/tech/ - Technology

I think there's only a need to buy high-end hardware if you have high-end purposes. Middle of the range is perfectly sufficient for most people.
It used to be the case your hardware would be obsolete within a few years, these days it seems to improve far more slowly. RIP Murphy's Law. I guess that's to do with the minimum size of circuitry, quantum mechanics stuff.
If I can take care of it, I'm sure my navi will be good for a long time.

>old or new?
Always second-hand personally, as long as there's nothing visibly wrong with it. Paying the new hardware premium doesn't make much difference, usually.

>>2
Yeah pretty much, a few years ago I was very comfortable on a Core 2 Duo with 2 GB of DDR2 RAM. What I have now feels like more than I need.

yea like nixx said, there isnt much point in getting powerful components if all youre gonna do is shitpost online
it only makes sense to 'buy power that you just don't need' if you expect to do more and more intense tasks over time, like if you are a w*ndows user since m*cros*ft doubles the system requirements every year
but if you were gonna use your computer to do real computer stuff, youd know it
like image/video editing and gaming
so unless you have special needs, id say just but sth 2nd hand tbh
thats how i got the last computer that i actually paid for

didnt find any info on pluto on amd chips so that's kinda where you should limit yourself?
in any case it is joeover with unknown number of hidden chips inside your ryzen
https://www.devever.net/~hl/backstage-cast
as for gpu they have their own fucking bios in them
ddr5 still vulnerable to rowhammer variants
and where are PS/2 ports?

Old high end is cheap second hand. I like powerful workstation laptops that companies replace.
Good build quality, great screens and keyboards and often top tier specs for their time.
It's more than enough and a lot cheaper than any new mid tier.

>>3
> RIP Murphy's Law
Kek, you're thinking of Moore's Law. Murphy's is still very much alive and well I fear.
>>1
> So how does anyone else acquire their components?
factory sealed or used?
New parts for my gaeyming PeeCee but I'm a richfag paying the convenience tax. I know people who used eBay parts to assemble perfectly good Fortnite/CounterStrike/Rivals machines.
My laptop is a 5-year-old chromebook that I flashed with coreboot & installed Debian. 2 cores + 4GB enough to run a modern web browser which is realistically the most intensive application a vanilla user will need to run.
This of course assumes one is using not using modern windows, which requires 6 cores and 16GB ddr4 at an absolute minimum to be practically usable.

automated nids doesn't make any sense on a small scale
generating a statistical overview is good enough
just look at it yourself
a list of all ips will give enough insight to notice anything being wrong

have something that also logs the processes associated with the ips on the server that might get intruded
that can also make it very obvious something went wrong if an unknown process starts making connections

thank you rainon(s)

one will try