No it's not. You try wating for an hour with your dick in your hand edging while waiting to see some serious... ahem... debates over global warming.
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Yeah, I kinda pitty the US for that.
But, to be honest, one of the reasons why you guys were so good at progressive ideas was just that, no baggage, no history, it's up to you to make your own... and you did manage to make great history to be honest, I mean, every modern music style decendes from jazz/blues. Not to mention the 60's and rock, metal afterwards, I mean... the list is pretty extensive. And so many great movies have been produced in the US, one of my favorites to be honest. Nowadays, you're not so much a force for progress, but last century was all yours regarding technology and art, no doubt there 👍.
Anyway, no, I live in a small country in the Balkans. You should probably visit the AMA I made today that was inspired by these questions 😂.
No, a bit more south 😂.
Germans have that as well 😂? Wow, didn't know that. Ours is called "Sviripichino", it litelarly means "the place where you blow (play 🤔... like an instrument) on the pussy" 🤣🤣🤣.
Void after 3 weeks of brea... I mean testing.
ROG is a Republic Of Gamers edition motherboard... it's probably a lot more expensive than the lower end models (like my Z97-K board for example... and that wasn't cheap as well, like 100€ back in the day).
I guess the definition of "cheap" varies from person to person. My definition of cheap is lower end (50, 60€ tops) motherboards. I don't buy those either, but make no mistake, they're a common household item in 3rd world countries (I can vouch for that).
I have no idea what the prices are for a Realtek NIC vs. other manufacturers. All I know is, they're usually the default choice for cheaper models... which probably means they're dirt cheap. Have no idea how this compares to Intel or other manufacturers (Marvel, Qualcomm, etc.).
In general, yes, those NICs are cheap. But, let's take USB to Ethernet adapters. I don't think Intel has a solution for those things... or if they do, it's probably more expensive than the one Realtek offers. It's $5 on AliExpress. They're not great, but they get the job done (no wifi, no onboard etherent plug on a brand new laptop, and you need internet to get it up to date with drivers). I haven't looked for anything else since this one does a great job, but I guess that, even if there is an Intel based solution out there, it'll be at least tripple the price of the Realtek one.
Oh, cool 👍 😉.
Realtek is basically on every retail motherboard manufacturer. Gigabyte, Asus, MSI, Biostar, ASRock, etc. If you're talking about hi-end or server grade motherboards, yeah, but let's face it, the chips are cheap so they're practically in every household.
They're still waiting to be mainstreamed into the kernel. The process of integrating drivers into the kernel is complicated. Coding practices of the coder that wrote the driver play a large part in that. Buggy or badly written code will not get accepted. Not all of these drivers have the code quality that is required in order to be merged with the kernel.
The real problem is catering to manufacturers demanding to have their own bespoke driver pack, often including some stupid branded management application, when it's just the same as the other dozen manufacturers packaging of the same product. Then you end up with bloated "driver packs" and a system tray of a half dozen vendors screaming for you to pay attention to them and know that they are somehow contributing to your experience.
This is exactly why I use driverpacks in Windows (3rd party, like SDI). If the drivers are not in the pack, I download them from the manufacturer and if they're packed with an app, I just extract the whole thing and point Windows (through manual driver update) to search for the drivers in that location. It will install only what it needs to work, nothing else.
they still sold their devices, but the users that were oblivious suffered
Or they did know, but the copy was a lot cheaper than the real thing. Hell, I've done it. If it does the same thing, why buy the more expensive thingie. I get IP rights and all that, but seriously, in the end, you just have to deal with these things. Unless you're Intel, you should expect your device/chip to end up being copied. China doesn't enforce western world IP laws, so it's a "free for all" kind of a thing there. If you plan on doing this (making your own device/chip), your device/chip better be niche enough so it's not viable to actually copy the design. Otherwise, copies will pop up left and right.
Maybe write him a PM, I don't think he reads posts that much, lol 😂. And just for the hosting, not coding the bot. He's way too busy with AI Horde and other projects.
There could be months or years between updates to the driver.
Yes, but someone still has to implement that "a thing or two" in it every few years.
Some manufacturers have great first-party Linux support. Intel is a good example - they contribute a lot of code to the kernel, and their drivers are maintained by employees.
Agreed. But, to be honest, most aren't. Just take a look at Realtek. There's bound to be at least one chip made by them on your board (in most cases, two, LAN and audio, two very crucial pieces of hardware).
What, you've never edged while waiting to see a heated debate?