Unpopular Tech Opinions

[SeanChronicR]

New iMac is SEGGZY AF

[Jay427]

3 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

Yes, slightly.

 

Let's compare that to a 450W PSU from the same brand:

 

Peak efficiency here is actually closer to 75% load, at around 92% efficiency, with a drop to 91% efficiency at 100% load.

 

Literally you are not saving any power by buying the larger PSU in this comparison.

That's because we're cherry picking the math and not looking at every factor unrelated to PC's, and not accounting accurately for power fluctuations, upgrades which lead to high power consumption, the difference between a 12 and 5 year warranty, inflation, tariffs, taxes, energy surcharges, depreciation, and standby power consumption.  Let's only use inflation and use the warranty as the lifespan, because I'd just like to see people try and save their lucky dollars by investing on long term assets rather than "low prices" that always cost more in the long run no matter how you slice it, and especially if you also lose work time and gain stress in any downtime.  Here's some simple yearly cumulative projections that only accounts for 3 of the 9 things mentioned:

 

(this was only .14 cents per Kw Hour, 8 hours while gaming, 8 idle/light load, 8 off)

 

Not everyone has the money right now, and they often have family and friends to look after too.  I get it, that's why I literally go to people's houses and build computers for them.  However, you can buy an egg McMuffin for 2 dollars every morning and make a killing in savings for the next few years - you're going to pay for it anyway when you start getting hospital bills down the road because of the domino of results that come from doing so. 

[InkTide]

2 hours ago, anodos said:

Unpopular opinion: Modern "DevOps" is pasting some code and configs you found on stackoverflow into an arcane pile of frameworks you don't understand, and hoping the sausage machine produces something marginally functional out of it just long enough to add it to your resume and move on to the next startup.

Never look at WebDev source code. Your description isn't an opinion there, it's empirical fact.

[Bombastinator]

2 hours ago, SGT-AMD said:

Someone like me:

6'7" tall 225 lbs size 20 EEE shoe

 

Heh.  Got to find the tall section of the “big and tall” store which I have always thought should be called the big and fat store.

[WolframaticAlpha]

On 9/19/2019 at 6:52 AM, Arika S said:

Windows 10 is a good OS.

 

Intel is not the Devil

 

NVidia is not evil incarnate

Use Linux

 

Try installing Nvidia drivers.

 

[Arika]

41 minutes ago, WolframaticAlpha said:

Use Linux

yeah, i dont think i will after it decided to crash my router whenever i connected my laptop to ethernet (same laptop worked fine with windows), and it was next to impossible to get hardware accelerated decoding to work at all.

[WolframaticAlpha]

28 minutes ago, Arika S said:

yeah, i dont think i will after it decided to crash my router whenever i connected my laptop to ethernet (same laptop worked fine with windows), and it was next to impossible to get hardware accelerated decoding to work at all.

Something is wrong with your hardware.

 

Can you send me the specs?

[Arika]

2 minutes ago, WolframaticAlpha said:

Something is wrong with your hardware.

 

Can you send me the specs?

If it also did the same thing on Windows, i would agree, but it happened only on Linux. Mint, Ubuntu and Manjaro, switched back to windows and it worked perfectly fine.

 

It was like 2-3 years ago, so i no longer really care to try and fix it.

[WolframaticAlpha]

8 minutes ago, Arika S said:

If it also did the same thing on Windows, i would agree, but it happened only on Linux. Mint, Ubuntu and Manjaro, switched back to windows and it worked perfectly fine.

 

It was like 2-3 years ago, so i no longer really care to try and fix it.

Strange.

 

But use whatever works for you. For many people windows has compatibility errors and issues, and Linux is the thing that works.

 

[Larry Philips]

On 9/19/2019 at 10:28 AM, Den-Fi said:

AMD DOESN'T CARE

ABOUT YOU.

AMD still doesn't care about you, and we're almost 2 years after that message was written

[maartendc]

1. Nothing should have RGB. Nothing.

 

2. Tablets are useless. If you need a big screen, use a laptop, if you need something smaller/convenient, use a smartphone.

[Larry Philips]

1. Shooting in 4K/6K/8K/12K and 12-bit~16-bit RAW won't magically make your videos more interesting.

 

2. Shooting people walking in slo-mo over a (stolen) sad music doesn't make a video "Cinematic".

 

3. Despite all their clever marketing and "we're so cool and holier-than-thou attitude",  you shouldn't trust Apple any more than you trust other tech giants.

[RoseLuck462]

23 hours ago, SeanChronicR said:

New iMac is SEGGZY AF

 

I think the speaker system makes even the base model a really good value for those that produce music.

[King of Memes]

I like the Lian Li O11 Dynamic, but the white version is ugly and white O11 Builds are hideous. I prefer black O11 Builds.

[dean_5234]

Unpopular opinion:

Micro ATX is the best form factor

[pythonmegapixel]

Just now, RoseLuck462 said:

I think the speaker system makes even the base model a really good value for those that produce music.

I'd have thought that those who produce music and need good audio quality are going to have some kind of external audio setup, probably involving headphones

[dalekphalm]

41 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

I'd have thought that those who produce music and need good audio quality are going to have some kind of external audio setup, probably involving headphones

That's not mutually exclusive to the new iMac. Music producers often will require the need of both speakers and headphones, for different situations.

 

If the built-in speakers are good enough to replace a pair of reference bookshelf speakers, then that will be good enough for some producers.

[wisex]

I don't care about high refresh rate gaming... I always see people posting about these 1440p 144hz monitors or 240hz monitors.... like bro I just want a good 1440p 60hz monitor that gives me excellent color reproduction, brightness, and contrast.... I don't care if a game is running at a high refresh rate when the monitor looks like a washed out mess..... I had finally been able to find a pretty good lenovo panel after months of looking that gave me 1440p 75hz and I didn't have to sell a kidney.... I would support it if companies chilled with the ridiculous resolutions and refresh rates in favor of making higher quality panels, like I want to be able to edit photos on it...

 

[Bombastinator]

2 hours ago, wisex said:

I don't care about high refresh rate gaming... I always see people posting about these 1440p 144hz monitors or 240hz monitors.... like bro I just want a good 1440p 60hz monitor that gives me excellent color reproduction, brightness, and contrast.... I don't care if a game is running at a high refresh rate when the monitor looks like a washed out mess..... I had finally been able to find a pretty good lenovo panel after months of looking that gave me 1440p 75hz and I didn't have to sell a kidney.... I would support it if companies chilled with the ridiculous resolutions and refresh rates in favor of making higher quality panels, like I want to be able to edit photos on it...

 

Then you want a production monitor not a gaming monitor.  They tend to be expensive.  Things are getting better all the time though. The production monitor market may be disrupted by gaming monitors or even TVs with good color.  TVs are apparently starting to do that to the gaming monitor market.

[MadAnt250]

LCD displays still suck

12 hours ago, wisex said:

I don't care about high refresh rate gaming... I always see people posting about these 1440p 144hz monitors or 240hz monitors.... like bro I just want a good 1440p 60hz monitor that gives me excellent color reproduction, brightness, and contrast.... I don't care if a game is running at a high refresh rate when the monitor looks like a washed out mess..... I had finally been able to find a pretty good lenovo panel after months of looking that gave me 1440p 75hz and I didn't have to sell a kidney.... I would support it if companies chilled with the ridiculous resolutions and refresh rates in favor of making higher quality panels, like I want to be able to edit photos on it...

Some of the reasons I use a 4:3 CRT, a lot of LCD displays still look like crap when it comes to gaming and color. With my CRTs(yes, I have more than one) I can enjoy gameplay that looks buttery smooth with the most accurate colors and a 100Hz or 125Hz refresh rate at HD. I know there are high end 240Hz displays, but a good CRT monitor is still superior in my mind.

[starry]

Home automation isn't as useful as people think it is.

[Bombastinator]

43 minutes ago, starry said:

Home automation isn't as useful as people think it is.

And it’s generally also less secure.

[Amias]

2 hours ago, starry said:

Home automation isn't as useful as people think it is.

Watches Linus make a whole video about his frustrations of trying to replace a tried and tested, working simple remote with google voice smart integration.

 

No. Home automation isn't as good as people think it is. We're use to 100% reliability, anything sub 99.9% frustrates and ruins us.

[pythonmegapixel]

2 hours ago, starry said:

Home automation isn't as useful as people think it is.

And, more to the point, the barrier to entry is ridiculous.

 

Sure, you can get an Echo and some WiFi light bulbs for reasonably cheap. But then you have to spend time painstakingly setting the damn things up - and what have you achieved? I can now talk at a computer for 5 seconds to control the lights, rather than pushing a single switch. Yay.

 

To give another example, I could install a Ring doorbell. This would do exactly the same as a normal intercom system, but with the side effect of streaming videos of my visitors over the internet for no reason. And now I have input latency on my doorbell. Input latency. On a f*cking doorbell.

 

For anything genuinely useful that I might want to automate, I have to spend such ridiculous amounts of time and money to get it working that I might as well not bother.

[FRD]

I hate dark mode for everything. Yeah it's less strain for your eyes, but I just can't get used to reading white text on a black background. At least text is clearly visible on a white (or greyish) screen.

 

I dislike software like Discord, Teamspeak, etc. They seem so user unfriendly and annoying to me. Just use the built in one from Steam or something. Unless it's Epic Games, there we usually use group calls through our cellphones. Maybe it's because I like console AND pc gaming though. On console in my eyes the party system seems much more easy.

 

NZXT cases look ugly, I don't get why people like them. Maybe just good for cable management.

 

PCIe Gen 4 is overrated, it's not worth spending a few hundred $$$ just to get a small gain in speed (read: less than 5% according to Linus' videos).