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Notepad doesn't register every keystroke anymore, but it can do all kinds of other shit. Isn't that great? All hail Satya Nadella and our AI overlords. They're taking care of everything.
I don't know that much about the secret spyware stuff, but Windows 11 definitely has some stuff running in the background that makes my CPU hit its power limit without showing any significant CPU usage in Task Manager (even in the per-core chart instead of the useless...
lti
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What about FreeBSD?
I've been using EndeavourOS for the past year, but I'm thinking about switching distros to something that isn't Arch-based. EndeavourOS is one of those Arch variants that's supposed to be easier, but it still takes a lot of fiddling around to make it work and keep it running. I've had a strange trend of network problems, regardless of hardware. My initial screwing around with Fedora looks good, but I'd have to run it daily for a while to see how well it runs. For old computers, I'm still using Lubuntu. I even got my mom on Lubuntu after the Windows 10 EOL, and...Leave a comment:
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P4s had internal temperature monitoring. AMD chips were the ones that needed the thermistor under the socket. Athlon XPs added a thermal diode on the die, but they still relied on the motherboard for temperature protection. That's why a few motherboards could safely shut down if the heatsink came loose, but most of them would let the CPU burn up.
I've heard about those plastic pins breaking, and I kind of remember that being a common complaint when socket 775 was still new. My 1150 heatsink didn't break or noticeably warp the motherboard, but the Thermalright AXP90-X53 I replaced...Leave a comment:
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I just thought about this again with the AI news. Why is it that every time Mozilla shoots itself in the foot, people brag about switching from Firefox to Google Chrome? They sound serious, not sarcastic.
There are Firefox forks that I can switch to, but what email clients are available for Windows or Android? Am I expected to use fucking Outlook with ads disguised as unread emails in your inbox or Gmail with its own "opt-in" (even though it's enabled by default) AI?
Also, why is stuff that's enabled by default always falsely labeled as opt-in? It's nothing...Last edited by lti; 12-20-2025, 10:52 AM.Leave a comment:
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There are generic "InnoGrit controller" and "Maxio controller" lines without listing specific drive models. I don't know who makes controllers for Western Digital because the controller chips are SanDisk branded. They could make their own controllers like Samsung, or they could just remark some other controllers.Leave a comment:
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Every article about this listed multiple controllers from the start. I still don't know why everyone decided to single out out Phison while ignoring the rest of the list (and that brief mention of some HDDs also being affected).
I was waiting for someone to find a different task that triggered the same bug, though.Leave a comment:
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There are multiple methods, and one of them will stop working every April. Then you have to use a different method. You won't know until everything is suddenly broken one day, and then you check the update history and see that it installed that same old broken driver automatically outside of an update cycle.
Then you see people on the Internet telling you that you're stupid for not applying the group policy on a computer running the Home version of Windows. The Home version doesn't support group policies, so you have to use the registry entries that keep changing every year.
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Why do so many articles about this update mention Phison specifically and then list a bunch of other controllers? Doesn't WD/Sandisk make their own controllers? I even saw one claim that HDDs were also affected. It's a lot worse than the last time when 2TB WD SN770 drives were causing a boot-loop. It's about as bad as the constant OneDrive errors I get at work (I wouldn't use OneDrive personally, even if my Internet connection could handle it) or its refusal to sync some files while claiming that they synced successfully.
Windows will not listen to your requests to roll back updates....Last edited by lti; 08-23-2025, 09:12 AM.Leave a comment:
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I don't think OpenOffice has had any meaningful updates in over a decade, but it's still an "active" project. LibreOffice is actually being developed, but it's a little broken compared to Office.
I would think that Office 2003 would run under Wine. I doubt that modern Office releases would, so I have a totally legitimate copy of Office 2016 (because Microsoft is a great company that respects their users and deserves more of my money) in a VM.Leave a comment:
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I remember Intel's spec for putting an air duct on the side panel to give the tiny P4 stock coolers fresh air. In-Win still makes those old cases, but they put modern front USB on them.
The memory controller is integrated into the CPU on newer stuff like this, so I don't think a RAM upgrade would have damaged the motherboard chipset.
I've been thinking about making some changes to my former main desktop (i5-8500 on a Gigabyte H370 HD3) as well. It's going to be a dedicated Windows machine since Windows wiped the bootloader from my Linux drive (both drives have Windows...Leave a comment:
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I don't know why I didn't see this earlier, but those are printed thick film resistors. The resistor is the black rectangle in between the pads. I wouldn't have expected them to have good enough tolerance back then, but they were used a lot for non-critical stuff.
That's also a 2-layer PCB with plated through-holes, which I didn't think existed in the 1970s.Leave a comment:
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That looks like Nichicon HC series. That's a through-hole series, but I don't see a plastic base or surface mount pads in your picture. For a while, Nichicon marked some of their through-hole series like that.Leave a comment:
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An old i3-2330M is a little faster, but this might not be an accurate comparison since Lubuntu came with a different Memtest86+ version.
I'm a little surprised that I got HDMI capture working, but Windows forgot how to open .jpg files....Leave a comment:
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There were some SiS chipsets with AGP, but nobody wants those. They actually got good reviews (I even saw some early 2000s forum posts where SiS chipsets were recommended over VIA for systems with heavy PCI bus utilization), but SiS was seen as the bottom of the barrel to most people.
It's possible, but I thought people in their 20s would have been too young to understand what they were looking at. Maybe something made around 2000 or 2001 would be memorable....Leave a comment:
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I don't think many people in their 20s who grew up using Windows 98 would want to go back. They would have most likely been horribly outdated school computers (complete with CRT monitors that were totally worn out) than anything interesting. One of my younger coworkers had that experience.
However, the middle school I went to still had an Apple IIgs lab in 2007 (and probably later - that was just the year I finished middle school and started high school), so I doubt that many people can beat that.
Celerons had so much less cache than P4s that you couldn't...Last edited by lti; 06-09-2025, 09:22 PM.Leave a comment:
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I see that multi-quote doesn't work anymore.
It's much faster in Linux (but still not as fast as the synthetic benchmarks like Passmark say it should be), but I never tried compiling anything from Linux. I can only guess that the Windows drivers were totally broken in ways that made it look like the CPU was stuck at its minimum clock speed of 800MHz, but it was definitely running at the full 2.2GHz (with the associated heat, fan noise, and the bizarre throttling behavior - it suddenly drops to 800MHz for a second before going back to 2.2GHz, and for some reason, the...Last edited by lti; 06-08-2025, 12:01 PM.Leave a comment:
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That's the problem with a distro that compiles every update on the user's PC. My old i3-2330M was strangely slow at compiling C++ (only slightly faster than a low-clocked Thoroughbred Athlon XP, even with a multi-threaded compiler), so I'm definitely running a more "normal" OS on it.Leave a comment:
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I had to look that species up. I missed when that distro was popular and got serious with Linux in the Ubuntu/Arch era.
I'm somehow still on EndeavourOS. I don't like doing a lot of manual configuration on my main system, but in this case, it helps with my stupid hardware choices. Aside from that, Lubuntu is still my choice for old computers that are still capable of running modern browsers (the latest Firefox or a fork like Librewolf), but it also needs some manual configuration to enable Vsync in the compositor on some graphics drivers. Hell, I've been wondering if the 4GB RAM systems...Leave a comment:
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I would also recommend running Memtest86+ first.
If you think it's a heat problem, the quick way to check is to open the case and have some kind of house fan blowing into it. Almost all down-blowing heatsinks still in production are either extremely thin (1U height) or so large that they hang over the RAM slots, so finding a replacement won't be easy. Maybe you could remove the stupid lights from a Wraith Prism (it still uses the old-style clip, so it will fit on anything socket 754 or newer).Leave a comment:
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I went crazy a little over a month ago and bought new bleeding-edge hardware to run Linux as my main system. Amazingly, it actually works.
CPU: Ryzen 7 9700X
Motherboard: MSI Pro X870-P WiFi (the cheapest thing available with a PCIe x4 slot and the amount of USB ports I wanted, and it's still almost $300
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RAM: 64GB DDR5-5600 (Crucial base model - JEDEC and XMP timings are identical
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GPU: Integrated (yes, really)
Storage: 2TB WD SN850X, 8TB HDD pulled from the other system, LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray drive (I haven't loaded that custom firmware yet...Leave a comment:
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