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   The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 19:36:12 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

   You cheap bastards Gigabyte, new motherboard I bought for my wife’s work PC doesn’t have a manual in the box, just a shite quick install guide that tells you nothing useful. 😡

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 19:45:50 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     Printing off select pages from the online manual because I’m old skool. It’s just so much easier to find connectors on a diagram, because they squeeze acronyms with teeny tiny writing on a black board that sucks all light out of the case and my eyes can’t cope with that. Also they totally don’t tell you in the quick start which are the preferred memory slots which isn’t always a given

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     Leonard Ritter (lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 19:46:36 JST Leonard Ritter

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     @sinbad i remember a time when not only was there a fat manual in the box, the appendix had a blueprint of the circuit board so you could fix e.g. capacity issues yourself

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     johnfredcee (johnfredcee@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:41:07 JST johnfredcee

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     @sinbad I photograph those teeny tinsy letters with my phone and blow it up, my eyes have had a lifetimes beating...(assuming you mean motherboard)

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:48:27 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     Found a tiny blob of thermal paste on the surface of the motherboard, wondering if this supposedly new motherboard with a missing manual is actually used. No other wings of wear though so perhaps it was just from a QA test

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     PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷 (psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:58:04 JST PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷

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     @sinbad I could be wrong but I think they’re all starting to do that now? The last Asus motherboard I bought came with a little tiny book of nothing and a QR code linking to the actual PDF downloadable manual. A little annoying having to mess about but at least with the digital manual I was able to zoom in on the jumper settings so I didn’t have to put my glasses on! 🤣

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 21:02:55 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     • PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷

     @psychicparrot42 ugh not surprised I suppose. The aame class board from Asus I bought last year for my machine still had the manual

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 22:29:15 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     I’d like to kick the person who invented PCIE card latches square in the family jewels. Incredibly dumb design - “I know, I’ll put the thing you need to press to remove a card directly underneath it! I’m a genius! GPUs won’t get constantly bigger to make this harder every time!” 😤

     New board luckily has a lever extension but this is such a hack for a stupid POS design.

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 22:31:58 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     This rant brought to you by cutting my fingers to shreds trying to get a spudger down there to press a stick latch. Ended up popping the latch off entirely in the end, screw that junk

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 22:43:18 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @KeefJudge I guess they’re trying to prevent angled seating problems but this is the dumbest solution imaginable in 2024. Sure it worked with your Riva 128 when it was just a board with one little teeny fan on it but it makes zero sense now

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     Keith Judge (keefjudge@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 22:43:19 JST Keith Judge

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     @sinbad This issue goes right back to AGP cards - I dunno why they do it, the card is secured with screws to the back plate of the PC case anyway.

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     Leonard Ritter (lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 22:44:33 JST Leonard Ritter

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     @sinbad "why am i bleeding?" me after assembling my last PC

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     Skelemental (skelemental@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 23:03:01 JST Skelemental

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     @sinbad I did this accidentally. I had an oh shit I broke something moment followed by never mind I made it better. See also those flame arrestors on gas cans.

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 00:39:54 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     Well, at least after all my sailor-level swearing today the new board / CPU / RAM / NVMe drive all seem to work fine. We’re both AM5 in the office now.

     Now I’m just holding my nose and installing Windows 11, and seeing how far I can get down Marie’s giant list of things she needs reinstalling

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 00:48:57 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     It’s a good job Windows isn’t voice activated by default otherwise it would probably be calling HR by now about me verbally abusing it.

     Setting Windows up is mostly yelling “No! Piss off!” at the screen IME

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     Jeremiah Fieldhaven (jeremiahfieldhaven@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 00:57:03 JST Jeremiah Fieldhaven

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     @sinbad A while back I was navigating in the car for Mrs Fieldhaven, and things were Not Working Properly for various reasons. As part of trying to get the tablet I was using for the maps doing what I needed, I accidentally activated the voice assistant on it. When I said "Oh, piss off!" at it, it actually replied with "That isn't very nice!" 🤣

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     John Kaniarz (jkaniarz@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:32:04 JST John Kaniarz

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     @sinbad I heard you can avoid the official shovelware in a “clean” install by setting your region to English (World). The OOBE installer will fail and then you can correct your region after first login. Haven’t had a chance to try this yet.