0x4E4F
I think they’re just confused and have a really bad headache over wondering why they’re larger than the cammels.
Yeah, I know, that’s why the kernel with the drivers is not more than 150MB. Otherwise, you’d have the Windows situation where driverpacks compressed with 7z (LZMA2, solid archive, 273 word dictionary size and 2GB decompression memory, which requires about 128GB of RAM to compress) take about 30GB.
You have to pack the driver from each manufacturer because of signatures, even though they might even be the same with other drivers in the pack… but, REV differs and oh well, the driver installer doesn’t recognize that driver as a valid one for that device.
The real problem is catering to manufacturers demanding to have their own bespoke driver pack, often including some stupid branded management application, when it’s just the same as the other dozen manufacturers packaging of the same product. Then you end up with bloated “driver packs” and a system tray of a half dozen vendors screaming for you to pay attention to them and know that they are somehow contributing to your experience.
This is exactly why I use driverpacks in Windows (3rd party, like SDI). If the drivers are not in the pack, I download them from the manufacturer and if they’re packed with an app, I just extract the whole thing and point Windows (through manual driver update) to search for the drivers in that location. It will install only what it needs to work, nothing else.
they still sold their devices, but the users that were oblivious suffered
Or they did know, but the copy was a lot cheaper than the real thing. Hell, I’ve done it. If it does the same thing, why buy the more expensive thingie. I get IP rights and all that, but seriously, in the end, you just have to deal with these things. Unless you’re Intel, you should expect your device/chip to end up being copied. China doesn’t enforce western world IP laws, so it’s a “free for all” kind of a thing there. If you plan on doing this (making your own device/chip), your device/chip better be niche enough so it’s not viable to actually copy the design. Otherwise, copies will pop up left and right.
What’s the one thing you would want your average global citizen to know about the balkans?
Don’t trust anyone fom here, you’re bound to get screwed at one point or another.
Is there somewhere else you eventually want to live?
Yes, preferably somewhere colder, like Canada, Sweden, Norway. Not Russia, cuz the mentality and the people are basically the same as here.
When people say they want to Balkanize _ does that bother you?
I have no idea what that means, it’s the first time I’ve heard that term, could you explain what it means?
Who would win in a fight, a hot dog or a taco?
IDK, we don’t have tacos here, we have gyros.
Oh, I could go in details, but I don’t currently have time, so I’ll be short: politics, corruption, air polution, environment polution, inflation, salaries, prices, comodities… there’s a lot more. Feel free to ask about any of these in particular, I’ll answer a bit later in the evening 😉.
