punkfungus

@punkfungus@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really not good enough from AMD. I wonder if Intel wasn’t a complete dumpster fire right now if they would still cut off the fix at Zen 3 (I doubt it). There’s really no reason not to issue a fix for these other than they don’t want to pay the engineers for the time to do it, and they think it won’t cost them any reputational damage.

  I hate that every product and company sucks so hard these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crowdstrike bypassed WHQL because the update was not to the driver, it was to a configuration file that then gets ingested by the driver. It’s deliberate so they can push out updates for developing threats without being slowed down by the WHQL process.

  And that means when they decide to just send it on a Friday with a buggy config file, nobody is responsible but Crowdstrike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not quite true on the second part. It’s primarily Jatco CVTs that are reliability nightmares, and are what is used by Nissan. Subaru make their own CVTs which are widely regarded to be much more reliable.

  Pretty much the entire poor reputation of CVTs derives from those shitty Jatcos but the tech itself wasn’t the problem, it was the execution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Complaints about crashing 13th, 14th Gen Intel CPUs now have data to back them up⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately this is a separate issue. The main problem that is blowing up now is that the CPUs are rapidly degrading to the point of failure even with completely standard settings and normal usage. And ironically, boosting the voltage to solve the issue you’re talking about might then accelerate the degradation issue, because the leading theory seems to be that the high voltage that i9s use is frying the ringbus.

  All around just a terrible situation for Intel and their customers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is the best social media⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last I checked hexbear had something like 70% more total comments than lemmy.world despite only having a tiny fraction of the users. Sounds like bots to me