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Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
or they’re in your work laptop inexplicably. hm yes i need them certified drivers for quickbooks i guess? thanks, dave.

at least i could daytrade on mmo’s during work hours, thanks to not having an intel hd4500 or whatever, neato,

re: quadros

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Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

my dad discovered thechive at some point and now i want to put him in a home early

git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

Roosevelt posted:

my dad has an ipod for music and a landline for phone :radcat:

is he single

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

unless you're doing scientific computing or like engineering simulations of a nuclear power plant or whatever who gives a poo poo about certified drivers. all it means is that you pay $6000 for a graphics card instead of $800 to get the same performance.

boomers, that's who. it's ~professional~ so i need it for my ~workstation~

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
yeah and it’s all tickytack licensing bs with the drivers themselves to extort business, which i’m not against. you just get fools who don’t understand what any of that means.

pram
Jun 10, 2001

Sagebrush posted:

unless you're doing scientific computing or like engineering simulations of a nuclear power plant or whatever who gives a poo poo about certified drivers. all it means is that you pay $6000 for a graphics card instead of $800 to get the same performance.

boomers, that's who. it's ~professional~ so i need it for my ~workstation~

not quite. stuff like double precision floating point is intentionally gimped on consumer cards. so ML can be shittier, and I wouldn’t call that a niche use these days

pram
Jun 10, 2001
but yes either way it’s a grift

Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy
real men ml with 8 bit fixed point :grin:

SpaceAceJase
Nov 8, 2008

and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james
Age of empires 2

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

pram posted:

but yes either way it’s a grift
i remember when softquadro modded drivers could save you a few hundred bucks just poking around the majorgeeks(or whatever it was) forum for fifteen minutes. but it
was all was operating under the notion that it wouldn’t fly in any major business environment anyway, i guess.

but the i still continue the tradition to this day by tricking nvidia with a few lines in my qemu config files, because gently caress the police and “code 43” or whatever the gently caress. dipshits.

Astryl
Feb 1, 2005

"15,000 hours of Diablo II isn't that much, dweeb."

Paying for software

pram
Jun 10, 2001
heres an example. any card with gv100 (volta) was just titan and quadro/tesla. no consumer cards used this chip



compare fp64 with a newer RTX 2080 ti



intentionally gimped lol

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007

Do Not Fear Jazz posted:

Paying for software
off the shelf from a best buy

would i like 2 years of kapersky for $45 with my purchase today? i would be an idiot not to, right? yes of course with the protection pack, do i look like a complete fool to you? what if i spill my vodka lemonade all over the dvd’s/thumb drives rendering them totally useless? are you loving crazy?

SpaceAceJase
Nov 8, 2008

and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james

pram posted:

heres an example. any card with gv100 (volta) was just titan and quadro/tesla. no consumer cards used this chip



compare fp64 with a newer RTX 2080 ti



intentionally gimped lol

Okay but my dad doesn't care about any of this

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

poo poo like this in the corner of the dining room. to keep everything tidied away



not pictured: post-it notes covered in passwords and the 6" stack of printed web pages from 2008

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Sweevo posted:

poo poo like this in the corner of the dining room. to keep everything tidied away



not pictured: post-it notes covered in passwords and the 6" stack of printed web pages from 2008

All of the manuals for every piece of hardware and software they've ever bought are close at hand, but never opened

Devonaut
Jul 10, 2001

Devoted Astronaut

Sweevo posted:

poo poo like this in the corner of the dining room. to keep everything tidied away



hmm yeah real photoshop power user there

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

my mom took classes to learn how to use adobe garbage but she still calls me for help on things like resizing images

PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


Sweevo posted:

poo poo like this in the corner of the dining room. to keep everything tidied away



not pictured: post-it notes covered in passwords and the 6" stack of printed web pages from 2008

i remember when my friend showed me the first porn site i ever saw on this computer

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

having their phone turned off unless they are making or expecting a call

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib
Pretty sure most boomers are on their smartphones constantly all the times these days.

Zlodo
Nov 25, 2006
a small worn out notebook full of semi legible account names and multiple passwords for each

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



pram posted:

boomers and also fallout fans

i dont want to set my desk on fire
i just want to stop a flame in these parts

Sagebrush posted:

All of the manuals for every piece of hardware and software they've ever bought are close at hand, but never opened

my dad puts them all in one ziploc bag and hides it away which is honestly a pro move until the recent ease of access to pdfs online for appliances

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



Sweevo posted:

having their phone turned off unless they are making or expecting a call

this is my grandma and she uses a pay as you go flip because she likes her landline. she had the same phone so long she had to upgrade when the stopped supporting gprs/edge so in a way shes ahead of all of us in hardware churn :unsmith:

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

oh we bout to go fuckin 12 rounds buddy

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Sweevo posted:

poo poo like this in the corner of the dining room. to keep everything tidied away



not pictured: post-it notes covered in passwords and the 6" stack of printed web pages from 2008

put an imac in there and yep thats the rents setup

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Jonny 290 posted:

oh we bout to go fuckin 12 rounds buddy

lol

theodop
Dec 30, 2005

rock solid, heart touching
opening internet explorer by tediously searching for an icon on their desktop, typing "google" into the search bar, clicking the first result to open google, searching for facebook.com, and then clicking the first result to open facebook

using pop3

denying climate change in the comments of a Guardian article

Chill Callahan
Nov 14, 2012
yospos

Astryl
Feb 1, 2005

"15,000 hours of Diablo II isn't that much, dweeb."

Printing out map quest directions

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

electricity bad
Fun Shoe

Why do you have to zip up your pants every time you get off that hog, Travis," Punchy said. I nearly fell off the bike, aghast. "You got a pussy in that thing?" I coughed and gulped. "Hahahaha, nice one, Punchy," I said

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


using weird software to watch satellite tv

falling for every scam

having 3-4 browsers installed and using whichever one set itself as the default most recently and never knowing the difference or what a browser is

FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD OBAMA

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


asking for help with/complaining about computer then blaming you for anything that happens after you attempt fixing it forever

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


refusing to just use a goddamn ipad already

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

buying loads of hand tools on ebay

Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy
sending emails with 10 mb mp4 attachments

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

Poopernickel posted:

Why do you have to zip up your pants every time you get off that hog, Travis," Punchy said. I nearly fell off the bike, aghast. "You got a pussy in that thing?" I coughed and gulped. "Hahahaha, nice one, Punchy," I said

counterpoint: i would definitely gently caress my FZ1 if it had one of these

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



Do Not Fear Jazz posted:

Printing out map quest directions

no joke found this on a printer at work in 2016, almost threw it right in the trash before i realized mapquest was punishment enough

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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



going to msn news because its the default page in ie11

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