Recent content by Zarathustra

Same here. No allegiance to brand. I've switched back and forth a lot. My main desktop has gone something like this (from memory without looking anything up) 1991 - Intel 286 1993 - Intel 486 sx 25 1995 - Pentium 120 1995 - Intel Pentium 150 2000 - AMD Duron 650 2000 - AMD Athlon 1200C...

I'm going to hell anyway, so I might as well have some fun with it....

On my current mouse I rarely do. (Usually it's by accident, and I change it back when the mouse feels weird :p ) I don't feel I need the indicator lights though, as I can tell the sensitivity is off as soon as I move the mouse. I'm not opposed to subtle dim indicator LED's though. As long as...

I still haven't watched any of the new Dune films in part because my curmudgeonly old self refuses to embrace anything with some pop-star who only goes by one name (Zendaya) and someone who spells his name like a moron "Timothy (with two EE's)" but in part because I think they got the casting...

Only the hard drives? What about the other parts?

From the corner of my eye, I thought this was Spongebob.

It kind of bothers me that everything is "low weight" and "wireless" and "RGB" these days. Give me a black 185g wired mouse with no lights and I'll buy it.

Makes me wonder. When - if ever - do all of us who supported AMD as "the little guy" or the "underdog" to promote competition in the marketplace do the same for Intel? I would have a lot of pride swallowing doing so after everything they've done, but I think we are getting pretty close to...

In common parlance "Boomer" has nothing to do with "Baby Boomers" anymore Kids use that term "boomer" for pretty much anyone born "in the 19 hundreds". You know, before the year 2000. :p Yes, they are idiots, but that's where we are.

Probably related to Microsoft and Intel's strategic partnership surrounding their new "Core Ultra" CPU's they were talking about last summer.

AMD must still have a lot of spare 7nm production capacity at TSMC and is trying to find something to do with it, to avoid it going to waste, and incurring cancellation fees. I think this is great news for AM4 users looking for a low cost drop in upgrade. The Motherboard makers will likely not...

Of course. Everything apple is "absolutely incredible"

Did I miss something? What on earth is a "core ultra"? Edit: Oh, it's that AI crap I don't want. Never mind.

I always roll my eyes when I see articles where "researchers" have invented new technology or discovered a fix for something. I remember in ~1993 reading a n article in a computer magazine about this new technology that was going to revolutionize storage. It was was fast as RAM, but...

So, they added up the wifi make-believe numbers, and then added up all the port speeds? 😅 Wifi performance has always been ****, it is **** today, and it will always be ****. Even with perfect signal, when my laptop claims to be connected to the WAP at 866Mbps, actual iperf speeds show it...