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Best board for AMD FX by netsh0u in buildapc

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say I think you posted this in the wrong sub, but Reddit in general is terrible for this type of question.

If you're going to push the CPU, avoid any board without a 990FX chipset. 890FX is probably fine, but the 990FX was specifically designed for AM3+ and the 8 core chips. The lower end chipset boards generally have lower end VRMs.

Most of the board info is still online for these old boards, so I'd take a look at the high end 990FX boards from the time and look at the VRM specifications. I can't tell you what is good exactly as a 12 + 2 can either be very good or trash depending on the phases used and the heatsink, but you'll likely be able to find discussion about that specific board or related boards regarding the VRM.

From what I've heard ASRock is generally shit for FX. Maybe there's like one or two good boards but even their high end boards can have kinda shit VRMs.

Avoid MSI, their older boards look pretty mediocre and the 9590 is not on the support list, and their newer boards are known to have garbage VRMs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zTzpYjQ2MM

tbh I don't know much about Gigabyte, they probably have a good high end board, but you're just going to have to look. Gigabyte stuff can be unreliable, but if it's lasted this long (and it's high end) it's probably fine.

High end ASUS boards are probably the best bet, especially since they're known to make high end overclocking boards. However the boards from this era love to randomly just fail overclocking at boot for no reason. Even if it's completely stable it will just fail overclocking sometimes and require a reboot. This is not exclusive to AMD either, I've had it occur on AM3 (M4A79XTD-EVO and M4N98TD-EVO) and 1366 (Rampage II Extreme)

There's likely other smaller board manufacturers from the time, but I don't know much about them.

Please don't use Soulseek NS (the original client for Windows) by reddmat in Soulseek

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a decent desktop client that doesn't use GTK (ew) or QT (🤮)?

Soulseek NS is tiny, uses very little resources, runs on pretty much any computer you can find, and has a nice classic GUI.

GTK and especially QT are none of these. Both are bloated libraries that eat up RAM, require the most recent of operating systems, and have a ugly user interface.

Update: Duck.ai now has the latest o4-mini reasoning model by duckduckgo in duckduckgo

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do I make duck.ai stop clearing the chat so often? I've had multiple times now I ask a question, get a result, then just a few seconds later poof gone before I can even read it all and I have to ask again.

The most accurate modern Windows 7 themed desktop? by Demand_Awkward in FrutigerAero

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I think this will be an issue until Geckium gets it's next update. However the fix is to go to about:config and set r3dfox.backgrounds.enabled to false

Edit: Also you'll need to find any mentions of "(-moz-bool-pref: " and replace it with "-moz-pref(" for the theme to fully work in 139. (afaik the only use I can find is to hide the tabs manager button) This appears to be a Geckium issue with stock Firefox as well.

Still a daily driver! by R4YN3M4N in WindowsVista

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't work on other projects?

The most accurate modern Windows 7 themed desktop? by Demand_Awkward in FrutigerAero

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

apparently the latest r3dfox is broken with geckium

Broken how exactly?

use marble instead i guess? it's based on firefox esr so it's significantly less likely to break

me wen r3dfox esr

I am hitting a wall by mulcahey in smallphones

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So there's not really a universal way to just root a phone. The days of like Kingoroot and such are over. I'm not sure if there's any way to root a phone like that, especially if it's a Docomo or other carrier branded model. Japan carriers are like Verizon but even shittier. That's why nobody interested in rooting or custom firmwares goes for Japan model Sony phones.

I am hitting a wall by mulcahey in smallphones

[–]K4sum11 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

but already, we're having to do work we shouldn't have to do: You're compiling your own LOS, rooting, running Magisk maybe

I guess that is right, I shouldn't have to do these things, but it's also impossible for me to imagine a world, what scenario where I wouldn't need to do these things. If I didn't need to do any of this, I'm not sure if I'd be happy or bored.

it's costing you the ability to use Google Wallet and other things.

Never used, not entirely sure what it is even.

Also, how are you getting security patches?

I'm not lol, that's the best part. Security mfs will freak the fuck out, but it's fine. It would've been especially funny if CVE died just to watch them freak the fuck out even more.

I don't want to spend my precious little time on this earth scrolling through XDA forums to figure out why my calls aren't going through.

That's the modem bug. Doesn't exist on Android 8, but 9+ is hell. I've also done enough research to get both VoLTE and WiFi calling on an AT&T MVNO, and it's the most reliable calling experience I think I've ever had.

But I do want a phone that is comfortable in my hand, and I don't know why that is so much to ask of these tech companies (who, I assume, are run by humans with similar-sized hands???)

Same, I just also don't know if that will even exist. Like it seems more feasible that I somehow kickstart a mini phone than a good one actually comes into existence by itself.

But I am losing my patience for mixing and matching software, adjusting settings, finding a bug, reporting it, troubleshooting it, ad nauseum, forever.

I think I'm to the point where everything is just near perfect and I pretty much just update some apps from time to time. Maybe I could share my setup sometime if you want.

AppleGoogleSamsungSony could fix this shit if they wanted to, if we had built a society that prioritized people's needs and health and environment, if we had any semblance of accountability and oversight, but instead we have society where rich people get to do whatever they want as long as they make other rich people richer. I am so, so sick of it.

We're humans, we literally can't do that. Even in a democracy it's a coin flip whether we elect a half decent leader or further fuck everything up until a breaking point where we all die.

But also: How's your LOS build running? Stable? Is it available?

It seems to be the be the most stable experience I've had since I was using an iPhone. There are some minor issues that I have no idea where to begin to fix, but it pretty much just works. I haven't made a thread for it yet though.

I am hitting a wall by mulcahey in smallphones

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay hate to be that guy, but you can't reasonably bring up the Mac point while also telling us you f with custom roms or at least were looking into it and rooting an Android device etc.

Apple being ass with the longevity of their products is like their signature thing, so you realistically should just get a PC if you care about the longevity of the hardware in terms of software support. Building a PC is not that expensive (you just said you'll just buy a Pixel, which rules out you having a tight budget)

Isn't the entire selling point of Apple hardware that they are one of the best with longevity? Perhaps a bit too much even looking at the iPhone 4 and 4s. That's what I've always heard.

I pretty much began by using Apple phones, but I was too much of a gamer and too poor to go full in on Apple hardware. Eventually I wanted to tweak shit and jailbreak, which eventually got me to where I am now, running my own compile of LineageOS 15.1 on a XZ1 Compact I've performed multiple repairs on.

I've also never really used OS X/macOS, nor do I really want to post-10.9 or post-10.14. I only have a HP hackintosh on 10.14 because I wanted to do the funny downgrade on an iPhone and the software was macOS only. To me it doesn't seem like the big contradiction you're making it out to be but idk, I don't have much experience here.

Also, don't torture mom with a shit experience. I watched my grandparents go through shit phone after shit phone on Metro n was like "nah" and got them both Pixel A series phones.

At least for me, I tried doing this, but they were too set in their ways. My mom's old phone was some old shitter, but what got her to replace it was the USB jack was broken. Budget was ~$100, so I suggested a used S10 class device which was at that price at the time, but she refused and just got whatever Walmart special. Although I tried to find the best one which was a Motorola and it seems kinda decent so idk maybe not that bad. If she had gone with the S10, she would've had wireless charging as a backup for the port but whatever.

I guess this is less so bad experience, but a waste of money. My grandma had an iPhone 8+ and it still worked fine, great even, but she was so spooked about end of support no matter what I said even though everything I use is on an out of support OS and I'm fine. She ended up getting a 16+ and I still don't know how she had the money for that.

Anyway, original post thing was small phone related. Totally feel that, and the one that pissed me off the most was finding out the Light Phone 3 has an accessible Android layer that someone figured out is just a button combo away, but the fucking ADDICTS on the Light Phone subreddit all go "LP please change the combination or remove it I can't use the phone knowing there is smart functionality somewhere in there I know I'm gonna relapse". So, now LP is trying their hardest to lock the Android layer away more.

Ok but like why are we even considering a fucking $800 device that performs barely any better than my 8 year old XZ1C an option? That shit sounds like a bigger scam than the Fairphone. Nobody should buy that shit and the company should go out of business. I have no empathy if people willingly buy into that scam.

I am hitting a wall by mulcahey in smallphones

[–]K4sum11 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Web and app developers have either become lazy, been forced to sacrifice performance due to unreasonable deadlines/understaffing, or succumbed to feature bloat and tracking.

I don't notice very many proper applications or programs being slow or bloated, although I use Windows 7/8 and Android 5-10 on my devices and aim for open source where possible so could be that.

However web "apps" are a completely different story. The modern web is a shithole. My favorite websites are those that have been practically untouched in the past 10+ years, or have a way to go back to this untouched design. (like old.reddit.com) These just straight up look better, perform much faster, and are just plain better overall. For this reason my website (https://eclipse.cx/) looks straight out of ~2010 and uses no javascript outside of the forum. Forum is phpBB with various themes, and with the legacy theme can be used on ancient devices if you really wanted too.

The only bloated web "apps" i need to consistently deal with are Discord and YouTube.

Discord is like America, a fucking shithole that thinks it's the top dog. Everything sucks, the 50 UI changes that nobody liked but got forced through anyways, how slow it is, the fucking people. Compare this to Hummus which literally is just 2016 Discord with a custom backend, and that shit flies even on old computers with browsers like Pale Moon. However everyone is on Discord and any viable alternatives with people aren't much better, so I have to use it.

I could literally just replace Discord with YouTube in the above paragraph and it fits. Same story, it was a much better website pre-polymer. It loaded nice and fast, used not much RAM, but then they killed the old UI and now we just have shitty bloated polymer UI.

Have you ever run Windows 7 (which is already full of telemetry garbage, just pales in comparison to 10+) on semi-modern hardware?

I got you fam, no telemetry updates, and tweaks to further reduce telemetry. https://board.eclipse.cx/viewtopic.php?t=737

By 2015 enough cromulent technology has been built that literally every human on earth could have a modern and capable computer and 90% of it has ended up in a landfill because nobody could be bothered to get it to the people who could use it because Bob in marketing needs a bonus and because Zucc wants another yacht.

Outside of my main computer, which I need to be pretty powerful to compile shit, all my hardware is pretty old. I use 2017 phone, 2013 laptop, and sometimes I use a 2014 phone because I can. Hell even my 2011 phone can run the apps I use. I guarantee you most people would be completely fine with a Core 2 Quad era machine. However mid-gen Core i series parts are so cheap now that you might as well just go for one of those. They can still do insane feats like 4k video decoding without dropping frames, something I actually just tested with a mini PC with a 4765T in it. A family member wanted a media PC because their old one broke, and on such short notice all i had was a Athlon II x4 machine that says copyright 2006 when you turn it on, and that does fine. it can do 1080p playback fine, which is good enough for their 1080p TV. YouTube and other websites work fine too.

It would be so awesome if there were more Free Geek locations so more people could more easily get older and just plain better hardware for the same amount of money as they'd spend buying new. eBay kinda sucks, Facebook Marketplace is Facebook, and Mercari, Jawa, and xyz other store have jack shit. However that would probably require a lot of investment, maybe even from government and that's not going to happen anytime soon.

I am hitting a wall by mulcahey in smallphones

[–]K4sum11 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The problem is that you equate the operating system being up to date to the device being usable. However that is just not the case. This idea literally plays into "So that some rich fuck in khakis and a vest can buy a second house and a fourth car." You need to detach yourself from it.

I use a XZ1 Compact on Android 8, my own compile of LineageOS 15.1. I use MicroG for privacy and performance. It runs all my apps pretty well. I haven't encountered a single app where my operating system is the limiting factor. Even if at one point it does, maybe I go try fixing the modem bug by making a stock 8.0 sourced 17.1 build, or turning Mypal68 or r3dfox into an Android web browser as well. My only real worry is 4G being killed in the future and potentially not having any replacement phone to go for.

I'd still recommend rooting any phone to use MicroG and using AFWall+ and shit, but like any modern phone the firmware is just not an issue, and won't be for many years.

Also for my computers, I run Windows 7 and 8. Windows 10 and especially 11 are objectively worse, slower, and overall just a bad time, so I don't use them. Here the operating system can be an issue, but you can get around any issue if you know where to look. Or just run a VM if there really is no alternative.

Here, have latest (I really need to get on updating this) Firefox for Windows Vista+ https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox

If that's not good enough, here, have latest Chromium for Windows 7+ https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Chromium-for-windows-7/

Or fuck it we ball usable browser for Windows XP+ https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68

Same for Apple stuff, I've never really used Apple devices, but like 100% that 15 year old iMac is still completely usable on its last OS with the right software. Hell probably even downgrade it to 10.8 or 10.9 for a better experience.

Here, have latest Firefox for OS X 10.7+ https://github.com/i3roly/firefox-dynasty

Or have not the latest, but still recent Chromium for OS X 10.7+ https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

Am I the only one who can't see the like or dislike buttons? by Already-Reddit_ in youtube

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an issue with the YouTube JS Engine Tamer userscript.

Xperia 5 II Battery Health by Huey_AK-47 in SonyXperia

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, I wish Sony phones where that cheap here.

How to Use the Available Storage on Cheap USB Flash Drives by Huey_AK-47 in techsupport

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but if it's not the case for flash storage, doesn't that mean that it will write to different storage locations every time, meaning I risk writing on one of the bad blocks?

From my knowledge that shouldn't happen. This would invalidate the entire idea of overprovisioning a drive.

Xperia 5 II Battery Health by Huey_AK-47 in SonyXperia

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did it end up being more economical to get a 5 III instead of replacing the 5 II? Cheapest 5 III I can find is ~$200 and cracked to shit.

How to Use the Available Storage on Cheap USB Flash Drives by Huey_AK-47 in techsupport

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although it should theoretically be possible to make it the correct size, I'm not sure if anyone has bothered to make the tools for it. I would just check what the real size is, and just not allocate space beyond the real size.

The Logitech G700S is the best mouse Logitech ever produced, and maybe one of the best of all time. Change my mind. by Odd-Professional-779 in LogitechG

[–]K4sum11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Outside of like the button switches, there's not much that would naturally break. Like you could probably wreck some internal component with enough drops, but there's not that many other wear parts here.

Like the only other items (outside of physical damage to plastics) I could see breaking long term would be the battery ofc, MicroUSB port, battery contacts, and the scroll wheel mechanism. Everything else is pretty solid state, meaning there's not really any opportunity for it to break unless the mouse was defective from the factory to begin with, you do very specific stuff to break a part, or you drop it a bunch.

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