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FirmwareBurner

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About FirmwareBurner

The uncomfortable truth is where the downvotes are. Groupthink is like shackles on your mind.

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    Comment #45653674

    Nvidia is incredibly strict with the laptop and board partners on the design and marketing of the final product.

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    Comment #45647609

    All the decafs I tried did not taste as good as the OG.

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    Comment #45643571

    > all advertising is fake nowadays, so it is hard to compete while being honest. Can't blame them. Not just advertising but most things that are done online, like dating or job app…

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    Comment #45643090

    That Macbook Air is 1200 Euros where I live which is way above the price of the most sold Windows laptops according to the public sales data of big retailers here, which seem top h…

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    Comment #45641870

    >I genuinely don't believe this to be true for AMD. I bought a 6600xt on Release Day That was 2021 though when AMD was still a relative underdog trying to claw market share from Nv…

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    Comment #45640826

    >The EU was funding fab lines, several levels back up the chain IIRC? Yeah but much larger(16-12nm) and much less profitable nodes than what Taiwan, the US or even Japan and China …

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    Comment #45633983

    >I want my AI to do dishes and laundry You mean a washing machine and a dish washer?

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    Comment #45633226

    >No reason? Was it Covid, or the Ukraine war? Covid virus didn't make you poor, it was the government's response to it of shutting down large parts of the economy(and not others) p…

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    Comment #45630603

    >Where are the huge open floor plans with an army of developers wearing noise-cancelling headphones? 30 years in the future, when everyone and their dog learned to code and the mar…

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    Comment #45626826

    A Linux system is a way better idea than a Mac if making your kids tech savvy is the goal.

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    Comment #45626509

    IIRC the Cell architecture was OK-ish for a CPU architecture, just that the PS3 was too gimped on RAM(256MB) for game devs to use to its full potential. The trojan Blu-ray Player a…

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    Comment #45609021

    >But those steak cuts would be subject to the same standards as a cheap chicken meat in the cheap store. Speaking also as an European, not they would not. There's a pretty big diff…

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    Comment #45607413

    >I'd love for real conversation about, say, keeping Servo, Web Assembly, the fallacy of "privacy preserving ads" What is a "real" conversation? And what do those conversations help…

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    Comment #45607273

    >If you spent time in an actual grocery store, you'd find that your comment isn't true. Also as "an European" whatever that means, I only spent a couple of months in the US as a to…

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    Comment #45606949

    >...yes, you should! Why? They're actively hostile to me as a user and nor catering to my needs and desires. >Google does much worse things and is effectively a monopolist Monopoli…

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    Comment #45606613

    "Nooooo, you need to use FF no matter how much it pisses you off, since we can't let Google be a monopoly (even though it already is and it's the government's job to crack down mon…

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    Comment #45606562

    Clearly they aren't doing any/good work, if they allow popups to cover content. It's literally their job to prevent stuff like this. Mozilla needs to bring in the Bobs from Office …

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    Comment #45598810

    >But you are comparing that to someone who literally suggests violent action against people of his own country. What's worse? Suggesting violence against someone, or actions of cor…

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    Comment #45596479

    I asked you to point out her achievements and you just glazed her further on the basis that "you can't possibly fail upwards to a high level leadership position" when a lot of peop…

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    Comment #45594911

    *) 2 year is the warranty for consumers in the EU. 1 year only for business/enterprise customers