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What you're proposing makes no sense. As I said earlier, it's frequently a relatively modern internet-connected PC that writes to these floppies. Then...

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^ This, exactly. It's the same reason why a SATA SSD must be on a SATA port to update the firmware. Put the SATA SSD into a USB enclosure and you can't...

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Those machines don't. It's the relatively modern internet-connected PC sitting next to it that does. That's the PC that typically *writes* manufacturing...

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Precisely, floppies are in use in a lot more places than people think. And not just in industrial applications where equipment life is measured in decades....

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How so? Plenty of FOSS appliances are built on FreeBSD. PFSense/OpnSense, FreeNAS/TrueNAS, m0n0wall. And there's the big commercial projects based on...

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Enabling communism is never a good thing, regardless of which side of the pond you live on....

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How so? ARM has been around for a while, and is becoming increasingly popular. Acorn PC's with ARM chips were the standard in British schools in the late...

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Reminds me of the old USB naming. USB 1.0 "Full Speed", USB 2.0 "High Speed", USB 3.0 "Super Speed". Which one is better:...

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For sure. And long before Quake. I remember playing Wolfenstein 3D and Doom on Slackware Linux (version 1.2?) on my 486 in the early 1990's thanks to...

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Linux advancements like low-latency USB are what will attract the audio industry vendors and integrators. It is those audio industry companies that will...

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It's a logical default based on the US-based proprietor, the US-focused content, and the American English language of the site. Foreign visitors should...

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Not really, the EPYC 3000 are for the embedded market. They replace the old Opteron 3000 series, and compete with Xeon-D.

AMD has nothing...

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It's a figure of speech. Let me guess, you voted for the senile guy? Unlike your kooky alt-left politics, ECC SODIMMs are a real thing. Kthx....

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Who told you that? Some CNN fake news right there....

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Typing this on a E3C246D4I right now! Picked this board for my primary workstation earlier this year. I had no idea it had Coreboot support, very nice!...

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"My body, my choice."

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The Haiku OS
Was a bit ugly before
Needs some more font work...

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Except that it isn't. I know business owners who had to spend many $thousands replacing office printers because the vendor did not release a Win10 driver...

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"That's racist!"...