Desktop Computers

Alex · Jan 26, 2020

Haven't used an HP printer in a long time, but that company is sinking impressively fast. One of their subsidiaries might buy them out. A SUBSIDIARY! Or another failing company like Xerox. It's that bad.

Lanx · Jan 26, 2020

no one is using a laserjet for 20years? i have, it's still running great, pretty sure it's on it's (at least) 2nd or 3rd tonor (3rd party of course)

aren't all inkjets now microchipped at the nozzle to accept oem ink only?

a_skeleton_05 · Jan 26, 2020

Noodleface · Jan 26, 2020

Lanx said:
no one is using a laserjet for 20years? i have, it's still running great, pretty sure it's on it's (at least) 2nd or 3rd tonor (3rd party of course)

aren't all inkjets now microchipped at the nozzle to accept oem ink only?

Not brother. I use 3rd party

3301 · Jan 26, 2020

Lanx said:
no one is using a laserjet for 20years? i have, it's still running great, pretty sure it's on it's (at least) 2nd or 3rd tonor (3rd party of course)

aren't all inkjets now microchipped at the nozzle to accept oem ink only?

Old job gave me a laserjet...new toner cartridge I put in there is some generic bullshit that doesn't work right and needs the PC rebooted after printing 1 document. Not HP's fault, but wtf, it obviously prints.

Fucker · Jan 26, 2020

Dom said:

I'm surprised people even buy their cards. The software has been garbage since the ATI days. It's clear nothing is going to change on the gfx side of things over there.

3301 · Jan 26, 2020

Fucker said:
I'm surprised people even buy their cards. The software has been garbage since the ATI days. It's clear nothing is going to change on the gfx side of things over there.

Yet their CPU biz AMD vs intel, is turning into them being Nvidia vs AMD. Sounds like AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU should merger and we can all pay crazy $5000 prices to play post Console games.

Alex · Jan 27, 2020

A huge chunk of Nvidia's revenue comes from their enterprise business. AI, cloud computing, healthcare.

Noodleface · Jan 27, 2020

Im not even sure why AMD is in the GPU game. I like that there isn't a monopoly, but it's just like how Intel vs AMD was for CPUs for the last decade

mkopec · Jan 27, 2020

AMD was always the best price vs performance for the low to mid tier of cards they always had a mid range card for like $150-$200 that was the best low to mid range since like forever until recently.

Ive owned several AMD over the years back when I played MMO that were not too taxing on GPU.

a_skeleton_05 · Jan 28, 2020

Lanx said:
aren't all inkjets now microchipped at the nozzle to accept oem ink only?

My epson started printing everything like the following after I started using OEM ink

(not my pic)

and the only way I can get it to print correctly is to print it as a picture

Big Phoenix · Jan 28, 2020

Another day, another Intel CPU vulnerability;

CacheOut

cacheoutattack.com

Nola · Jan 28, 2020

Big Phoenix said:
Another day, another Intel CPU vulnerability;

CacheOut

cacheoutattack.com

Glad I went with a Ryzen chipset. Cant wait until the 4000 series comes out. It will definitely be a nice upgrade from my 1700.

slippery · Jan 28, 2020

Nola said:
Glad I went with a Ryzen chipset. Cant wait until the 4000 series comes out. It will definitely be a nice upgrade from my 1700.

I feel like a pleb with my 4 cores 8 threads these days

Noodleface · Jan 28, 2020

"speculative"

Almost every Intel vulnerability will never happen on real life.

Kiki · Jan 28, 2020

You mean they won't happen on Joeblow's home gaming PC because no one gives a shit, everyone is an Admin anyway, and there's not a whole lot to hide that you can't see already so who cares? But for locked down security appliances and vmhosts, it is potentially very lucrative. Being able to jump from a public webserver VM to a private file server VM or mine information from that VM without any networking linking the two is pretty huge, or even just breaking open some credit union's sonicwall or pfsense box to access banking records.

Axiel · Jan 28, 2020

Speculative in this context is how Intel optimized workflow, the attack just uses this speculation. Speculative execution - Wikipedia

Noodleface · Jan 28, 2020

Yeah I am retarded and read.about it after I posted. I've fixed or otherwise patched a few bios changes (to go along with the ucode changes) and almost everyone so far would never happen outside a lab. But we need to fix them obviously.