2d ago

AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care

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Reducing computer performance:
Turbo button 🤝 AI button
- now that you mention it, kinda surprised I haven't ever seen a spate of custom 3D-printed turbo buttons from overclocker circles
  
  it could turn on the RGB! though that would imply that the RGB could be turned off in the first place, which is optimistic on my part
  
  it's the button for more RGB
  saw a microphone with RGB and i'm like wtf is this thing supposed to do, flash disco lights when you're on stream shouting slurs at your esteemed fellow gamers
  
  shouting slurs at your esteemed fellow gamers
  They're called "heated gaming moments" /j
  
  reheated gaming moments
  
  Fresh(?) off the PUBG Bridge
  
  nah, just call a fuckwit a fuckwit. even jokingly giving them breathing room is something they know how to abuse.
  
  @dgerard @self no that's the Real Good Button
  
  Same issue from when we had turbo buttons: why have a button for something you don't turn off?
  
  your comment demonstrates a remarkable lack of imagination
  
  Better option: An array of flip switches for throttling to different speeds.
  Best option: Mount these flip switches above you on an overhead control panel.
  
  And a clear lack of understanding of what the turbo button actually did
  
  I thought it makes the game tick faster or slower, such that you have to have it set correctly or it's unplayable.
  
  Some early PC software, mostly games, were written expecting the computer ran at a fixed speed which was the speed of the original IBM PC which used an Intel 8088 that ran at 4.77 MHz. If the IBM PC was more like computers such as the Commodore 64 which changed little during its production run, that would have been fine. But eventually faster PC's were released that ran on 286, 386, 486, etc. CPUs that were considerably faster and hence software that expected the original IBM PC hardware ran way too fast.
  The turbo button was a bit of a misnomer since you would normally have it on and leave it on, only turning it off as sort of a compatibility mode to run older software. How effective it was varied quite a bit - some computers turning it off would get you pretty close to the original IBM PC in terms of speed, but others would just slow the computer down, but not nearly enough, making it mostly useless for what it was intended for.
  
  Kind of, though it's about the CPU's clock speed rather than the details of the game.
  So, pedantically? no.
  Experientially? yes.
  
  I had one on my PC in the late 90s, early 2000s.

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