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

Posted on 2021-10-19, 23:22

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

if anything, legacy phone security should be -more- robust than it's PC counterpart You can't hack Nokia 3310, even if you really want it. Or any pre-android devices really, they are so old that nobody cares about them in terms of exploits.

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

Posted on 2021-10-19, 08:47

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

and stop using a mobile phone. Good thing there's still indestructible Nokia 3310.

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

Posted on 2021-10-19, 02:37

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

what happens if the company goes bust? This would imply that any profit oriented company could really care about their products after dissolve. Unless forced by some obligations of course, which is usually tied to military or government in general. It doesn't seem unreasonable to make manufactures …

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Re: dfi nf4 ultra-d hanging after modifying bios settings

Posted on 2021-10-18, 17:24

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nforce boards seem to be somewhat finicky with RAMs. Not really. But DFI boards do love to throw tantrums with RAM. You need to install RAM in orange slots.

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Re: How much is it worth? (Vintage 98 System)

Posted on 2021-10-18, 17:08

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by The Serpent Rider

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P4 can only be throttle directly if the model of P4 supports speedstep No, you can trigger thermal throttle, which is a feature of all Netburst CPUs. CPU Tuning, Throttling

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

Posted on 2021-10-18, 15:02

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tetrium wrote: It seems to me like just trying to milk the market. Of course they are. And they want to set current crazy prices for GPUs as new norm.

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Re: How much is it worth? (Vintage 98 System)

Posted on 2021-10-18, 05:14

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by The Serpent Rider

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Depends. Pentium 4 can be throttled directly for speed sensitive games, while Pentium 3 can't. Tualatin on VIA has easy access to ISA though. At least double the power consumption. And about 50% or more faster. Although Tualatin is heavily bottlenecked by front side bus, tied to SDRAM speed.

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

Posted on 2021-10-17, 21:05

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Many of us still have daily use for computers that are 30-40 years old, which run perfectly fine and probably will for many more years or even decades, with a few minor maintenance. Meanwhile, the earth is stuffed with millions of the rusted broken down husks of literally the same thing, because we …

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Re: ASUS A7M266 and Nvidia video cards strange behaviour?

Posted on 2021-10-17, 20:30

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Gotta love that clunky AMD AGP north bridge.

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

Posted on 2021-10-17, 18:15

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

but at least when you take your computer in to them you don't have to worry (e.g.) that they'll swap out your fast memory and put slow memory in its place. Sure thing, they'll just rip you off with full motherboard replacement. Only amateurs rip off with minor stuff. You go big or go bust!

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

Posted on 2021-10-17, 16:05

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by The Serpent Rider

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Yes, that's the paradox of the planned economy - used cars were more expensive than brand new cars. Every big corporation has planned economy. We already see right before our eyes how "free market" is doing tricks with artificial scarcity with microchips. For example Nvidia won't ship chips to card …

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Re: Prices on AMD FX8xxx and lower series (socket AM3+) - what is going on here ?

Posted on 2021-10-16, 23:35

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by The Serpent Rider

in Milliways

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I don't see the cost of the new I don't see the cost of the new shiny SuperSocket7 motherboard with AGP slot and correct voltage support either. And no, bottom feeding on old motherboards wasn't very sustainable business model.

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

Posted on 2021-10-16, 23:23

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Which is a shame because except the fact that nothing in is standard, they are very sturdy and well designed hardware (I speak for HP, not for Dell). *chuckles* Very sturdy indeed! For almost 1.5k no less. HP makes decent workstations, but everything mass produced is bad or mediocre, with massive …

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Re: Prices on AMD FX8xxx and lower series (socket AM3+) - what is going on here ?

Posted on 2021-10-16, 23:10

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by The Serpent Rider

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You missed a bit of the quote there, fixed that for you. I didn't. You've mentioned PIII which was sold later than Mendocino. Perhaps you can present some prices to show how expensive the k6-2/3 was because that's not what I recall from back in the day. Celeron 300A - $150 K6-2 300 - $281 Nuff said …

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Re: Windows 11 has been released

Posted on 2021-10-16, 20:20

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by The Serpent Rider

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Meanwhile Windows 11 is off to a good start... just like Windows Vista or Windows 8.

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Re: Does Audigy 4 fill a gap?

Posted on 2021-10-16, 19:19

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by The Serpent Rider

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The Audigy 4 Pro just has better DAC It's worth noting that Audigy 2 ZS external IO also has CS4398.

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

Posted on 2021-10-16, 19:12

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by The Serpent Rider

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We're moving towards 'hardware as a service' where nobody actually 'owns' anything It's called rentism. One of the bleak possible futures where classic governments are just a facade and corporations are acting like new feudal lords. Although that's slightly brighter than typical cyberpunk dystopian …

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Re: Prices on AMD FX8xxx and lower series (socket AM3+) - what is going on here ?

Posted on 2021-10-16, 17:22

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by The Serpent Rider

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Don't forget the K6 (and K6-2 and -3) provided a lot more bang for the buck than the intel counterparts Actually no. AMD had it really tough after Celeron Mendocino came out. They had to scrape the bottom of the barrel after that. Failure of Bulldozer is practically the main reason why Intel was …

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

Posted on 2021-10-16, 15:15

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Attention, user. You have violated terms of EULA. Copyright Cyborg Security Task force will be shortly dispatched to your location for termination of your life signs. Please stay where you are and have a nice day!

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

Posted on 2021-10-16, 12:24

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

People who like to repair things themselves often run into this roadblock where some parts aren't available due to "intellectual property", patents, software copyright, etc. Yes, right to repair is also getting tricky due increasing entanglement with software part. Copyright needs to be scaled down …

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