• justdaveisfine@piefed.social
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    5 months ago

    I have a little foundation for this:

    I’ve seen a lineup of hundreds of identical PCs all get the exact same OS image, and inevitably you’ll get one or two that are significantly slower than the rest.

    Its my belief that sometimes there’s some sort of deeply embedded hardware flaw that makes some computers suck and there’s no amount of tweaks or reinstalling an OS that will fix it.

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      5 months ago

      some computers suck and there’s no amount of tweaks or reinstalling an OS that will fix it.

      And somehow I’ve owned every single one of them.

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      5 months ago

      Just search for “cpu binning”, anything that slips through the cracks of that process are exactly this.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’s not without foundation, but I feel like I have a magical power to make computers work. Someone will be having a problem and when I walk over it starts working. And then when I walk away it happens again.

    And I think this power is hereditary because one of my kids appears to have it.

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    5 months ago

    Every-day pedestrian computer tasks should be easy to complete with the keyboard only. Mice were bad enough as a crutch for lazy users, but now it’s a crutch for lazy developers.

    Let me pick on Mozilla for a second. In many of Firefox’s menus, they have alt keys. You know, an underlined letter in a word that you can select by holding the alt key and pressing that letter. In FF, many of these letters are capitalized. So now you have to press shift+alt+whatever letter. Criminally bad design.