• demunted@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Realtek are monsters of semiconductor creation.

    Destroyed

    • sound card industry
    • network card industry

    What’s next?

    • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
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      5 hours ago

      If only they were also monsters of incrementing the pcie device id when their chip revision breaks compatibility.

      So you don’t spend forever trying to Google on your phone or other laptop that you have to pull and rebuild the latest kernel, without an internet connection, because only that one knows that revision K needs power management set before the link will come up.

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      1 day ago

      Literally anyone else could have done this. They all chose not to. So fuck them.