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Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by LoganDark on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:52PM (#36871329)
We don't typically use multi-user systems, actually - I'm pretty sure Logan meant our personal hardware. For example, we run an i5-12400F at 5.2GHz and run a fairly customized Windows 11 Enterprise, both of which would become impossible if our BIOS and operating system were too much more locked down.

I mean, our motherboard has an external clock generator almost entirely dedicated to pointing and laughing at CPUs with a "locked multiplier". (It's also used for PCIe 5.0)

-Emily (see HN profile for details)

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Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by darkclouds on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:35AM (#36879495)
> i5-12400F at 5.2GHz

Overclocking. Profile explains why. For security I prefer single cores, but have to work with whats available.

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Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by LoganDark on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:34PM (#36886663)
> Overclocking. Profile explains why.

Not sure whether you're referring to your or our profile, but yes, we do overclock to a significant degree. Our motherboard has a setting to downgrade the CPU microcode to an older version that doesn't try to detect higher clock speeds and shut down. Clearly, stuff is already getting more and more locked down even as we enjoy our relative freedom in the present.

-Emily

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Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by reaperducer on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:57AM (#36879888)
We don't typically use multi-user systems, actually

Isn't pretty much every "cloud" nothing more than an elaborate multi-user system?

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Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ... by LoganDark on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:33PM (#36886643)
okay, then we don't own computers that are intended to serve multiple physical users. They may run multi-user operating systems but ours are typically configured with only one actual user*.

*ignoring all the system and service users in OSes like Windows and Linux.

-Emily

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