Nik282000

Lenovo has been absolute trash for a while now. They took the ThinkPad brand and destroyed any reputation it may have had, I’m not surprised by this at all.

PC gaming peaked with Portal 2. Console gaming peaked with Wii Sports.

My latest build is a 9800x3d, and like fuckwit said, it’s pretty easy to keep cool, even at full load.

I definitely have more than the required cooling capacity on my PCs but I build with the goal of getting a minimum of 10 years of daily use. My 2010 build was used for gaming until 2017 at which point it was turned into a server and ran 24/7 until last year. My 2017 built was used daily until earlier this year and I expect to get at least another decade out of it as a workhorse.

I get that the parts are rated for a maximum of 95c and that cycling puts physical stress on parts, but both the magnitude and number of cycles are important there. A year of 25-65 is less physical stress than a year of 25-95. There is also the the fact that semiconductors just don’t work as well at higher temperatures, they have a negative temperature coefficient and will conduct in the reverse direction the hotter they get, putting them under electrical stress.

I just find it surprising that running right up to the throttling limit is an “ok” practice.

Oversized coolers. I built a PC in 2017 and put a 120x360 AIO cooler in it, at full load and the fans going full speed the CPU sits at 65-70c.

Holy hell, 95c? I never let my gear get above 70 for fear of reduced service life.

You think developers WANT to work with Windows?

No shit, Valve releases tools to help users that are taking a bite out of Valve’s pie, for free, and that makes Valve the bad guy.

The last thing Microsoft gave you for free was Cortana and ads in your start menu.

Are you a shitty bot or just a shitty troll? Every webservice you use is based on free/open software, without it you would be getting all the speed an reliability of Windows ME from your doom scrolling.

It blows me away that EVERY machine I have worked on in manufacturing runs on Windows or some fuckin one-off HMI thing that has no documentation and can never be upgraded.

Humanity wants ChatGPT, TikTok and plastic straws, maybe it shouldn’t be advancing.

You should not be forgiving a multi billion dollar company for unexpected operation of the most basic part of thier device. You pay a premium you should expect a minimum stardard of operation on par with that price.

If the surge protection circuit is tripping during normal operation or when incoming power is only a few % out of spec then it is very much a hardware design issue. A universal supply should be able to handle ~90-260v at this point, power semiconductors are a very well understood field and it is not unreasonable to expect a nearly 300v input range.

Monetizing of the online video “industry” directly lead to this kinda of video where a 2 minute talking point is padded out to more than 20 minutes. A passionate person would be trying to get the point across for their viewers not getting the 5th mid-roll ad in.

Watch videos by Mike Harrison (Mike’s Electric Stuff) or Ben Krasnow (Applied Science), while they do occasionally run long, the videos are so dense that you can’t skip 75% and still know what’s going on.

Remember when people did this kind of thing because they were genuinely interested and wanted to share their interests with the rest of the world?

Still too long for what could have been 2 paragraphs and a bar graph.

Hot take. Don’t buy scalped products and the market will dry up.

“AI” companies are bleeding money at an ungodly rate. The only people making money ARE the hardware vendors. But also fuck anyone supporting this bubble by using LLMs as a replacement for just fucking thinking.

Yes, because gamers are ever so slightly more tech savvy than your average project manager. They are fully aware that LLMs and diffusion models are just expensive plagiarism engines at best and slop factories the rest of the time.

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2025/07/this-little-known-reason-is-why-you-shouldnt-ignore-gm-over-the-air-updates/

First example I could find.

The computer network in your car touches everything, engine control, powertrain, body control, SRS, emtertainment system, stc. If the dealer thinks they can get away with denying a claim because you “damaged” the vehicle by removing the cellular antenna you know they will. And it’s not like you can just pop it back on before you bring it in, new cars are streaming data 24/7 into the manufacture’s network, and is visible to the dealer, whether you pay for car control the app or not.