I’m sitting at a customer’s house right now. I’m looking at a very, VERY nice 19″ LG widescreen monitor. It’s attached to an HP desktop with a VIA chipset. The onboard video does not support widescreen resolutions.

I WANT

TO FUCKING

VOMIT.

This is laziness, sloppiness, and whore..i..ness all rolled into one. In fact, I will paste some of my disgust in IRC format:

11:03 < Dan> i hate VIA
11:03 < Dan> I hate them good
11:03 < Dan> "LET'S ONLY CODE SUPPORT FOR 4:3 RESOLUTIONS INTO THE BIOS!!!!!!"
11:03 < Dan> "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY"
11:03 < Dan> meanwhile I'm on a widescreen LCD
11:03 < Dan> this looks like shit
11:03 < lophyte> lofl
11:04 < Dan> I want to vomit
11:04 < Dan> I MIGHT VOMIT


This is a cheap HP desktop with an Athlon XP 3100+ seated onto an ASUS motherboard of shitty design. Since ASUS doesn’t support these OEM motherboards, there naturally isn’t a BIOS update capable of fixing this issue. As such I’m forced to sit here, unable to fix an issue that will likely drive me insane for the next few hours.

I suppose when you take absolutely no pride in your work, you naturally wouldn’t code support for anything but 4:3 resolutions. Fucking vomit inducing.

I believe I shall go home and masturbate all over my old hardware with Intel chipsets, because at least I can hook those up to a widescreen monitor and see EXACTLY WHAT I’M SUPPOSED TO SEE.

As angry as I want to be, I honestly have to point the blame directly at the consumer. HP naturally will pick the cheapest components possible when trying to sell a budget computer. If there’s one lesson I’ve repeatedly tried to teach, it’s that when purchasing a computer (or any electronics really) you honestly do get what you pay for. The practice of putting extremely cheap hardware into extremely cheap computers will never end—there’s no stopping the supply of cheapasses who need a new computer but aren’t willing to put any coin into it.

Just please, don’t look at me with that “well why didn’t you warn me?!” look when your computer dies a year and one day after owning it and you’re stranded with no warranty.