever on this thread, seeing that I am still being mentioned here even though the moderator reopened the thread on good faith that people would move on. Right to Repair is illegal and should be shut up, end period. Nobody should have a say on how …

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Re: Virtual Machine with 3D-Acceleration for Windows 9x?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 04:25

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by Bruninho

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VMware only presents a Direct3D supported card for XP and later. Other options are QEMU with a patch as mentioned above, or QEMU with GPU passthrough, assuming that you have two gpus. Then there is a long time dead, unfinished project to bring Voodoo2 emulation to QEMU, the original author is …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 00:56

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by Bruninho

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And defending "he correct way to ask for a better, cheaper repair" is supporting RtoR. There is no other way, and that has been discussed many times over internet already... Nope. Supporting RtoR is not the right way. The right way is fighting for a law to make manufacturers pursue cheaper repair …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 00:46

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by Bruninho

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Your sources on the first? Where is your source what i'm saying is a false claim? And talking again your experiences... THAT'S YOUR EXPERIENCE. I also have shared mine with you. Why you can't accept mine is as real as yours? Apple has told you to be friendly with diverse opinions, which you aren't …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 00:39

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by Bruninho

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I partially agree with this. Yes, the right to repair program should also focus on having manufacturer-provided training programs, and I mean training programs that don't have flowcharts that read diagnose problem > replace entire part. That doesn't help the e-waste problem. But then when a product …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 00:27

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by Bruninho

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You keep maintaining, but you don't offer more arguments than "but... but is MANUFACTURER RIGHT to corrupt the ecosystem and screw their customers and people in general due corruption and interest colliding on the ecosystem". And as the cherry on the pay, you sign with "This is the RIGHT thing to …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 23:55

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by Bruninho

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In my opinion, this right to repair fight is more about getting manufacturers to actually distribute parts/documentation so even third party professionals are able to repair electronics. RtoR wants them to be available to the people in general, which is the main point I strongly disagree, only …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 23:18

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by Bruninho

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And now you are talking about soldering from nowhere... In a forum dedicated to bring new life to vintage equipment... Buddy, that will not fly here. Do you think we only would be able to do just THT and nothing else? Here are people who does their own SMD boards for a living, with very small …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 22:52

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First, they are corrupting the ecosystem with their insane practices, which other manufacturers are starting to copy on, and they are destroying capitalism, sane competition and the free market with it, using their power and unloyal twist in the law to do it. And that's why we have to intervene …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 22:30

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by Bruninho

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Wait... WHAT??? I don't know from what sources are you taking your info... But man... RtoR is about Repairability of Devices and availability on documentation and parts IN GENERAL. That's almost all. The rest is about prohibit manufacturers to hijack parts availability to 3rd parties. In other …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 22:21

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by Bruninho

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*salty language warning* -removed You always have the option to f*cking fix it yourself! The problem is that you do not want to accept the risks for that, and if you f*ck it up while trying to fix, you also want the manufacturer to take the blame for it. I can't think of anything more st*pid than …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 22:14

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by Bruninho

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I'm also against Right To Repair. How come? They want to change how Apple build them to make them more serviceable. Anyone who does not like it, just don't buy it, simple as that. There are other brands offering exactly what these people want. Right To Repair should've been about pushing/forcing …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 21:16

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I dunno, I had a Mac IIsi in the 90s, it was pretty OK. I wouldn't buy one now because they're not serviceable and I see what Louis Rossmann has to go through to fix them just after the warranty expires. Not worth the "investment" for me, and as someone in IT, I loathe supporting them, but seems a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 19:36

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I don't understand the kink of these guys in wanting to force admins to close threads with free insults and unecessary fights... the more you insult them, the more Apple is worth in the market (3x more than Intel already). So, keep insulting if it makes you happy... neither you nor me nor anyone …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 17:28

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by Bruninho

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appiah4 wrote on 2021-10-14, 07:23: Bruninho wrote on 2021-10-14, 05:32: Does watching two movies about Steve Jobs count as a retro activity? 👀 No. Fuck Apple. F*ck Intel 😀

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Right to repair discussion (split from What retro activity did you get up to today?)

Posted on 2021-10-14, 05:32

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by Bruninho

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Does watching two movies about Steve Jobs count as a retro activity? 👀

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Re: Windows 11 has been released

Posted on 2021-10-13, 17:12

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Anyway, the idea/concept wasn't so wrong I think now. Our brains are wired to recognize physical objects. That minimalistic design with basic shapes that iOS 7+ and Win 8+ use, doesn't trigger our neurons in the same way. This is because like I said before, it served its own purpose for the first …

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