Discussing buying wi-fi chips at work to ship to customers
I remark we can use an Intel AX200/201
$coworker replies "no. Just the 200"
I explain the (minor) difference between the two
She fucking copy pasted the Google Slop Machine replying about CNVi instead of PCI-E and that it would cause issues
Of course if she'd read the extremely short Wikipedia article on CNVi she'd see it's supported on Intel chips since the 8th gen series in 2017
...We're using Intel CPUs from 2024
This shit just fucking *exhausts* me
I'm very much a "hardware guy". I am worthless at writing software. But I can (and do) bore people to tears with hardware minutiae all day. I've tripped over and summarily *forgotten* more hardware quirks than most normal people will ever have to reckon with
But now people who are not "hardware people" can get a plausible sounding answer to punt an email back over the fence about why not to do some trivial thing because they don't understand the ecosystem
Computers are an unfathomably BROAD topic. You aren't going to know everything. Not even close to it. Even if you're a "generalist" you're going to have pretty deep knowledge of specific things that are important to you
But that leaves you vulnerable and blind to the things you don't know but "sound correct" in a bubble
Y'know. Like the fucking slop machine is specifically *really good at doing*
Also for those playing at home. No, CNVi is not a problem (usually)
If you're on an 8th gen (2017 vintage) or newer Intel chip? It just works (TM)
If you're on AMD or ARM or something? Yeah then it won't work. It's an Intel chip communicating over an Intel protocol to an Intel CPU only
Why? Because Intel are a bunch of dipshits like that and thought "Centrino" needed to rise like an annoying phoenix
Do yourself a favor and just buy a Qualcomm or a Mediatek chip instead
(not Realtek though)
Also on that tangent. Seriously. Never buy Realtek anything. They've been absolute trash since the 1990's
Here's what a FreeBSD driver developer had to say about them back in the day
@pauliehedron Marvell actually sold off all their Wi-Fi stuff to NXP many years ago!
...No idea if it's improved since then!
Cursed Silicon
Pauliehedron ✅ 