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  1. The Tegra you're thinking of isn't gonna be ready until 2023 at the earliest. Perhaps we should expect a new Nintendo console around then? Can't say for sure, as I know about as much as Nintendo "insiders" on Twitter and Resertera do (nothing). Might also have something to do with the entire library being compiled specifically for their customized Tegra X1, in particular pre-compiled shaders being X1-specific. Nintendo can't just simply replace the SoC without risking breaking the entire Switch library.
  2. Alright, after using a keyboard with one for a while I am now convinced that a rotary encoder is the best way to implement dedicated volume controls on a keyboard. Being able to combine volume up/down and mute into a single thing on your keyboard is legitimately nice, while also helping keep the bezel down.

  3. Can't wait for the Audacity fork called "The Audacity of These Bitches" lmao

  4. Nowak

    Anyone else use Audacity? They've updated their…

    Yup, this is a recent thing.
  5. Anyone here familiar with Oblivion modding, specifically of the "making combat suck less" variety?

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  6. Honestly it seems pretty trashy that Kaby Lake and Zen aren't supported, since Kaby Lake-M and Zen CPUs in general are just barely 4 years old.
  7. in monochrome melodies, our tears are painted in red

  8. Nowak

    people keep criticizing apple for planned obsol…

    At least it's better than search in Open Shell. I can give it that much. always has been
  9. Nowak

    people keep criticizing apple for planned obsol…

    Mind you, I'm not saying this is the optimal way to run Windows 11. Considering I play games with friends a lot, that Direct Storage feature would be nice to have since my crusty hard drives can be a bit slow. In addition, I don't like Windows 10! Not anymore, anyway. The twice-yearly feature updates have broken so many things and required me to redo my entire audio setup several times now, and for the longest time Microsoft was more concerned with adding new features nobody ever ended up using (remember all those 3D tools they added in the Creators Update? lol) than fixing bugs. In addition, there are some bugs that have yet to be fixed, like if I were to open up Search.... Why? Why does it keep opening up like this, and not halfway without also blacking out the rest of my screen? I've reported this bug to Microsoft and it's still going on! But hey, we got the weather and more ads on our taskbar now so... cool, I guess?
  10. Nowak

    people keep criticizing apple for planned obsol…

    Yes. I wasn't exactly loud about it, but I did tell people privately about how terrible that was. Also, Kaby Lake mobile was early 2017 whereas Coffee Lake was late 2017. It's pretty trivially easy to bypass the requirement. For the record, I would be fine with it if Microsoft would detail as to why TPM 2.0 is a requirement now. They have yet to. Have I told you about the condition of his laptop (another hand-me-down) before the one I gave him? It was actually being held together with duct tape, and he didn't have the money to get a replacement. He barely could afford his desktop, and the reason why he could get the PC he has (Ryzen 9 3900X, RTX 2070 Super, etc) was because he got unemployment money from the state.
  11. Nowak

    people keep criticizing apple for planned obsol…

    From the reasons that Microsoft engineers have given, they have yet to give a reason why Skylake and Kaby Lake are not supported beyond vague "performance" reasons. This kinda flies in the face of logic, seeing as Coffee Lake is just a refinement (with a few extra cores) of Kaby Lake, which is just a refinement of Skylake. I bring up the laptop because it's not even 5 years old yet, but Microsoft's decided it can't run their latest and greatest because it doesn't have a Coffee Lake CPU. This is indefensible. I always hear this but, again. Hardware abstraction layers exist. For all Windows knows I could be running it on an Athlon 64 X2. They're offering it as an alternative if you want Windows 11, especially after that 2025 EOL date. Which is a lot closer than you want to make it out to be. Yes.
  12. So guess my boyfriend's hand-me-down laptop, which I bought in May 2017, is being left behind because it has a 7700HQ. Cool. Nice to see it reaching end of the road as far as Windows is concerned after just over 4 years because it launched before Coffee Lake became available. If I were a casual user I'd rather get a Chromebook or Mac at this point.
  13. Nowak

    people keep criticizing apple for planned obsol…

    Hardware abstraction layers exist. Also, what's keeping them from not supporting something as far back as Skylake? Every new Intel platform since 2015 has just been a slightly refined version of Skylake, including the Coffee Lake CPUs that it'll require minimum. My boyfriend's laptop, a Kaby Lake-powered hand-me-down from me, won't be able to run Windows 11 even though it's just 4 years old. I purchased it new in May of 2017 and it's being left behind by Microsoft for seemingly arbitrary reasons, since it's been found there's no technical or performance limitations keeping it from installing on older hardware if you just simply replace a few installation files. Is that not a problem, especially since Apple still considers it important enough to support hardware as far back as 2013? This is, in fact, Microsoft's suggestion for when your PC does not pass the upgrade check. For the record, I have an 8086K, which is fully supported. What is keeping my PC from being "supported" is Secure Boot, which will require me to convert my OS drive from MBR to GPT (for some reason, it's on MBR).
  14. Nowak

    people keep criticizing apple for planned obsol…

    Also, what I mean by "forcing obsolescence" is it's a confirmed thing that Windows 11 won't support computer hardware older 2017. Meanwhile, MacOS 12 Monterey will run on Intel Macs from 2013. If there is to be a cutoff for hardware support, the cutoff date should be 2012, ergo Windows 8-era computers. Not 2017. Microsoft's solution to this is awful too, as it amounts to "just buy a new computer lol". Unless they walk back on this then I'm gonna have an easier time recommending Macs or something like Ubuntu or Linux Mint to people than Windows.
  15. Nowak

    people keep criticizing apple for planned obsol…

    Turns out that no, 1.2 isn't supported. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/windows-11/
  16. people keep criticizing apple for planned obsolescence of their (pretty expensive) products and contributing to ewaste a lot for a company that pledges to be better about that

     

    so anyway here's microsoft forcing the obsolescence of every windows computer older than 4 years old and contributing tons to ewaste

     

    (to be clear, if you criticize either company for doing this you are absolutely right for doing so)

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    2. Nowak

      Nowak

      3 minutes ago, tikker said:

      So you're disabling a check for required functionality, great. Prepare for unintended obscure side effects and people subsequently going "my Windows doesn't work" while conveniently hiding they modified the OS or its requirements.

      Mind you, I'm not saying this is the optimal way to run Windows 11.

       

      4 minutes ago, tikker said:

      what killer feature will Windows 11 offer that you need it on that machine besides wanting it? Why does the still officially supported for 4.5 years Windows 10 not suffice? I can understand wanting something, but I don't understand this sometimes near obsession of people to demand to be able to run everything on every potato to god tier machine imaginable when it comes to new "cutting edge" (for lack of a better term in my mind at the moment) stuff.

      Considering I play games with friends a lot, that Direct Storage feature would be nice to have since my crusty hard drives can be a bit slow. In addition, I don't like Windows 10! Not anymore, anyway. The twice-yearly feature updates have broken so many things and required me to redo my entire audio setup several times now, and for the longest time Microsoft was more concerned with adding new features nobody ever ended up using (remember all those 3D tools they added in the Creators Update? lol) than fixing bugs. In addition, there are some bugs that have yet to be fixed, like if I were to open up Search....

       

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      Why? Why does it keep opening up like this, and not halfway without also blacking out the rest of my screen? I've reported this bug to Microsoft and it's still going on! But hey, we got the weather and more ads on our taskbar now so... cool, I guess?

    3. tikker

      tikker

      25 minutes ago, Nowak said:

      Why? Why does it keep opening up like this, and not halfway without also blacking out the rest of my screen? I've reported this bug to Microsoft and it's still going on! But hey, we got the weather and more ads on our taskbar now so... cool, I guess?

      Well that is one I haven't seen before. I do agree that Search is... less than optimal.

      25 minutes ago, Nowak said:

      Considering I play games with friends a lot, that Direct Storage feature would be nice to have since my crusty hard drives can be a bit slow.

      Fair enough. Didn't know Direct Storage would be Windows 11 exclusive now.

    4. Nowak

      Nowak

      14 minutes ago, tikker said:

      Well that is one I haven't seen before. I do agree that Search is... less than optimal.

      At least it's better than search in Open Shell. I can give it that much.

       

      15 minutes ago, tikker said:

      Fair enough. Didn't know Direct Storage would be Windows 11 exclusive now.

      always has been

  17. So, to be clear... Is Secure Boot required for running Windows 11? Because I'm pretty sure I have it enabled in my BIOS, but Windows 10 is refusing to recognize that it is and the checker is failing the Secure Boot check as a result.
  18. If it's about that old then you should be able to just enable PTT/fTPM in the BIOS. This will be enough to pass the TPM 1.2/2.0 check, and also means you won't have to pay scalper prices for hardware you don't necessarily need.
  19. How recent is it? You might not even need to buy a TPM module.
  20. Just enable PTT (Intel)/fTPM (AMD) in your BIOS if you're on Haswell or first-gen Ryzen or newer. That'll be enough to make the Windows 11 upgrade checker thingy pass the TPM 2.0 requirement, and to my understanding that's a "soft" requirement with TPM 1.2 being the "hard" requirement according to this page. tbh my biggest issue's that UEFI BIOSes are now required. This is gonna lock a lot of laptops from the mid-2000s to early-2010s out from Windows 11, whereas they could run Windows 10 just fine.
  21. There wasn't a lot in it for me, and evidently I'm not the only one who feels the same way. As for Halo Infinite multiplayer being free... Halo has never been able to capture me for very long, so. Cool, I guess.
  22. The games that caught my attention the most were Redfall, The Outer Worlds 2, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Stranger of Chaos Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, Metroid Dread, Breath of the Wild 2 and Starfield. I do hope that all of these games deliver (and that TOW2 feels less like it's stuck in 2010) but a lot of it was just, "ok, cool" for me. I'm still not over how I'll actually be able to play Metroid Dread soon, 16 years after I first heard about it...
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