Experiences can vary from seller to seller, but I've owned a few oddball motherboards from china that shouldn't exist. (old server cpu sockets shoved onto a Micro ATX Board) Any time I've had issues getting a refund took maybe a week or two at most. Although the last issue I had was a few VRM components exploding and throwing shrapnel all over inside the case. So buy at your own risk on some things.

>this isn't supposed to happen in a 600k car!!!

Technically it isn't designed to handle someone fumbling it into a concrete barrier well beyond the speed limit.

Still, I've seen crashes way worse but the chassis didn't disintegrate like that. I'm even inclined to say the speed with which they crashed was mid at best.

>Btw, it's not a 'concrete' wall, in the sense of something man-made

That seems to be a more recent thing. There is now a concrete barrier in front of the rock face.

> That seems to be a more recent thing. There is now a concrete barrier in front of the rock face.

Nodding thx for the correction. Understandably, I am not scanning the outside shoulder in this or any other technical section in the Angeles National Forest roadways. "Eyes on the road" is not just something your Dad would say when driving at speed on these (or any other) fast, twisty roads.

You could try something like GhostBSD if you wanted an easier experience, but I've avoided nvidia like the plague since 2010 so not sure how well old nvidia cards are being supported.

Yes[1], depending on the chromebook / chrometablet it will have varying levels of support for even swapping the firmware and running standard linux/BSD. Sometimes you will need to open up the laptop for a jumper/screw to adjust for enabling firmware flashing. Others its just turning on dev mode first.

[1]https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/supported-devices.html

What do you mean by this? From everything I can find points towards other companies winding down DDR4 production because of China's cheaper DDR4 production lines.

It was brought up in a different HN submission about a week ago, here's the specific quote from the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169499

> Budget brands normally buy older DRAM fabrication equipment from mega-producers like Samsung when Samsung upgrades their DRAM lines to the latest and greatest equipment. This allows the DRAM market to expand more than it would otherwise because it makes any upgrading of the fanciest production lines to still be additive change to the market. However, Korean memory firms have been terrified that reselling old equipment to China-adjacent OEMs might trigger U.S. retaliation…and so those machines have been sitting idle in warehouses since early spring. - https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram...

Every one seems so focused on that one company supposedly had "fake demand" just to ruin it for competitors, while the supply also seemingly is being suppressed, and no one seems to be talking about that. To me that seems like a much bigger deal, because then the market can't even restore the supply...

>Not directed at you, but what kind of person would [flag] and [dead] the other reply to your comment? Talk about not having a life!

Going by the username having a near slur in it. Probably that.

> If they just instead opened up chatgpt they could have instantly gotten their answer.

Great now we've wasted time & material resources for a possibly wrong and hallucinated answer. What part of this is beneficial to anyone?

Counterpoint:

Frankly, it's a skill thing.

You know how some people can hardly find the back of their own hands if they googled them?

And then there's people (like eg. experienced wikipedians doing research) who have google-fu and can find accurate information about the weirdest things in the amount of time it takes you to tie your shoes and get your hat on.

Now watch how someone like THAT uses chatgpt (or some better LLM) . It's very different from just prompting with a question. Often it involves delegating search tasks to the LLM (and opening 5 google tabs alongside besides) . And they get really interesting results!

> if you ban this you would just lose the information that it was generated.

The argument is that the information it generated is just noise, and not valuable to the conversation thread at all.

>Should asking for sources be banned too?

IMO, HN commenters used to at least police themselves more and provide sources in their comments when making claims. It was what used to separate HN and Reddit for me when it came to response quality.

But yes it is rude to just respond "source?" unless they are making some wild batshit claims.