>Why should it be up to the user? Should the user be able to program every >memory timing option, even if by doing so they introduce occasional crashes? >Should they be able to set every thermal threshold, even if by doing so >they're reducing their hardware life expectancy? All hardware vendors >restrict the options available to users.
Of course, the user should be able to do all that. Whose machine is it, anyway?
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Date: 2016-09-22 02:37 am (UTC)Of course, the user should be able to do all that. Whose machine is it, anyway?