>>108999841
I know how to make them so to me you are just a retarded monkey
>t. PhD in chip lithography

>>108999906
PhD? Is that where you pretend to be smart or something?

>>108999906
Chip manufacturing is only one part of computer making however. There is noone who knows how to make a modern computer completely

>>108999940
kind of a shitty claim when you have ARM and RISCV SoCs coming from a bunch of companies you've never even heard of before

>>108999906
>PhD
Why are you trans?

>>108999918
>>108999976
cope
>>108999940
cope even harder, I pee on you

>>108999906
this

>>108999906
You don't know anything.

>>108999841
>Do you still find computers magical,
Never did. They're calculators. Only a retarded fucking faggot would call computers "magical"
>didn't even exist a mere 100 years ago
Wow! Nobody cares, faggot.

>>108999940
>Chip manufacturing is only one part of computer making however.
It's the most important part, unless you want to go back to use TTL gates? maybe valves are more your thing?
>There is noone who knows how to make a modern computer completely
Have you considered that you're just a poorly educated spastic that has no idea how anything works?

>>109001010
>to go back to use TTL gates
what does ttl have to do with being on a chip or not?

>>108999841
they do magical things
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106210

>>108999841
I was fascinated with them since the early 80's. I've used trash 80's, apple IIe's, early PC's and my first computer was a PC jr (piece of shit). second one was a kaypro with turbo switch that went from 4 to 8mhz. I bought it from a pawn shop for the ridiculous price of $500 (which was still cheaper than a new one at the time).

the first computer I built was a 286. I built every computer I ever owned until 2020. I worked in IT from 1996 to 2019. I loved messing with computers. then I did as a job, and by the time I retired I basically hated them.

I just want my computers to work and I no longer fuck with them. so no they are no longer magical. AI is making them worse. fuck AI and fuck all you assholes that are pushing it.

Magical:
>linux
>algorithms
>Gentoo

Not magical:
>google
>M$
>locked down smartphones
>forcibly pushed AI

>>108999841
I'm pretty burned out on the tech industry as a whole to be honest. Shit like AI doesn't really feel like substantial leaps and every new hardware generation just feels like the last one but with gimmicks tacked on. I get that this was bound to happen eventually, and computers are finally starting to become solved technology the same way other appliances are, but the people running the current tech industry are completely and utterly delusional and want us to think that their latest AI or ARMSlop is the next logical step in computing and it makes me feel embarrassed to have even cared in the first place. Say what you want about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates but at least they didn't make complete fools of themselves every single keynote and carried themselves pragmatically rather than dancing on stage like an idiot while toting AIshit.

>>108999841
>Do you still find computers magical
this feeling usually goes away after you've rolled your own CPU from scratch in verilog

>>108999940
a modern computer, yes, but I could make a simple one with discrete ICs or vacuum tubes if you gave me a lot of time and money. including the tubes and/or logic gate ICs themselves.

>>108999841
I've been reading a book on assembly recently and trying that out, it does bring me a strange sense of calm going back to the basics of x86_64 architecture and seeing how it all really works on a processor level.
Also I benchmarked my 5700X3D at like 181 billion instructions over 30 seconds, you really do forget how fast these computers are nowdays because devs are trapped behind 7 billion shitty layers of garbage.

>>108999841
Magical?
Well sorta I guess. Does satanic count?

>>109002379
Pretty much this. New computers just no longer bring any magic, they just rearrange things and end up slower because we have infinite cpu cycles to waste.

The only machines to have impressed me were the AMD APUs which are strong enough that I could sell the Polaris GPU I had on the shelf just in case, and the Intel SBCs which run at like 3 watts in idle, 10 watts load. I'd probably use one of those if they had an iGPU as strong as the 8600g.

>>108999841
I find myself having to remind people that they're magic rocks when they speak confidently about what's possible for future of technology

>>108999841
Not magical, but yesterday, I spent a while looking at macro shots of CPU dies and admiring how incredibly intricate they all are. So much intellect and hard work has been put forth into creating these devices that we all use and don't think about while we're jerking off to hentai and shitposting.

I still think it's really cool that the internet progressed to the point where we can order pretty much anything we want online if we're willing to wait for delivery, especially now living in a rural area where the stores have fuck-all and are way more expensive. On that note, the speed of Starlink internet is also very impressive because otherwise, the lines underground in my neighborhood only support 1.5Mbps DSL.