Recent content by pooptastic

Lol, fair point. Still, it shows how much ARM has been gaining on x86 due to cellphone popularity.

Ohho! naysayers... https://www.anandtech.com/show/12119/microsoft-launches-windows-10-on-arm-always-connected-pcs

Yeah, all good points there. It's just interesting to see how much is tracked by companies right now, and if there's any way to ninja vanish from it still, what all it would take.

I was just wanting to experiment with a laptop with tails, maybe a user agent blocker for browsers and then test some things out. Been reading a lot of dystopian sci-fi lately, so wondered how easy or impossible it would be to make a free speech setup for emergencies if the country suddenly...

Is it overboard? With computer fingerprinting I don't think so. https://browserleaks.com/canvas I mean incognito browser mode not working is one thing, but my firing up a browser I never use or log into anything, yet still having a unique fingerprint is kind of a bit much isn't it? I'm...

Not too surprised. Mostly I was wanting something that drops google/facebook/amazon etc profiling stuff fully. For comparisons between my always logged in desktop. Already see sites load differing content based on my browsing habits, so want a new window into things when I notice it.

https://tails.boum.org/ I think there's others too that boot off CD or USB. Tails I just remembered the name off offhand.

Figuring it might be smart to setup a laptop just running tails, with the way politics seem to be going these days, and also being tracked by every advertiser out there. Full-blown conspiracy style! A free speech laptop that only boots into tails, unless anyone knows of a similar 'boot from Usb...

You've done a great job trying to isolate it with all of this data. Do you have a spare HDD lying around? I'm sort of curious if you do a full new install of Windows on one, update drivers to latest on it, then run BF4 and see if you can reproduce the issue then. Might be something corrupt...

Nuts, guess like Intel, they're still chasing the best efficiency possible more than anything.

Is this the on-board ethernet you're using? Might be worth taking a peek for updated chipset or networking drivers for your motherboard. If you forgot what motherboard you have, the free CPU-Z program can also tell you that. Worth a try if you don't have extra hardware lying around.

What's the word on the DynamIQ architecture change coming up?

Thanks for the replies

All good replies. I guess there's less need for a "general use" computer these days over specialized devices. Makes sense, but it's sort of like replacing a car you love, with impersonal random devices that do what your car used to do.

Are they being phased out? Intel seems to have tossed their newer processor tech on some low back burner. AMD has been MIA until Ryzen, which still isn't released yet. There's a thousand posts here about how you don't need to upgrade your last-gen PC. I have tablets, a cellphone, PS4, Pi...