Recent content by rhinohelix

Look, I am a huge AI fan, its amazing but there is no doubt we are in bubble territory: Bubbles don't last, and things that can't go on forever, don't go on forever. RAM, hard drives, etc aren't going to be this expensive forever and that was my original point: While it may indeed transition to...

OK, so after a long, slow decline (more than two decades), many people switched over to software distribution. Where has that same tendency been exhibited in the hardware space? A ton of players have spent BILLIONS trying to convince people they didn't need to spend money on hardware, that...

I mean, yeeeeeeees potentially, maybe but not for a while. I mean, that's not Flying cars THE FUTURE™ but its still the future, as in decade(s) away. What is the paradigm that gets us there? What use case makes people give up desktops/ipads/laptops/phones? One of the great (and terrible) but...

I have a few things to do local AI and my experience with it hasn't been great. I much prefer my cloud AI subs to my LMStudio Qwen3.8 for anything. I didn't realize how limited local AI was; it either knows or it doesn't, and doesn't search for anything. Mine wouldn't update, look on the web...

Before GPT 6.0 hit, I was uploading my POE2 build to Path of Building and my build and using ChatGPT (I guess is was medium-effort Opus 4.8) to scour the market looking for equipment upgrades. I pride myself on getting good stuff for cheap and I swear it could always find things I couldn't. The...

So as I have mentioned previously, I grew up near the TX/LA border, and LA always had a lower drinking age/a more permissive drinking culture than TX, so always held allure for teens/young adults of all ages from both states. Later on as a young adult I ran security in one of the nightclubs in...

Reverse engineering continues to reveal secrets. This is going to be some of the best things ever: [AsmonGold Short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRjyh9t3Jeo&list=WL&index=147

Folks have already answered but generally its defense in depth: 1)Open-source is visible, allowing everyone to see what directly is in there to know what is in the code. 2) Git repos are generally available and people make it a point to scan them; also when you use/integrate/install them, your...

That sub model that was printing billions, that they grew fat while everyone starved, <Christopher Walken King of New York reference>the genie is out of the bottle and will never go back in. The era of bespoke applications have arrived, and the Big Tech companies know, and knew it. I mean...

I've been using a bunch of different AI tools to write various things, as I walk my way up the Vibe coding ladder, getting certs and upskilling myself along the way. I use Abascus.ai to build an Azure website for some monitoring dashboards, and it did a great job. Explained the whole process...

When you're talking about user operations in the millions given the install base, sure: Edge things happen. And writing BIOS isn't exactly "software" in the traditional sense, technically you are updating the hardware itself. Mapping physical addresses is what RAM does, indeed, though. AI...

As I said: Microsoft is going to Microsoft, and your Windows install isn't necessarily safe from Windows Update but it isn't doing anything to your RAM or any other hardware that any other software wouldn't do. Also, Microsoft itself recognizes this; that's what System Restore points are for...

You're looking in the wrong end of the telescope. Hardware fails, sadly but WINDOWS UPDATE in particular wasn't the cause of it; it doesn't put any more strain on RAM than anything else. USE of RAM, as in running electricity through it to process 1s and 0s eventually causes hardware to fail, so...

Windows Update is not going to break your PC any more than any other usage, from a hardware perspective. No warranties expressed or implied about your Windows 11 install, however; Microsoft is going to Microsoft from time to time and everyone's install is different but it's voodoo/Cargo Cultism...

I mean, MS sucks and all that but "Windows Update" didn't kill your RAM; it just died while Windows was updating, unless you have something more directly indicative that Windows Update was causative. Otherwise its just French peasants killing cats.The Great Cat Massacre - Wikipedia It's the...