Intel NUC

This has to be one of my worst purchases. I have been trying for years and putting up with this nonsense for years to get the damned HDMI out to be functional 100%. HDMI will randomly crash into snow and blink out for 3 seconds. Sound works sometimes, when it feels like it, after the appropriate blood sacrifice over a blood moon. I finally come into a lower resolution monitor, hopeful that it will behave at less than 4k with older tech. What a fool I was. It is no different.

I had an earlier generation one that worked extremely well. I wanted to upgrade after 8 years. Don't fix what ain't broke. You think I would have learned that over a quarter century of dealing with tech. Idiot!

Sep 02 · 3 months ago · 👍 stack, jlxip, gim

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I have 20 old Intel SBCs, edisons or galileos maybe. Don't know what posessed me to bid on them on ebay. I think I finished an x86 forth and thought it would be fun. Took one our, could not figure out hiw to boot it into a very particular flavor of intel linux.

Intel Linux support seems lacking in general. I have a 15 year old Intel motherboard that still is particular about which USB port the mouse is plugged into. Plus the X driver for Intel integrated graphics still can't handle smooth video playback without throttling the frame rate back or screen tearing. Forum posts about this go back at least a decade and I've tried almost all of it. Wayland fixes it... but it's Wayland, so it introduces countless other issues. (portals, pipewire)

From my personal experience of working with Intel in the 90s, I am surprized when anything works at all.

They should've gone out of business around P4... But they got another life after buying that Israeli co.. with an architecture that worked. Sigh.

This is what I have also heard from a close family member who worked for them a long time.

Funny you should mention it, but I also have a family member who worked on the floor of a fab maybe a decade ago. He said on his team of eight (I think), he and one other guy did all the work and the rest slept and goofed around. Also filed a lot of HR complaints to make sure the supervisor gave up trying to make them work.

My family member did design work and complained endlessly about the lousy Java based tools that ran like molasses. (He did design work with DEC back in the good old days and was on the Alpha team.) He begrudgedly worked on Itanium and swore to never own anything with that chip in it. Near retirement it was impossible to schedule meetings between San Jose and Israel. They offered him a very generous GTFO package for retirement and he took it.