remlov

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Comment · 3 months ago
...allowed you to change CPU settings through software rather than physical jumper cables...

This should have read as: physical jumpers.

For the past couple of years I’ve stopped taking seriously or even reading many of the tech sites that were once beacons of hardware journalism. Too much of the content now feels like AI-generated slop, published by mediocre writers without basic proofreading or an understanding of the subject matter, let alone a commitment to factual accuracy.

Sadly, errors like this will be fed back into future AI training data, further distorting facts and degrading the quality of information online.

Comment · 8 months ago
Would love some details how you enabled controlling the display with motion sensors.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I found the LG 38GL950G-B to be a good compromise with a resolution of 3840x1600 that I purchased back in 2020.
Comment · 1 year ago
They definitely made more than a little money from this. For example, my ex–mother-in-law kept paying for AOL dial-up after she was already paying for AT&T DSL, thinking that was the only way she could keep using AOL. And yes, she would still log in through the AOL browser.
Comment · 1 year ago
Definitely was faster than standard SATA but nowhere near NVMe potential. It still came with all the AHCI warts as AHCI was optimized for spinning disks and had 32 commands per queue, while NVMe supports up to 64,000 and so on and so forth. The major limiting factor was utilizing SATA-based command structures over PCIe.
Comment · 1 year ago
My guess is at the time it was a familiar protocol stack which apparently made it easier to retrofit legacy systems before NVMe? AHCI was already well-supported across major OSes then (Windows, Linux, macOS), but UEFI firmware still needed to understand this abomination.
Comment · 1 year ago
I did something similar, I patched a Gigabyte Z77-DS3H bios with the SAMSUNG_M2_DXE module to get a Samsung SM951 AHCI M.2 SSD working. It's not SATA and not quite NVMe, PCIe AHCI existed for a short while before NVMe became ubiquitous.

This was to enable a screamer of a Hackintosh based on Mavericks which didn't have native NVMe support at the time.

Comment · 1 year ago
Haswell/Broadwell with embedded 128MB of eDRAM Level 4 cache are some extremely awesome hidden gems.
Comment · 1 year ago
Good thing this has nothing to do with NetBSD.
Comment · 1 year ago
A01GR2 is a pretty good open source alternative available on the play store. Miles better than Ricoh's own app.
Comment · 1 year ago
Pentax/Ricoh really is a hidden gem. I love my "dinosaur" K1 Mark II and my GR IIIx goes EVERYWHERE I go.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you look at the company they founded it's a service to protect yourself. Not to willy-nilly go out into the open web to find hidden subdomains.
Comment · 1 year ago
No you were originally correct. The Ati card mentioned was most likely a Mach64 or original Rage 3d.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm 100% certain your memory is incorrect. Radeon came after Rage in 2000 and was the first Ati 3D accelerator with hardware T&L. Your 1MB 2D only Ati card was most likely a Mach64 or original Rage 3d.

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