Experiences with non-techies

[kaiju_wars]

1 minute ago, DnFx91 said:

i'll admit, macs did look a lot more appealing a few years ago, theyre all the same to me now, underpowered overpriced awkward toys.

Think about it, the last user upgradeable Mac laptop was the early 2012 MacBook Pro.

2012.  It's now 2017.

 

Things have changed since Cook took over.

 

[DnFx91]

1 minute ago, kaiju_wars said:

Think about it, the last user upgradeable Mac laptop was the early 2012 MacBook Pro.

2012.  It's now 2017.

 

Things have changed since Cook took over.

 

man it was as clear as day, Jobs was the last sane person at apple. Once he died, it all went to shit;

 

plastic iphone

no glowing apple logo

protecting terrorists 

buying shit 3rd party tech

severe lack of turtlenecks

[kaiju_wars]

3 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

man it was as clear as day, Jobs was the last sane person at apple. Once he died, it all went to shit;

 

plastic iphone

no glowing apple logo

protecting terrorists 

buying shit 3rd party tech

severe lack of turtlenecks

They weren't protecting terrorists.  They'd have to build a backdoor into every iPhone, not just that single phone.  (Linus even explained this once on the WAN show).  They were protecting all their other customers.

As for the rest, I can completely agree.

[DnFx91]

1 minute ago, kaiju_wars said:

They weren't protecting terrorists.  They'd have to build a backdoor into every iPhone, not just that single phone.  (Linus even explained this once on the WAN show).  They were protecting all their other customers.

As for the rest, I can completely agree.

nah man that was debunked, it didnt require any software rewriting. That israeli firm simply copied the flash chip a thousand or so times, and brute forced the password, when the phone bricked, they just swapped in another flash chip. 

 

What enfuriated me about this whole thing was that apple damn well knew that, for someone to turn around and say that it's physically impossible, especially the people who manufactured it, is just insulting. It's a computer, it was made by people, it can be cracked by people, it's apple once again trying to claim that their devices are powered by magic and fairies. 

[DnFx91]

4 minutes ago, kaiju_wars said:

They weren't protecting terrorists.  They'd have to build a backdoor into every iPhone, not just that single phone.  (Linus even explained this once on the WAN show).  They were protecting all their other customers.

As for the rest, I can completely agree.

https://ktwop.com/2016/03/29/israeli-company-cracks-apple-iphone-for-fbi/

 

sorry for making claims and not posting links

[kaiju_wars]

3 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

nah man that was debunked, it didnt require any software rewriting. That israeli firm simply copied the flash chip a thousand or so times, and brute forced the password, when the phone bricked, they just swapped in another flash chip. 

 

What enfuriated me about this whole thing was that apple damn well knew that, for someone to turn around and say that it's physically impossible, especially the people who manufactured it, is just insulting. It's a computer, it was made by people, it can be cracked by people, it's apple once again trying to claim that their devices are powered by magic and fairies. 

They didn't say it couldn't be done.  They simply said that it would put everyone at risk to do so.  

Also, that's a blog, don't know if it's the most reliable source.

[DnFx91]

23 minutes ago, kaiju_wars said:

They didn't say it couldn't be done.  They simply said that it would put everyone at risk to do so.  

Also, that's a blog, don't know if it's the most reliable source.

yeah maybe could have grabbed a more reputable link but this info is all out in the public domain, Apple did claim that it could not be done, but they justified that by saying it was because it would put their customers at risk, which was a lie, as Apple knew damn well that you could do exactly what that israeli firm did in order to get the data they wanted, without putting their customers at risk. But they kept quiet

[themctipers]

1 hour ago, kaiju_wars said:

Hey, I like OS X.  Haven't gotten a chance to use Sierra, but I do like OS X.  

 

Also, I'm not jealous he can get new hardware, it's his whole attitude about it.  He has this whole, "better than thou art" attitude about PC hardware.

el capitan is more of a bitch to hackintosh than sierra

 

[ProjectBox153]

23 hours ago, themctipers said:

my grandma used to use a c2d and it was laggy as fuck on windows 7 and chrome with facebook games and youtube

she then got upgraded to a c2q and it was still laggy

 

so she got a i5 6500 now.

That's a better processor than I have!

[themctipers]

56 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

That's a better processor than I have!

same here  

 

[RahulR]

19 hours ago, Space Reptile said:

Xeon E5520 is 3€ and E5620 is 5~7€ , there basically 4c/8t i7 9xx chips at a lower clockspeed  

unbeatable for Price performance if you ask me

I was looking for 775 chips but I guess that's pretty good as well

[DnFx91]

16 hours ago, RahulR said:

I was looking for 775 chips but I guess that's pretty good as well

dude you know, i have literally a box full of LGA775 xeons in my office that i keep telling myself will be useful at some point, as you say, they are pretty much equivalent to first gen i7's. just can't bear the thought of throwing them away. i'll have to start a topic sometime showcasing my epic box of CPU's, got some gems in there, about 10 Q6600's  badassssssss

[PCGuy_5960]

WTF?

[N3v3r3nding_N3wb]

On 7/1/2013 at 5:30 PM, ElfFriend said:

I glance through the instructions since more often then not there is something that I didn't know or I could just watch a youtube video on the topic...

Instructions are just another man's opinion.

[BlazingGunnerFTW]

30 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

WTF?

I truly think the worst operating system is Java OS functionality wise. And its his fault for being a doofus for him not having his prebuilt not work. "It's trash, It's pure trash". Complains that computers need restarts sometimes. Universal issues =/= Only Windows issues

[Space Reptile]

31 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

 

WTF?

 

the fact that he says "APP" makes me cringe 

[PCGuy_5960]

2 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

the fact that he says "APP" makes me cringe 

Is that the only problem? This guy doesn't even know how to restart his computer

[PCGuy_5960]

5 minutes ago, BlazingGunnerFTW said:

I truly think the worst operating system is Java OS functionality wise. And its his fault for being a doofus for him not having his prebuilt not work. "It's trash, It's pure trash". Complains that computers need restarts sometimes. Universal issues =/= Only Windows issues

The fact that he recommends Mac OS saying that it "works better" shows just how little he knows about computers in general....

[Space Reptile]

1 minute ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

The fact that he recommends Mac OS saying that it "works better" shows just how little he knows about computers in general....

[BlazingGunnerFTW]

4 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

The fact that he recommends Mac OS saying that it "works better" shows just how little he knows about computers in general....

Works better? Some applications sure...? Not giving any specific scenarios where it would be? I don't buy it. And Unix has good compatibility, but it has no advantages of it like being able to run on a potato and a not locked down experience, and being open source. Functionally, it has no advantages to be had of Unix, nor the plethora of Windows options. It doesn't work better. In general terms it doesnt.

[Aaronius_Leonius]

I have a pretty funny experience with one, he thought that there was such thing as an intel core i16.

[RahulR]

8 hours ago, DnFx91 said:

dude you know, i have literally a box full of LGA775 xeons in my office that i keep telling myself will be useful at some point, as you say, they are pretty much equivalent to first gen i7's. just can't bear the thought of throwing them away. i'll have to start a topic sometime showcasing my epic box of CPU's, got some gems in there, about 10 Q6600's  badassssssss

nice, the only 775 chips I have are some Pentium 4s (630 and 640 I believe), a Pentium D 930, and a Pentium Dual Core E5200

[Aaronius_Leonius]

2 minutes ago, RahulR said:

nice, the only 775 chips I have are some Pentium 4s (630 and 640 I believe), a Pentium D 930, and a Pentium Dual Core E5200

I have the magic AMD one that fits in 775 because that totally exists. I'm definitely not just making up crap.

[ATouchOfKiwi]

On 2/19/2017 at 5:55 PM, RahulR said:

dude you know, i have literally a box full of LGA775 xeons in my office that i keep telling myself will be useful at some point, as you say, they are pretty much equivalent to first gen i7's. just can't bear the thought of throwing them away. i'll have to start a topic sometime showcasing my epic box of CPU's, got some gems in there, about 10 Q6600's

i want that box now.

[W3AB00_K1D]

Some my friends think that its name isnt rgb but its ryb since its like that for irl colors while painting n stuff