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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 00:34:12 JST minute

   my work pc (i9-9900) just froze while working with kicad. after power cycle, it's suddenly extremely slow. i can watch the bios slowly draw the screen etc, like it's downgraded to 1 mhz

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 00:36:08 JST minute

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     • Andrew (Television Executive)

     @ajroach42 unclear, can't access them

   • Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 00:36:09 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     @mntmn How are your thermals?

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 00:41:03 JST minute

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     after opening the case and hard cycling power supply, it seems back to normal (wtf @ this bios design)

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 00:44:05 JST minute

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     • Manawyrm | Sarah

     @manawyrm *shrugs* i'm not that familiar with pc stuff

   • Manawyrm | Sarah (manawyrm@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 00:44:06 JST Manawyrm | Sarah

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     @mntmn it's a gigabyte board...

     "well, there's your problem"

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 00:50:28 JST minute

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     • Manawyrm | Sarah

     @manawyrm ah, didn't know that. which manufacturer would you recommend for boards?

   • Manawyrm | Sarah (manawyrm@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 00:50:29 JST Manawyrm | Sarah

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     @mntmn Gigabyte are known for their okayish hardware and shit (absolute garbage) firmware. It's always a bit of a crapshoot, different from model to model whether your firmware is mostly OK, then your machine will work well.

     (you've installed the latest BIOS, right?)

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 01:00:46 JST minute

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     • Wolf480pl
     • Manawyrm | Sarah

     @manawyrm @wolf480pl i see, thanks for the hints!

   • Manawyrm | Sarah (manawyrm@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 01:00:47 JST Manawyrm | Sarah

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     • Wolf480pl

     @mntmn @wolf480pl
     - ASRock is at least currently my go-to vendor, they also sometimes have questionable hardware decisions, but at least they seem to have some employees that know what ACPI is and their firmware is somewhat OK.

   • Manawyrm | Sarah (manawyrm@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 01:00:49 JST Manawyrm | Sarah

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     • Wolf480pl

     @mntmn @wolf480pl So:

     - ASUS used to be very good, but they've started to really lack care & attention to detail to their firmware in the last couple of years. Bad firmware/ACPI fuckups like missing CPU idle states, broken SATA hotplug, broken PCIe hotplug, wonky PCIe BAR configuration, etc.

     - MSI mostly makes awful hardware with bad designs (overheating voltage regulators, etc.). Their expensive boards are okayish, but at that point, why not buy another companies products?

   • Charlie Balogh (chainq@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 01:10:44 JST Charlie Balogh

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     @mntmn An ex-colleague had the Hungarian term "technogagyi" for this kind of UI design. I love it. It's difficult to translate, something in the direction of "techno-crapola" or maybe "Techno-Kitsch"(?) in German. Or something like that.

   • Kurt Kremitzki (kkremitzki@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 01:26:39 JST Kurt Kremitzki

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     @mntmn "a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly"

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 01:28:39 JST minute

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     • Kurt Kremitzki

     @kkremitzki extremely true

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 11:52:31 JST minute

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     • S31bz :linux:

     @s31bz maybe time for Ampere soon

   • S31bz :linux: (s31bz@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 11:52:33 JST S31bz :linux:

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     @mntmn Intel + Gigabyte moment