lapisnev

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Things that make you go 🤌. Weird computer stuff. Artist and general creative type. Occasionally funny. Gentoo on main. I play rhythm games!

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lapisnev
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SilverStone used to make a really fucking good passive heatsink, the HE02, and it's effective for cooling even modern AM4 processors with enough case airflow.

This is a useless fact because:

  1. It's DiscontinuedTM
  2. The AM4 mounting kit upgrade is Also DiscontinuedTM (As of very recently, if you can believe it!)
  3. It's difficult to get your hands on SilverStone products even when they're not DiscontinuedTM
  4. DiscontinuedTM SilverStone products are generally unobtainium on the second hand market because they're niche and expensive and a sane person would just get a bunch of Corsair parts and go home, so no one actually has them

... So the useful fact to take away from this is that if you're building a computer you should absolutely not give a shit about what brand of parts you're getting (outside of avoiding Gigabyte power supplies lmao) or else you'll be chasing a Beige Whale until the end of time. Just get what's available now and move on. Consistent æsthetics is just a fun bonus.


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in reply to @kokoscript's post:

Atari Mega STE and TT keyboards use mitsumi KPQ keyswitches that use rubber tubes instead of springs or domes. when you press the key hard enough, the tube collapses under the force, giving a tactile feel.

Most Amigas are fitted with mitsumi KPR switches, which is exactly the same except instead of a rubber tube there's a coil spring, giving a linear action

both types can be fitted to the same keyboard for an extremely unnerving typing experience

The SNES was probably supposed to be backwards compatible with the NES, and the functionality was ripped out early-to-mid development of the console:

  1. The SNES CPU is binary-compatible with the NES CPU.
  2. There is no overlap between the I/O addresses used between the SNES and NES...
  3. Except for the controller port, whose bits have the same interpretation on the SNES and NES.
  4. The serial controller protocol of the SNES is backward-compatible with the NES.

(I am not the first to notice this, credit to Myria, who isn't on Cohost?)