Recent content by castl3bravo

There are probably a few old ATM machines running XP.

I have a few Windows 10 systems that'll be updating to Linux Mint next year. Don't want them to get hacked due to lack of support. One of them is an Intel 7700K w/o TPM :mad: The 7700K still plays AAA titles just fine.

4x5.0 would simply heat clench sooner, so M.2 has its limitations :LOL: Waiting for something like E3.S for a PCIe5.0 SSD to put in a HEDT.

Both A/V sigs and OS updates are necessary to be completely safe if you're going to use an internet browser and/or check email. If there's no internet use then the attack surface is significantly reduced.

Doubt Microsoft's demise as corporate use will continue to depend on Microsoft. Still Linux will be a great solution for Laptop/PCs stuck in Windows 10.

Happened to a Windows10 guest when I had to change system ssd for my Linux KVM. The MAC address and motherboard didn't change. Too annoyed to buy yet another copy of Windows.

The basic issue is one has to leave their computer on over night if updates set to occur late at night. The way I do updates is ask the system to go look after I turn it on. If it does then I do the update and go back to browsing or gaming. Then after I'm done if Windows wants to reboot I tell...

Ethernet doesn't care about the power so long as the power supply continues to supply power. If one is worried about the sound then get a good UPS that conditions the power for the audio equipment. Wasting money on a switch that conditions the electrical signal is such a waste of cash. If one is...

Interesting study. I have a 7700K with a GTX1080. Probably won't be capable of playing AAA games after Windows 10 is end of life. System has no TPM but I'm not "buying" into the need for that h/w. Especially when their are hacks for TPM. As far as Linux is concerned Pop!_OS isn't a bad...

Interesting seeing silicon h/w design coming back into vouge in Silicon Valley. Even Tesla sees benefit in doing the same for its AI chips instead of paying the Nvidia tax. After the ARM threat there are other emerging threats like RISC-V.

What a hilarious set of circumstances. Miners and cryptocurrency is silly and dangerous (i.e., ransomware really sucks and cryptocurrency, like Monroe, facilitates it). If video games require faster cards and 4-5 year old cards aren't good enough then fewer people are going to be buying AAA...

As usual in the consumer space it's all about $$'s. Running Optane on a HP laptop is still a viable option, but most consumers don't understand why it helps (I do & it's pretty damn fast). The capacity of this P5800X could have a role for certain consumers running their own home server lab...

I have my doubts there. Microsoft is actually less hostile towards Linux since the writing has been log since on the wall there. Personally I find using WSL v2 with a xrdp session running xfce4 to rdesktop into the X11 display makes for a killer dev environment on my corporate laptop. It's...

That's simple math. It's too bad so many refuse to see the dark side of crypto.

I'm assuming whatever Nvidia did in their GPU hardware isn't something the RISC-V folks need to worry about. This is hardware engineering where the only requirement is a modification to Vulkan, DirectX and OpenGL APIs that allows API to interact with their new GPU hardware. Why waste time trying...